Katy RN

Sending solidarity with my colleagues and all staff today across the NHS. I have been visiting my friends community centre here in Uganda and also her wedding but I am there in spirit. #NHSCrisis #SafeStaffingSavesLives @SEW_UK_ #Uganda #Lira #SustainablyEmpoweringWomen

How to tell if your appointment was cancelled due to a Doctors strike Answer you can’t On a average day in the NHS hospitals cancel 50,000 appts Strikes days affect 40,000 appts, apparently🤔 Blaming the Drs for a broken system is giving Management/Govt the excuse they want

My daughter works in childcare in Australia. Even as a teacher’s assistant she earns more than a fully qualified child care teacher in Germany. And the perks are super.

Janey Godley, you are so sorely missed today. Hope you‘re up there, sitting on a fluffy cloud, having a laugh and sending some heavy rain down on a certain golf course.

Last time I checked, no striking resident doctor had ever ripped the NHS off for £200m of unusable PPE

Why don’t you shadow a doctor for a day and understand what it means to make life or death decisions at the expense of your career for a “generous” £17 an hour.

We’ll be sharing content from the picket lines throughout the day Don’t forget to tag us @BMAResidents in your posts and use the hashtag #PayRestoration

My son - after his UK doctorate - is now working in Perth on double the salary he'd have got as a postdoc in the UK. Assuming he got a position in the UK, because there weren't any. In Australia the employers were ringing him up offering him jobs.

I don't blame you for thinking that. I guess many of us enter it as a vocation. But look at my experience: pay eroded 25%, colleagues died during covid, training is arduous, constantly belittled by management. If you view it as a pure vocation in 2025, you'll be exploited.

Many doctors have already left the NHS. Forget strikes - there won't be enough doctors on a good day.

No one gets a final salary pension anymore

Some people won’t be satisfied until you’re using a food bank and even then they’ll call you a liar. I didn’t train to be a nurse to scrape on the bare minimum, and I didn’t scrape in England I worked plenty overtime and extra shifts to pay for nice things…years later those…

Removing a trade union representative from a locum group chat and then retrospectively deleting their messages is not a good look @Leic_hospital. Trade union representatives have protection against detriment under the TULRCA. I would advise you remind Mr Butt of that.

Good for you, Katy. Most people don't understand what nurses do. I wish the UK respected nurses more but they don't. I had considered moving back to the UK from the USA but no way I could afford to live on what they pay nurses. Oh, and I'd start out as newly qualified.

Let's keep it simple: Do we need doctors? Yes Is this a job any of us can do? No Is it a highly skilled job requiring rigorous training? Yes Should we pay doctors fairly? Yes Should we also pay other workers fairly? Hell yes. It's not a race to the bottom. Solidarity ✊

If the country can’t afford doctors, it can’t afford the NHS. That’s not a problem for doctors to solve. All out 💪🏻 #BMA1948

F1 doctors being cold called by @TorbaySDevonNHS asking them to come in. This is illegal intimidation (ACAS calls it detriment) and strikes at the heart of our right to lawful strike action. Rather than harassing F1s, trusts need to ensure consultants are incentivised to by…

This you lad? @wesstreeting

Are you just going to post on social media or actually get around the table and negotiate? We're waiting.

It’s really not rocket science. If you pay a workforce 30% less than their assistants, that workforce will obviously go on strike.