🚨IMPORTANT: PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES SCANDAL UPDATE • Doctors across country raise alarm • Royal College of GP’s Royal College of General Practitioners calls for halt to recruitment of PA’s in general practice The BMA has called for IMMEDIATE halt to recruitment of PA’s & Anaesthesia Associates

Should we be gowning for single-shot spinals? Environmental vs infection risk? Survey from ⁦Royal College of Anaesthetists⁩ and ⁦ANZCA⁩ ESN. ⁦Dr Archie 🌱🌈⁩ Single-shot Spinals: To Gown or Not to Gown? | FormSG form.gov.sg/64dd8427d3feb3…

1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: Quarterly NHS pay data updated 27/6/24 👇 In BREAKING NEWS NEW charts now show ALL SECTORS have reached #FullPayRestoration (though NOT, of course, the NHS) We MUST fix pay/retention to fix #WaitingLists Please read whole [long bumper] 🧵 & share widely/RT

I just listened to Tony Blair being interviewed on Radio 4. I can recall the days when Tony Blair, who had apparently never turned on a PC, believed that IT was the solution for every problem in government . Now it seems that he thinks that AI is the answer to every question.

I’m still thinking about this. Paramedic practitioner tells James O'Brien: 🔸It doesn’t matter that he hasn’t studied medicine 🔸He’s better than doctors because he looks up from his screen 🔸He’s essentially done medicine vocationally as he was questioned ‘for weeks’ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️

Replacing doctors on medical rotas with PAs presents a huge threat to patient safety. But as the Mail reports today (£) it is all too common. After no action from the previous Government, we need Wes Streeting to stop this practice in its tracks. dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

Do you use #Propofol for #PONV? This month's #Infographic by Dr. Naveen Nathan Graphic: buff.ly/3LqR9EU Article: buff.ly/3S6OaF8

Really interesting email being sent out today at St George’s Medical school to final year students Concerns have been raised by medical students around placements and medical students being treated as second rate students to PAs, how their teaching is suffering being taught by

You won’t remember, but in 2006/7 you threatened to kick me out of medschool at the end of the 4th year. My crime? I failed the cardiology module following a head injury which meant I missed a significant part of the clinical teaching. I was awarded NO sympathy. I was told

We've had lots of questions today about the impact of the pay deal Many concerned about pension taxation To help explain how this could impact you, we're putting on a free webinar Join us at 19:30 on Wednesday Aug 7th Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8afc4885… Please share / RT

New Pension Award Check service launched We've found many errors on pension awards recently, costing members £,000s: Wrong pensionable pay LTA charges applied Wrong payment date Additional lump sum deducted, rather than paid Email [email protected] for more info

The 6% pay award could end up costing some Consultants more in tax and lost benefits than is received in extra income🤦‍♂️ We'll be covering this (and some of the options available) in our free webinar on Wed 7th Aug at 19:30 Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8afc4885… Please share/RT

Could be one of our most popular webinars, which is why we have no limit on attendees. There are certain things Drs can do to make this year efficient. Big pay rises likely reintroduce AA tax for most, checking position in advance can potentially avoid sleep walking into a charge

1/ 🚨IMPORTANT: We need to meet again James Murray Wes Streeting to talk about pension tax. Houston, we have a big problem #PayingToWork #TaperTaxHell James & Wes would like to talk you through this REAL case study (shared with permission) 👇[& others] Please share/RT

ICYMI My 🧵on #TaperTax #PayingToWork 👀a short explanatory video below (and pls share/RT)

A copy of yesterday's webinar is now available here: youtu.be/9TKYBUFr12w For our NHS pension support service, please visit medifintech.co.uk/register If you are an employer and would like to discuss how we can help you help your employees, please email [email protected]

Woooah… this is a very smart/evil scam. The web savvy will immediately spot the dodgy email address, but I bet plenty won’t.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: many senior doctors desperate to help waiting lists & would be willing to give up evenings/weekends to help out. But current tax rules will mean some could end up #PayingToWork 👇 RT if you want Wes Streeting James Murray to fix this ludicrous tax trap

1/ NEW & V IMPORTANT update from NHS Pensions on pension savings statements for 23/24 •NHS Pensions have self reported to the regulator •what do YOU need to do for Self Assessment (31/1) •What compensation might be due •Next steps Summary 🧵please read & share/RT