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Sarah Briggs @sarahbriggs.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
100% with Dianne Abbott… PM urged to introduce wealth tax instead of cutting disability benefits www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Starmer urged to introduce wealth tax instead of cutting disability benefits – UK politics live
Diane Abbott says a wealth tax of 2% on people with assets over £10m would raise £24bn a year
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Steve @adriel1819.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
More than 17,000 sick and disabled people die while waiting for welfare benefits, figures show www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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More than 17,000 sick and disabled people die while waiting for welfare benefits, figures show
Exclusive: Ministers accused of 'failing people at the most vulnerable point in their lives' after it emerges nine disability claimants die each day while waiting for decisions on disability support
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GPonline @gponline.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
'No convincing evidence' physician associates add value in UK primary care, study finds www.gponline.com/no-convincin... #GPnews
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'No convincing evidence' physician associates add value in UK primary care
There is 'no convincing evidence' that physician associates add value in UK primary care, researchers have warned.
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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social, queen of evidence, has done a systematic review of what scant research exists on Physician Associates in the UK. Great work.
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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
'The absence of evidence of safety incidents [..] appears to have been misinterpreted by policymakers to mean that there are no safety concerns with the substitution of doctors with PAs. This is an error of logic which, if not corrected, is likely to cost lives.' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Physician Associates and Anaesthetic Associates in the UK: A Rapid Systematic Review of Published Research to Inform the Leng Review
<span>This paper describes a systematic literature review of UK-based empirical research on physician associates (PAs) and anaesthetic associates (AAs), publish
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Doctors’ Association UK @thedauk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🩺| ‘Bring back the Family Doctor’ Our GP committee joined general practice leaders from the @the-bma.bsky.social @rcgp.bsky.social @rebuildgp.co.uk @theigpm.bsky.social, as well @pulsetoday.bsky.social at Parliament to highlight the #GPcrisis. Read more 👉 dauk.org/dauk-highlig...
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PS @rheumipainmask.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
5.6% of NHS budget for treating 1.3million people every weekday Never getting “bail outs”, waiting times counted in hours/days or weeks rather than months or years On just 5.6% of NHS budget. How much more could be done with proper funding and support but Wes looks at GPs & thinks reform 🤦🏽‍♀️
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a man in a plaid shirt has the hashtag #badboys ride or die
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt has the hashtag #badboys ride or die
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PS @rheumipainmask.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
📌NHS patients who have had any issues with PAs - you can now send a comment to Leng.Review@dhsc.gov.uk This is important as it can affect the future of our care in NHS We have already seen the GMC, NHSE etc can’t be trusted to not obscure or twist the truth 🎤Let’s get heard
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Dr Linda Dykes @drlindadykes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Like thousands of other UK ED staff I’m heading into a shift in a Trust that has declared a critical incident. I’ve got a flask of tea, taken a (prescribed) propranolol, will go in & do my best but also remember I can only do what I can do, and I can’t fix a system that was destroyed by the Tories
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 09/01/2025
If I needed advice on any given topic, Elon Musk would be the last person whose opinion I would seek. The very last, out of 8 billion men, women and children. He'd be below most animals and plants too. Suffice to say, I didn't get that job at the BBC.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 03/01/2025
There is no reason. There is no meaning. It's all pure luck. You're unaware of existence for billions of years, then you're born. If lucky you'll live a long healthy life & die comfortably & quickly. Then you're unaware of existence again forever. All there is is the bit in the middle called life.
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Oops.... I forgot to add a link to Kurt Jackson's website, so you can see more of his fabulous artwork 👇 www.kurtjackson.com
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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Global cases of measles up 20% as vaccine coverage declines: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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Progress Toward Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2023
This report describes an update on measles cases and ..
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Stefan Marciniak @profmarciniak.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This is the effect of aggressive anti-vaccine propaganda I simply don’t understand why or how the anti-vaccine (pro-infection, disability and death) movement has become so powerful
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 19/12/2024
We’ve signed this letter raising awareness of an increase in alcohol harms. We're calling on the Government to do more to address this.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Our paper on the impact of living with multiple long-term conditions on everyday life: a qualitative evidence synthesis. The 'work' is not only around medications and healthcare use, it is also emotional & financial with lots of learning & adaptation bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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alltyhobart.bsky.social @alltyhobart.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Patients who bring home-grown flowers are the best #gpsky
A bunch of multicoloured home-grown flowers on a table
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Good morning, a paid of yellow hibiscus to brighten up your timeline, have a wonderful Thursday 😊
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Nysuri @nysuri.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
What a woman May her heart reach peace
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
'Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.' My piece on AI and public services in this week's @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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Tony Blair is wrong – AI will not magically solve our public services
Too many people might be left out of its revolution.
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Selvaseelan Selvarajah @drselvarajah.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
‘More health lost than gained from NHS spending on new medicines.’ NICE’s cost-effectiveness threshold for new drugs, set between £20,000 and £30,000 per additional year of health, is higher than the NHS’s typical spend of £15,000 for the same outcome. www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...
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More health lost than gained from NHS spending on new medicines
NICE's cost-effectiveness threshold for new drugs is £20,000-£30,000 per extra year of health, higher than the NHS's usual £15,000 spend for the same result.
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Tim Rogerson @drtmr.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Very conscious that Eng language wasn’t my strongest a GCSE but… It can’t be ‘unprecedented’ if every winter the often siege state of working in the NHS is worse than last year… Surely that is a precedent by now? And it is grinding us and the patients down 😔
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
If you’re applying for PIP, the charity Turn2Us has launched The PIP Tool: a free guide to navigate the benefits process. Their goal “is to make sure you know your rights and can afford what you need to enjoy life fully.” Share widely! pip.turn2us.org.uk
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Turn2us PIP Helper
Use the Turn2us PIP Helper to learn how to manage each stage of your PIP (personal independence payment) application process.
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
GP CRISIS - People in need of GPs 2300 patients per GP up from 1800 7% fewer GPs in practices 20% cut in funding GP practices closing, GPs leaving, GPs unemployed Patients being failed by NHS England / Government @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social @vsmacdonald.bsky.social #GeneralPractice #Medsky
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#NHS JUST ONE DAY GP has 2300 patients 60 have GP Practice appts 30 with a GP 100 require prescriptions 3 attend A&E 10 attend hospital 1 admitted 1-2 call 111 Every other day 1 calls 999 1 a week goes private 300 are waiting for hospital treatment Everyone knows someone
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Doctors’ Association UK @thedauk.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🩺| “The GMC isn't addressing the reality of patient care and is allowing a huge patient safety issue to develop in real time.” Our response to the GMC's report on its consultation on the regulation of #physicianassociates dauk.org/patient-safe...
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Patient safety fears over physician associates regulation | DAUK
The GMC risks ‘a patient safety issue developing in real time’ over regulation of physician associates, says our chair Ms Helen Fernandes.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A united school of fish (in fish shape) with European stars swims above. 

Below there is a solitary fish with a UK flag on it. He’s facing a shark with US flag on it who says “Oh, so you’ve decided to go it alone! Very good…”
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 30/11/2024
"I was shocked to hear the health secretary, Wes Streeting, say that GPs are not formally part of the NHS. What have I been doing for the past two and a half decades?" @helensalisbury.bsky.social on the ongoing uncertainty caused by the budget www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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Tom C Womble @amoxicologist.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Were I interested in what they had to say I’d be asking for RCGP… but they seem less relevant with each passing year.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
If anyone is still wondering why we have a £22bn black hole here is just one example of Tory incompetence. Never ever allow them to again say “taxpayers money is safe with them”
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
12% hospital beds have patients fit for discharge - fix 2’ care by funding community care Instead👇🏼 Population ⬆️7% 2012-24 ❌GPs ⬇️7% ❌District nurses⬇️42% ❌Health Visitors⬇️30% ❌Learning Disability Nurses⬇️23% ❌School Nurses⬇️25% ❌Nursing home beds⬇️12% ❌Residential Care home beds⬇️16% ❌Social care cuts
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
As the African proverb puts it, ‘If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito.’ One person can stop a great injustice One person can be a voice for truth One person’s kindness can save a life Each person matters Keep going 🦟
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Sir Richard Moore, head of MI6: "In 37 years in the intelligence profession, I've never seen the world in a more dangerous state." "We have recently uncovered a staggeringly reckless campaign of Russian sabotage in Europe." news.sky.com/story/flatpl...
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Head of MI6 says 'I've never seen the world in a more dangerous state' as he warns Russia would not stop if it wins in Ukraine
Sir Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said that if Russia wins in Ukraine, China would "weigh the implications, North Korea would be emboldened, and Iran would become still more dangerous".
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Exhausted in QC 🇨🇦 @ninjazz636.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
That’s exactly what’s happening in Canada. They are withholding basic supports, often leaving the most vulnerable in our society with no other option than euthanasia. It’s essentially murder in those circumstances.
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Winter pressures - Hospital Beds The Government promised 5000 extra beds in January 2023, in December 2023 NHSE proudly stated it had been achieved July 2024 NHS Board suggested that these beds were ‘locked in’ extra permanent beds The data doesn’t support this @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
#chronicillness #disability #shitstorm
Shoutout to anyone who is currently using a great percentage of their energy on keeping a tiny flame of hope alight every single day while a shitstorm of uncertainty and heaviness swirls around them
a flame saying "Keep Hope Alive Things Will Get Easier Soon"
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Caroline Mitchell @dclovesgp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I am a broken record. Cost-effective #Starfield4Cs Or we end up with the 5th C- expensive Chaos….
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Phil Williams @scottishphil83.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sadly not the direction of travel in the UK with #PCNs ( #PrimaryCareNetworks) being encouraged to launch more and more centralised services like #urgentcare services and home visiting services. Very hard to resist the pull of that current #medsky #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine
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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New paper alert! @annfammed.bsky.social Want to decrease emerg visits? Provide primary care infrastructure supports so that patients can see a “within-group” provider (instead of a walk in clinic) after hours. Decreasing fragmentation of care works! www.annfammed.org/content/22/6...
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Health Care Utilization After a Visit to a Within-Group Family Physician vs a Walk-In Clinic Physician
PURPOSE Primary care access is a key health system metric, but little research has compared models to provide primary care access when one’s regular physician is not available. We compared health syst...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Former hospital chief exec denies claims of stalling police investigation into baby deaths www.channel4.com/news/former-...
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Former hospital chief exec denies claims of stalling police investigation into baby deaths
The former chief executive of the hospital where Lucy Letby worked, has described claims that he stalled a police investigation into baby deaths as "outrageous".
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 28/11/2024
Do they really think their best strategy for winning back the trust & respect of the medical profession is to digitally snoop on the doctors who have politely & repeatedly urged them to behave with candour, transparency and professionalism - the very values that are the bedrock of good medicine? 6/n
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 28/11/2024
Instead of listening to our concerns, they have dismissed, belittled & ignored them, over & over again. Now it turns out they are paying a private firm to monitor the social media output of individual doctors that threaten their reputational management. Pretty Orwellian stuff, frankly. 5/n
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 28/11/2024
The relationship between the GMC & the doctors they purport to regulate is currently in crisis. They have lost the trust & respect of doctors like me who are appalled by their refusal to listen to our safety concerns regarding the roll out of PAs as doctor substitutes. 4/n
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 28/11/2024
I presume I'm being spied on since, for the last 91 days straight, I have asked the GMC to release the results of its public consultation on PAs. They have refused. They've also dismissed FOI requests for the same data, claiming they can do so since the survey was a form of medical 'research'. 2/n
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 28/11/2024
🧵 Well. Here is the GMC on X, responding to revelations (via FOI requests) that they're been secretly employing social media specialists to monitor doctors' criticisms of their actions regarding physician associates & shape their tactics accordingly. I'm one of those being monitored. 1/n
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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I have a bunch of pieces on corporate capture / industry disinformation around global plastics treaty negotiations First up, how the petrochemical industry has misled the public about the recyclability of PET bottles fieldnotes.co/investigatio...
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How the Plastic Industry Misleads Consumers: Paid TikTok Influencers,…
Fieldnotes is an investigative watchdog and journalism project committed to holding the powerful interests that undermine our democracy accountable.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Imagine for a moment that 1,000+ Irish, British, French, US or German medics had been murdered, hundreds more tortured in last 12 months. Whatever regime had committed such atrocities would have been wiped off the map by now. Unless Israel did it, in which case, no problem, keep on killing.
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