Leng review PA summary:
✅ Name change
✅Uniform
❌No undifferentiated patients *except minor ailments*?!
❌Scope for expanded role as “advanced physician assistants” with prescribing & IRMER rights
683 patient safety issues reported
ALL ignored
It’s an utter whitewash
It's funny how after the birth of a baby, announcers declare that "mother and baby are doing fine".
What about the father??
Community note
Father's generally, do not die during childbirth, nor do they suffer physical from complications of childbirth.
However, About 260,000 women died during and following pregnancy and childbirth in 2023.
who.int/news-room/fact…
i’m not saying i’m not ok
but i just cried for an hour and 20 minutes becos a cartoon where a baby snail cried becos he was so slow and always missed seeing his friends having fun. he had set off the day before the party and still wasn’t going to make it on time
how are you?
watching back to the future part 2, and its proper crazy how they thought we’d have flying cars in 2015 when in reality we have to wait 3 months to see a dentist and 17 years for a mental health diagnosis in 2025
when steve died i was crushed, heartbroken. i had to take a week off of school i was so sad. i never met him but was touched by his love of all animals and the world felt like it was missing something since then
@RobertIrwin growing up and doing this has healed me and the world
Me: i don’t want you to stay out all night, i get scared on my own
Also me: watches #GhostAdventures on my own on @discoveryplus in the dark whilst alone 😶
@Zak_Bagans
🧵/ This heartbreaking case highlights why so many doctors like me have begged @NHSEngland & @DHSCgovuk to stop endangering NHS patients by substituting doctors with non-medically trained PAs
We've been dismissed & smeared as "toxic bullies".
Please read this thread & decide.
This case is utterly tragic. A patient experiencing abdominal pain and vomiting was seen by a physician associate and diagnosed with a nosebleed, and was discharged from hospital that same day. She died two days later after having a catastrophic bowel obstruction.
The coroner concluded that the ‘physician associate’ title is misleading to the public and that ‘no steps’ had been taken by NHS staff to correct the family of the false impression that the PA was a doctor.
The coroner also dismissed the hospital’s idea that PAs are equivalent to doctors on the medical rotas, and that ‘blurring roles’ puts lives at risk.
Meanwhile the expansion of the role of PAs within the NHS continues, with the green light also being given to recruit PAs from WHO red list countries.
Patient safety is paramount. @wesstreeting must act now to prevent further cases like this happening.
We are calling for tighter restrictions on fireworks following the death of Roxie, our endangered red panda kit, on bonfire night.
Our expert vet team believe it's likely that three-month-old Roxie died due to stress caused by fireworks in the local area.
Just an FYI to GPs
Please don’t take off a patients long-term repeat prescription without even talking to them about it, especially when it’s a medication they rely heavily on for a reasonable pain level and tolerable life
It causes a lot of undue stress and upset
Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵
1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...