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1/ IMPORTANT: If you're a doctor & concerned re pensions taxation & its effect on the NHS / retention, can I ask for your *1 minute* of your time to use this form to tweet your MP 👇 to attend a BMA Pensions Committee roundtable at Westminster next week e-activist.com/page/108737/tw… Pls RT!

I'm a doctor. Current NHS pension taxation rules are unfairly hitting senior doctors hard with many forced to retire early/reduce hours. This crisis cant go on. @grobinsondup as my MP, please will you attend The BMA pensions event on Weds 6 July

1/32 An important🧵 summing up some new worrying information & terrifying predictions, & how to reverse these concerning trends -gvmnt needs to finally take head out of the sand regarding pensions taxation (& and how *you* can help). Pls read to end & share/RT.

2/ Grant an immediate exemption for doctors to public sector pension rules which are currently forcing them to retire in their fifties in alarming numbers.

Big day for me. Over 36 years since I started in the NHS. Retired from my consultants job solely due to pension taxation.

Roshana 🦴 Thanks for reaching out Roshana 🦴 I've been raising the pensions issue repeatedly & it was a key recommendation in our recent workforce report. It is crazy not to fix this when there is such a big capacity crisis in the NHS - will keep on the case... publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmse…

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Flying home from the #NationalAssociationofRocketry world championships with gold and silver #teamgb on virginatlantic from #atlanta tonight. Richard Branson #nar @teamgb Tim Peake @profbriancox @bbcessex Well done Ted, Charlie and Wilf

A thread on the major scandal behind this GP’s rant at the PM. 🧵 We are ALL struggling to get appointments with our GP. But, unbelievably, thousands of GPs are unable to find work, and that’s because of the government’s Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS). 1/9

Today over 80 Fellows of Royal College of Physicians (with >20 Professors of Medicine, 3 elected RCP council members) have signed an expression of concern outlined below around the actions of the leadership of Royal College of Physicians that continue to place patients at risk from harm. In the March EGM,

We want to see safe and lawful practice measures in place to clarify what Physician Associates and Anaesthesia Associates can and cannot do. And a legal challenge is the only way to get that. Please support us at crowdjustice.com/case/stop-misl…

So far we have raised over £80,000 for our legal case, but we still need more. Watch this video to find out about the biggest change to hit medical care this century and why we are sounding alarm bells. Then please consider making a donation. crowdjustice.com/case/stop-misl…

A revolt over patient safety and declining expertise is tearing the medical establishment apart. 🖊️ @pwhitakerwriter newstatesman.com/long-reads/202…

Dr Sandeep Bansal (same username on B Sky) Dr Done Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) ExplosiveEnema PA Stephen Nash Good article in FT today. Readers comments are pretty damning. Usual limp wristed platitudes from TPTB. Sadly, don’t think it will change a thing. No one cares - until they get sick…ft.com/content/5a5335…

🧵/ This is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of UK medicine. 28 eminent UK doctors have written publicly to Layla Moran 🔶🕊️, the new chair of Health and Social Care Committee, to report something nothing less than scandalous. Read their letter here (1/n) 👇 bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Sad that this article ever had to be written The senior doctors are Anaesthetists United and we want to try and ensure events like these don’t happen in future If you care about that too please consider donating here 👇 crowdjustice.com/case/stop-misl…

Our legal case against the GMC has been joined by two families who have suffered tragic bereavements following care delivered by Physician Associates (PAs). Statements are being prepared in which both will give evidence to the Court. anaesthetistsunited.com/bereaved-famil…

They glued his head together and sent him home, but his condition was unsurvivable - Manchester Evening News manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

Today we announce our financial support to Anaesthetists United and the parents of Emily Chesterton in their legal case against GMC on its failure to properly distinguish between doctors, PAs and AAs. Our support will protect AU and the Chestertons from the risk of financial loss