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Thank you to @nwlmcs chief executive @JanjuaAdam and East Lancashire GP @MDzi for speaking with me about this issue.
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200 practices could boycott LESs after ICB cut millions from funding offer
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🚨 ARRS see 3% of patients,
Yet take up 25% of the budget.
Just criminal - the whole scheme needs to be binned 🚮.
*PCNs are & always have been a gravy train*
So much of our precious NHS funds wasted on pointless bureaucracy.
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ARRS will not be cut with the current NHS England board in place
Think it’s working despite the 31k staff adding just 40m appts for £1.4bn
Compared to 27k GPs doing 160m appts
Cost-benefit not being done at the highest levels & they actually don’t know how it works
@wesstreeting
GP Survival retweeted
Day 87 of asking.
Hello @gmcuk.
Your public consultation on your intended regulation of physician associates closed on 9 May.
Why haven’t the results been shared with the public?
Please do so.
[Day 1 of asking.]
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GP Survival retweeted
22% of GPs say they might not be working in the NHS in just three years.
Without urgent action, we risk losing vital experience and care. We must act to #RebuildGP./
#TeamGP
ALT 22%: the percentage of GPs who say they are unlikely to still be working as an NHS GP in three years' time.
GP Survival retweeted
"Mr Streeting recognises that we as GPs are so clearly the beating heart of the NHS family. We now need him to follow through and treat us as such"
@doctor_katie referencing @wesstreeting's latest response to our ongoing NI concerns in her speech today at LMC conference 👇
ALT Letter from Wes Streeting MP to Katie Bramall-Stainer
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It was always about Doctor replacement
Rather than work on the root cause of lack of doctors in a certain area.
You know why? These were the poorest areas. The most vulnerable people. The people the gov wants you to believe whom don’t matter.
Is this what our society’s come to?
The first Evaluation of the PAs who came here from the US to work in Tipton in 2003
‘ The PAs have, in effect, to a great extent replaced GP roles in an under-doctored area’
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/docume…
GP Survival retweeted
ARRS branded a ‘tool of mass general practice destruction’ as LMCs hit out over jobs crisis gponline.com/arrs-branded-to… #GPnews #lmcconference #lmcconf
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This is the best thread I’ve read on the PA issue
It’s absolutely superb & succinctly breaks down the issues from conception to employment.
The evidence is damming & speaks for itself
A must read for all patients & HCPs, particularly NHS leaders @wesstreeting
As a senior clinician I 💯 approve of @wesstreeting announcement of a review into associates
But I am concerned it will be written around a predetermined outcome like so much of this debate has been
Below is material is hope Prof Leng sees and takes into account 🧵
@RoySocMed
GP Survival retweeted
📢We support the Government’s decision to establish an independent review of the physician associate and anaesthesia associate professions. Led by Professor Gillian Leng CBE, the review will be informed by research, data, and insights from patients & professionals.
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Last thought - please consider reading my piece from June for context, Nick - it's so much more complex than you imply.
Finally, I am speaking out for one reason only - because I care about patients & the quality of their care.
Feel free to quote me.
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It also makes a mockery of patient consent, with numerous examples of PAs pretending to patients that they are doctors, and patients consenting to treatment on that basis.
Such context was crucial balance for your piece, Nick. Disappointing to see you ignore it. Ends/
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Misleadingingly contextualised piece, @NickTriggle, which relies, predictably enough, on those infamous anonymous NHS senior sources.
The crux of the issue is not, as you claim, 'the speed at which [PAs] are being recruited". 1/n
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dl…
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“We have started hiring 1000” @wesstreeting GPs
Just 75 - Seventy Five 🤔
digital.nhs.uk/data-and-info…
"Mr Streeting recognises that we as GPs are so clearly the beating heart of the NHS family. We now need him to follow through and treat us as such"
@doctor_katie referencing @wesstreeting's latest response to our ongoing NI concerns in her speech today at LMC conference 👇
ALT Letter from Wes Streeting MP to Katie Bramall-Stainer
GP Survival retweeted
I agree with Dr Clarke as the 1st point of my Leng List - patient safety is prejudiced by de-skilling the healthcare system & replacing doctors with PAs.
No one can argue against this statement.
Prof Leng must hear this LOUD & CLEAR.
FOCUS on this, ignore the noise.
GP Survival retweeted
They'll probably just remake it/reintroduce something similar under a different name. After 40 yrs of restructuring by private profiteers embedded in NHS structures, they are not going to stop the trajectory now they r so close to finish line
GP Survival retweeted
ARRS will not be cut with the current NHS England board in place
They think it’s working despite the 31000 staff adding just 40m appts for £1.4bn
Compared to 27000 GPs doing 160m appts
Cost-benefit not being done at the highest levels & they actually don’t know how it works
