Thread by @JujuliaGrace

Hello! In case you’re following me but don’t know my ‘story’, here it is!

I’m Julia, I’m a doctor. Qualified in 2010. Started running national political campaigns in 2015 with Dr Georgina Wood (@DrMusical). We campaigned for the NHS, and doctors’ working rights. At the time...

@Jeremy_Hunt was stripping junior doctors of safe working hours. Feels like a lifetime ago now. We didn’t have enough clout or resource to oppose the government successfully. But we caught the campaign bug. We realised we needed better methods to capture energy from medics...

So we started the Facebook group “The Political Mess”, for medical activism, for all UK doctors. We realised that lots of excellent doctors involved in campaigning were burning out because of the sheer energy needed to campaign while...

also working frontline with patients. Trade unions weren’t being vocal about the things that mattered. Austerity squeezing NHS resources. Exodus of NHS staff. Unfair rules for workers on visas. Worsening conditions for staff and patients, endless pay freezes. We decided to...

Start a new non-profit employing a team to advocate for doctors and their patients, because without employing staff, the campaigning wouldn’t be sustainable. Not a trade union, not a charity, a campaigning organisation. We worked out that if we had 500-1000 doctor members....

We could do it. We thought it was worth a shot. We launched in early 2019. We did it; we now have ~1650 doctor members. We run democratically; our medical membership vote on our strategy. We also speak to our much wider network of ~40k NHS staff, who help to inform our work...

...and we lobby hard. We work closely with politicians and the media. During the pandemic we’ve built a cross-party coalition of 104 MPs to lobby to ProtectNHSWorkers. We’ve successfully lobbied for eye protection PPE, a death-in-service benefit for frontline workers, priority...

1st dose vaccines for all frontline health and social care workers. And in campaigning, nothing happens in isolation. Others have lobbied too. But we move fast on issues that matter, are very vocal, and put our members’ priorities at the centre of everything...

We’re in constant communication with our NHS network, listen carefully, and work as hard as we can to represent our members. We’re a very open organisation; all members receive financial transparency from EveryDoctor. We wouldn’t want to run this any other...

way! We’re fortunate to have support from folk who aren’t doctors too; who donate monthly to help us in our work. We’re growing, and building, and seek to protect doctors, other NHS staff and every NHS patient 🌟

If you’d like to join us, we’d love that!
everydoctor.org.uk/join