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The headline pay in the offer is eh and will generate much discussion but again I would want to emphasise the positive progress on LTFT. LTFT being allowed to progress at the same rate as FT is brilliant progress to reducing gender pay inequality & improving work life balance
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I can see a lot of doctors who feared making an already long training post even longer getting a lot of joy from this change. Coupled with the outcome of the training review, specialty training in the UK could be a lot more palatable
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I'll never forget getting bleeped at 4am to prescribe fortisips because the patient didn't like the flavour, and wanted fortijuice instead. Why at 4? Well the patient wanted it to be ready for breakfast of course!
Imagine if every passenger on an airplane had a direct line to the pilot.
That’s what medicine has become.
We have embraced frictionless communication and that not a good thing.
With things like Epic Chat, every member of the healthcare team has immediate access to the physician.
Now there’s a constant stream of minor questions. It’s discouraged people from thinking critically. “Just ask the doctor,” has replaced any sort of clinical reasoning.
When I was a resident, we had an answering service. Anyone who wanted to reach the doctor needed to go through a third party. This provided triage and accountability. If we were getting called in the middle of the night for stool softener orders, there was a record of that.
A little friction in communication is a good thing.
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Don't ever let anyone tell you strikes don't work. Whether you're a fan of the offer or not it's an improvement only achieved because strikes were on the horizon
At the last moment, ahead of next week’s action, the Government has moved and made a new offer for resident doctors in England.
Strikes for 15–19 June have been called off while members vote on a new offer covering jobs, pay and progression.
The choice is yours:
Vote YES and accept the offer, or vote NO and return to escalated industrial action.
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Several detractors as usual came out and said you don't have the public support, what's the point etc etc. Yet again proven wrong
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May 27
You would hope the new health secretary wouldn't repeat the mistakes of their predecessor yet here we are.
Doctors deserve fair pay, and patients deserve doctors
See you on the picket lines 🪧
Strikes announced. We had hoped a change of leadership at the Department of Health & Social Care would be a chance to reset talks. Instead, there’s been no new fair offer on pay and no concrete commitment on jobs. That’s why resident doctors are taking action. See you on the picket line.
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Apr 21
It was great to be in the halls of Westminster to be part of the launch of "Anti Racist Medicine". The fight against racism is a long but worthwhile fight. Well done to @DrZeshanQureshi, @MehrunishaS and the whole team for putting it together
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Dr Raymond Effah retweeted
Apr 21
Don't try pitting us against other workers. We aren't your convenient argument. We support each other in the trade union movement.
The RMT dispute isn't even about pay, its about hours and fatigue.
'You earn more than doctors...I would suggest a resident doctor's had more training than a Tube driver.'
@NickFerrariLBC challenges the RMT's Jared Wood over the strikes.
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Apr 20
At Parliament today for the book launch of "Anti Racism Medicine"! 📚
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Why are we using jobs that the NHS needs as a bargaining tool? Maybe, crazy concept, just do some proper job planning? Without strikes we wouldn't even be talking about more jobs how absurd is that? Striking continues to be the only way to make the government hear you
Mar 31
Sir Keir Starmer has issued an ultimatum to resident doctors to call off their strikes or lose the current deal on the table.
The Prime Minister has threatened to withdraw an offer of thousands of extra specialty NHS training posts if the British Medical Association follows through on its threat of a six-day strike after Easter.
Last week, the resident doctors' committee rejected a pay rise offer of up to 7.1% without putting it to members for a vote.
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Congrats to everyone that got a job offer this round! For IMT my interview feedback was "little achievement relative to experience" despite having publications, QIPs, leadership etc so if you weren't successful remember that sometimes you just got unlucky with who you got marking
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Despite getting my job in IMT, that comment stands out to me still because it highlights the subjectivity of the interview process. It'll be difficult to appreciate rn but your score does not reflect your value nor worth as a doctor and we're all grateful for the work you do
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Dr Raymond Effah retweeted
Mar 30
At 2pm, the NHS confirmed 1000 jobs would go ahead.
At 4pm, the Govt threatened to cut them?
3 weeks ago, goalposts of a pay deal suddenly shifted.
Huge amounts of government game-playing.
Let’s cut the government games and get a deal done to sort jobs & pay for doctors.
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Looking at the offer you can see why @BMAResidents stayed in the room for so long. There are a lot of good things in this offer, LTFT progression being sped up really stood out to me. But 3.5% simply isn't good enough
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Dr Raymond Effah retweeted
Mar 21
Please spread the word about Dr Cockrell’s excellent MRCP revision course, which is being held at the Education Centre at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital on the 9th and 10th of May 2026. (1/3)
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MRCP Part 1 passed, thank God.
One down, two more to go 💪🏾
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Dr Raymond Effah retweeted
Feb 2
A phenomenal achievement for residents once again standing together.
We can fix this jobs crisis AND restore our lost value.
Not a single day of action needs to occur under this mandate - if Govt offers something credible on jobs and pay.
It’s a YES.
An overwhelming 93.4% of resident doctors in England have voted for further strike action, giving a clear mandate to continue pressuring the Government on jobs and pay in 2026.
The overall turnout was 52.54%.
Stay tuned for updates on our next steps.
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Most predictable result when you refuse to address the core fundamental reasons behind the dispute
All @wesstreeting has done is add fuel to the fire, and proved yet again to doctors how unreasonable he continues to be
Strikes will GO AHEAD from 17-22 December, after resident doctors in England voted overwhelmingly to reject the latest offer from @wesstreeting.
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