Melissa 🦀 #PayRestoration
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@itvpeston
@VictoriaAtkins
@ITV
It’s hard to make a pay deal when you don’t come and negotiate.
What happened to being there in 20 minutes once strikes were stopped?
It’s been 2 weeks now. We’re waiting
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@gmcuk
I was hoping for some reflection and a statement that setting a local scope of practice is inappropriate and unsafe.
Sad to see this not forthcoming.
In the meantime, we have the BMA guidance:
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Physician associates do not have sufficient qualifications and medical knowledge to assess doctors or medical students.
Do not accept the drop in rigorous standards.
Medical training has international standards for a reason. It keeps patients safe.
Physician Associates now assessing final year medical students.
Is this a sign of declining educational standards in medicine?
What impact will it have on the quality of doctors we produce?
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@SteveBarclay
@BMA_JuniorDocs
@Telegraph
How about you actually make a fair offer to reverse our pay cuts?
You could avert the strikes in an instant by restoring our pay.
Your choice.
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Every doctor and their family members should be writing to their MPs about this.
Regulation under the GMC creates false equivalence to doctors.
Patients should know who treats them and their qualifications.
The Government’s plan to regulate physician associates under the GMC must be stopped. To patients, PAs and doctors can appear the same, but they should know who’s treating them.
Write to your MP so they can force the Government to abandon its plans.
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Actually, it’s full pay restoration back to 2008/2009 levels. Not a pay rise.
What is unreasonable is 15 years of pay cuts.
What is unreasonable is the resulting doctor shortage and what that means for patients.
What is unreasonable is a government refusing to negotiate.
I met the BMA’s junior doctors committee yesterday in the hope of beginning constructive talks.
They placed a pre-condition on these talks of a 35% pay rise. That is unreasonable.
My door remains open to constructive conversations, as I have had with other health unions.
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Proud to have been part of this moment.
Patient safety must always come first.
Pause the roll out. Set safe working parameters with nationally defined criteria.
Put the patients first.
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@bbclaurak
Consultants haven’t accepted. SAS haven’t accepted. Radiographers haven’t accepted.
None of these disputes are settled.
Please update your correction
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@julianhartley1
It’s difficult to resume talks when one side doesn’t come to them. Let’s just say
@VictoriaAtkins
didn’t mean that she’d be there in 20 minutes.
So you should be directing this to her and
@RishiSunak
Full pay restoration costs less than these strikes.
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@VictoriaAtkins
Why haven’t you come to negotiate and give your ‘final offer’?
The fact that these strikes are going ahead is due to your failure to negotiate and end them.
£5/hr more for doctors is not too much to ask.
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We represent 70,000 doctors who need to have their views and concerns about MAPs heard.
@AoMRC
please reconsider your decision to exclude us from this meeting.
Why have we been excluded?
Our door remains open to attend. I hope that
@AoMRC
will reconsider and offer an invite
We are extremely disappointed
@AoMRC
has excluded
@TheBMA
from a meeting to discuss MAPs and doctors in training despite the inclusion of other key stakeholders including
@NHSEngland
,
@gmcuk
and ATDC. [1/3]
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Patients need to know who is treating them and the level of qualifications they hold.
@KeirStammer
and
@wesstreeting
the GMC is not the correct regulator. Please block the SI.
Patients should be free to
#AskForADoctor
Medical associates are working beyond their competence.
Backdoor changes will further confuse the public, put patients in danger and only benefit big business and profits. Our NHS needs more actual doctors, not less.
My latest 👇🏾
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Remember when Gregg’s sausage rolls cost 52p in 2008?
They now cost £1.20.
Sadly, doctor’s pay has not risen with inflation and they are leaving the NHS in droves.
We need full pay restoration to help them stay
Junior Doctors are asking for pay restoration, not a pay rise.
This will see pay restored from £14/hr to £19hr
No more excuses
@SteveBarclay
, it’s time to negotiate.
#DoctorsVote
#DoctorsStrike
#DoctorsWin
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@natalieben
Thank you for laying this motion. We appreciate you listening to the medical profession’s concerns.
@wesstreeting
please mobilize Labour MPs to support this.
For the patient’s sake, PAs need regulation but not under the GMC. This blurs boundaries.
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@HSJEditor
@BMA_JuniorDocs
The Health Secretary should ask herself if failing to give a credible pay offer to settle this dispute is in the best interests of the patients she represents?
After all, it’s the government who’s failing to address doctors’ pay adequately and prolonging the dispute needlessly.
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@VictoriaAtkins
A settlement would require you to present your ‘final offer’.
We could have called off the strikes if you had properly engaged in negotiations.
£5/hr more is not unreasonable.
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@LondonLive
Begs the question why you aren’t back at the negotiating table, presenting a credible offer, so the strikes can be called off?
@VictoriaAtkins
#JustGetOnWithIt
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@ShaunLintern
@TheBMA
The national system functioned fine during past strike action last year.
The only time it didn’t, the BMA found out the Trust had lied in their derogation request.
I’m not surprised the BMA now calls for robust evidence and double-checks it
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Regulation through the GMC risks giving a false equivalence to PAs.
Worse still if they also get GMC numbers without distinction.
Patients deserve quality care and to know who is treating them.
Write to your MP now to demand opposition of this legislation
🚨Take Urgent Action Now🚨
The GMC and the government are trying to force GMC regulation of PAs and through the backdoor without scrutiny or debate tomorrow.
This is time critical.
Write to your MP NOW.
You can reply as a doctor, a patient, or both.
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@thomaswoodcock
@TheBMA
I think you will find that 3500 consultants have spoken. And they largely disagree with you:
NOT a minority view
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@VictoriaAtkins
@Ldn_Ambulance
Do you know what helps patient care more?
Giving a credible offer to doctors to settle the strikes.
#JustGetOnWithIt
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Consultants if you accept this DDRB reform there’s no coming back and trying to fix it later.
The government will say ‘you voted for this’. And then freeze pay because of austerity again.
For the future of our profession ‘vote NO’
Dear Consultants,
The DDRB reforms leave all power with the Government.
Pay will remain subject to “wider economic factors”
=
Your pay will be cut to make up for the government’s economic mistakes.
Only YOU can stop this.
#VoteNo
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@DHSCgovuk
we accept the right column as a fair and reasonable offer.
@RishiSunak
we don’t accept the imposition of 6%. If you won’t make a credible offer, expect more strikes.
It’s your choice. Restore our pay.
#DoctorsStrike
#FullPayRestoration
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If delivering for patients were truly your top priority, you would work to fund the NHS properly and retain its staff
It’s your job to stop these strikes by offering a fair pay deal that recognizes the value of NHS staff
Suboptimal pay means that staff won’t stay. That’s on you
Delivering for patients is my top priority.
This pay deal is a fair and reasonable offer, which will mean the NHS can focus on providing the best possible care for patients.
I hope unions who are still voting will accept this deal.
Read more
@TheSun
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Why have
@RCPhysicians
chosen to manipulate their data like this?
It shows a lack of integrity and transparency.
The findings clearly show that PAs are not supervised adequately and are impacting doctors’ training.
Pause the roll out. Adopt the BMA safe parameters of working
The
@RCPhysicians
have finally released the raw data from their survey… and the data shows a different story to the one that was presented at the extraordinary general meeting.
Here’s a thread taking a closer look.
#RCPEGM
#RCPVONC
(1/)
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@SteveBarclay
@BMA_JuniorDocs
Was it reasonable to cut our pay by >26% since 2008?
All we want is a reversal of pay cuts.
Come to the negotiating table with a credible offer to restore our pay so we can get back to treating patients
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I know which one I want for my family.
Failing to settle the pay dispute is a political choice.
Training your children to fight in war: £2.5bn
Keeping doctors in the NHS: £1bn
Sunak's priorities are clear.
National H̵e̵a̵l̵t̵h̵ Service.
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Very welcome news to see a royal college supporting its members and stating that the general medical council is not to regulator for PAs.
It blurs boundaries.
Patients deserve to know who is treating them and their level of qualifications.
#AskForADoctor
Following discussion at RCGP Council today, the College has updated and strengthened its 'red lines' on physician associates working in general practice.
Read our statement here➡️
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There should be no shortcuts in healthcare.
Patients deserve quality care.
Pushing through an unregulated workforce as a stop gap measure is ill thought out and unsafe.
Pause the recruitment. Rethink the workforce plan.
The BMA has called for an immediate halt to the recruitment of MAPs (PAs/AAs)
Read the statement below
Doctor or PA? Know the difference
#AskForADoctor
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Why isn’t the government worrying about minimum service levels on non-strike days?
This bill has nothing to do with patient service levels.
If they were that worried, they would pay staff properly and retain them.
Fill it in. Say no to MSL
Only 7 days left to fight for your right to strike.
Click the link below to read the guide and respond in the Minimum Service Level Act consultation.
#DoctorsVote
#DoctorsStrike
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Could this be the most important reballot so far? Yes.
Are we up for the challenge of another record turnout? Yes
Have you updated your details to make sure you receive your ballot?
No? Do it right now:
#TellThemAgain
🚨 Reballot: Vote YES for strikes and Vote YES for ASOS🚨
Our reballot is open from 7th February - 20th March.
You broke the record on turnout for our first ballot, and then 7000 more doctors voted YES in our second. The Government still doesn’t get it.
Tell them again.
(1/4)
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We’ve seen what can happen when the membership speaks up with
@RCPhysicians
and
@RCoANews
Calls for a pause in the recruitment of PAs and AAs.
It’s so important to have people in the RCs that represent your views.
Let’s make that happen with the RCS
@RCSnews
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Please share the data from the survey
@drjread
It would be good to compare to the BMA survey with 18,000 responses and 87% with patient safety concerns and 80% with concerns regarding the competence of MAPs
Dear
@drjread
, thank you for sharing the data from the RCP survey. Many (particularly fellows who are due to vote on the motions) would be keen to see a more thorough breakdown, particularly the distinction between positive vs negative vs neutral. Can this be published?
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Our safe parameters of working must be adopted nationally to prevent harm coming to patients from MAPs working beyond their competence.
@VictoriaAtkins
- an independent investigation is needed to see the size of the problem and to prevent it happening again
“It is time for [
@VictoriaAtkins
] to launch an independent investigation to uncover the full extent of what is essentially a patient safety scandal.”
@DrPhilBanfield
responds to Telegraph reporting on instances of PAs replacing doctors on medical rotas:
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Doesn’t fix past pay erosion.
Doesn’t fix pay for the future.
Doesn’t protect the profession.
Well, I guess that’s a NO vote then.
Consultants: Vote NO
The (Junior) Doctors Committee has evaluated the consultant offer and believes
The status quo is better than the offer
The offer means:
❌ Giving more power to anti-doctor *managers* to decide on Pay Progression
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Well done to all of the doctors who stood their ground and declared their worth.
If we stand together, we can win together.
#FullProfessionRestoration
UPDATE:
Yesterday management at Kettering reversed their controversial decision to cut rates for doctors in response to 100 doctors cancelling their shifts.
This was only possible due to the unity of grassroots doctors.
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Ball is still in the government’s court.
Make a serious offer of more than a 70p uplift/hour and have these strikes called off.
If they cared about staff retention in the NHS, they would already be round the table negotiation.
Tell them again.
Full. Pay. Restoration
These are the July strike dates.
We will not let up the pressure until the Government moves from their insulting 5% offer.
#TellThemAgain
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Full 🧹 in the East Midlands.
Thanks to everyone who voted us in.
Please vote in the Peninsula and South Thames regions to make it 75/75
#DoctorsVotedforDoctorsVote
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Fill in the form.
Share it with friends and family.
Don’t let them ignore our concerns about patient safety and no scope limitations.
The BMA guide makes it easy to fill in, so do it now.
The 2017 Government run consultation on PAs received just 68 (junior) doctors responses, this allowed them to push through regulation by the GMC uncontested
This time make your voice heard, respond to the consultation on the role of MAPs in the workplace
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Doctors, please use this reporting tool so that we can track loss of training opportunities or unsafe practice relating to MAPs in your workplace.
Share widely.
We have serious concerns that medical associate profession (MAPs) roles blur the distinction between Drs and non-medically qualified staff. Use our revised tool to report your experiences so our staff & local reps can raise your concerns with employers.
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If
@VictoriaAtkins
had presented a credible final offer before the strikes, we wouldn’t be on strike.
Time for her to put the patients first and get round the negotiating table
This morning
@Keir_Starmer
made his thoughts very clear on
@LBC
that ministers should now be coming back to the negotiating table.
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We have prepped a guide with key concepts that we think the GMC needs to take on board regarding regulation:
- clear expectation that they will be dependent and in an assistant role during training
- they need their own version of GMP
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The GMC is now consulting on how its regulation of PAs and AAs will work.
The consultation is open to members of the public, and we've produced a short guide to be used by clinicians and patients who are keen to provide views.
Read it here: (1/2)
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The government could have avoided 4 rounds of strikes and upcoming consultant action simply by negotiating in an adult manner.
Restoration of doctors’ pay back to 2008 levels is fair and reasonable.
It’s about time the government was.
@RishiSunak
do the right thing. FPR
The longest NHS strike in history continues
A strike that didn’t need to go ahead
But unfortunately our government is belligerent and ideological
Doctors have had pay cut by more than 31% in real terms since 2008
All we want, is go back to neutral, net zero to ‘08
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@ShoooTsw
@Doctors_Vote
It’s not a pay rise. It’s restoration to previous pay levels. At this rate, which is way less than overseas doctors, doctors are leaving the UK. Who will do the CPR if there’s none left? Value your doctors before it’s too late
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@carolvorders
@TheBMA
I’m sure
@DrPhilBanfield
would be keen to chat with you about this and provide some more info.
@TheBMA
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As we continue to say, the GMC is not the correct regulator for PAs and AAs.
It will grant false equivalence with doctors.
For patient clarity, the SI must be overturned. The HoL must vote to support the fatal motion stopping GMC registration.
The GMC continuing to blur the lines between doctors and PAs is no longer tenable. PAs are not doctors and are not medically trained.
The lived reality is that this is causing significant confusion for patients. (1/2)
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@iDrSunny
@jeremycorbyn
Please add your signature to this
@NadiaWhittomeMP
Patients deserve to know who is treating them and their level of training.
Reverting the names back to ‘assistant’ will help with this.
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@TheBMA
Patients deserve to know who is treating them and what their qualifications are.
@NadiaWhittomeMP
please sign this.
Name changes back to ‘assistant’ is the first step to informing patients and ensuring quality care.
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The lack of transparency in this whole process is deeply concerning
@RCPhysicians
Doctors deserve better.
Patients deserve better.
Do better.
It's been almost 4 months since an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) was called by members of the RCP.
The meeting should have occurred by January 15th according to the RCPs own rules. One of the reasons for the delay may have been to avoid influencing the Parliamentary debate
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The RCP is failing to listen to doctors.
Pushing through the LTWP without due consideration of these concerns and that of patient safety shows poor judgement.
The RCP was reminded about the unfairness in the workplace, with a 1st year PA, with no out of hours work, out earning a fully qualified doctor by £10,000.
🔴The RCP acknowledges that the ‘training environment is not optimum’. So what are they doing about it?
🔴They state that
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Placing a cannula in your unwell baby for antibiotics = £6.43
The doctors performing a c-section are paid a total of £50 between them*.
With F1 doctors being paid £14 an hour, and ST8 doctors being paid £28 an hour, we want to hear what you get paid for completing life-saving/improving tasks.
*based on the average time taken.
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@KateAndrs
It’s about pay. The give away is in the acronym FPR.
Full PAY restoration. Restoring the 26% real terms pay cut we’ve had since 2008z
You probably could have got there but I just thought I’d help you out.
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@Doctors_Vote
has achieved so much this year and it’s been a pleasure to take part.
We’ve moved the government from nothing to 8-10%.
Re-elect us to finish the job.
#FPR
Find your
@Doctors_Vote
candidates here:
Vote for them here:
A strong membership.
A strong committee.
A strong union.
Join. Vote. Win.
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Tweet your MP to oppose the legislation to regulate PAs under the GMC.
Takes less than a minute to do.
Share far and wide.
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Happy
#NationalDoctorsDay
To all my hard-working colleagues out there, we see you. We appreciate you.
The profession has never been more united. Proud to be a part of it
#FullPayRestoration
Today we celebrate the professionalism and dedication of all doctors working across the UK.
Share your thoughts and pictures below.
#NationalDoctorsDay
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Why don’t we pause the roll out?
Until we can answer this question
Until safe scope limits are set.
Until the BMA safe parameters of working are adopted nationally
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Consultants have just achieved another mandate for continued strike action. It’s premature to say the pay dispute is settled.
@RishiSunak
and
@VictoriaAtkins
should stop wasting time and present a credible offer to end these strikes
The PM says consultants and SAS doctors have settled their pay disputes. This is incorrect.
We’ve put the Government’s offer to our members and they’ll now decide. We’re deeply disappointed the Government hasn’t made a credible offer we can also put to junior doctors.
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Strong statement from the
@RCPEdin
We need a national scope of practice that keeps patients safe.
All expansion and recruitment should pause while this is worked out.
The BMA welcomes the College’s support for suspending the recruitment of PAs until there is more known about the impact their role has on patient safety, medical training and medical recruitment. (1/2)
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Hope everyone is
#BMABallotReady
.
#PayRestoration
won’t give me an executive suite but it’ll go a long way to make me feel more valued as a doctor
It’s sobering to see the no-expenses-spared approach in the executive suites
@NHSBartsHealth
.
Meanwhile, executives cap locum rates, let doctors’ messes fall into disrepair, and claim that taking coffee on the wards is stealing patients’ supplies.
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@parthaskar
@RCPhysicians
@trishgreenhalgh
@UKGastroDr
@DrLKVaughan
@RowanHarwood
@FPARCP
@DrSelvarajah
@NHSE_WTE
@VirtueOfNothing
@OrthopodReg
@doctor_oxford
Interested to hear your thoughts re:
@gmcuk
plans to give PAs gmc numbers and not regulate them.
Seems like time for
@RCPhysicians
to urgently step up and speak out against this.
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I’m speaking tomorrow as part of
@Doctors_Vote
about getting involved in the grassroots movement that has empowered doctors.
Come and hear why Doctors Vote is so important and what you can do to ensure that the BMA remains one of the most powerful unions in the UK
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@Andrew_Jordan_
@BMA_Consultants
VOTE NO.
The DDRB reforms are inadequate.
The changes to SPA time concerning.
But mostly the pay uplift is inadequate.
Consultants, you deserve more.
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This level of corruption is unacceptable.
Democratic elections to attend ARM is the first step to overcome this.
Doctors, find your division, vote for the DV candidates.
Let’s get the BMA revived and back to representing our interests
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Vote for your DV-endorsed candidates to ensure that people with a pro-doctor stance attend ARM.
So the BMA continues in the right direction for the next year.
Vote now for
#FullProfessionRestoration
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📢 Attention all BMA members!
The Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) election for divisions is now open.
We need your help to shape the future of the profession.
It’s time to make your voice heard.
#DoctorsVoteforDoctorsVote
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@RishiSunak
we do not accept another sub-inflationary pay award.
We deserve better. We deserve full pay restoration.
Come to the table and let’s negotiate like adults. Then we can call off the strikes and go back to work. Your choice
🚨🚨 STRIKE DATES ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨
Following the failure of this government to engage in formal negotiations, we have no choice but to call for further strike action from 07.00 on the 11th of August till 06.59 on the 15th of August.
#DoctorsStrike
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This offer fails to address Consultants’ significant pay erosion.
It opens worrying doors to exploitation with the other contractual reforms.
For the future of our profession:
Consultants please vote NO.
The Doctors Committee has evaluated the consultant offer -
#VoteNO
Voting opens on 14th
4 critical flaws
More power to anti-dr managers on pay
Training MAPs built into job plans
Critical flaw in DDRB reformation
Real terms pay cut for many consultants
The status quo is better.
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And that’s before tax and any remaining student loan payments.
We lack 1000s of doctors in the UK. How do we entice them to train here or to stay here?
Pay them well.
Vote YES for full pay restoration
A brain surgeon with 10 years of experience (plus a minimum of 5 years at medical school) earns £28 an hour.
@theBMA
Strike Ballot will be going out by post to junior doctors in England tomorrow. Vote YES for full pay restoration.
#PayRestoration
#BMABallotReady
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@PaulaMaria84
@CardioShades
@adi_kumar1
They have a 2 year masters course. Compared to 10yrs+ for a GP. They must always work under supervision. They cannot prescribe. They cannot order scans. They are not doctors.
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So not only are they objecting to a democratically run election, they are now using secret emergency meetings to try to get another emergency meeting to overturn an election?
Wouldn’t it take less effort to just campaign in the original democratic election? 1/2
Those corrupt old guard division leaders that we talked about a few days ago have responded to our post by organising amongst themselves to hold division meetings to get buy in for an emergency national meeting to overturn the democratic election currently taking place.
Here is
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The Doctors Vote team have been key in taking our FPR dispute to the government.
Vote us back in to finish the job.
#FullPayRestoration
🚨🚨2 days left to vote in the R(J)DC elections🚨🚨
Last year you voted in a full team of DoctorsVote reps who have delivered the strikes and two record-breaking ballots.
Vote for the DoctorsVote team again to deliver on FPR.
Your candidates can be found in the next tweet ⬇️
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Doctors in the divisions below:
Please show up to these meetings.
Vote NO to an SGM.
Vote NO to keep the democratic process of election for those who will represent you on the BMA at those big policy setting meetings.
Vote NO to have your say.
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Patient safety should be our first priority.
Not career pathways for PAs.
Patients. First.
So what is the difference between a PA and a doctor?
🔴 RCP VP states several times that there are differences but fails once again to define them.
🔴 The lack of clear definition is exactly why “we don’t all understand that in the same way”
🔴 The college is happy to talk about
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@SteveBarclay
There is only one response to your refusal to negotiate our pay.
The ball is in your court. To avoid these strikes, all you need to do is offer pay restoration
🚨The BMA Junior Doctor Committee will be calling a 96 hour strike applying to shifts starting between 06.59 on Tuesday 11th April and 06.59 on Saturday 15th April. 🚨
This is an escalation to convey how serious we are about full-pay restoration. Anything less is a pay cut.
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Patient safety must come first
That’s why the BMA has called for a pause in hiring PAs and AAs. And to rethink the necessity of the role.
Patients shouldn’t have to suffer for the government’s choice to go for quantity over quality
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What price do we put on a life?
What price do we put on stopping the exodus of doctors going overseas?
We can’t go on like this.
#fullpayrestoration
I’m
#BMABallotReady
- are you?
The doctor who leads the attempt to restart your heart is paid just £24/hr.
Ballot papers will be going out in 5 days time. If you've put off joining, now is the time.
#JoinVoteWin
#PayRestoration
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They’re still not listening.
Tell them again and tell them louder.
Full. Pay Restoration.
#BMADoctorsVoteYES
We broke all records with our last ballot.
Let's make this one even bigger!
Strikes are the only way to get the Government's attention.
Tell them again.
#DoctorsVote
#DoctorsStrike
#DoctorsWin
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The public want a health service where they get the care they need.
@RishiSunak
they blame you for not fixing that.
You could stop the strikes by giving a credible offer to doctors. £5/hr more is not too much.
#TellThemAgain
#DoctorsStrikes
The public get it.
Paying doctors £5 more an hour to end the strikes is just common sense.
Stop playing games
@RishiSunak
and get back around the table, its been more than 20 minutes.
#DoctorsStrike
#TellThemAgain
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It’s imperative that our voices are not ignored.
No career pathways should be developed without addressing scope and patient safety concerns.
Respond here
Guide for doctors:
Guide for public:
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Can vouch for Zeem as someone who gets things done on the DV team.
Liverpool docs, direct your votes his way
.
@Doctors_Vote
have made the BMA the most powerful union in the country with the work that has gone into the Junior Doctor Committee. It is now time to start replicating that momentum and success across the rest of the BMA
(P.s. I am standing for Liverpool - please vote for me!)
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A two year post graduate course is not sufficient to safely treat patients.
Pause MAP recruitment. Reconsider this role and how it’s used in the NHS.
The long term workforce plan of massive MAP expansion without further thought is dangerous.
This is appalling.
Mid 50s, cancer red flags ignored by PAs for 8 months.
This could be your dad.
The UK is failing patients, and planning to fail many more with the dangerous long term workforce plan.
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@parthaskar
@RCPhysicians
@NHSEmployers
@ShivaniM_KC
@mmamas1973
@trishgreenhalgh
@DrLKVaughan
@UKGastroDr
@doctor_oxford
@RowanHarwood
@OrthopodReg
@RoshanaMN
@AntonEmmanuel2
This is an impressive list and I look forward to seeing action on these, particularly scope (BMA scope preferred).
But trust is RCP leadership is at an all time low after the EGM debacle.
What action is planned to restore this trust?
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It’s essential to have pro-doctor candidates on our UK council.
Can vouch for Marie from UKJDC as someone who will get the work done.
Vote for Marie and Fran as your number 1 slots to guarantee excellent representation on council.
🚨 BMA UK Council Elections 🚨
Your DoctorsVote-endorsed rep for W Midlands is Marie, and Francesca for N East.
Your ballot for these elections will arrive in the post - return it ASAP.
Vote to safeguard the profession.
Vote for better representation in the BMA.
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The most important election for our FPR fight.
We’ve got this ball rolling last year.
Vote us in again to finish the job.
Don’t be complacent. Vote for DV
#DoctorsVoteforDoctorsVote
Voting in the Regional (Junior) Doctor Committee elections is now open.
We delivered the strikes.
Vote for us again to deliver Full Pay Restoration.
Our endorsed candidates:
Vote here:
#DoctorsVoteForDoctorsVote
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Lack of clarity about scope is unacceptable. Scope creep has put patients at risk of harm.
We need to adopt the BMA MAPs safe parameters of working nationally to allow them to work safely and to protect patients
When asked directly what the difference was between a doctor and a PA, the RCP came up empty.
🔴The VP admits the distinction of the role is very important.
🔴The VP fails to distinguish the difference of roles.
🔴The VP concedes that scope of PAs will expand in the future.
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@manLikeTeaa
Need to push for trusts to adopt the BMA scope parameters. This is included as part of it
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Full details about the patient safety concerns and loss of training opportunities can be found here:
See our recommendations based on this here:
55% of doctors have found that PAs increase their workloads, even though they were sold as a way of reducing them.
Read our latest survey findings providing further insight into why doctors feel so strongly about physician and anaesthesia associates.
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Can we afford to lose more doctors? is what the government should be asking.
Reverse the successive pay cuts will go a long way to retain us.
It’s not unaffordable, don’t let them convince you otherwise.
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@SaraKetteley
PAs should not be completing foundation years. They do not have a medical degree. They are not doctors. Agree with the need for financial penalties to dissuade employers from doing this. Let’s stand united and employ the BMA scope parameters
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West Mids folks: post back your vote for Marie today!
She’s an absolutely dedicated rep and I’m sure that this will extend to work on council.
🚨BMA COUNCIL ELECTIONS
West Midlands doctors I am running for BMA Council- your postal ballot needs to be sent TODAY so it can reach Civica for counting📮
I am working on (J)DC for pay, stopping scope creep and restoring pride in our profession let me represent you on Council
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@BBCPolitics
Great. So do we. We’re still waiting on your last offer.
We’ve been busy in the meantime though, balloting for that next mandate.
Our door’s always open for your credible offer
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#TellTemAgain
with two YES votes.
We’re not going anywhere until we get our pay restored.
@VictoriaAtkins
our door is open any time to negotiate and call off the strikes. Ball’s in your court
It’s time to
#TellThemAgain
Strike action is the only language this government understands. Let’s make this mandate the strongest yet.
Do not let the government continue to cut your pay without a fight.
Vote YES for strikes, and YES for ASOS.
#PayRestoration
#DoctorsStrike
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Consultants it is your last chance to
#VoteNo
The DDRB reform is weak.
The SPA changes concerning
The pay offer is insulting.
You deserve better.
You have a mandate to strike. Use it to get a second offer.
Vote NO to fix your pay now and for the future
*LAST CHANCE*
@BMA_Consultants
to vote, closes at mignight Tue. See how to vote below 👇
Remember Jeremy Hunt just found £20bn down the sofa to pay for tax cuts. The voting electorate want him to prioritise crumbling public services
#VoteNo
for
#Retention
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Last chance to vote for who you want representing you at the ARM meeting this year.
Which direction do you want the BMA to head?
It in your hands. Vote now
Calling everyone who still hasn’t voted in the Divisions election for the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting - this is your final chance.
Voting ends TOMORROW at MIDDAY.
This will take less than two minutes of your time. A quick reminder of why it’s so important to vote…
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It is vital that doctors in South Thames vote now for the DV candidates.
Don’t let key members like
@RobLaurensonD4P
miss out and detail the FPR movement.
#DoctorsVoteforDocctorsVote
There are currently 2 elections open in South Thames: the Doctors Committee elections and the GP trainee committee election.
Here are your DoctorsVote endorsed candidates ⏩
Vote now to secure FPR:
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