There are a couple of high profile doctors who have been trying to undermine support in EveryDoctor, and by extension, me, over the last week or two.

They think that in highlighting the fact that I’m not currently working clinically, they’ve caught onto an ‘aha’ moment…
…, as if I’m trying to keep it a secret. They also sometimes claim that I don’t represent others and shouldn’t be platformed in the media.

I don’t mind people knowing I don’t work clinically at the moment. Quite the opposite; I’d be appalled to think that I’d hoodwinked…
…anyone. I don’t have a very big ego; in fact I’ve always had a good dose of imposter syndrome. Throughout medical school I didn’t allow myself to buy a medical school hoody because I constantly felt like I’d be ‘found out’ for being a bit rubbish, and chucked out…
…and I haven’t changed much.

I started @EveryDoctorUK because I wanted to connect other doctors and help them and their patients. The only reason I feel confident speaking up is that I’m doing it for others, trying to improve their working conditions.

If relinquishing my…
…licence to practice medicine is a turn-off for you, that’s OK, please stop following me. If you don’t like me speaking up for others who I represent, again, please disengage from what I’m saying.

I put on my Twitter profile that I wasn’t practicing as soon as I gave up my…
…licence. Within hours.

I’m asked why a few high profile doctors don’t support us (in fact, several spread misinformation, or have led smear campaigns). The answer is I don’t know, but I also don’t expect everyone to agree on everything, perhaps they don’t support our cause…
…perhaps they simply don’t like the look of me. That’s alright. I’m not arrogant enough to think I speak for everyone or that our work appeals to everyone.

We represent our members, no one else. And I don’t get into fights with doctors. It doesn’t help the cause and frankly…
…it’s self-indulgent to do so.

Please don’t send me messages asking me why such-and-such doesn’t ‘like me’. It’s probably for one of the reasons above, and that’s OK.

Take care everyone, Ju x

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UPDATE re Julia Hartley-Brewer from @EveryDoctorUK:

“On 28th December, Dr Julia Grace Patterson received a text message from someone claiming to be Julia Hartley-Brewer, following her tweet containing factually inaccurate information about our masks…
Dr Patterson has never shared her phone number with Julia Hartley-Brewer. Her employer, talkRADIO, has Dr Patterson’s phone number on record for legitimate journalistic purposes. If this text message was from Hartley-Brewer, it is likely that she has accessed it inappropriately…
in breach of GDPR laws…

We are taking this up with talkRADIO, Hartley-Brewer’s employer. We have contacted talkRADIO for details of their Data Protection team and have heard nothing. We are contacting them again now. If we don’t hear back by the end of tomorrow, we will…
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Sorry if this comes across as a moan;

At various times I’ve asked people to let me know if they support EveryDoctor, so that I can follow our community. Over time in campaigning, I have found that the best way to advocate for the NHS is to listen to its most ardent supporters…
I therefore want to support those who are committed to that, and support the non-profit I started. Hearing from you improves my work.

I have never offered to follow the 195000 people who follow me; not every follower supports EveryDoctor. Not every follower even supports the…
NHS. I am receiving rude, self-entitled, aggressive messages from people demanding to be followed.

This doesn’t convince me that you support the organisation I run. It doesn’t convince me that in following you I’ll do a better job campaigning for the NHS…
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I know that we’re all reeling about this cascade of examples of MPs furthering their own and corporate financial interests.

I am furious. I’m furious that these names, these people, these MPs ignored our emails at the height of the first wave as frontline workers died...
many unprotected, many with no PPE, continuing to go to the frontline day after day. I am furious about the dozens of emails we sent, I sent, time after time, as doctors and others tried to make sense of what was happening, tried to rally, tried to find solutions. I am furious..
For every nurse told to look after a patient without protection. I am furious for every GP who had no PPE and went to B+Q to buy Perspex to hammer a screen around their reception area. I am furious for every healthcare workers told to REMOVE their mask in hospital because...
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1. We do not have enough GPs.
2. Jeremy Hunt pledged that we’d have 5000 more by 2020. He failed.
3. Matt Hancock pledged that we’d have 6000 more by 2024/25.

We currently have 1904 LESS FT than 2015.

4. We have 76 GPs per 100,000 ppl, in some places as low as 54/100,000...
In comparison Portugal has 244 (latest figures, 2018 and 2019).

5. There are almost 2 million more patients registered at NHS GP surgeries now than August 2018.

6. We compared 3rd week of August 2019 (pre-pandemic) with same week 2021. GPs did 1/4 million MORE appointments...
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You miss a stable life (forced to move around constantly to gain experience). For the early years of your career you have no stable work colleagues, on the move every 3-6 months. You carry on. You hold a bleep, it rings and rings. You cover staff gaps near-constantly....
When you’re off work you have professional obligations to behave in a particular manner. You take them seriously. Responsibility weighs heavy on your head. It’s very, very hard. You see things you wish you could forget. You make difficult decisions. You respect your colleagues...
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🚨Government plan to privatise the NHS🚨

A ‘how to’ guide:

🛑Cut the bed numbers
🛑Cut the funding
🛑Offer contracts to private providers but allow them to use NHS logo
🛑Freeze wages, worsen conditions...
🛑Scapegoat local leaders whose workplace is ‘failing’
🛑Regular re-organisation due to ‘failings’, create new inefficiencies and bureaucracy, offer entry points to corporate ‘partners’
🛑Vilify staff in the press.
(Crucially use opinion pieces to sow distrust)
🛑Continue...
to publicly ‘support and love our NHS’ despite all actions above👆

Watch the service fail🚨
Watch the exhausted staff leave🚨
Blame remaining staff for gaps/failings🚨
Wring hands and act bemused🚨
Hand over more money to private providers🚨

NHS failures aren’t an accident...
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