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Dr Lucy-Jane Davis @Academic_owl

GP & Chair of BMA SW Regional Council Views my own, mostly. ND

Joined June 2011
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Dr Lucy-Jane Davis@Academic_owl
10 Apr 2018
GP friends. I think ALL surgeries should have a simple policy on supporting access for #ActuallyAutistic adults and children (& familes) to their doctor. Anyone want to work on it? (I'll help!) @BhamLMC @doctor_katie @AvonLMC @DrAndrewGreen @CNagpaul @LLRLMC @TheBMA 1/5
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Ah, the hallowed halls of X. I've only popped on here to mention BMA council elections I'm standing & my priorities are ⭐️Gender Pay gap ⭐️representing the South West & ⭐️neurodivergent doctors in the BMA aiming to improve our working lives
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Well. It turns out a LOT of people I like have upped and flown off. I think I might too. Pop over and say hello…
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You’d think that setting off fireworks next to the M5 in Somerset might be considered an unwise thing? 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Important NIC clarification for GP
@DrKatie.BSky.Social@doctor_katie
31 Oct 2024
Replying to @BMA_GP
I’m being asked - do we count as public sector? Yes we do: NHS GP Practices are defined as “Public Sector Authorities” in Schedule 1, Part III, Paras 44 & 45 of the 2000 Freedom of Information Act @hmtreasury @RX_HMTreasury @RachelReevesMP
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Fascinating, if correct. Health and pensions are top two in terms of government spending…
Maxwell Marlow 🇺🇦
@maxwell_marlow
26 Oct 2024
Voters do not know / significantly misperceive state spending. This should worry every policy maker. Some quick excel work I’ve done pulling data from @TheIFS and other sources for 2023.
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In Tory leadership elections, do members get a “reopen nominations” option?
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Dr Lucy-Jane Davis retweeted
General Practice@BMA_GP
9 Oct 2024
Today we launch GPCE's vision 'Patient First', which details the essential changes Government needs to make to save general practice in England and benefit our patients and long-term public health. bma.org.uk/GPvision 11p a day more per patient is just one of the changes👇
Purple graphic detailing how 11p a day more per patient would benefit general practice with a link to the GPCE's new vision.

ALT Purple graphic detailing how 11p a day more per patient would benefit general practice with a link to the GPCE's new vision.

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When you run to make the coach and get it, but realise you’ve put the toblerone in the storage under the bus.
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From a public health perspective this is just ridiculous. Teaching children to look after their health and recover from illness should be a core life skill that schools are teaching, not some bizarre presenteeism ideology
Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧@_CatintheHat
28 Sep 2024
Schools from United Learning in England are forcing students & parents to sign an ‘Attendance Pledge’ which requires them to: “ALWAYS COME INTO SCHOOL, EVEN IF YOU FEEL UNWELL” 🤯 This is unbelievable! This will NOT reduce illness absence, it will just spread it to others.
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Ah the joy of teenage son telling us over dinner how today, apropos of nothing, & to bemusement of staff, his class decided to set a trend and all walk in a single file row in the playground during break, like a weird Monty python flash dance During the OFSTED inspection visit🙃
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Bearing in mind he tells us nothing about school, he was clear how they wanted to amuse everyone. Sweet & silly.
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Keir Starmer “doctors back in theatre” Yay! I like musicals. Can I go see Matilda again?
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Most scientific types look at the world and think “can’t have endless growth; that’s just not a thing” but haven’t got a way to say it, coz they’re just experts and what do we really know anyway?
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How wonderfully strange to be starting a new teaching role at my old medical school. @PlymUniMedicine Haven’t been to the main building for so long; fantastic to be there, but haunted by friendly ghosts 💔
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This is massively dangerous. People need time to recuperate from illness; adults and children alike. Forcing people to work or study when sick is folly, especially when they risk making others ill. As for “proof”, what would that be?
SPER 🕊️🙏🏼@trumpetlill
20 Aug 2024
Replying to @_CatintheHat @educationgovuk @bphillipsonMP
This is what a local school near us has sent out which I think is taking it too far. I don't need a school to tell me that my child is well enough to attend or on day 2 of sickness they are coming round. Support for those parents who need it.
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Dr Lucy-Jane Davis retweeted
Dr Lizzie Toberty 💙@lizzie_toberty
18 Aug 2024
When asking GPS not to work to rule what are you asking is for people to work for free for the good of the NHS. Enforced voluntary work. Gps are tired of this as the asks get increasingly wild and ridiculous. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3…

NHS GPs launch work-to-rule action but is it a step too far?

Surgeries could cut appointments by a third under the work-to-rule action.

bbc.co.uk
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New school uniform, state school: just spent £211 on very basic compulsory items - blazer was £70. Skirts are a special tartan… How is this sensible, let alone affordable? 🤯
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I’m planning on getting a heated gilet thingy for my wonky joints. Any good ones that look nice and heat the lower back?
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This comment wins the internet today and made me actually lol. Scroll back to the initial tweet too; it’s superb 💕
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Reading the comments many refer to this “just being London” which either suggests it’s mostly bots, or the far right doesn’t do geography. This might explain quite a lot, either way.
The Secret DJ.@SecretDJBook
7 Aug 2024
You see this, this is what happens in real life. The bots can't show up on the streets. On the right there (yeah the far right) are the 6 nazis who turned up to cause mayhem. Everyone else is there to stop them. This is England.
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