Schrödinger’s NHS: So specialist that only trained domestic staff can use a mop So generalist that any healthcare worker can be on a medical rota

RT @mattster: 1/ Personal view only, speaking as an LED doctor. I am not speaking on behalf of DAUK, the BMA or anyone else. I have had a…

No signature. No assessment. Not even a clear recommendation, just something to "consider". No referral from a healthcare professional should be responded to like this, it's an absolute disgrace.

Fed up. Just spent 14 weeks at @nottsinquiry didn’t miss a minute as this was all I could do in my daughter Grace’s name against all those who failed. Get to my desk and this is what I’m greeted with……

Inducement to patients to get you to access Asda pharmacies & use the Pharmacy First infected insect bite pathway Asda rejected criticisms of the offer, stating: “Customers are already being bitten & are shopping within our stores.” Do you believe them? pharmacymagazine.co.uk/busin…

Five of the world’s most respected diabetes researchers have reportedly been removed from a major conference, and threatened with arrest, after criticising US Government policy.

That should concern all of us, regardless of our politics. Science advances through challenge, debate and dissent. When researchers fear professional consequences for criticising government policy, the independence of medical research is at risk.

Academic freedom matters.

"Girl, 5, traumatised after physician associate wrongly prescribed vaginal pessary" "Mother, who thought daughter was being examined by GP, says girl began to bleed and scream in pain after device inserted" Your reminder that the Labour government while updating budgets for GP practices, also restricted their ability to hire more GPs Labour provided budgets for more PAs and not more GPs, even though we have GPs who cannot get jobs right now Full details in article: theguardian.com/society/2026…

This week on NOT THE NHS AGAIN! The Health Bill, Single Patient Records, the end of NHS England! Wes Streeting’s passing ‘gifts’ to the NHS! Dr Sarah Jacques and Dr Steve Taylor discuss. youtu.be/nRRdYXSX4rY?si=bbwR…

Ultimately - A medically unqualified person allowed to perform an intimate examination on a child, misdiagnosed & treated incorrectly which led to harm. The mother thought the PA was a GP This is NEGLIGENCE The unethical PA experiment on patients must be stopped

The latest edition of the Not The NHS Again podcast is out now youtu.be/nRRdYXSX4rY?si=mevT…

Sir William Osler, 1849-1919, renowned as the father of modern medicine, famously instructed medical students to: "Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis." It's a simple dictum, but the foundation of the way Osler revolutionised healthcare by insisting that doctors step away from their desks and focus on their patients. Everyone longs for functioning, joined-up NHS IT, @jamesmurray_ldn (though not via Palantir) - but to suggest, as you have in this post, that history-taking is a tedious irrelevance is to completely misunderstand the nature of medicine. That first conversation between doctor and patient is a close, shrewd, vital therapeutic encounter. As we listen, we observe, appraise, distil. Invariably, the diagnosis can be made. But history-taking, like the rest of medicine, is the marriage of science with humanity. It treats patients as people, not as objects with disease. Through your time, care and attentiveness in history-taking, you communicate something vital to a patient - that they matter and that you care. Please never forget that healthcare is not a production line of objects, it's an enterprise built on relationships, with humanity at its core. Medical history-taking is its bedrock.

🗣️ | "This is an excellent report and highlights the warnings we've been making for years, that Palantir’s FDP provides poor value for money from a company with ethical values a million miles away from those of the NHS." We welcome MPs' findings on Palantir's role in the NHS.

✍️ | “The challenge for partners isn't a lack of willingness to reward staff, but the financial pressures practices are currently under.” @DrSpanielPaws for @NurseinPractice on the challenges for GP partners when trying to reward and retain nursing staff dauk.org/fixing-general-prac…

Just watch this… And for the love of God, please see Farage for what he is. His response to Sarah Everard Vs his response to Henry Nowak Jaw dropping.

🎦 | Healthcare professionals and organisations are taking action on the climate crisis by hosting screenings of the @nebriefing film. More than 20 events have already been organised and further screenings are being added every week. dauk.org/momentum-building-f…

Link to programme

Last autumn Wes Streeting upset many GPs by referring to those pointing out the safety issues with his proposal as “laggards” who didn't want to modernise. His departure will be regretted by few, writes Helen Salisbury bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026…

DAUK members will have received details in our latest newsletter about a special online screening of the @nebriefing film taking place this evening.

🌍 | "As healthcare workers, we must advocate for climate action for the sake of friends, families and patients." @Mattylee96 warns healthcare is on the frontline of the #climatecrisis which is adding pressure on stretched clinicians and infrastructure dauk.org/the-nhs-on-the-fron…

PALANTIR? Very bad for our health and data, and yet …. this is on you Wes