Dr Robert Laurenson
@RobLaurensonD4P
GP | Co-Chair of BMA UKDC 22-24 | Council member @RCGP | views are my own
The doctor substitution agenda has been a policy directive since at least 2014 with Simon Steven's Five Year Forward View plan.
Today we have started a review of postgraduate medical training led by @NHSEnglandNMD and @CMO_England Listen to @NavinaEvans explaining more. Find out more at england.nhs.uk/postgraduate-m…
We work in this. We do our best. We struggle in a broken system. Our health secretary tells us we have disdain for our patients. How about you invest into fixing our national health service rather than vilifying doctors @wesstreeting.
repost from Reddit. A Trust in the U.K. tonight, without any strikes taking place. @wesstreeting @ShaunLintern @SkyNews @LBCNews
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
An extremely warm welcome to our new ST3s Max Dewhurst, Emily Boother, Siddarth Raj, Peggy Miller and Aniket Bharadwaj. They will be joining the Royal London rotation in October.
Wow. Is the plan to deliver dissatisfaction at scale?
Who’d have thought? Smaller practices have better patient satisfaction than larger ones. Guess which ones @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland want to keep?🤔 Yep the large ones & make them even bigger! Good one Wes et al! 🤯 gponline.com/10-year-health…
Let’s take a moment And acknowledge what grass roots work can achieve Against all odds National organisations Royal Colleges Politicians Regulatory body All against YOU Yet? A motley crew managed to overhaul the machine Or at the very least? Made it pause To all who…
Can consultants please explain to me what "neighbourhood care" looks like to them? What does working in the community look like to them? What benefits can they see in doing this?
Crisis after crisis after crisis. But what has led us to this doom loop? And how do we get out of it? Until we wake up to the fact that the spiral began in 2008, we can't escape it. My latest newsletter👇 tomharwood.substack.com/p/persistent-k…
Credit where credit is due. No undifferentiated patients. Scopes set by Royal College experts. Progression through medical school. Post graduate medical education review around the corner. Well done @wesstreeting!
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
It's difficult for me to understand if you're talking about the 15 years of economic lockdown your party brought about or the response to the pandemic.
Congratulations to our new RCGP Chair-Elect Dr Victoria Tzortziou Brown, Vice Chair-Elect (Policy) Dr Munro Stewart and Vice Chair-Elect (Member Standards) Dr Jamie Hynes, who take up office in November. Read the full statement ⬇️