Please don't blame hard working GPs for NHS crisis. We are underfunded, underdoctored and overstretched. Simple!
Dame Jane Dacre
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Dame Jane Dacre
@DacreJane
Emeritus Prof Med Ed @UCL Physician/Rheumatologist @WhittingtonHealth Chair Expert Panel HSCC President @MPS_Medical, Former President @RCPLondon, Views my own.
London
Joined April 2014
- If there is a workforce shortage, especially in the NHS, why do we continue to tolerate a society where childcare is so difficult to manage and fund? Parents need good childcare to be able to go to work.
- Feel worried to admit this here, but I think telephone consultations are great. Efficient, effective, and acceptable to most patients. But clearly not everyone, and that’s fine.
- Advice for NHS interviewers. If you interview someone for a post, and tell them you will ring with the outcome….. please do it. It is rude not to, and undervalues the people who have made the effort to come to the interview.
- Isn’t it time to all lock down and vaccinate up?
- I am wondering how much mandatory training is really necessary? It takes up a lot of time for over stretched staff. Shouldn’t we tailor it more to what is needed? Can it be streamlined please?
- What would help parents remain in work in the NHS? - Flexible shifts, workplace nurseries, subsidised childcare, reduction of the gender pay gap, zero tolerance to poor behaviour…… and more. @willquince @SteveBarclay @paygapsmedics @medicalwomenuk
- Sexual assault, crude banter — what it’s like to be a female surgeon thetimes.co.uk/article/7f3603…
- The NHS is a huge employer, but so many people feel badly treated. Why?
- The NHS has structural barriers to flexible and LTFT working. This deters people from returning to work and fulfilling their potential. We need to address this to retain clinical staff.
- A sobering report. The NHS workforce needs more support. We’re down to the marrow in the health service – we’re beyond the bone’: Almost half of UK doctors say their mental health worse now than during pandemic – Channel 4 News
- Stepping down as Chair of the GMC: a message from Dame Clare Marx.This is an example of exceptional compassionate leadership. gmc-news.org/OUY-7GNKG-1D7D…
- Over a long career, time off for maternity is small. We need to stop seeing it as a problem and regard it as an investment in the future workforce #FGDebate
