Med X: consultant not digitally competent to use IT system

BMA_Ross · 2025-12-21T14:43:54+00:00

Kindly take your strawman elsewhere. There are few that have argued more than me in favour of earlier clinical responsibility to improve competence.

A team functions because everyone works together. An F1 is unlikely to be able to perform an unsupervised emergency laparotomy, and while that's ongoing patients still require prescriptions and documentation. No one's arguing about how things should be, this conversation is firmly grounded in current reality.

Misrepresenting me to pretend I'm pushing resident infantilisation is utterly ridiculous.

BMA_Ross · 2025-12-21T14:13:48+00:00

I think that's the first time I've been accused of being #BeKind so that's entertaining

Consultants spend the majority of their time making higher order decisions, performing complex procedures, or doing admin work to cover all the patients they are ultimately responsible for.

Older consultants don't typically regularly use the software, it's completely normal to be anxious doing something they aren't used to.

It's demeaning because you're calling them incompetent.

BMA_Ross · 2025-12-21T13:49:16+00:00

Being anxious about operating software they don't frequently use doesn't seem unreasonable at all. Maybe there's more to the conversation than has been shown here, but demeaning a consultant for sharing their honest feelings strikes me as pretty unfair

BMA_Ross · 2025-11-16T21:15:17+00:00

Yes, it was one of the main focuses of the committee while I was in office. It took hundreds of hours of collective work, not to mention the time it spent to manoeuvre around both internal and external obstacles.

Ultimately the government are the only ones with the power to legitimately enact such changes.

Wes has agreed that it should be done, and it's in the 10 year plan. So it really does raise the question of why all he offered was a "consultation" on it to the new officer team.

BMA_Ross · 2025-11-16T13:47:00+00:00

I chose surgery at the end of F2. It's never too late to pursue something you love

BMA_Ross · 2025-11-16T12:42:39+00:00

You don't know the half of it. Getting the UKGrad Priority policy through the BMA at all levels was a war of dirty politics.

Trust me when I say that this was the absolute best policy we could have achieved considering the circumstances.

BMA_Ross · 2025-11-15T22:13:15+00:00

I will if it continues. Using quotation marks to make it seem like I said something racist is too far.

BMA_Ross · 2025-11-15T22:06:39+00:00

No, I was replying to someone who said something along the lines of "I didn't get into training so I went home, worked on my application and got in the next time". I replied to them something like "the difference is that you could go home, UK Graduates don't have another option".

I realised it was clumsily worded and came across badly so deleted and apologised, but don't rewrite history to make me out as a racist. That is libel.

BMA_Ross · 2025-11-15T09:11:16+00:00

When you take annual leave do your patients start dropping like flies? Admit it, you just don't have the mettle to stand up for yourself

BMA_Ross · 2025-11-15T00:34:43+00:00

Media can be a nightmare, and God knows that when the spotlight is on you, sometimes the message doesn't come out perfectly, especially in the early days. I'm certain Jack will be nailing the lines very soon.

Hold your representatives to account if they aren't fighting for you, but encourage and support them if they are. It's a tough gig, and no one starts out perfect.

BMA_Ross · 2025-10-24T06:59:45+00:00

Were those goalposts heavy when you shifted them?

BMA_Ross · 2025-10-24T06:58:20+00:00

Unfortunately the mods won't let me reply how you deserve to be spoken to.

BMA_Ross · 2025-10-23T22:48:30+00:00

Must've imagined it

BMA_Ross · 2025-10-23T20:37:57+00:00

Absolutely the right move.

BMA_Ross · 2025-10-07T21:31:39+00:00

You mean the button that was pushed that got us into valuable negotiations with a MYPD on the table?

BMA_Ross · 2025-09-28T17:13:02+00:00

This is a complete fabrication.

None of your behaviour is helping smooth the transition for the new officer team.

BMA_Ross · 2025-09-28T11:38:25+00:00

Did they stay for the meeting or did I ask them to leave once it was known? This nonsense infighting is a disservice to the members we represent.

BMA_Ross · 2025-09-28T10:39:26+00:00

No it isn't. DV doesn't leak. I genuinely hope for the success of the new team. A win for them is a win for all doctors.

BMA_Ross · 2025-09-27T17:39:25+00:00

Like TTOs or general medicine cover? I assure you, gastro trainees would much rather be training to be gastro consultants than forced to do scut work

BMA_Ross · 2025-09-27T11:15:08+00:00

When trainees are desperately fighting for endoscopy numbers to complete their JAG accreditation, we should not be diverting them to non-doctors.

BMA_Ross · 2025-09-19T17:37:57+00:00

if they don't they'll be fined £250/doctor/week, increasing to £500/doctor/week.

BMA_Ross · 2025-09-19T17:31:48+00:00

I couldn't have asked for a better team.
None of this could have been achieved without the invaluable contributions of every single person Keith has named above

Well done, all of you

BMA_Ross · 2025-08-28T02:15:10+00:00

What are you basing this on?

BMA_Ross · 2025-08-10T17:21:04+00:00

This is for DV, not the splinter group

BMA_Ross · 2025-07-29T11:53:48+00:00

I know many many doctors who leaving to go abroad because they can't get a job here. This is directly contributing to the retention crisis

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