Thread by @AlisonGeorge10

@Jeremy_Hunt & @sajidjavid , I’m a 55yr old PART-TIME GP, working in A+E & UTCs, working ~25hrs per week.

Between Mar-Oct 20 I willingly ⬆️ my hours significantly, to staff our “Hot Site” & be part of the Covid Home Visiting team, regularly only having 1 full day off/week.
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https://twitter.com/jeremy_hunt/status/1455606289950724101

It almost broke me & caused significant strain on my family.

In Dec/Jan 21, I jumped at the chance to help vaccinate ppl living in Care Homes, giving up days off without a second thought.

I doubt there’s a single one of us who hasn’t worked many extra hrs during #COVID19UK.
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The job of a dr is not something that can be done easily/well when exhausted, stressed, distracted….

The jobs we do require 100% focus every minute of every working day, because if we don’t, our patients can suffer or even die.

Tired drs can be dangerous drs!
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We are human beings & just like everyone else, we need down time, fun time, exercise time & time to spend with/care for our families & friends.

AND we need time to educate/update ourselves so that we remain safe, contrary to popular belief, this doesn’t just happen by magic.
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What your party has done to the #NHS since 2010 is quite literally INCREDIBLE (that’s not a compliment btw!).

& @10DowningStreet’s catastrophic & cavalier management of #COVID19UK has tipped an underfunded, already pressured service over the edge!
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Now, many A+Es resemble those of a war zone!

Across the UK, patients are waiting for assessments/investigations/treatments/operations/out patient/GP appointments & ambulances ….

We can no longer give patients the BEST CARE, the care we know they need & are trained to give.
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In my view, the #NHS is functioning on a knife-edge right now & there will be a significant increase in avoidable NON-COVID morbidity & mortality as a result.

But still NO #PlanB for those of us outside of the Palace of Westminster ???
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An intelligent government, faced with these significant difficulties & a demoralised exhausted workforce, would do its absolute best to control the spread of #COVID, knowing that juggling healthcare demands with a highly contagious disease makes everything far harder.
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But as the #NHS is crushed under the combined pressures of this perfect storm, & just as MPs are advised THEY can work from home, must socially distance at work etc, you have the temerity to tell GPs we must work harder & longer to fix a problem that is of your own making!!
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So @sajidjavid & @Jeremy_Hunt please take it from one of 1000s of despairing drs, that if you tell me that I must work full time in order to make your “figures” look better & keep #Tory voters happy, it will take me less than a minute to give you my answer….
#EnoughIsEnough
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