Dr Sarah Marsden
@GaslingSarah
Anaesthetic ST6👩🏼⚕️@Anaes_Residents Immediate Past Chair 💼 interests in obstetrics 🤰🏼 & neurodiversity 🧠 runner & hiker⛰️opinions own✌🏻
And with that, after a spectacular @Anaes_Residents conference and year as Chair, it’s time to hand over the reins to @Jamesbrooks90. I am so proud of everything the committee have achieved and grateful for their support. Over and out from the chair who never planned to be! 🎤⬇️
Don’t mind anyone having an opinion about #ResidentDoctors; upcoming strikes; how it may be a “safety issue” But if you haven’t brought the same energy to the safety alarms blaring across the system- on a day to day basis? I think you ought to give the indignation a rest Ta
Are you passionate about advocating for SAS doctors and shaping the future of your profession? The Association is looking for dedicated individuals to join our SAS Committee. Find out more ➡️ buff.ly/SwsCGiu Deadline for nominations is 17:00 on Wednesday 20 August…
‘There is absolutely nothing wrong with celebrating your achievements’ @doctorwibble doing an excellent job helping our residents banish imposter syndrome and negative thoughts. #RDC2025 @Anaes_Residents @Assoc_Anaes
This, this is what a proper derogation should be about. Not granting it willy-nilly to trusts who haven’t made the effort to show their consultants how to use their own IT software.
We have agreed a derogation at St George's Hospital, London for 1 resident doctor anaesthetics registrar for a day shift on 28th July 2025. This will allow a specialist consultant neuroanaesthetist to cover for an urgent paediatric cancer case.
Wow This is why doctors are striking
Well said. This is rough & ready but useful I think!
I’m all for celebrating achievements, but this should not be combined. I would have been fuming if I’d had to share the FRCA ceremony with AAs…
Time to recognise the dedication and brilliance of our new Advanced Clinical Practitioners, MRCEM and FRCEM diplomates who are lining up for their moment on the stage! It's going to be an inspiring day #rcemdiploma
.@Anaes_Residents response to the results of the GMC’s National Training Survey “we acknowledge with concern the findings set out in the GMC’s annual National Training Survey that reveal more than one in five resident doctors have felt hesitant about escalating patient care” 👇…
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
"Average UK salary". For those at the back... We aren't fucking average.
The media love to vilify Doctors - ultimately because many of the British public despise us. They banged pans when we risked our lives during the pandemic. Yet when it comes to T&Cs, our salaries are compared to the UK average 🤦🏻♂️ The public will get the NHS they deserve!
Doctors are expected to shoulder immense responsibility: life-or-death decisions, intense clinical demand, extended hours, and the moral weight of patient care. The NHS backlog and chronic understaffing have amplified workloads to unsafe levels, with resident doctors regularly…
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She believed she could, so she did. Miss Prayle MBChB, BSc(hons), MRCS👩🏼⚕️ Exciting to wonder @RCSEd with the honor of entering a Dr and leaving a Miss!! To new beginnings and bold ambitions — the path to becoming a great surgeon starts here 🎉 #ilooklikeasurgeon #mrcs #psalm465
Just a reminder to all those entitled senior clinicians who seem to have forgotten the contribution of our Resident Doctors during the pandemic Just a gentle reminder to only 5 years ago Before calling them self centred or entitled etc Think of that And sit down. Thanks
Oh amazing. Doesn’t matter my pay is so eroded, if working in the NHS kills me prematurely, at least someone benefits! Give yer head a wobble. None of these make up for eroded pay.
Secondments the right to go to another job with the NHS, Death in service benefits, AVC pension options, up to 1 year of sick leave of which minimum is 3 months full pay. Not hating or saying you are paid fairly hourly but at the same time, extras have a high associated cost.
Important to remember that even if pay restoration happens, the BILLIONS of pounds taken from doctors wages since 2008 to subsidize the NHS budget won't be coming back to us. We've done our part for the public finances, time to stop taking.
Pay restoration would cost £1.65 bn/yr to NHS wage bill, but after tax and NI contributions would drop to £1.03 bn/yr net. The last junior doctor strikes cost between £1.74 - 2 bn, but human cost immeasurable. Whatever your view, pay restoration is fiscally better.
This Borrower is over and out! Thank you to everyone at the Association and beyond for all the support this year as Chair 🥰
Handing over the jammy dodger, thank you so much @GaslingSarah for everything you have done. Now begins the reign of @Jamesbrooks90. #rdc2025
Thank you to all who submitted an abstract for the Resident Doctors Conference 2025. Read the published abstracts in this online supplement of Anaesthesia ✨ ➡️ buff.ly/0nqDyqu
Some great tips in here at @Anaes_Residents for how to reduce distraction and improve our non-technical skills. Going to try and take some of these back to busy acute theatres 💭
Much to take away from our second keynote speaker, Dr Rhona Flin, talking about anaesthetic decision making under pressure. Scary to learn how much we are interrupted during a case and how it can change our cognitive performance. Do you implement a ‘sterile cockpit’?
There are legends and there are @Anaes_Residents legends….. It’s Day 2 of #RDC2025 🎉