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@gmcuk
You omitted to mention his role in dumbing down medicine.
His is a rather questionable legacy. That sinking ships phrase springs to mind but I'm glad to see one less PA enabler on the payroll.
Sadly I have no doubt he will be replaced by an equally subservient govt. lackey
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@PatrickMackle4
@Ask_foradoctor
The image uses the term 'Physician'?
This time last year I would have taken that to mean Doctor.
Now I realise the con being perpetrated on patients, largely thanks to Anon accts on this platform
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@wesstreeting
Get rid of the PAs/AAs & give us access to trained Doctors in primary & secondary care.
This subpar cohort should not be experimenting on the public in any setting.
If they want to practise medicine they can study to the same path of academic rigor followed by real Doctors.
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@ChrisHopsonNHS
A PA is not a specialist.
Nor is an AA. Many are medical school rejects!
Yet you intend to flood the NHS with thousands of them.
All while leaving GPs unemployed & Junior Doctors trapped in training bottle necks?
Providing subpar Patient care is now the aim of your agenda!
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@gmcuk
I'm not interested in the propaganda twist you are likely to put on this.
Please supply the raw data so a thorough analysis of responses can be conducted.
You seem at great pains to point out what you won't be looking at & instead brainwash patients into accepting subpar care
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@gmcuk
@AskJeevesWij
@DHSCgovuk
@AskJeevesWij
How disappointing to spot your involvement in promoting this bilge. I hadn't realised you had 'crossed the Floor' & so enthusiastically too.
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@iDrSunny
@uhbtrust
This has made me feeling physically sick and enraged.
Zero accountability, but most of all the enabling by her Consultants is shameful.
Why is she on a course meant for ST5 DIT?
I suspect there are plenty of trainees who would have been glad of the chance to do those procedures
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@doctor_oxford
As a patient I am alarmed by this video. The public need to watch what is being unleashed in terms of subpar care.
The AA advocating & joking about ways to utilise grey area to circumvent existing safe working practices has terrified me. Yet not one comment from
@gmcuk
on this.
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@ActAsOneBDC
Hmmmm. More of a shocking major blunder really.
The cost of shredding & redoing those materials will not be cheap.
As for the damage caused by such serious misinformation ....?
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@StGeorgesUni
Hope prospective students planning to study medicine
@StGeorgesUni
take a good look at the bias you have for the PAs produced via your 'factory farmed' PA course.
Doctors are essential, PAs are not.
The difference in the course is like night & day & you cheapen the MBBS effort
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@implausibleblog
@carolvorders
🙋🏻♀️ I used it too & referred my sister to it as well. We both voted on the basis of stopping the Tories.
It is a marvellous & easy to use website. Well done to those who worked to develop it.
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@doctor_oxford
@RCPhysicians
Well sounds like Dr Jamie Read has been party to a huge disservice to Doctors & his SAS colleagues. His statistical interpretation of the survey have merely served to marinate suspicions of, at the very least, bias.
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@RCHTWeCare
@Xeon4f145d96s1
Even your rebuttal post is littered with errors.
PAs are not experts, they are not 'highly skilled' & they certainly don't provide essential or even safe standards of care.
As a patient my understanding is they should not be doing the work of Doctors but they do.
Try again please
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@rcgp
@KamilaRCGP
@DHSCgovuk
@KamilaRCGP
you should feel deeply ashamed for willingly promoting propaganda & your role as government stooge in actions that will have ramifications for patient safety & confidence across the NHS. Not to mention the wilful attempt to mute the concerns of REAL Doctors
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@iDrSunny
Have you seen her 'rebuttal'?
She is grateful to be alerted to your post because it & the replies have given her 'lots of laughs'. Her final take is the public need educating on her role & she will continue to 'boast' & google. Lots of other bits too but that's my take.
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@gloshospitals
I wish your house rules advocated more strenuously on routes for concerns re patient safety...
Enough with this thinly veiled
#BeKind
nonsense 🙄
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@trishgreenhalgh
She has very recently resigned her Directorship after holding the position since 2013. Seems rather late in the day to develop a conscience ...
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@TheSalariedPA
@Dr_Done_
@toast36742904
@EDPractitioner
✋️ This patient wants to be seen by a Doctor who has been to Med School, patient safety & confidence and all that.
Also I am aware many PAs like to claim they have been to Med School but it really is'nt the same. Academic rigour goes a good way to achieving patient confidence.
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@BMA_James_Steen
@dr_nigel_lane
@DHSCgovuk
I am a member of the public & see zero benefit to a PA being regulated by the GMC. I think it is a deliberate ploy to dupe us into accepting that a PA is somehow medically equivalent to a fully qualified doctor! That GMC number attached to a PA's name will exacerbate the problem
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@medicalmodelbri
This is beyond terrifying.
It is also beyond reckless the way patient safety is being abandoned so that this subpar cohort can play out their Doctor fantasies across A & E departments
throughout the UK.
I thought the prevalence of PAs in GP surgeries was bad enough!
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@drcolinm
'Studying A MEDICINE at a university ...' can you qualify that for this lay person.
I have observed many PAs claiming to study medicine, at an approved University Medical School, when really they are on PA courses with zero equivalence.
I trust you can sense my confusion?
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@itvpeston
@VictoriaAtkins
@ITV
@VictoriaAtkins
You have had at least 2 weeks to 'reflect' and now it's time to drop your unreasonable intransigence and come back with a proper pay deal so that our Junior Doctors can get back to providing the service they do, despite your governments attempts to undermine it.
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@alisonleary1
@ronansetron
@iDrSunny
I remember, as though yesterday, in 2011 a Marie Curie nurse was sitting with me at my dying Mums bedside. I told her my son was going on his 1st hospital placement. She advised me to tell him that he needed to be nice to the nurses because 'we can make their life hell' /1
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@blvck_princesa
@nhsbourbon
As a patient I can tell you I want to see a fully qualified Doctor in both hospital & GP settings. I would expect NHS providers to be concerned with patient confidence. Aside from the issue of academic rigour, the scheming manner of the rush for expansion gives me major concerns.
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@Quamasparagi
@EmergMedDr
I can't bring myself to actually 'like' your post.
The point you make highlights the threat of this PA cohort to patient safety.
I worry too how they have proliferated in geriatric care across all care pathways...
My condolences on your loss xx
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@IOWNHS
@EstherClift
@melisapasi
Is
@EstherClift
a real Doctor? A real Consultant? It's hard to work out what she is but I do worry that this is another example of elderly patients, who often come under the frailty category, being duped into accepting care from .. well who knows given this ambiguous title!
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@DrEilidhMaria
She expanded on her credentials ... 🙄
At least it confirms my opinion on this cohort
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@iDrSunny
@RCPhysicians
@Bullock1Ian
@DrSarahClarke
@DacreJane
@CathrynmEdwards
For me the absolute worst person on that panel is
@CathrynmEdwards
. Her desperation for scope to be set at local level has elevated my fears on this PA experiment to an even higher level. No one has genuine concern for patient safety. Not one of them. It comes down to money
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@glambystefania
@DrEilidhMaria
@jabberwock951
@Molly2323232323
@MichaelC7389
@lugolson
"The amount of meds they are on and I get to suspend" is exactly what you said & seems unequivocal to me!
As a concerned patient I sincerely hope you are taken to task over this.
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@Cleverclog67596
@PCSPSDHC
It does need reporting on the grounds of patient safety. There is something fundamentally wrong with someone who is so blatantly thrilled at the horror element of this experience that they created a post
The language she used is distressing & her excitement is palpably evident.
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@JoOgidi
You really need to pay close attention to the part played by Jeannie Watkins in this fiasco.
Her serious failure to declare conflicts of interest, both financial & academic, have caused your cohort untold damage.
Even her belated declaration is suspect!
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@PatrickMackle4
I know I'm repeating myself, but it was definitely a conflict of interest. A significant conflict actually & she elected to repeat this failing several times.
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@DHSCgovuk
@wesstreeting
@BMA_JuniorDocs
Get rid of these overpaid Physician Associates and pay Doctors more than this poorly qualified cohort.
This risky experiment on an unsuspecting public & the ramifications for patient safety needs to be stopped. We need more fully trained Doctors with improved pay & conditions
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@gmcuk
@LittlePersonDoc
So you are basically withholding the survey results until such time as you implement PA/AA registration?
Is this to avoid any form of challenge to your interpretation of said results?
This approach is actually contemptible, much like how you have handled this entire debacle!
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@BMASevernJDC
@TomStocks1982
@gloshospitals
Do the elderly patients of
@gloshospitals
realise they are being subjected to this experimental subpar standard of service? Why not employ fully qualified & trained Doctors for what is often a complex area of medical care?
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@DrEilidhMaria
@MFTnhs
It is also an increasing number of informed patients who are opposed to the experimental use of PAs.
It is actually insulting & high handed to write to
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@pa_StephenNash
@ClinOncDoc
@ramey999
@Cleverclog67596
@Adam_Skeen
The 'things'
@ClinOncDoc
states are the basics required to practice as a Doctor. That 'thing', known as academic rigor, is imbued in a Doctors training, but absent from PA studies.
As a patient my anger is at the proliferation of your cohort & obvious massive safety concerns
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@Aulithium
@boop1512926
@iDrSunny
Most definitely. I make sure I clearly ask too so there is no chance of being duped by 'I'm part of the medical team' & such fudging.
Not yet at the stage where I ask to see evidence of the medical degree but hard to know how far I will need to go in terms of self advocacy!!
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@Xeon4f145d96s1
She always displayed dissatisfaction with being referred to as an Assistant! Hubris drove the internal name change so PAs could be seen to work 'in conjunction with' Doctors as opposed to being seen as assisting. Now she makes💰 from her private PA company 🙄
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Delighted to read how
@TheBMA
intend to join with
@AnaesUnited
in taking legal action against
@gmcuk
This is a positive move in attempting to restore Patient Safety & Patient Confidence.
PAs & AAs should not be on the same register as real Doctors. They hold zero equivalence
200,000 doctors are going to be protecting the public by suing the GMC
The GMC is the regulatory body that is meant to uphold standards in medicine to deliver the best outcomes for patients.
Doctors feel the GMC have let patients come to harm and are ever increasing that harm
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@TomStocks1982
@SimonNeequaye
Nor is it her first attempt at undermining BMA position statements. She sneered & snarked her way through the BMA statement that was issued some 5 months ago. She is perfectly happy to do this on a public platform so it is fair enough if she is held to account
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@Megsenmumdr
@drcolinm
Now I am seeing 'Registered Medical Professional' across Social Media. Particularly when hawking beauty treatments
Sample below ...
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@profjimspeaks
@iDrSunny
😳
Gosh, brave challenge given that there are clearly recorded declared conflicts of interest.
Unlike Jeannie Watkins, or whatever her name is on a given day, you did at least declare.
The interesting bit for me is the lack of action on the illegal issue of prescribing!
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@ExplosiveEnema2
@JPUHEd
@JamesPagetNHS
I would like an answer to this.
The sycophantic fawning from the enabling Consultant, re the 'skills' of the PA, is a mix of nauseating & terrifying from a patient perspective.
Then the admission funding for this post came from 'middle grade' budget.
As in Doctr replacement?
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@AskJeevesWij
@gmcuk
Must be hoards of Junior Doctors feeling extremely let down by your actions & role in promoting PAs & AAs. Sold them out again
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@VictoriaAtkins
@DHSCgovuk
@BMA_JuniorDocs
As you are well aware
@VictoriaAtkins
a proposal for mediation was made in good faith by the
@BMA_JuniorDocs
in summer of 2023. It was ignored & rejected by your Govt
To present it as a new proposal is mendacious.
Sort this out & increase their pay.
Scrap PAs, pay our Doctors.
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@PatrickMackle4
@gmcuk
This, as usual, is a well considered point of view.
I am a patient & have made 3 donations to the fund for
@AnaesUnited
to move the legal action forward. I intend to do the same next month because this is so important. I dont have 15 years to wait & see
@gmcuk
held to account!
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@Xeon4f145d96s1
@StGeorgesUni
I hope any prospective students planning to study medicine
@StGeorgesUni
take a good look at the bias you have for the PAs produced via your 'factory farmed' PA course.
Doctors are essential PAs are not.
The difference in the course is like night & day & cheapens the MBBS efforts
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@gmcuk
@iDrSunny
Embarrassing & shameful that the Doctors regulator has to issue a rebuttal against claims from their comms team.
How are Patients supposed to make sense of this fiasco when your own people don't have a basic grasp of what a PA is?
Next query - why did they make such an assertion?
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@RCEMpresident
@jim_crawfurd
@bicmyhead
@Mary_Tom11
@medicalmodelbri
@gloshospitals
@RCPCHtweets
@RCPhysicians
@KatherineRCEM
@parthaskar
@LittlePersonDoc
From a patient perspective they certainly seem much better informed than you
@RCEMpresident
?
Otherwise I would have expected you to advocate vigorously against this assault on patient safety!
I just hope the good people served by
@gloshospitals
are as observant as EM anons 🙄
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@drcolinm
@LittlePersonDoc
@DrLKVaughan
@gmcuk
Did you consulte the public? Surely patient safety & confidence in the profession is paramount?
I had never heard of PA'S. I now know they are an insidious part of my health care!! They should not be on the GMC register!
I resent being duped & bullied into accepting them.
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@VictoriaAtkins
Another propaganda post A cynical pre plannned attempt to silence the serious concerns of Doctors while duping the public into thinking this is widely supported. Those who will suffer the most from this govt driven plan of cheap & underqualified PAs & AAs are the public!
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@medicalmodelbri
@ExplosiveEnema2
@AlderHey
@NHSEngland
So
@AlderHey
are attempting to keep this from patient/public scrutiny?
Perhaps the
@LivEchonews
should take a look at this so parents across the North West know the real level of subpar care they are entrusting children too.
Alder Hey seems to heavily promote the use of PAs
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@Parody_RCGP
The rank hypocrisy exhibited by the
@rcgp
is staggering. It is literally one sordid revelation on top of another from these colleges & institutions, incl
@gmcuk
, that we entrust with standards of care & patient safety in our NHS
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@Aulithium
@boop1512926
@iDrSunny
As a geriatric patient this observation does not match my experience!
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@actor_joshua
@Dr_Done_
@ExplosiveEnema
@Parody_RCGP
It's the motivation that bothers me ...
As per ...
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@Dr_Done_
She strikes me as an indolent braggart to be honest.
Cosplaying as a Doctor but lounging around with zero air of respect for whoever she is speaking to.
This video ranks amongst the worst I have seen from this cohort
Why do they even post these videos?
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@dawnashley13
@DrEilidhMaria
@NTeesHpoolNHSFT
@dawnashley13
helped the promotion of this cohort some 4/5 years ago. These are the people responsible for encouraging scope creep
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@ClareGerada
I think this is her sneaky way of promoting that 'generalist' cohort she has always advocated for. It's all in the vocabulary she uses. '... our patients need generalists..' Part of the propaganda is that a PA is a generalist trained in the medical model
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@mancunianmedic
@gmcuk
In my capacity as a patient/public I would gladly support any attempt to report them. Patient safety & Patient confidence seems to have vanished as part of their remit
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@ActAsOneBDC
@pully8
@DrNickB_ObAnaes
@Ask_foradoctor
@BDCFT
What exactly is a 'heart specialist' in the context of your campaign? In terms of nitty gritty detail is 'Bilal', the heart specialist, a qualified physician/cardiologist?
If your attempt is to simplify titles this profile & title has left me, a patient, totally perplexed.
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@DrLKVaughan
@jim_crawfurd
@timricketts_
@ollieburtonmed
@PatrickMackle4
@zx_sci_john
@HealthFirstAK
@Burnt2020
@RCEMpresident
@bicmyhead
@Mary_Tom11
@medicalmodelbri
@gloshospitals
@RCPCHtweets
@RCPhysicians
@KatherineRCEM
@parthaskar
@LittlePersonDoc
For me the boundary was crossed when the cohort decided to rename themselves as Associates on the basis of a flimsy internal vote.
Jeanne Watkins gave a clear hand wringing explanation of why, not once referencing patient safety.
At that point the experiment shld have stopped!
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@NHSEngland
These are your colleagues, ... 😥 Easy to see how this scope creep has happened. How sad and shameful.
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@jacquelineowo
@carolvorders
@LBC
Yet not highly qualified enough to see through the rhetoric & sales pitches of the courses they followed.
That in itself is enough for me to query their place/role/scope in all health settings.
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@doctimcook
@RCoANews
Personally I'm not a fan of the word 'alongside' in this introduction scenario for an AA.
As a lay-person/patient this still implies an idea of equivalence, much as the word Associate does.
I just hope I'm sufficiently aware, should the situation arise, to query this.
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@gmcuk
As a patient, after reading this blurb, I still have very strong feelings about the fact PA's will even be included on the GMC register. They have not earned the right to a GMC no. How is this proposal in keeping with your function to ensure the health & safety of the public.
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@PaulaMc007
@COSMakin
Or the training costs, exam fees, professional fees,constant placement rotations, & a longer working week. Not to mention the PA will start on a higher wage. It makes no sense.
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@pa_StephenNash
@ramey999
@Cleverclog67596
@Adam_Skeen
Are you really suggesting that we patients are to be experimented on while your cohort hone their questionable skill set, despite not having studied medicine?
A big no from me.
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@RCPhysicians
Surely this vote should be abandoned. You have deliberately misled those with a right to vote. Those who have voted already have done so on the basis of deliberately misleading information. A result obtained in this way should not stand!
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@HSJEditor
No. It needs saying & has opened my eyes to what is going on. Perhaps you should read/listen to the language used by some PA's with regards to their perceived abilities and scope. Hubris is rife! As a patient I find this creeping advancement in PA use terrifying.
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@IncogAssociate
Honestly, it is postings such as yours which have made me so very fearful of encountering a PA in any medical setting! The personality traits you exhibit seem common to many of the cohort.
Patient confidence should be important
I have zero confidence in your style of deflection!
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@Dr_Done_
As a geriatric patient I have zero confidence in PA Teresa's training & skill set. Though she appears to have attached her doctor yearning to my cohort via her PA course, surely geriatric medicine is complex & nuanced when approached correctly. She is not a Doctor
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@NationCymru
@ShiptonMartin
They are not 'partially trained medics'. As per the
@gmcuk
they have never studied medicine but follow a 2 year skim course with almost 100% pass rate.
With zero equivalence to a qualified doctor it is insulting to refer to any subpar PA as a medic
It does dupe the public though
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@Dr__Chloe
@LittlePersonDoc
@bbchealth
They decided they didn't like the name ... carried an insinuation they were 'handmaids', and so conducted an internal vote amongst what was then a small cohort. They settled on the title of Associate
There was no external consultation.
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@Dr__Sarmy
Though registered with
@gmcuk
my understanding is Shaun Meehan does not have a licence to practise.
I doubt he seeks consent from any patients, merely continues to assist in churning out this subpar cohort to jeopardise patient safety.
He also has a Conflict Of Interest surely?
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@implausibleblog
@drmattuk
@PeterStefanovi2
@carolvorders
@doctor_oxford
Just about every aspect of this implementation has been done via subterfuge, clandestine meetings, carefully crafted terminology & 'private meetings'.
@gmcuk
, touted as the bastion of Patient Safety & Patient Confidence is totally failing patients due to political interference.
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@parthaskar
@X
@KamilaRCGP
@doctor_katie
@DrSelvarajah
@VictoriaTzB
@Richard_GP
@drpatrickholmes
@padsbigsis
@DrLKVaughan
@UKGastroDr
@mmamas1973
@doctor_oxford
It no longer exists for me either.
Leaving X seems to be a trend for health organisations of late.
No accountability so they can continue their pet projects unchallenged I suspect.
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@Dr_DeanS
Despite presenting as a straightforward ptnt many years ago, I suffered complications during what should have been a straight forward procedure. Eternally grateful to the fully qualified anaesthetist & Doctors who knew exactly what to do.
There should be no such post as an AA
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@Jo_McGinn
@Megsenmumdr
@DrHuw
@drcolinm
I'm surprised how much this has upset me. The organisation we expect to uphold standards for patient safety is fully complicit in encouraging obscenely risky practices.
The sniggering, bragging & laughter is chilling.
The trauma surgeon suggested patients need to be convinced...
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@bbchealth
A wise move by NI.
Hopefully funds are used on employing real Doctors.
PAs are of limited use & bring nothing extra to a medical team.
These did well to have fees paid & should have read more deeply into the sales pitch...
Dr's pay course fees over years & many are unemployed
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@rcgp
@KamilaRCGP
Surely your position is now untenable
@KamilaRCGP
and for the good of the NHS you need to resign. Complicit in designing courses for PAs undermines your role. Such a staggering COI is unforgivable & reflects badly on your College. The rot is truly at the helm
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@gaswomancometh
@alwaysawallace
@DCHFT
Don't apologise to a thwarted individual spitefully posting out of a sense of entitlement.
Sadly I'm sure you aren't the only trainee to have lost out on training opportunies because of the AA cohort.
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@TomStocks1982
Of course it has.
From the first day Charlie Massey took up the post, and probably before then, the writing was on the wall. Once Jeremy Hunt had positioned his favoured stooge into the heart of the Doctors regulator any pretence of neutrality was over 😒
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@VoteDoctor61142
@UMAPsUK
@AnaesUnited
@TheBMA
Actually I think the observations made in this screenshot are perfectly valid. There was/is no legitimate basis for this private Ltd company to tout itself as a trade union.
It was strangely remiss of the powers that be not to have checked out this dubious set up
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@ColinaCoco
@Mary_Tom11
The position initially carried the title of Assistant. I note your obvious distaste for being referenced as such. I really do not understand why it was changed to Associate because that gives us patients a different slant on your status. You are not equal to a Doctor in any way.
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@DrStrangetwit
@bmj_latest
I fear the 'solution' to Problem 3 is already in place...
The spread of PAs throughout all areas of Geriatric care is causing me great concern.
I am firmly in that category & resent having this cohort infiltrating what should be viewed as a complex area of medicine!
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@adamgordon1978
@GeriSoc
She actually titles herself as Doctor. Followed by a nebulous job title. At 70+ I struggle to keep up with these ever evolving job titles. It would seem she is not a Dr in the medical sense. Clarity is crucial, especially in the field of geriatrics & fraility.
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@wesstreeting
Can you please ask us patients & public what we think?
I think you must stop wasting money on PAs
I think you need to employ more REAL Doctors
I don't want a two tier/subpar NHS
I think you need a public campaign on this issue.
Few of us are aware of what is going on!
Thank You
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