Q. why does the Govt. want the GMC to also regulate physician associates & anaesthesia associates?
The BMA thinks this will 'muddy the waters' on regulation of the #healthservice & will lead to #patient confusion about whether they have actually seen #doctors.
But, perhaps the key thing to ask is what are the #Tories trying to achieve?
As elsewhere they are trying to normalise the de-professionalisation of staff & dilute skills... in this case, to further damage the NHS's reputation!
The #NHScrisis takes many forms... and #toxic management & staff relations is one (more).
In a defunded, stressed #healthservice, with staff burning out & over-worked (due to unfilled jobs), we can expect inter-personal relations to become strained (to say the least).
In this case, a #female#doctor was driven to take her own life, triggered by a delay in removing herself from a toxic work environment.
Whatever the local issues, behind this is (still) #tory wrecking!
you'll be unsurprised to know that while the #BMA is willing to go to ACAS for mediated pay talks, #SteveBarclay (through 'friends') as said there's an offer on the table, take it or leave it...
One can only conclude that the #Health Secretary thinks by paying hard ball he can 'break' the #Doctors... even if in the short-term he may be proved right, in the longer term, this intransigence will have a major impact on Doctors' morale & recruitment.
Healthwatch England concludes that the continuing #NHS#strikes compounded an already severe issue of #patients waiting for treatment & its impact on wellbeing.
Indeed, while in the short-term they are right this may make things worse, lets not forget that political pressure (short of striking) has had little impact on the #Tories defunding of the NHS which is a direct cause of delays.
Agreed; starving a model of funding does not provide evidence of the need for reform, ir provides evidence that you cannot run an under-funded #healthservice!
I know I keep saying this, but if in the next couple of days your #treatment is delayed due to their action, please remember no-one in the NHS wants to harm #patients.
The strikers have been backed into a corner by an aggressive policy of defunding the NHS carried out by a party contemptuous of our #HealthService!
There is a certain irony in the news that the number of senior #NHS doctors migrating to better paid jobs with better working conditions is growing.
For years, the UK has 'benefitted' from recruiting staff from poorer countries (who have trained #HealthService staff) for the the NHS.
Now, we have become one of those countries; as the NHS remans subject of #Tories wrecking, defunding & attrition on working lives, so the prospects of working abroad grow.
If you only read one thing on the #NHSCrisis today, make it this:
Seven people working in & around the #NHS explore the scale & scope of the #healthservice's difficulties - they pull few punches & tell it like it is - this is powerful stuff & needs to be widely read;
Yet more data on the (self-funded) use of private #healthcare;
The #Tories plan to make the use of private #medical firms more normal is working; they've engineered an #NHScrisis, 'incentivising' those who can pay for private treatment to do so.
Even when they have left office (as they will) their lasting legacy will have been to corrupt & compromise a once world class #healthservice built on an idea of equal access, replacing it with a tiered service based on wealth!