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Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
@jim_crawfurd
A&E Consultant, parent, occasional sabreur and #militantlymoderate doctor. Views my own and not those of my employer (but likely shared by 5-90% of NHS staff)
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Dec 22, 2024
    A London A&E department celebrating the very rare event of not having patients on trolleys in a f***ing corridor. That’s what 14yrs of the Tories has done to the NHS. It’s going to be a long journey back, but I hope it’s starting soon…
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    Fiona Wisniacki💙
    @WisniackiFiona
    Dec 22, 2024
    Apparently this was in Northwick Park’s ED ⁦@LNWH_NHS⁩ this morning. No patients in the Escalation Space. Happy Christmas to my colleagues!
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Nov 20, 2021
    I feel seen.
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Feb 6, 2021
    Rest in Peace, Estrella 💔
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    Aoife Abbey
    @WhistlingDixie4
    Jan 7, 2021
    Listening to what this Emergency Department nurse, suffering from #Covid19, chose to say to ⁦@BBCNews⁩ is heartbreaking Despite her pain.... despite everything:
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Dec 29, 2020
    Just a normal East of England DGH ambulance waiting area. Hospital empty, obviously. We just make the crews and patients wait for kicks. At least that’s what some total idiots on Twitter would have you believe 😡
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Mar 28, 2022
    Sorry @thetimes but as an A&E consultant this is one of the most farcical things I have read in a long while. And that is saying something.
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Jun 12, 2021
    A&E departments are staffed, skilled, equipped and big enough to (just about) cope with genuine Emergency demand. We cannot handle the volume of non-emergency work that is currently coming in on top of it. System is broken. Urgent solutions needed.
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Aug 31, 2024
    Or you work for the NHS 😂
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    Gareth Williams.
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    Aug 30, 2024
    If you used one of these in your job you’re as old as fuck.
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Mar 6, 2021
    I challenge anyone to give me a better way to spend 99p
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
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    Jun 23, 2024
    This is what makes so little sense about the whole PA thing - they aren’t even cheap…
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Jul 25, 2022
    I don’t want to leave, but unless someone does something serious about fixing social care/exit block soon, I don’t think I can handle it much longer 😢 Having more and more days where I leave work with a feeling of not wanting to come back.
    Doctor on a ward
    NHS staffing crisis: 'I left because it wasn't worth it'
    From bbc.co.uk
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Apr 13, 2022
    Absolutely crushing shift this evening. So angry at being unable to deliver anything like the standard of care we would want to and picking up the pieces of all the gaps in the system. EM at it’s worst 😢 #ExitBlock
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Jun 14, 2020
    No I hadn’t. And it’s lovely 😊
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    Mar 29, 2024
    Replying to @Robyn_Medhurst and @marklunn123
    I think those of us working in these sort of environments accept that sometimes these sort of coping mechanisms are used by staff behind closed doors, but they need to remain behind closed doors. Putting this out on social media was a mistake.
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    Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦
    @jim_crawfurd
    May 22, 2021
    Absolute beast of a shift last night. Relentless demand. Flow not the problem for once, just numbers. Definitely not sustainable but I don’t have any answers, other than telling the public to expect very long (>4hr) waits if they attend ED. It’s 1999 again.