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Paediatric trainee Running on coffee Cats > dogs BMA UKRDC Co-chair (2024-2025)

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Oh. So the screw-up of the MRCP exam saw many UK-based applicants pass when they should have failed, and many non-UK applicants fail when they should have passed. This sure stinks. If you’re eligible to vote in the PRCP election, let’s get some new blood in.

22.02.2025 08:43 👍 65 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 2
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Calls for compensation after hundreds of doctors received wrong exam results in 'atrocious' and 'life-altering' error Some 222 doctors who thought they had passed a key exam they sat nearly 18 months ago have now been informed they failed. Another 61 who believed they had failed have now been told they passed in what...

The federation’s handling of the MRCP exam issue has been "completely atrocious" @redrunswick.bsky.social says to @news.sky.com
Doctors dedicate their time and money going to study events and courses, this error will have a huge toll on their wellbeing.
Read more news.sky.com/story/calls-...

21.02.2025 17:12 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
BMA letter to Wes Streeting on the MRCP exams issue

BMA letter to Wes Streeting on the MRCP exams issue

Signatories of the BMA letter to Wes Streeting on the MRCP exams issue

Signatories of the BMA letter to Wes Streeting on the MRCP exams issue

We've written to @WesStreeting to ask for a coordinated, urgent response to the @MRCPUK exams debacle that protects jobs and training, so no doctor suffers further detriment. We represent many doctors affected and will pursue all legal routes available. Read our demands 👇

21.02.2025 18:56 👍 24 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
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RCP welcomes House of Lords short debate on PAs

The Leng review needs to consider the impact of the physician associate role on training opportunities for resident doctors.

I didn't get a response on this from the minister last week, so will be pursuing

www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...

09.12.2024 10:00 👍 34 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

From today, women effectively work for free until the rest of the year due to the gender pay gap.

It’s two days earlier than last year because the gap has grown for the first time since 2013.

We must end the undervaluation of women’s work for good.

20.11.2024 15:25 👍 83 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 2
🚨Important update on the physician associates scandal
🚨Important update on the physician associates scandal YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

🚨Health Secretary Wes Streeting has now ordered a review of what physician associates do in the NHS amid growing alarm in the medical profession about patient safety👏

If you are not familiar with this scandal watch this report

youtu.be/zgBrrMmx4yg?...

20.11.2024 06:53 👍 933 🔁 285 💬 48 📌 10

Highly recommend reading this piece on the increasingly widespread use of PAs to replace doctors in the NHS. It’s an issue that horrifies many of us.

18.11.2024 08:07 👍 345 🔁 150 💬 7 📌 2

#ToitūTeTiriti

18.11.2024 20:04 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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18.11.2024 13:15 👍 142 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 4

If you see this, post a bird

18.11.2024 19:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are we doing those old-school, meandering, ludicrous threads here? They were the best thing about ol’ Twitter.

And, hoo boy, have I got one for you.

Buckle up. We need to talk about Gromit.

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16.11.2024 20:53 👍 842 🔁 228 💬 69 📌 80
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Wow. This is incredible. New Zealand's parliament is brought to halt by MPs performing a haka. Opposition party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke begins the ceremonial group dance after asked whether her party supported controversial bill seeking to reinterpret country's founding treaty with Māori people

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