Mike Henley 🤨
@trentconsultant
BMA Council/Consultants Committee, Pay, T&C’s. *Tweets here are personal* rudeness/bad faith=block
If the vote goes through we are at the beginning of pay restoration. The excuses will have been removed but *we all* will still be responsible for holding the system to account. This is the happy music in the horror film. Stay organised, stay prepared to take action.
The medical workforce really needs to sign up to one of the union and its aims both literally and figuratively . The unity of the members is its only strength. Cardies and hand wringing its greatest weakness. Predators sense weakness and take merciless advantage.
Just been sent a renewal from @AvivaUK @avivaplc home insurance. Premium 16% higher (my pay has increased by 4%). Meanwhile…
“Senior doctors cannot physically be in two places at once” @ERunswickBMA spoke to @BBCr4today this morning on the risks NHS England are putting on staffing levels during the Resident Doctor strike action later this week - listen here 👇
So let me get this straight. No jobs for graduating nurses, no jobs for graduating midwives, no jobs for newly qualified doctors. Either find the money for jobs, or shut the courses. Stop selling young professionals lies of a career in the NHS. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
Shame we can't make it retrospective For say, the past 10 years
NHS bosses who silence whistleblowers to be banned from health service news.sky.com/story/nhs-boss…
More misleading commentary on @nhs_pensions The current liability of 457bn was was in fact 841bn in only 2022 👇 In other news the pension scheme will return a *SURPLUS* of 6bn to treasury this year *alone*
@SteveBakerFRSA Todays NHS Pension accounts, page 15: "As at 31 March 2025 the pension liabilities of the Scheme were valued at £457.2 billion. This is an increase of £26.2 billion from the liabilities at 31 March 2024 of £431.0 billion. As the NHS Pension Scheme is an unfunded…
Aviation like medicine is a decision, rich safety critical environment, where wrong decisions and burnout cost lives. In aviation DCC (flying time 100 hrs per month) vs SPA (the rest of the 190 hrs max per month) = roughly 5 DCC and 5 SPA per week. BMA indicative ballot vote now.
I hope Mr Streeting and the government can come up with firm tangible plans for the continued journey to restore pay he promised and 'non pay items' (including the ones agreed and not yet delivered). No one wants industrial action & it's in their power to avoid it.
'The country is poorer than it was'; except it's not. 60s explainer. youtu.be/g9NBmuWBkwc
Consultants in England, we want to restore pay, pensions and value. Are you ready to fight for what we have lost? Vote YES now bma.org.uk/consultantspay
We've written to NHS England with concerns about inadequate planning ahead of possible strike action later this week. Attempts to run non-urgent services with fewer doctors risk patient safety. It's imperative that Trusts postpone work to protect urgent and emergency care.
Want to get involved in picketing? Contact your local or regional RDC rep to find out more about being a picket line official 📢👇 bma.org.uk/what-we-do/com…
This is about restoring non pay elements like SPA - so essential for productivity and the sustainability of job, valuing out of hours time - when we are doing the toughest work, the ability to choose if all our contracted sessions count towards our pension, the right to take the…
Consultants in England, we want to restore pay, pensions and value. Are you ready to fight for what we have lost? Vote YES now bma.org.uk/consultantspay
Consultants and SAS doctors in England - look out for your indicative ballot email from @TheBMA today! Wes Streeting called pay restoration "a journey, not an event" - so why have we stopped? Are you prepared to stand up to demand your value is recognised by the government?
For more information on this, read our press release 👇 bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…
Important.
We've written to NHS England with concerns about inadequate planning ahead of possible strike action later this week. Attempts to run non-urgent services with fewer doctors risk patient safety. It's imperative that Trusts postpone work to protect urgent and emergency care.
Consultants, if people are telling 'you we've all suffered, now is not the time', read this post by Matt at least twice! If old style CEA's existed in the 2008 form UK consultant top pay point pay would be roughly same level as pay in Ireland/Australia for state work.
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
And this doesn't capture all of the lost pay either as doesn't account for the erosion and then removal of local CEA's. Top pay point with modelled CEA's would be similar to pay in Ireland/Australia for state only work.
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
Absolutely. And, if it’s hard to make it ‘fit with family’ make it work for you. You have more ability to change things than you think. Just have conviction and be prepared to push forward