Andy Lowes (@andylowes3) 's Twitter Profile
Andy Lowes

@andylowes3

Father to Jackson and Florie. Husband to Tessa. Geordie Anaesthetist/intensive care doctor at Gateshead QEH. Staff governor. Rubbish at running long distances

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Resident Doctors (@bmaresidents) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you to everyone who has come out today and supported the #JuniorDoctorStrikes and the rallies held in Oxford and Birmingham. See you all again tomorrow for day two! #PayRestoration bma.org.uk/juniorspay

The London Economic (@londoneconomic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Well, I think the question was, is Britain broken? And I think, quite plainly, it feels like we are almost in every government-administered area of our lives, things are not working." #BBCQT

Andy Lowes (@andylowes3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The safety net that the NHS/social care is supposed to provide has been completed shredded over the past 14years. Not enough staff now to patch up the holes

BMA Consultants (@bma_consultants) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Read BMA Consultants Committee Chair Vishal Sharma's letter to Rishi Sunak on reaching an agreement to end the pay dispute. You can also read our full press statement here: bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

Read BMA Consultants Committee Chair <a href="/Vish_Sharm/">Vishal Sharma</a>'s letter to <a href="/RishiSunak/">Rishi Sunak</a> on reaching an agreement to end the pay dispute. You can also read our full press statement here: bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…
Dr Tony Goldstone (@goldstone_tony) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: OK on the eve of junior/consultant strikes, we need to talk about these charts (NEW data just in!) 👇 We need to look at them to fix waiting lists & its increasingly clear next GE will be won or lost on the NHS Please read the whole 🧵 & share widely / RT

1/ NEW &amp; IMPORTANT: OK on the eve of junior/consultant strikes, we need to talk about these charts (NEW data just in!) 👇

We need to look at them to fix waiting lists &amp; its increasingly clear next GE will be won or lost on the NHS

Please read the whole 🧵 &amp; share widely / RT
Rob Galloway (@drrobgalloway) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have just finished another set of incredibly difficult weekend nights as the A&E consultant incharge. Some thoughts: The NHS no longer provides unscheduled care - we provide treatment. Care is with dignity - that's impossible for our patients in corridors. The model of

Andy Lowes (@andylowes3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“People who drive our planes” 😂😭 where do you even start with this and what it says about those who dictate NATIONAL policy!

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (@gateshead_nhs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Consultant, Andy Lowes has been working with schools in the community to produce artwork promoting organ donation🎨 Today we unveiled an incredible bespoke piece of artwork by @xpgateshead XP. School 'Being Human’ located at the windy nook entrance. Stop by and have a look!

Consultant, Andy Lowes has been working with schools in the community to produce artwork promoting organ donation🎨

Today we unveiled an incredible bespoke piece of artwork by <a href="/xpgateshead/">@xpgateshead</a> <a href="/XPschool/">XP. School</a> 'Being Human’ located at the windy nook entrance. Stop by and have a look!
@xpgateshead (@xpgateshead) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our G29 students' beautiful work curated at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust promoting organ donation answering the guiding question: "What does it mean to be human?" Special thanks to Andy for supporting this work, and to our wonderful artists in Year 8 and their teacher Ms Macphail!

Andy Lowes (@andylowes3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Keir Starmer rips apart Jeremy Hunt's weak budget in powerful speech youtu.be/E-C3UqmeNnA?si… via YouTube quite the Tory legacy!!

Farrukh (@implausibleblog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A phenomenal 10 mins with Carol Vorderman on 🔥 It begins with an intro, then from 1:23 onwards, "We've had a Conservative government which is in my opinion corrupt.. During covid we have the VIP PPE lane.. Then we had partygate.." "I started digging and I just started to

Dr Tony Goldstone (@goldstone_tony) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/ Important NEW report from Institute for Fiscal Studies Shows that doctors pay eroded more than all other public sector workers (vs private sector has recovered). They have used 2010 as a start date in the chart below, not the start of austerity.... doing so significantly increases pay loss

1/ Important NEW report from <a href="/TheIFS/">Institute for Fiscal Studies</a> 

Shows that doctors pay eroded more than all other public sector workers (vs private sector has recovered).

They have used 2010 as a start date in the chart below, not the start of austerity.... doing so significantly increases pay loss
Andy Lowes (@andylowes3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I just signed the petition calling on political parties to back an urgent poverty relief fund to help the millions of families being plunged into poverty across the UK right now. Can you add your name? 38d.gs/8kp6

Tim Lane 💙 (@mrtimlane) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Behind-scenes NHS problems leave new doctors without jobs - BBC News … but plenty it would seem for PA’s at much higher rates of pay. This is an orchestrated effort to develop a two-tier system. bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

Alan Shearer (@alanshearer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I know I’m pissed but ……. Liverpool are a great club and will win the league and have been brilliant this season but the Geordies absolutely smashed them today and deserved it…. 🖤🤍