Eilidh 🦀
@DrEilidhMaria
Doctor. Tropical Disease BSc. LSTM/UoL/NCL alumni. BMA LNC + UKRDC rep. She/Her.
If a pipe gets blocked in your house overnight and causes an emergency, you’d pay £75 an hour to an emergency plumber to diagnose and fix it. If one of the arteries going to your heart gets blocked and causes an emergency overnight, the doctor that comes to fix it is paid £26…
This is my issue. I can’t think of a single PA that bought into the fore how unsafe it all was, or how they didn’t feel they should be seeing undifferentiated PTs. I believe the official line was “if for a doctor, why not for a PA”
I have some sympathy with them. But remember none of them have spoken out against the illegal behaviour, cover ups, academic malpractice and data manipulation, and things like the Alder Hey child abuse scandal. Every time I feel bad for them I remember these things.
Extremely annoying trying to rent and boyfriend has own business and dividends (which affordability won’t look at), and affordability also won’t look at anything other than base pay. What will it be like getting a mortgage? No idea how we’re supposed to find a broker than works…
If someone replaces a pilot and hasnt done any pilot training, then states they’re actually doing the same thing as the pilot but offering a different perspective… Are you getting on that plane? Are you getting your family on that plane?
#askforadoctor RCGP Reg Chair Why do people think they have a right to career progression which involves plating doctor without going to medical school. Medicine is about patients not ones good given right to career progression
This will not stand, and I will be forwarding what I have seen to the respective LNC.
Just had a conversation with a doctor. A London A&E is already gaming the system They require PAs to discuss the patient with a Reg or Con before being seen The patient is now considered differentiated And they can see the patient as before Including majors and…
The trouble is that as someone that was post grad, you’re presented with a pathway you *must* look at additionally to PA, and it’s medicine. In one pathway, you identify they see patients like doctors do, but have a shorter degree programme, no formalised further training. And at…
If, as a 3rd year medical student, you would accept information on a potential career from qualified doctors, NHSE, HEE and the royal colleges without inquisition level questioning. Why would you expect a potential PA student to be more skeptical than you?
I mean what should a proper society do with people who think like this?
If you look at the full clip - “undifferentiated” only applies to adult patients with minor ailments who have met criteria that will have to be set out in national clinical protocols by RCs. And see paragraph four. Credit will find it when I can find the @!
Hey, @wesstreeting @lengreview what’s the repercussions for hospitals ignoring the immediate advice regarding PAs? How do we report it? What about ones twisting advice, a consultant in ED glancing at one sentence from triages notes and “differentiating” a patient, then letting…
Not me rocking back and forth this morning repeatedly saying two shifts left to myself, wide eyed.
Lang recommended that PAs should stay in post but it’s clear that if parts of our review are followed to the letter, there is very minimal role for PAs in a number of settings. Have we considered that some PAs may genuinely want a redundancy package??
I had a degree in Pharmacology before training as a PA. Add in my PA degree and 9 months of clinical practice and I still hadn’t scratched the surface of what we covered in pre-clinical year of GEM. Pharmacology + PA course also doesn’t make me ready to prescribe
I’m very disappointed this is being facilitated/enabled in an emergency department. The RAT process does not differentiate a patient, total fudge. I feel sorry for PAs who have been sold a career in EM as it’s not their fault. this “leadership” is exactly why we are in this mess.
They seem to be very keen to avoid using Assistsnt as well, I think PA should not be used either, just assistant fir clarity & safety, most folk know what an assistsnt is so would help the public & patient safety, seems like consultants would be as well just seeing patients
This is from Warrington ED. I have some questions. - if there’s no consultant at night, has this ED been going against RCEM and BMA guidance and forcing residents to prescribe? - what is the cost effectiveness of a consultant seeing a patient THEN a PA seeing them, and isn’t…
