Thank you Barts Health Dr Andrew Williams for speaking about Association of Anaesthetists guidelines on sickle cell disease in anaesthesia. SCD is a complex medical challenge in so many ways. SAW #TeamAnaesthesia.

I felt uncomfortable watching the Sky News interview with consultant anaesthetist Dr Steve James, and I fear it will set us back. 😢 Badly. 😢 Why? 👇🏾 🧵1/14

When are you going to stop this lunancy once and for all Rishi Sunak Sajid Javid Sir Jeremy Hunt MP Boris Johnson You *cannot* fix waiting lists until you sort this - like you did for the judges. AA/LTA are destroying the NHS, on your watch RT if you want them (☝️) to fix it The BMA

Are you a graduate of Barts and The London, Barts or The London? QM is finally acting to erase the BL name altogether after more than quarter of a century of co-existence and 900 years of history. Sign the petition and join the campaign to stop it here: bartslondon.com/wearebl

Our General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen MP has written to Michael Fabricant 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 over his comments today on nurses drinking in staff rooms during #COVID19.

Congratulations @WhippsCrossHosp for Ditiching Desflurane. This will have a great impact in reducing the carbon footprint Barts Health #greenernhs

Boris Johnson's 40 new hospitals plan faces delays and rising costs amid a row for control between the "toxic triangle" of Treasury, DHSC and Number 10: thetimes.co.uk/article/bb9b33…

1/ Very grateful to Wes Streeting for tackling medical retention head on today "First we would take immediate practical steps. Why is it that government is sat idly by while doctors are forced to retire early for no other reason than a cap on their pension contribution, which ..

Real Case😢 54yr GP partner, 6 sessions working 50s/week Take home pay 22/23: £45,600 Annual allowance 22/23: £29,000 Net pay after pension tax bill paid: £16,600. Hrly net pay: £6.38 Outcome: Retiring age 55 "main reason for leaving = pension taxation" RT if concerned for NHS

Clearly doing something right in E11…GMC trainee survey report about Intensive Care Medicine training in North East London - WX 85.9 QH 84.7 SBH 83.2 HUH 77.4 NUH 65.0 Poppyjuice Andrew Williams

One month to solve pension tax crisis before NHS backlog becomes 'impossible' gponline.com/one-month-solv…

At BMA Pensions Committee we’ve written to @KwasiKwarteng Thérèse Coffey outlining what will & crucially what *wont* work to fix the #NHSpensioncrisis The NHS is, literally, on the brink of collapse - they MUST act now RT if you want them to listen #FixTheFinanceAct #TaxUnregistered

Here’s my payslip as a first year doctor in 2005, next to a first year doctor colleague’s in 2023. 18 years later, their take home salary is less than mine was. I lived for free in hospital accommodation and had a fraction of their student loan. #JuniorDoctorsStrike

Our clinical leaders are very concerned about the potential harm to patients that may be caused by the upcoming junior doctors’ strike. We are calling on the Government and unions to do everything in their power to suspend the strike. bit.ly/StrikeImpact 1/5

Today a doctor on the picket line said to me: “MPs have had a 42.7% increase since 2008, Junior Doctors have had a 25% decrease since 2010. So let’s not have MPs saying that pay restoration for doctors is unaffordable. We have families to feed as well.” A fair point indeed.

🚨 It's crazy that the NHS has told 350 doctors training in anaesthesia that the NHS has no job for them after 3 years training. At the same time we have massive shortages of, you guessed it, anaesthetists. These self-defeating bottlenecks defy logic. Statement from Royal College of Anaesthetists

Shock horror - the 40 new hospitals WON'T be built by 2030 says Department of Health and Social Care perm sec:

We’ve written to Rishi Sunak to offer his Government the opportunity to end the pay dispute with consultants in England, by attending talks facilitated by the conciliation service ACAS. #FixConsultantPay bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

🔺 BREAKING: The PPE company linked to the Tory peer Baroness Mone must repay the government almost £122m for breaching a contract to supply 25 million surgical gowns during the pandemic, a High Court judge has ruled thetimes.com/business-money…