Dr Alexander Deighton
@AlexJDeighton
NHS Doctor | BSc, MBBS @QMULBartsTheLon | Leadership/Management in Digital Health
Our new paper on digital tools in neurosurgical pathways featured front and centre of the new issue of Future Healthcare Journal 👇👇👇
It's always a joy to be able to announce that our latest edition is out! 📣We have so many great articles relating to training: PAs, IMGs, flexible portfolio training, digital health, remote working and so much more on top.😍 Share and enjoy. 👇 rcpjournals.org/content/future…
Why is it a gotcha from the media that even on a scrap hourly rate if you work nights and do extra hours you will get more in total?
.@Melissa_S_Ryan from @BMAResidents: "Patients will be astounded to know that first year doctors are on £17.60/hr" Jon Kay with his gotcha: yes but doctors do overtime & get paid for that.
This is insane. NHS pensions are linked to the state retirement age. So while the papers attack our "gold-plated" pensions, Liz Kendall plans for us to continue working until 72.
News from civil servants preparing Liz Kendall's pensions review. Kendall wants to look at "phasing in" the pension starting with 25% of a pension at age 68 and getting 100% of the pension at age 72. This will be represented as not affecting the triple lock. It's already the…
Doctors become apathetic and radicalised against the NHS before they even start working. Is it any surprise we no longer want to die on its alter? Given the contempt and disdain it treats us? They were right, weren’t they? #BMA1948
I’ve been a Doctor 36yrs & I understand why Residents have resorted to strikes 20% less pay than Drs in 2008, £100k student debt, poor working conditions/job security, higher pension contributions, longer working life as pension after 67yrs I had it good & Karol had it better
Doctor strikes going ahead. A poor decision. I have never striked for a single minute in my fifty plus year career in medicine, and I never will.
Ok.... @CareQualityComm this is emergency levels of importance.
repost from Reddit. A Trust in the U.K. tonight, without any strikes taking place. @wesstreeting @ShaunLintern @SkyNews @LBCNews
We were told that all PAs had a bioscience background Yet @CanterburyCCUni were canvasing prospective students telling them a first degree in health or medicine was not required It was the first thing they said when trying to sell the degree Utterly shameful
Deserves a read from any UK doctor
A further case study, this time from St George's Here they don't even try to be discreet, boldly titling the case study "Substitution of PAs at St George's" 8/n
Incredible how many ways Dr's pay has been eroded. My brother looked at this some time back and the Dr London weighting has not changed for years despite continuous inflation. Clearly not the case for the private sector, public sector or even the rest of the NHS. Why?
🚨London Doctors🚨 Did you know your London Weighting has been left behind compared to NHS colleagues and other public sector workers? How far behind, you ask? Take a look!👇🏼 Your @BMALondon will be launching our campaign to tackle this very soon!✊🏼 Watch this space! 👀
Professor Gillian Leng, President of the Royal Society of Medicine agrees: doctors are right to be angry. Paid nearly £10,000 less than physician assistants; despite more training, responsibility, and risk. This is how the NHS treats its doctors. thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
Just because 'someone tells you you've done 80% of graduate medicine' doesn't make it true. Just feel disingenuous for supposedly intelligent people to claim their 2 year course covered the same as a 4 year accelerated course with higher entry reqs and standards
Physician associate claims to have attended ‘medical school’ and studied 80% of graduate medicine in 2 yrs EIGHTY PERCENT! Is this what you’re teaching your PA students @CityStGeorges @CityStG_Health ?
Unless you're a doctor, in which case it's 23% down. That's why we're striking. We don't want a pay rise, we want pay restoration.
The average pay packet in the UK today, once adjusted for inflation, is the same size as it was in 2008. —Office for National Statistics
Leng may not have gone far enough for some people, but she was spot on with her observations about the way we have messed up postgraduate medical training.
I read the rest of the review coloured by Prof Leng’s forward which I thought was exceptional Not least because she is quite clear that resident training is broken and she’s the first in a position of true authority to admit it Powis and Whitty ignore this at their peril
When I signed up, we had a final salary pension, pensionable CEA awards, free accommodation on site for year 1 doctors and unemployment among doctors would be beyond anyone’s imagination.
You knew what you were signing up for.
Physician Associates are being renamed to Physician Assistants because the public was confused about their role. But here’s what’s truly confusing: A physician assistant now starts on a salary that’s nearly £10,000 more than a fully qualified doctor. Read that again. Doctors…
Apparently doctors need to grow up as nobody in the real world should expect pay to keep up with inflation (unless you are the majority of workers and dont work in healthcare of course)
Bloody hell you need to grow up. Hardly anyone gets an inflation pay rise in the real world. This is why the resident doctors have no strike support from the general public
It also confirmed hospitals have used them as substitutes for drs...no surprise there. Hospitals have been doing same with nursing associates for years, as with many other lesser trained roles. This is taskification of care, now Govt policy in NHS 10 year plan #patientsafety
Physician associates should be banned from diagnosing and seeing untriaged patients, a govt review has found: thetimes.com/article/19cf84…
I hope the individuals in the comments here calling doctors greedy, stating doctors are not different from any other job... Remember when they were sat at home collecting their furlough for doing nothing, whilst doctors went into hospitals full of sick and dying people every day
Wendy said doctors should be paid less than a cleaner because cleaners have outgoings. I pointed out that so does everyone… including doctors. I think a doctor should be paid as much as a cleaner. The internet lost its mind 😂 Muting now 👋
UK doctors should just take their talents elsewhere seeing the state of twitter pile ons because doctors want to reverse 20 years of pay cuts. Earn more money for easier work
Just two examples out of the dozen or so messages that have flooded my inbox over the last 4-6 weeks with extremely tempting offers to work in 🇦🇺 and 🇨🇦 for a lot less workload and lot more money, support, and appreciation (and a whole lot less doctor bashing!). Sadly, 🇬🇧 really…
I'm not a Resident Doctor. I am privileged enough to pay for a cleaner. I pay my cleaner £25 per hour. Resident Doctors are asking for less than that. My cleaner makes my house smell nice. A Resident Doctor will save your life. #Strikehard
As a consultant I was asked to do weekend long waiter lists. When I looked at what the trust would pay me after tax and compared it to what my decorator wanted to be paid - I decided it was cheaper for me to paint my windows rather than operate.