1. The "statutory instrument" plan to regulate Physician Associates by @GMCuk isnt going to wash. Stat instruments are delegated powers to implement legislation - cant go against Parliament's stated purpose to regulate "the medical profession".

@TheBMA @EveryDoctorUK @TheDA_UK 2. You'd have to cross out paragraph after paragraph of the Medical Act to extend it to Physician Associates, for instance its stated remit is to regulate doctors who have passed rigorous medical qualifications. They're basically writing a new Act, stat instruments cant do that.

1/5 Wonky logic here. It's not like we’re withdrawing labour from a factory-owner and decreasing his company profits. We’re withdrawing our labour from a service which its owners actually want to fail. Standard economic strategies therefore become inoperative. https://t.co/2DkMk82bhc

https://twitter.com/ERunswickBMA/status/1690030765726130178

2/5 Govt is *happy* that NHS Trusts have forked out £1 billion, that waiting lists are growing - this allows them to accelerate transfer to private sector and predictably blame *greedy* consultants. bbc.co.uk/news/health-64…

1/14 Insurance models of healthcare (European-style of course, we'd never let USA get near NHS!) have been proposed in UK for decades. Difference is that NHS is now on its knees, so arguments for insurance are getting louder. But let's look at @KateAndrs position in more detail.

https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1677037492388651009

2/14 Firstly, insurance adds layer of bureaucracy which is intrinsically more costly than tax-funded healthcare. Insurance costs include actuarial analysis, cost of billing, cost of collecting, legal costs, admin, etc.

1/9 Glad that @CharlieAJ from @AJEnglish has picked up on this story. Watch her report.

Jeremy Hunt told @MishalHusain that ministers weren't briefed on Exercise Alice. Even though Cabinet Office was part of the exercise! Really??

2/9 Represented by @LeighDay_Law. Crowdfunded & independent:crowdjustice.com/case/jrcovid19/

We forced Govt to disclose first Exercise Cygnus, and then multiple secret pandemic reports: cygnusreports.org/seven-reports/

1/8 Another mind-boggling tale of NHS scandal and alleged cover-ups. Check out this article by @matthew_weaver, let me know if I'm reading correctly.

In his book "Zero", Jeremy Hunt wrote "Working closely with her medical director Dr Findlay,...

theguardian.com/society/2023/j… 2/8 ..Marianne Griffiths built perhaps the best learning culture I saw anywhere in the NHS."

Marianne retired from @UHSussex chief exec role, awarded a DBE, wait till I tell you her new job. Findlay's been promoted from medical director to chief exec. Everybody's happy!

Except.

1/6 In 2016, Simon Stevens chief exec of @NHSEngland addressed World Economic Forum at @Davos. His speech "Mastering the 4th Industrial Revolution" spoke about replacing medics with AI... So far, such efforts have failed despite massive investment, though specialities like...

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1656078605003235331

2/6 radiology & histopathology are definitely at risk.

Trend for several years has been to favour "expert" guidelines over independent clinical thinking. Often these guidelines are written by junior consultants with "ghost" professors in the authors list, and the primary...

1. Why is the #CygnusCase so important? Because the most valuable commodity in today’s world isnt gold or oil, it’s data.

Inexcusable for @GOVUK to withhold pandemic prep data from the British public when #Covid19 2nd wave & future pandemics lie ahead.

crowdjustice.com/case/jrcovid19/ 2. Data rules the modern world. Banks need data, military needs data, scientists need data, & physicians need data.

Sometimes there’s good reasons to hide data, during military conflicts or for commercial exploitation, but there’s no excuse for it during a major pandemic.