Wes Streeting MP Please save General Practice. I can’t carry on much longer. 13 hr duty day yesterday triaging & not one single break. I ran out of appts by 2.30pm. Had to do the best I could fielding all the late calls. It didn’t feel particularly safe. Got home at 10.15pm. Fund GP properly.

Are YOU an International Medical Graduate aka IMG? Or know someone who is one? Please come/forward details below A conference for IMGs via Royal College of Physicians -opportunity to meet Mumtaz Patel Omar Mustafa Emma Mitchell And find out more about #NHS Pls RT🙂 rcp.ac.uk/events-and-edu…

I've given up trying to convince people that I'm not a quitter. #dadjokes

A new government is in place And a report on “Patient Experience” via Patient Exp Library Worth a read Wes Streeting MP Department of Health and Social Care NHS England A privilege to be asked to do the foreword- thank you 🥹 patientlibrary.net/cgi-bin/downlo…

The ⁦The King's Fund⁩ inquiry into events around the ⁦Royal College of Physicians⁩ EGM on PAs is scathing: poor leadership and governance, failure to communicate effectively with members, serious concerns about conduct It is time for the college to act kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

You don't have to go through tough times alone Today marks World Suicide Prevention Day 1 in 4 GPs know another who’s died from suicide My own GP took his life in 2021 Please reach out to your LMC, use General Practice support & NHS Practitioner Health or one of these:

Strong themes emerging - Welsh Government needs to act now if it is to save General Practice. We are the backbone of the NHS and we are in crisis.

The average GP practice consultation rate is 7 but this increases significantly with 1 or more health condition 10-20% of people don’t see a GP in a year depending demographics 50% of all patients are on at least one medication permanently 7.7m waiting for hospital treatment

‘An you can eat buffet’ £107.57 is core patient funding per year If you add in the funding for buildings/staff/meds etc it comes to £165 /patient/ year An average across England with slight variation depending on what a practice is providing eg dispensary or in a deprived area

My army mate eats whole frozen apples. That's proper hard core, that is. #dadjokes

Well. Six months since we posted this Statement of Concern, just before the Extraordinary General Meeting of the RCP (which we called to raise our concerns about physician associates). The EGM itself, and the recent independent inquiry report by the Kings Fund, affirmed that our

How to gain access to your GP medical records with the NHS app? Find out here: youtu.be/3Hekk5jTidA

#DarziReport no surprise. #NHS is in serious trouble. Solutions can come from investment in General Practice, Community Care and addressing health inequalities. Focus on long term conditions and prevention. Our mission BromleybyBow Health for 40 yrs. ⚽️ is in Govt & NHSE court.

We are not going to sort out #NHS by focusing only on primary care initiatives outside of General Practice core work. Most new investment in the last 5 years has done just that. Not made it better for patients. Not made it more efficient. Not made it cost effective.

Excerpts from Lord Darzi’s report: “The NHS budget is not being spent where it should be - too great a share is being spent in hospitals, too little in the community, and productivity is too low.” (1/8)

Might be an outlandish proposal: Wonder whether a partnership led model for staff elsewhere in the #NHS where they have a stronger connection, stake or ownership within the organisations they are part of might be the way to go.

Lord Darzi's NHS review is a deeply sobering assessment of a severely broken NHS. Read the full response from Philip Banfield 💙 bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

My granddad poured his blood, sweat and tears into his job. Amazing man. Terrible chef. #dadjokes

#DarziReport collates the collective thoughts of those of us who use and work for the #NHS . NHS is in crisis but challenges are not insurmountable. Finally, a report that doesn’t blame General Practice for the woes and sees us firmly as one of the solutions

Digital #NHS : Wes Streeting MP Let’s start with electronic prescribing for hospitals. Currently: Prescriptions recommended by hospital. Letter arrives 2 weeks later. Pt books appt with #TeamGP to ask for those meds. Patient & GP time wasted. Safety issue too.