ENT/ Head & Neck surgeon based Berkshire . benign & malignant head and neck surgery, general adult and paediatric ENT. training and medical politics. Own views
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Ppl asking what’s the latest on the consultant demands. We’ve got a set of defined dates for talks with government, reporting back to consultants committee re chance of progress. We approach these in good faith but we need to be prepared to take action 1/ bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/con…
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Doctors have suffered the biggest salary reductions of any profession in the last 20 years, when inflation is considered.
This new research will come as no surprise to our members, but will the Government finally take notice? metro.co.uk/2026/09/09/brita…
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The article selectively reflects history: pay for residents / juniors was really poor when in the late 90s with overtime attracting only 1/3 of normal. This was correct by the 2000 contract. To get 80% had to work 56hours per week. Base pay is vital not relying on overtime
Can @TheBMA feasibly still claim @BMAResidents doctors are underpaid?The case for industrial action in @NHSEngland is complicated, and perhaps undermined, by the way in which the union interprets the data, writes @TomHCalver thetimes.com/comment/columni…
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Medicine is a distinct & elite profession & I’m getting tired of people trying pretend that there’s a shortcut to the years of hard work it takes to become a doctor
Tiered rotas are nothing more than gaslighting patients into worse care
I’m glad it’s being called out publicly
Did these 1000 posts actually exists or have the government used the strikes as an excuse to get out of a mess or have they created a range of rota gaps by pulling these posts and trusts will now have to recruit?
The junior DRs are a disgrace going on strike over pay. Even more disgraceful @Keir_Starmer cancelling 1,00 training places for bew doctors. Who are the losers? The long suffering patients
This type of debate is not new and despite a lot of talk it remains reliant on doctors . If the need to reduce residents then have to accept how will a service run without consultants or SAS doctors- is the public ready for a 2 tier NHS .
In January I suggested that 'The NHS is too reliant on resident doctors' hsj.co.uk/comment/the-nhs-is…. Today we publish an interview with NHS England CEO Jim Mackey in which he tells us: 'We’ll reduce our reliance on resident doctors in response to strikes' hsj.co.uk/workforce/mackey-w…
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A 3.5% pay uplift is a real terms pay cut for consultants in England. The role of consultant should be fully valued, including pay, hours worked and its complexity. We need to stand together to demand a better deal.
We are opening a ballot for industrial action on 11 May
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I've been trying with the BMA research team to produce one graph to rule them all. Real terms pay with inflation indexed on the same graph. Look at the CPI dotted line, our pay, the average public sector worker, worker & our comparators. It's not pretty! ONS & NHS digital
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How remarkably silly this article is!
I would argue the reverse - the attempt to move to a consultant-delivered, rather than the historical consultant-led, system is the CAUSE of many of the problems we see with the NHS.
The big experiment died out because:
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I went to event at which an NHS trust revealed it was considering replacing two thirds of its resident doctors in the name of efficiency (yes, really). Here's my response to the debate that underlies the idea hsj.co.uk/comment/the-nhs-is… (free to read after registration)
Can this be extrapolated to surgery? Should there be more encouragement to train across the breadth of a specialty and then subspecialise much later (ST7 or 8) ?
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The tedious repeat of 'The BMA blocked the set up of the NHS' is somewhat galling when the actual history is the BMA was calling for a national health service from the 1920s.
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Investment vital especially adequate theatre capacity for surgeons - for too many years theatre sessions reduced to accommodate allow consultant expansion .
Today we published the 2025 UK Surgical Workforce Census Report.
Without urgent investment in theatres, staff and infrastructure, meeting waiting time targets will be near impossible.
Read more about the key findings and what we are calling for: rcseng.ac.uk/standards-and-r…
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Improving productivity requires adequate clinic space , operating theatres, equipment and beds . The lack of investment in these areas have stopped any attempt to improve productivity.
Just settle with the doctors.
That was common advice I received. Coming from an NHS family, I get the pressures doctors face.
But without reform, higher pay means higher taxes and no better outcomes.
I set out the reforms needed in @thetimes today 👇
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