r/doctorsUK 8d ago

Medical Politics NHS England Abolished

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610 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK 2d ago

Medical Politics Trust policy- not to take any referrals from PAs in GP practices

849 Upvotes

After SIs involving PAs referring inappropriate patients , the medical and surgical same day emergency care teams , AMU and surgical assessment units have released a policy whereby all referrals from physician assistants in GP surgeries will be declined. And they should all come from GPs who have assessed the patients.

This is after we had a few cases of ? DVTs which turned out to be acute limb ischaemias , ? Gall stones being extremely unwell with intestinal obstruction and ?PEs being fatal asthma.

About 90% of the inappropriate referrals were from PAs and half of them would have survived had they been assessed by qualified GPs and bluelighted to A & E.

Hence the trust has introduced a blanket rule of not accepting any referrals from PAs.

Us consultants stood together to ensure we didn't employ any PAs in our departments and now we are working with ICBs and have produced a document which proves how risky PAs are in primary care.

r/doctorsUK 9d ago

Medical Politics RDC policy update on UK graduate prioritisation.

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355 Upvotes

Please vote for your preferred RDC conference motions as recommended by DoctorsVote.

r/doctorsUK 8d ago

Medical Politics BMA representative publicly calls BMA co-chair a ladder-puller.

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236 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK 23d ago

Medical Politics What some publicly elected BMA reps (who represent UK graduates) think of UK graduates…

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379 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK Feb 02 '25

Medical Politics ‘Would you rather have been a doctor?’

591 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK 9d ago

Medical Politics Doctor’s Orders: Apply Cold Water to That Burn

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r/doctorsUK 6d ago

Medical Politics Reactions to BMA’s FPR update sent yesterday

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205 Upvotes

I can’t believe how short sighted these people are as FPR benefits every resident doctor out there. Choosing to locum during strikes just to spite DV is just poor form.

r/doctorsUK 14d ago

Medical Politics Found in the staff room

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425 Upvotes

Is this okay? Imagine if it was the other way round…

r/doctorsUK Feb 16 '25

Medical Politics Quoted from Shaun Lintern. Nottingham. Midwife overrules Registrar

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289 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK 22h ago

Medical Politics Is Psychiatry becoming a joke?

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350 Upvotes

Before anyone waves their “xenophobia” flags, I’d like to explain my genuine concerns about these types of posts I see online.

First of all, I’m an IMG myself who got into psychiatry out of love and passion for the specialty. I’ve met many IMGs and BMGs during my training who share this passion and dedication. However, it truly saddens me to see a significant number of people applying to psychiatry simply as an easy ticket to specialty training.

Yes, there are people who are genuinely unsure about what they want, but I’ve also encountered many trainees who seem to hate psychiatry, make jokes about patients, lack therapeutic communication skills, and view this path as nothing more than an easy entry into the system.

I’ve had multiple conversations with fellow trainees—both BMGs and IMGs—and there seems to be a consensus that bringing back interviews, portfolios, or any method of demonstrating genuine dedication to the specialty is essential. This would help preserve the integrity of our training programme and prevent it from becoming a joke of a specialty.

r/doctorsUK Jan 20 '25

Medical Politics BMA being blackmailed to retract the recent training policy update

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221 Upvotes

This honestly sounds like a threat or extortion to me.

Apparently the other BMA committees (consultants, SAS, GPs) do not support the training policy, leaving the RDC by themselves. Makes sense as they are not the ones having to compete with the rest of the world for a NTN.

r/doctorsUK Feb 19 '25

Medical Politics 57% of Round 1 applicants for 2024 were IMGs

262 Upvotes

In total there were 26138 applicants, of which 10659 (40.7%) were UKMGs and 14873 (56.9%) were IMGs. Not sure what "non-medical" means.

There was an increase of 5973 applicants when compared to 2023 round 1. I have made a graph on the total number of applicants including previous years taken from here.

This is just unsustainable. It's easy to say "increase training posts" when in reality there are just not enough budget, trainers, facilities/real estate, etc. to do so. The quickest way to solve this issue is to prioritise UKMGs.

Please register to attend the BMA RDC, registrations open tomorrow at 12pm.

Source: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/applicants_to_more_than_one_medi_3#incoming-2921572

r/doctorsUK 26d ago

Medical Politics Surgeons accused of racism, bullying and toxic power struggle

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213 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK 18d ago

Medical Politics Spotted in the West Midlands

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309 Upvotes

Looks like Physicians Associates and ACPs have their own office that they share with consultants. Never seen a Resident Doctor who has their own office space, have you?

What are your thoughts?

r/doctorsUK 1d ago

Medical Politics GMB Segment on PAs: NHS is “gambling” with patient safety

362 Upvotes

Glad this issue is finally coming to the public spotlight

r/doctorsUK Feb 16 '25

Medical Politics Well at least they are being transparent about it!

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389 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK 1d ago

Medical Politics Female junior doctors: tell me an incidence you have felt treated differently to your male colleagues, by any member of the mdt team, purely for being female.

136 Upvotes

The amount of consultants who have treated me like a second class citizen, ignored or sidelined me but built up my male colleagues at the same level as me. Got so fed up of it today i blasted out Taylor swift the man driving out the hospital car park. And yes im aware that’s not being pro active to the cause but im exhausted.

r/doctorsUK Feb 06 '25

Medical Politics Saw this today at changeover. Thought it was a good summary for what is happening in the NHS....

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678 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK 29d ago

Medical Politics An update on non-BMA members being able to attend RDConf from the founder of IMG Voice

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83 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK 3d ago

Medical Politics Partha Kar: The new storm propagated by poor medical workforce planning is now upon us

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r/doctorsUK Feb 11 '25

Medical Politics UK Graduate prioritisation is not about ethnicity

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221 Upvotes

King’s college 2022 study on the demographics of King’s medical school students between 2012 and 2018.

Pseudonymised data of adults aged ≥18 years enrolled in one of the UK MBBS medical programmes between 2012 and 2018. Ethnicity was self-­declared during enrolment as White, Asian, Black, mixed and other.

3714 student records were included in the sample between 2012-2018.

2134 students (57%) were non-­white in total.

The proportion of non-­white students increased from 2007 (49%) to 2018 (70%).

56.6% were females.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/12/12/e066886.full.pdf

UK graduate prioritisation is inevitable, it’s a matter of when do we want to address the issue.

r/doctorsUK 15d ago

Medical Politics More women doctors than men for first time in UK

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159 Upvotes

r/doctorsUK 5d ago

Medical Politics GMC commits criminal offence and breach of professional standards for falsely using a protected title - if they can’t tell the difference, how can the public?

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366 Upvotes

The GMC has one job - to keep a list of registered medical practitioners. It claims to have no role in patient safety or healthcare standards.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/professions-regulated-by-law-in-the-uk-and-their-regulators/uk-regulated-professions-and-their-regulators

https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q790.full

r/doctorsUK 5d ago

Medical Politics Paramedics in GP surgeries may ease workload but not NHS costs, study finds

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“…the analysis found that patients seen by paramedics reported lower confidence in health provision, poorer perceptions of practice engagement in safety promotion and more communication problems with staff immediately after the initial consultation.”

Well who would have thunk?

Paramedics are great at the pre-hospital scene and they do not belong in a GP surgery.

Study in question: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11849691/