Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 (@ERunswickBMA) / X

Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈

9,442 posts

Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈

@ERunswickBMA

Doctor👩‍⚕Trade unionist ✊🏻 Socialist ⚘ @theBMA Deputy Chair of Council 🏳‍🌈 She/Her. #BMABallotReady

Salford, England

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Joined March 2016

Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Jan 6, 2023
📣 PLANS FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION ANNOUNCED 📣 Today @BMA_JuniorDocs have announced the first form of strike action. There will be a full 72 hour walkout of all junior doctors (pending successful ballot). bma.org.uk/news-and-opini… Ballot papers will go out on Monday
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Dec 27, 2022
Awful example of what happens to rotating drs when permanent staff don't support them/ are actively cruel. Non-rotating health workers: please challenge toxic behaviour in your departments. Culture is everyone's responsibility. NB OP overwhelmed by response so username removed.
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Feb 25, 2023
Senior doctors will cover urgent and critical care on strike days. We always do our best, but we are losing staff to Aus and NZ where pay and conditions are better. Pay, staffing and care are all linked. As scousers know: once a liar, always a liar. #JusticeForThe97
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Oct 2, 2023
Today on @BBCBreakfast: a woman waiting for 2 years for a shoulder replacement "cancelled because of the #DoctorsStrike" Our strike action started in March this year. What caused the delays ahead of our strikes? 🤔 Understaffing. #PayRestoration is for patients as well as drs.
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Feb 21, 2023
#PayRestoration From today, some employers, seniors and rota coordinators will tell you things that are not true. Some are clumsy mistakes, some are attempts to undermine your will to strike. The media will attack you and your reps. Here are some mistruths you may hear: 🧵
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
May 10, 2025
Yesterday I found out that my employer is ending the contracts of our fab Locally Employed Doctors and not replacing them, reducing our mental health unit staffing by 4 doctors. We are expected to absorb the work. Labour & @wesstreeting cutting the NHS.
NHS cuts: Diabetes care, talking therapies and rehab at risk
From bbc.co.uk
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Sep 29, 2024
The misuse of PAs at @AlderHey that @Mike88881221 is uncovering is just shocking. Physician Associates, unregistered and unregulated, performing the first (only?) forensic medical examination in child protection cases, where children have been abused, despite knowing 1/5
Mike
@Mike88881221
Sep 21, 2024
Replying to @Mike88881221
The physician associate clearly outlined their role - minimal supervision, acting on the safeguarding on-call rota, and examining abused children...they even boast about visiting the morgue!
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Aug 2, 2023
Two emergency medicine registrars, gone and not intending to return. Good luck to them. But what a loss, when multiplied many times over, to the UK.
Lucie Cocker
@Lucie_Cocker
Aug 2, 2023
Final NHS shift done ✔️ UK license to practise surrendered ✔️ Bags packed ✔️ 🇦🇺 Australia here we come 🇦🇺
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Sep 13, 2021
Today I proposed the #BanConversionTherapy motion at @TheBMA #ARM2021 Lots of colleagues, cis, straight and #LGBTQ, have been shocked at speeches opposing us. I was not. I knew who would speak against the motion, and I knew what they would say. Analysis, but 1st: basics 🧵
Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
May 13, 2022
The RCEM ACP fiasco began when it became clear that ACPs are becoming the Emergency Physician In Charge (EPIC). ACPs can be Tier 3 and 4 clinicians in EDs. Why is this an issue for EM trainees and other doctors? Do they hate non-doctors? Is it just snobbery? 1/4
Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Apr 10, 2023
No - the government is "failing the public already" as it runs the NHS into the ground - underfunded and understaffed. We need #PayRestoration to get our workforce back on track.
Sky News
@SkyNews
Apr 9, 2023
Junior doctors are in a position where they are 'failing the public already' including missing cancer care deadlines because of low staff levels. Dr Vivek Trivedi, co-chair BMA's Junior Doctors Committee on the upcoming junior doctor strikes. trib.al/5LnXs4H 📺 Sky 501
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Sep 13, 2021
Replying to @ERunswickBMA
On top of that, they lost. Despite this unholy alliance, they lost. We won the #BanConversionTherapy motion today. The BMA supports a ban, and support GMC sanctions against doctors with harmful and prejudiced practice. We are making progress. And we will win. #Pride ✊🏻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Mar 10, 2023
You know, I thought I'd made my position clear. #NeverCrossAPicketLine #DoctorsStrike #PayRestoration
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Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
@ERunswickBMA
Nov 5, 2023
Thank you @LeeAndersonMP_ for your generous donation of £1870 to @TheBMA Strike Fund. You, too, can help a doctor take strike action to win #PayRestoration and safe staffing in healthcare. bmastrikefund.raisely.com
Lee Anderson MP
@LeeAndersonMP_
Nov 5, 2023
On the 6th October 2023 I shared a link on X to a Mail Online article entitled ‘Militant union leader at the heart of doctors strikes is a Labour activist who boasted of charging the NHS for a strike cover shift. I accept that my words were misleading as the subject in question
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