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Nick Hopkinson
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- Time to end the last government's failed physician associate experiment."That's one of the most damning things I've ever read!" LBC listener Peter tells Matthew Wright there's 'no role whatsoever' in the NHS for physician associates.
00:00 - Physician associates and anaesthetic associates in UK: review finds that expansion of these occupations has occurred in the absence of evidence that they are safe or effective or add value. #RCPtimeforchange
- All I want for Christmas is a medical regulator that isn't a profound embarrassment...
- Further fallout from the Physician Associate scandal: Following the recent AGM, where it became clear that his position was untenable, @RCPhysicians Chair steps down with immediate effect. rcp.ac.uk/news-and-media…
- Replying to @COPDdoc2012: David Cameron says that his new year's resolution is to "kill off the health and safety culture for good". independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
- Good palliative care can alleviate the pain of dying – this bill means Labour must fund it. @doctor_oxford 1/2
- So I sat through Jeremy Hunt's presentation about how he invented patient safety a few months back. It was slick and wierdly hypnotic. He cheerfully admitted that he'd done the talk about 80 times. 1/n
- Government decision to review the failed physician associate experiment is welcome, but time is short. @RCPhysicians needs to adopt the @BMA national scope of practice now to protect patient safety.
- Chris Whitty on lung cancer: "the cigarette industry – has got them addicted to cigarettes at a young age and kept them addicted the rest of their lives, and then they die..this is a cancer created by industry for profit.” theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…
- If Philip Morris takeover of @VecturaGroup goes ahead, switching people with COPD and asthma from Vectura inhalers to ones that do not provide income to the tobacco industry should be straightforward for most people. Preprint: authorea.com/users/431557/a… 1/n
- Time to end the last government's failed physician associate experiment. @RCPhysicians @BTSrespiratoryIt's been shown that doctors were unsafely replaced on medical rotas by PAs on 109 occasions, across 11 trusts over 3 months. This appalling patient safety scandal must end. Read our letter to @NHSEngland. And our response to @Channel4News revelations: bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…
