Kate Sansam
@DrWhoRehab
Geeky, SCI-Fi loving , TKD black belt, NHS doctor. Opinions my own.
"My hope is that all disabled people know their worth is not tied to their ability to work and that by coming together, we will make the world kinder, fairer and more accessible for all" Read more from our patient liaison group co-chair @emmabeeden bma.org.uk/news-and-opini……
Rebuilding Lives 2025 - Session spotlight ⭐Keynote speaker (Fri 3 October) Saffron Cresswell Find out more and buy tickets⬇️ lnkd.in/eeUDBYKm
✊Solidarity with striking @BMAResidents doctors! Resident doctors are overworked and underpaid. The government has a responsibility to restore their pay after decades of austerity. Firefighters stand with NHS resident doctors.
👩⚕️Join the National Solidarity Day with the @BMAResidents. 25 July | 7am 🪧Join your nearest picket: strikemap.org/organisation/b… 📹Leave a solidarity message: bit.ly/solidaritydoct… #StrikeMap #ResidentDoctorsStrike #NHS @Melissa_S_Ryan
📢Strike action for resident doctors in England starts Friday (25th July) 📍All picket lines are up on @strike_map 💪Plan your day and share with friends, family and colleagues - we need everyone to show their support for #PayRestoration #DoctorsStrike strikemap.org
Why GPs limiting consultations to 25 a day is better for everyone including & most importantly the patients This needs to be standard practice in the UK HGV drivers / pilots / train drivers etc have safe limits Doctors not so… @wesstreeting @SKinnock @DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland
My new post on why we need to limit GP work hours (and the rest of us) sluggerotoole.com/2025/07/21/why… @AlanStout19 @katie @BMA_NI @BMANI_GP @kiityc
🎉 Two big wins for PAs in North Carolina! The state ended supervision for experienced PAs and became the 19th to join the PA Licensure Compact. These victories reflect years of work by AAPA, @NCAPA1976, and PA advocates statewide. Learn more: bit.ly/4etdS0J
More misleading commentary on @nhs_pensions The current liability of 457bn was was in fact 841bn in only 2022 👇 In other news the pension scheme will return a *SURPLUS* of 6bn to treasury this year *alone*
@SteveBakerFRSA Todays NHS Pension accounts, page 15: "As at 31 March 2025 the pension liabilities of the Scheme were valued at £457.2 billion. This is an increase of £26.2 billion from the liabilities at 31 March 2024 of £431.0 billion. As the NHS Pension Scheme is an unfunded…
Consultants in England, we want to restore pay, pensions and value. Are you ready to fight for what we have lost? Vote YES now bma.org.uk/consultantspay
So let me get this straight. No jobs for graduating nurses, no jobs for graduating midwives, no jobs for newly qualified doctors. Either find the money for jobs, or shut the courses. Stop selling young professionals lies of a career in the NHS. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
Pensions are deferred pay. Reducing future pensions to fund jam today will not address full pay restoration.
Hi @MaxWarnerIFS et al - thanks for that. I think the fatal flaw in this analysis by IFS is that by essentially only looking at the employer contribution rate, it ignores what has happened to pensions already (principally because what has happened to pay). [And also ignores the…
Day 3 of asking @wesstreeting for my money back or funding to study medicine 📣📣 NHS Employers has been updated to reflect what Physician Assistants can do… @wesstreeting You are still telling PAs they can see undifferentiated patients You sold us a lie - refund us!
Day 1 after @lengreview NHS Employers website still says PAs can see patients with undifferentiated diagnosis @wesstreeting I want my money back or financial support to study medicine “Join the NHS, you will have a job for life” “Further training gives you prospects” Lies
Here's the text (don't know how to include photos, sorry) : Junior doctors are right to be unhappy about the way the NHS treats them, the head of a landmark review into physician associates has said. Professor Gillian Leng, the president of the Royal Society of Medicine, said…
Sometimes you’ve got to dance with the one who brung ya @wesstreeting You have a very small window to present a good enough offer to @BMAResidents to avoid the strikes So let us see what your “working with the profession” really means independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
The suspension of four Labour MPs is outrageous and authoritarian. Our response:
The Leng review highlights the initial cause of the PA problem, Jeremy Hunt, 15 in GP at the time Despite concerns the roll out continued with limited safeguards & without regulation NHS leaders & Govt responsible for imposing on GPs & hospitals putting patients at risk
I cannot begin to tell you the absolute burst of emotions that comes when you hear this from @wesstreeting 2 years of my life - trying to say this. Battling so many....challenging @gmcuk @NHSEngland @RCPhysicians @AoMRC Putting reputation on the line, personal insults,…
Physician associates who assist doctors in GP surgeries and hospitals will now be known as assistants. Health Secretary Wes Streeting says this "better describes the role that they do". Read more ➡️ trib.al/aKsx2Nx
Resident doctors are striking for fair pay. Right now, they’re paid £18.62/hr - despite years of training and the vital work they do every day. They’re asking for £22.67/hr over a reasonable timeframe; the amount they’d be earning if pay had kept up with inflation since 2008.…
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.
Ice flowers in Norway. It is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the seas of the polar regions. The flowers are formed from water vapor that escapes from cracks in the thin layer of surface ice. When these vapors come into contact with the cold air, they crystallize.
"we shouldn't be paying to reverse our own pay cuts". Very well said. Everyone in this country is suffering. The solution can't be to ensure suffering later as well. Doctors are only considering striking because they're desperately looking for reasons to stay
‘We shouldn’t be paying to reverse our own pay cuts.’ @lewis_goodall questions BMA representative Dr Emma Runswick on whether doctors’ pensions should be changed to fund increased pay.