1/ IMPORTANT
@BMA_Consultants have launched a survey for consultants (inc. non-members) in England/NI to find out what you think of the Government’s pay award, how it has impacted your morale and what YOU and @TheBMA should do about it. Closes 16/08/21

research.net/r/ConsultantPa…
2/ Need to know your views - consultants have had the worst pay erosion of any group - take home pay for average consultant has fallen ~28.6% in real terms since 2008/9. A pay award of 3% is still an effective paycut - June's RPI 3.9%, CPI predicted to be ~4% by end of the year
3/ The 3% uplift does not apply to CEAs which are frozen again. Therefore, in effect this is an EVEN lower pay award representing 2.8% of total consultant paybill. Whatever you think of CEAs -wrong to slash their value after the heroic efforts of consultants in the last year.
4/ The government excluded @BMA_JuniorDocs , @BMA_GP and SAS from the remit of the ‘independent’ @PayReviewBodies. Despite this the DDRB clearly stated that these groups deserved equal recognition for their work and @DHSCgovuk should 'consider this'….
5/ @DHSCgovuk ignored this whilst claiming to have followed DDRB's recommendations in full.
See excellent tweet from @DrSarahHal here
6/ Scandalous but then again a truly independent @PayReviewBodies would have not confined itself to the remit set by government and simply made a recommendation to increase the pay of those on multi-year deals - a recommendation that could not be ignored
7/ What about other groups - 3% is wholly inadequate for our nursing, managerial and colleagues in support services. Our #FairnessForTheFrontline campaign demands fair treatment for ALL NHS staff, especially after the last 16 months. #enoughisenough
8/ We are appalled by the pay freezes for other public sector workers, despite many of these undertaking critical work during the pandemic. They deserve better treatment #levelupnotdown
9/ They pay freeze demonstrates the mockery of the so called independent @PayReviewBodies. They were told by government "it is right to temporarily pause pay awards for the majority of the public sector.” And guess what they complied...
10/ This is exactly what pay review bodies covering the NHS did for 9 years with pay freezes and caps of 1% despite inflation running at ~3.1%/year. This is why @BMA_Consultants pay fell by nearly 30% in real terms.
11/ Essentially after the financial crash in 2008, the government 'bailed out the banks' and the public sector was clobbered. The private sector had largely recovered before the pandemic, @theBMA members were still significantly behind.
12/ Of course the private sector needs to be supported but the public sector cannot get clobbered again to pay for the pandemic. Please do complete the survey - your views are essential to guide what happens next.
13/ Access the survey here – it is open to all consultants in England and NI including non-BMA members. Only valid entries from consultants will be included in the final results.

research.net/r/ConsultantPa…

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2 Jul
1/ Consultants have clearly expressed their anger about the Government’s planned 1% pay award. They are telling @BMA_Consultants that they will no longer accept this poor treatment from the Government.

How has it come to this and why is it a problem......?
2/ Consultants take overall responsibility for your care in the hospital. They are the leaders of hospital services, the teachers for future generations of doctors and the experienced doctors who are called when things are seriously wrong.
3/ We already have a lower number of consultants per 1000 people than comparator countries. To plug the gaps each consultant will on average do the work of 1.2 consultants, with much of this extra work unpaid. On top of this they are asked to do extra lists and cover rota gaps.
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1/ Feels weird not to be doing another pensions thread but really angry about the change in vaccine schedule. Fortunately @goldstone_tony has this covered.

Normal pension stuff will be resumed (once I have calmed down)
2/ Rules of Research Trial Design (own views)
- Specify your primary and secondary end points at the outset (including areas for post-hoc analysis)

Was efficacy of 1 dose of the Pfizer vax a specified end-point – NO!

Endpoints were efficacy 7 days after the 2nd dose and safety
3/ Always quote, confidence intervals, standard deviation or inter-quartile range when quoting results. Do people referring to these results quote the confidence interval – NO.

The figure of 52% effective after 1 dose has a confidence interval of 29.5% to 68.4%.
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