Thomas Round 💙

My letter to the @RCPhysicians leadership and council regarding the recommendations against @parthaskar . Sharing for transparency. Note these are my personal opinions and do not represent any entity or organisation I am related to Apologies for any typos #RCPExodus

Scottish ‘junior’ Doctors accepted a pay offer 2023 with no strikes ▪️12.4% 2023 ▪️inflation beating pay rises for 3yrs ▪️commitment to full pay restoration ▪️removal from “independent” pay review body The Govt listened & talked to the BMA🤷🏻‍♂️ Imagine a Govt willing to negotiate

Your Drs are an absolute bargain in the UK: A fully qualified 1st yr hospital Dr will make just *£18.62/hr*. A Dr’s assistant (physician assistant) in their 1st yr will earn >£24/hr. Until govt resolves this, there is no moving forward. Solidarity✊🏽 #residentdoctorstrikes

I've lived in London for 30 years. It's safer, cleaner, more at ease with itself by far now than it was when I came here and the only people who believe otherwise have either never set foot in the place or have a massive chaos agenda. Check out homicide figures in that time 1/2

Are shop-bought health tests putting you at risk? A landmark new study from our researchers highlights serious concerns about the safety & reliability of self-testing kits sold in UK stores - testing for everything from vitamin deficiency to bowel cancer birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/stri…

This article outlines recommendations from the NICE guideline on maternal and child nutrition, covering nutrition in pregnancy, and nutrition in children up to 5 years. A series of #BMJInfographics sum up the recommendations, on topics including folic acid in pregnancy . . .

The cruelty of too much inappropriate medical intervention

Dear UMAPs members Grok has some advise for you 👇

🚨London Doctors🚨 Did you know your London Weighting has been left behind compared to NHS colleagues and other public sector workers? How far behind, you ask? Take a look!👇🏼 Your @BMALondon will be launching our campaign to tackle this very soon!✊🏼 Watch this space! 👀

Three interesting charts on BMI and chronic disease 1. Interplay of the two strongest risk factors for type 2 diabetes: obesity and genetics Diabetes risk already starts to rise 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 the healthy BMI range (in this British cohort) – especially if genetic risk is high

Our new paper @ImplementSci @QMULBartsTheLon @kingsmedicine …plementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… implementation challenge of computerised clinical decision support systems for detection of disease in primary care: We reviewed 99 papers & developed key evidence based recommendations #research

Platforming of some of this nonsense why many of us put off twitter/X

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 ⬇️

When I was a newly qualified doctor in 2017, a typical hour on call might involve: – Being bleeped non stop to prescribe fluids or meds – Managing sepsis, post-op bleeds, heart attacks, strokes – Starting resuscitation solo while the arrest team rushed in – Breaking bad news and…

The bottom line with all NHS staff, not just doctors, is that unless you make the NHS a decent place to work, with a decent enough salary to be able to pay off your debts and afford to buy a house near where you work, or at least know where you’re going to be working in the next…

'I stand with my former colleagues' Author and comedian Adam Kay, who qualified as a doctor, told #BBCBreakfast he supports resident doctors who have voted in favour of strike action, in the latest chapter in a long-running pay dispute bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Exactly👆 1) It makes little sense to create something new when there’s an existing infrastructure (ie: assets-based development) 2) A parallel set of providers increases fragmentation (inefficient, poorer quality of care) Why not just build new services onto practices?

🗣️ | @wanderingwelch: “We already have teams of experts bedded into local communities – they’re called GPs. “It would save a lot of time and reshuffling to involve them and give them the funding to provide care.”

🗣️ | @DrSteveTaylor: "The problem with the 10-year plan is it focuses on neighbourhood health centres without acknowledging there are more than 6,000 of them in the community called GP practices." dauk.org/10-year-nhs-he…

A single national medicine formulary will replace local formularies, with the goal of ending the postcode lottery of drug access, the government has revealed in its new 10-year plan for the NHS. Read more on MIMS buff.ly/z42p0jQ