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All of us at Pulse are truly saddened that @KailashChandOBE has died this evening. Our long-term blogger and friend, a tireless campaigner for justice, and a staunch defender of general practice and the NHS - his legacy will live on. Rest in peace, Kailash
'Imagine the outrage if Ryanair tried to fix a pilot shortage by providing some condensed training to flight attendants to become co-pilots of large jets, rather than supporting them through proper flight school,' says Dr Ebrahim Mulla #physicianassociatesbit.ly/3Zus55N
Out-of-hours GPs in Doncaster will now have to review ‘all assessments’ made by a physician associate (PA) before a patient is discharged, in a bid to address safety concerns. buff.ly/3XmX1WQ
Very sadly, further GPs have died with Covid. Dr Augustine Obaro and Dr Abdul-Razaq Abdullah both practised in East London. Dr Obaro is remembered as 'generous and very involved with the community', and Dr Abdullah as 'compassionate, popular and respected'
‘We must fight to ensure that everyone has the right to see a doctor and that when we book a GP appointment, the person we are seeing is who we are expecting to see,' said Lee Hunter, Merseyside Fire Brigades Union chair. buff.ly/3wPfgJF
'The time for niceties has passed. There are no magic resources in the NHS. Every minute spent discussing a moody teenager is a minute less spent seeing a palliative patient,' says columnist @dr_musgrave
We're very sad that the first female GP has died with Covid-19. Dr Poornima Nair, 56, of County Durham, was described by her practice as a 'much loved and valued colleague and friend' who fought the illness with 'great strength of character'. RIP Dr Nair pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical/clini…
The BMA has demanded that the next Government lifts 'absurd' restrictions in the GP contract that ‘prevent practices in England from using existing funding to hire more GPs’. buff.ly/3RhDenJ
'How many more patients have to die before the powers that be recognise that physician associates are not adequately trained to assess undifferentiated illness with minimal supervision?' asks @DrHFRyan#physicianassociates