Andy Tait
@drandytait
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Doctor. Co-Chair of the Severn GPVTS Committee. Committed to full pay restoration. Keen bread baker. All views my own.
Bath, England
Joined October 2009
RT @djnicholl: Only the third extraordinary general meeting of @RCPhysicians in its 505 year history. A landmark result #RCPEGM Thank you…
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RT @parthaskar: Emphatic In spite of data shenanigans (which may have influenced some votes) It’s time for a pause It’s time for scope…
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RT @RobLaurensonD4P: Many have asked Medical Leaders to set the scope of our assistants. So @TheBMA has done it. Tomorrow we take the lea…
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RT @JanetEastham: 🔴 NEW: IT blunder allowed PAs at Calderdale and Huddersfield to "illegally" prescribe drugs inc opiates and sedatives PAs…
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There needs to be a serious conversation about the scope of practice by MAPs. Doctors are screaming for this. Patients deserve this. Patients are at risk. It simply is ridiculous that nationally undefined roles are being allowed to practice like this.
Family of film make-up artist call for inquest after treatment by physician associate which led to death. @JanetEastham @TheDA_UK @TheBMA
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RT @RobLaurensonD4P: I'm not a neurosurgeon. I'm not a cardiologist. I'm not a gastroenterologist. I'm not a surgeon. I'm not an anaestheti…
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@cannula_service @rcgp are you planning on providing any information/advice/reassurance to members? At the moment many are feeling they are being replaced and no one seems to care.
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RT @cannula_service: A retired boomer with more fingers in pies than I can bake saying that PAs have more training in prescribing over thei…
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RT @Roddy_Neilson: This is Nadeem Moghal the ex CEO of a private company (DMC Healthcare) that provides outsourced medical care to the NHS…
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@DrEilidhMaria Complete nonesense. It would be hugely insulting if it wasn't so grossly innaccurate it is beyond ridiculous. So we don't learn to prescribe but each year I am taught to safely prescirbe for 5-6 years and have to pass the Prescribe Safety Assessment?
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RT @ollieburtonmed: Let alone anything else, this should put to bed the idea that discontent is a small vocal minority. Almost 9/10 of thos…
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RT @_VivekTrivedi: Doctors are worried about the pace of expansion of a lesser trained workforce being used as doctor substitutes It’s uns…
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RT @RobLaurensonD4P: They may continue to ignore us as representatives but they can not ignore us as a collective workforce. When they don…
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@NHSE_WTE To summarise - your proposals seem unworkable regarding PAs if you truly want fair and high standards. We all would love run through training for all specialties. Hyperrotation does not work and is a misery for many trainees. Why punish those forced to rotate with poor training?
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RT @Dr_Done_: In a WhatsApp group of ~600 GPs, this is the current sentiment, and it’s horrific. I actually can’t believe what I’m reading…
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No one is arrogant enough to study & think they should walk into a job....but 1000 applicants for a job. Still gaps on rotas. We hear there needs to be other roles to help...yet 1000 applicants for JCF roles? Does workforce planning exist?! Real workforce planning. Not headlines.
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@drcolinm I think it is reasonable to take multiple concerns from a profession seriously. It must be recognised that a generation of doctors fear a regulator, particularly those from certain backgrounds. Much more could be done to address these concerns and shouldn’t be brushed aside.
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@ollieburtonmed Absolutely they should. Creating fake bottlenecks to restrain employers from hiring the staff they want creates a false economy and causes a dilemma on the scope of some roles which are not clearly defined/regulated.. Some roles in ARRS are extremely useful. GPs are useful too…
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