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This is really disturbing practice. Who is making this recommendation? Is a consultant psychiatrist putting their name to this? Was the patient seen and assessed? Should a GP be taking medical advice from a wellbeing team.
Simply awful.
Jun 11
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……
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GP to kindly ….
Jun 11
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……
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NHS Advice & Guidance must be used appropriately and never in a way that causes delays to necessary patient care. Both clinicians and the public must have confidence that it is a supportive clinical tool that benefits patients rather than a means of rationing specialist services.
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#Sikhs have peacefully practiced their faith carrying a #kirpan (small ceremonial dagger) in #Britain for over a century.
Weapon used in #HenryNowak’s tragic murder was not a kirpan, but a lethal 8 inch armour-piercing blade.
Sikhs deserve better than this knee-jerk reaction.
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Jun 3
There is no need for British Sikhs to be issuing these statements!
They have no more responsibility for Henry Nowak's hideous murder than any of us.
Hundreds of white Brits kill someone each year.
White people didn't have to issue statements disassociating themselves!
"Tragic...senseless"
"He brought the Sikh faith into disrepute...those actions do not reflect the community"
"There is no special treatment for Sikhs...this stiff sentence sends a warning"
A statement from community figures Kam Singh and Jas Singh on the Nowak murder case.
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NHS England data shows that general practice’s share of the NHS budget remains substantially below its mid-2000s level. This relative decline has occurred despite primary care delivering more patient consultations and holding the greatest potential for prevention.
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May 30
@dave_dlt nails it.
Three partners equivalent to ten salaried GPs in terms of clinical activity.
That’s just the logged clinical work.
It doesn’t include all the other, clinician requiring, partnership work.
A practice isn’t just appointments. Ownership changes behaviour.
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May 29
More actual General Practitioners ie doctors would do much more. Often quicker accurate diagnosis.
How many Pharmacies have proper wheelchair access & consulting rooms that can accommodate them or large baby buggies, induction loops & access to interpreters including BSL ?
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May 28
What would you be able to get done with 34pence a day Jude?
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May 26
I pretty much said this to one of the residents last week.
If Medicine was only about pathways and guidelines, then there is no need for doctors.
If one feels uncomfortable about treating outside guidelines, then one doesn't know enough.
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Instead of real beds we have 10,000 ‘virtual beds’ (in your own home) which cost £165 per day (the same as the annual cost of a GP services)
The unpaid carers subsidise this, as do community services
Yet hospital trusts, NHSE & DHSC ‘clap’ themselves for their cost savings
There is only one European nation with fewer hospital beds per capita than the UK
Sweden but they have the highest number of care home & nursing home beds
26% fewer care home beds
23% fewer nursing beds
Fewer hospital beds
Then people wonder why A&E is blocked
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When millions are struggling to access care NHS practices are left paying the price for no-shows.
bbc.com/news/articles/c07255…
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It’s not the nurses & doctors that are the problem
The balance of staff, the number of beds , the funding comparisons
Most other nations have more highly trained staff, more beds, more infrastructure & more scanners
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May 23
Gary Lineker, "I actually think that 80-90% of the country just want to get on with their lives, be friendly with their neighbours" "They don't look at people of different religions, skin colours, beliefs, traits, and think badly of them"
Who agrees with Gary True words to me
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There is only one European nation with fewer hospital beds per capita than the UK
Sweden but they have the highest number of care home & nursing home beds
26% fewer care home beds
23% fewer nursing beds
Fewer hospital beds
Then people wonder why A&E is blocked
May 21
Since 2012 there's been a 26% decline in the number of care home beds in England per 100 people aged over 75, with a similar drop (23%) seen for nursing home beds.
Read our analysis of this indicator of health and care quality:
👉 buff.ly/kS8yTDr
#QualityWatch
ALT Chart showing the trend in the number of care home beds and nursing home beds in England per 100 people aged over 75, between 2012 and 2025. There has been a 26% decline in the number of care home beds ad 23% decline in the number of nursing home beds. Follow the link in our post for more analysis.
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May 21
They are paying £30/appointment for this.
£30 per appointment!
Can some journalists actually do their job and not just regurgitate government spin!
Sick certificate via social prescriber £30
Simple Ear inf mx by pharmacists £15
GP for the complex stuff 34 pence.
May 21
We have worked closely with GPs to see how we can reform the fit note system.
The idea is to get real help to people to help with underlying medical conditions.
And we want to test all this properly to get it right.
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Thank you to all the industry partners to support the hands on training stations in our JAG course. Sharing your knowledge and skills has always been hugely appreciated by the physician & nursing colleagues
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May 16
Vaccine Anti vaccine
research research
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If you're a medical secretary, or a consultant with a medical secretary, please stop telling patients to contact the GP to write an expedite letter for OPA. You know it's pointless. We know it's pointless. It makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to waiting times, but it does get the patient off the secretary's case and onto ours, which is immensely unwelcome, as we are the ones with the least influence on triage.
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