Peripheral Norad

A friend has been seeing a paediatrician for her kids in the US for >3 years I searched up that paediatrician today, turns out she’s a nurse practitioner with an online PhD 3 years of keeping up the facade of being a doctor, never correcting my friend when she referred to her…

Nursing associates should not be using the term “nurse” in their role. This will soon be a protected title Can we please have name changed for NAs too @wesstreeting ? Change to “Nursing assistants”- same with PAs - make it clear to the public & to protect patient safety! 👍🏻

1/n I want to say something about PAs. I don’t know yet if this will be long or short cause I am not psychic. What I do know is this: the situation has become a mess. Not just administratively. Not just professionally. But emotionally. And it’s going to leave scars.

"We do not accept the recommendations of the Leng Review" says PA Group. And that is why AU are fighting for the GMC to enforce a defined scope of practice. Please help us achieve our target crowdjustice.com/case/stop-misl…

Know more about medicine than doctors? This is delusional.

‘We are the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, not the Royal College of Emergency Physicians’. Take the hint, EM Doctors. They are coming for Tier 5 next. UK EM will become a protocolised triage service, & no more. Leave the specialty or leave the country.

Love how the ACPs came first in that sentence. That’s not to undermine their achievement but it demonstrates the priorities of the college. Non-Drs more important than the Drs.

As our national colleagues @BMAResidents held constructive talks with @wesstreeting to try avert strike action next week, And in the context of the @lengreview outputs, Here’s a reminder of the perverse disparity the current NHS pay structure produces here in the capital.👇🏼

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…

Just remember this old IPC chestnut

infection CONTROL

Doctor substitution is becoming increasingly problematic no where more so than @RCollEM Unless you want to be a giant liability sponge, IMHO a career in Emergency medicine is now a total waste of MBBS

I'm all for celebrating peoples successes in life. But doctors just aren't allowed anything themselves anymore are they. ACPs first and foremost. The UK and the NHS anti-doctor sentiment is a thread of microagression woven into its everyday tapestry.

Now that physician associates will be renamed as physician assistants and their scope of practice will become more limited, there is no need for them to be regulated by the GMC. This wasn’t discussed in the recent Leng Review but it is another change the government should make.

When is @gmcuk intending to update the wording on its website?

When you replace a doctor with a PA this is what happens. All the extra investigations and referrals cost Money. PAs and even ACPs have a huge hidden cost

FPR represents the minimum acceptable outcome. Please @BMAResidents don't give in.

Today’s talks with the Health Secretary were constructive, and we believe there’s a window of opportunity - albeit small - in which the Government can put forward a strong enough proposal to prevent strikes. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

Recently I’ve seen a patient die due to #flathierarchy. If you did a RCA, the sequence of events that led to the patient becoming so unstable could be traced back to a single non-medic overturning and ignoring a pivotal component of a doctor’s plan.

So now, how will we address the issue that our assistants are paid more than us? Our pay erosion is so complete, that rebanding is the only realistic solution left on the table.