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Callum

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NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery @NIHRresearch @UniofNewcastle • Neurosurgery Registrar @MADEinHEENE @TeamNeuroRVI • Tweets and views personal

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The BMA (@thebma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Most doctors now have no confidence in the GMC. So today we announce the BMA's NEW register for all doctors. Sign up today to show your support for change. activism.bma.org.uk/page/172664/pe… #BMAARM25

Most doctors now have no confidence in the GMC.

So today we announce the BMA's NEW register for all doctors.

Sign up today to show your support for change. activism.bma.org.uk/page/172664/pe… #BMAARM25
The BMA (@thebma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"We fight once more for a regulator that can clearly define who can, and who cannot, practice medicine. Today I’m announcing for the first time in over 150 years, we are launching a new BMA register solely for doctors." Philip Banfield 💙 addresses #BMAARM25 calling for doctors to

SBNS (@the_sbns) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join us at the 100th Anniversary Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons, 12th-16th October 2026. Register your interest by scanning the QR code or visiting sbns.org.uk/event-calendar… #NeurologicalSurgeons #SBNS100

Join us at the 100th Anniversary Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons, 12th-16th October 2026. Register your interest by scanning the QR code or visiting sbns.org.uk/event-calendar… #NeurologicalSurgeons #SBNS100
Resident Doctors (@bmaresidents) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The results are in: we have a clear mandate to strike. More than 90% of you who voted in our ballot, voted YES. You’ve made it clear: enough is enough. Our fight for full #PayRestoration for resident doctors in England continues.

The results are in: we have a clear mandate to strike.

More than 90% of you who voted in our ballot, voted YES.

You’ve made it clear: enough is enough.

Our fight for full #PayRestoration for resident doctors in England continues.
SBNS (@the_sbns) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Be part of history at SBNS 100, 12–16 October 2026! We're curating an exciting programme packed with learning and lively social events to celebrate this incredible milestone. Register your interest now - sbns.org.uk/event-calendar…. #SBNS100 #Neurosurgery #NeurologicalSurgeons

Be part of history at SBNS 100, 12–16 October 2026! We're curating an exciting programme packed with learning and lively social events to celebrate this incredible milestone. Register your interest now - sbns.org.uk/event-calendar…. #SBNS100 #Neurosurgery #NeurologicalSurgeons
Mike Henley 🤨 (@trentconsultant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sick of being called ‘greedy’, Brown line is consultants, way below the zero line, the blue line is average workers, back above zero. Average pay has climbed at about equal rates over last 3 years but consultant pay still nearly 20% down graph (CPI). There’s full tax restoration,

Sick of being called ‘greedy’,
Brown line is consultants, way below the zero line, the blue line is average workers, back above zero. Average pay has climbed at about equal rates over last 3 years but consultant pay still nearly 20% down graph (CPI). There’s full tax restoration,
Dr Robert Laurenson (@roblaurensond4p) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's always weird to see these bizarre claims that the committee is "hard left" or "corbynistas". This is a wave of young people aged typically between 23-35 who see Broken Britain for what it is. Raising rent, raising house prices, raising energy prices, raising leisure

Queen Square Simulation Centre (@qs_simcentre) 's Twitter Profile Photo

8th & 9th Dec: British Neurosurgical Research Group (BNRG) Meeting 2025. Registration and submit an abstract for a chance to present your work: shorturl.at/VV1qF Join us for the 2025 annual meeting of the British Neurosurgical Research Group (BNRG), which will be jointly

8th & 9th Dec: British Neurosurgical Research Group (BNRG) Meeting 2025.  Registration and submit an abstract for a chance to present your work: shorturl.at/VV1qF

Join us for the 2025 annual meeting of the British Neurosurgical Research Group (BNRG), which will be jointly
Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) (@drmattuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/ Now the embargo has lifted, I’ve had time to read the The Leng review in full. While some celebrate minor cosmetic wins, I see the formal entrenchment of a parallel, underqualified medical workforce — built without medical training.

1/ Now the embargo has lifted, I’ve had time to read the <a href="/lengreview/">The Leng review</a> in full. While some celebrate minor cosmetic wins, I see the formal entrenchment of a parallel, underqualified medical workforce — built without medical training.
Ollie Burton (@ollieburtonmed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So we ask, what will be the consequences for trusts that knowingly used PAs as substitutes for doctors, despite GMC AND NHSE guidance that this was inappropriate? Presumably nothing, because this is the NHS - but an FOI series would be illuminating.

Sky News (@skynews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Physician associates who assist doctors in GP surgeries and hospitals will now be known as assistants. Health Secretary Wes Streeting says this "better describes the role that they do". Read more ➡️ trib.al/aKsx2Nx

Elisabeth Mahase (@emahase_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As new medical grads get ready to start F1, doctors share their advice on how to prepare for the first day of foundation training... The BMJ Catherine Dominic Gopaul Dr Nikki Nabavi bmj.com/content/390/bm…

Newcastle University Faculty of Medical Sciences (@ncl_medscience) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 Delighted to announce that 4 of our researches have received a prestigious National Institute for Health and Care Research Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award! The award brings funding that will help drive forward health and care research. Read more: tinyurl.com/ycmfm427

📢 Delighted to announce that 4 of our researches have received a prestigious <a href="/NIHRresearch/">National Institute for Health and Care Research</a> Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award!

The award brings funding that will help drive forward health and care research.

Read more: tinyurl.com/ycmfm427
Journal of Neurosurgery (@thejns) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#OnlineFirst: Reduced risk of reoperation of chronic subdural hematoma in patients treated with active subgaleal drainage compared with passive subdural drainage. thejns.org/view/journals/….

#OnlineFirst: Reduced risk of reoperation of chronic subdural hematoma in patients treated with active subgaleal drainage compared with passive subdural drainage. 

thejns.org/view/journals/….
Resident Doctors (@bmaresidents) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Strike action confirmed 🚨 Resident doctors in England will walk out 7am, 14–19 Nov. We don’t take this step lightly but pay restoration and jobs can’t wait. 🔗 bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/… #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis

🚨 Strike action confirmed 🚨 
Resident doctors in England will walk out 7am, 14–19 Nov. 
We don’t take this step lightly but pay restoration and jobs can’t wait. 
🔗 bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/… #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis