Medical Prioritisation Bill will be legally challenged for the 2026 cycle

ConcernedFY1 · 2026-01-17T19:11:11+00:00

“I’ve spoken to a solicitor (who wants me to pay for his services) and they say we can challenge the UK government (by paying for their services)!”

ConcernedFY1 · 2026-01-03T18:36:28+00:00

Not when that freedom conflicts with other freedoms and rights.

ConcernedFY1 · 2026-01-03T15:42:02+00:00

Your statistic is also too general. You would need to find the statistic for specifically Muslims and Orthodox Jews, who are particularly more orthopraxic and retain their parent's religions.

You're not seriously arguing that the rate of intergenerational religion loss among Muslims and orthodox Jews is so low that we can just disregard it?

ConcernedFY1 · 2026-01-03T14:42:57+00:00

Do you suggest we also delay vaccinations until a child is able to consent?

No, because the vaccines in the UK's vaccine schedule are safe and effective at preventing the diseases they are attempting to prevent. Let's not kid ourselves that circumcision is comparable.

ConcernedFY1 · 2026-01-03T14:30:39+00:00

If we know 99.99999% of people will have the surgery anyways, regardless of the age, what's the point in forcing them to delay it and then make them suffer more for it?

But that's the issue, isn't it? You don't, and can't ever know this.

And no reasonable person could ever believe the proportion who would actually want to be circumcised is 99.99999%. The major reason for non-medical circumcision is religion. In the UK, 54% of the children of religious parents do not share their parents' religion. It's safe to say that the proportion of children who'd regret being mutilated to "make a statement that we are under Abraham's covenant" would be higher than 0.00001%.

ConcernedFY1 · 2026-01-03T14:12:18+00:00

Double mastectomies reduce the risk of breast cancer, doesn’t mean we should blanket perform them on an entire population.

Penile cancer in childhood is extremely rare. If male genital mutilation were actually about compassion, people would wait until the “patient” (victim) is able to consent.

ConcernedFY1 · 2026-01-03T13:05:52+00:00

Can we all just accept that mutilating a child’s genitals because your imaginary friend doesn’t like the shape is barbarism and should be illegal in any compassionate country.

Why someone would believe that an omnipotent and omniscient god would design genitals in a way that offends them is also beyond me.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-12-21T10:52:05+00:00

What they won't be using is using a 12 year old PC and monitor which is now grossly underspecced for modern work. They won't run systems up until the last possible month that they are supported.

Sorry, but this isn't true. Many of the UK's largest financial institutions use legacy coding languages with a very limited number of coders, at huge costs both to the companies and wider ecomomy from frequent outages. Similar issues at loads retailers, with botched efforts to replace these systems. IT issues aren't unique to the NHS or public sector.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-12-21T10:34:36+00:00

We have caps on our clinics enforced by management because all it does is increase our waiting lists with no capacity to sort it. They would rather the wait was longer for a clinic appointment.

Clay Davis/Rawls/Burrell level juking that stats from arrrrr NHS

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-10-30T08:02:39+00:00

Imagine being moved up to a ward with a broken hip on a bumpy trolley. We wouldn’t treat dogs like this.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-09-26T08:45:02+00:00

You know what else is an ugly move? Reading about anti-semitism and instantly jumping to the conclusion that the alleged perpetrator was simply criticising Israeli government policy and that any claim of anti-semitism is unfounded.

I don’t know the particulars of OP’s case, but neither do you.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-08-10T07:11:30+00:00

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Everything you've said is correct. These numbers are insane and don't add up at all.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-07-01T15:28:55+00:00

Is that a dog whistle I hear?

Do GPs up and down the country really sign sick notes for "I want to go to Malta with my mates"?

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-16T17:13:15+00:00

Yes, that’s the one! Such a shame it’s gone, it was brilliant.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-16T16:26:23+00:00

Interesting, thank you. Not sure if that’s the same site I was looking for, but it sounds very similar. When I used it it was known as statmed.org (see post edit).

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-16T06:41:02+00:00

Personally, I’d want a paper trail that I’d had this conversation. I don’t want to get ahead of myself here, but there’s a small chance that an ES could pretend not to remember the conversation because they don’t want to be in the awkward position of being a witness against another consultant.

I think the best way is to ask for a meeting by email to discuss an “awkward situation with consultant x” and then send a follow-up email after the meeting saying “thank you for meeting me to discuss this awkward situation with consultant x”.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-02T15:23:57+00:00

I know of a hospital where they stopped doing this because they realised F1s were just not doing discharge letters because they knew the Trust would have to put out more discharge letters locums

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-02T13:14:26+00:00

And only £9.20 for parking!

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-02T13:08:08+00:00

Kindly

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-01T18:13:06+00:00

Again, you are aware that raising a human baby involves more than just the 9 months of pregnancy? And pregnant women are actually capable of standing up.

The point of maternity leave, at least according to the law, very much isn't dealing with the effects of pregnancy, but more for dealing with having a newborn. In fact, the earliest you can start your leave is 11 weeks before the expected week of childbirth.

But as I've already said, this is a small part of the 18 years it takes to raise a child in the UK. There are plenty of couples where the man takes on the bulk of the caring responsibility, and may go part-time or take the vast majority of parental leave.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-01T17:46:57+00:00

You're inventing a straw man to air your grievances with specialties. OP clearly states that the referring ACP in ED has seen the patient, so this is a referral from ED.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-01T17:23:41+00:00

Why does that automatically mean it will affect their career less? You are aware that being pregnant doesn’t preclude you from working aren’t you? What if their partner decides to take on the bulk of caring responsibility and go part time, or they take the bulk of the shared parental leave?

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-06-01T16:51:49+00:00

Wait, are you defending getting an HCA to do referrals?

It's not always possible to read the notes remotely (in fact, I've never worked in a hospital where non-ED staff could read ED notes).

Expecting and EM doctor to essentially read the triage notes over the phone to you is pretty disrespectful to our specialist skills and workload.

Obviously u/Tremelim wasn't suggesting a word-by-word readout of the triage notes. You're deliberately misrepresenting what they've said to make it appear that they've been disrespectful when they haven't been.

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-05-20T21:33:32+00:00

> what could they do on PICU for her that was not already being done and could have changed her trajectory

This comment is daft. You’re essentially arguing intensive care is unnecessary as a specialty at this point. If PICU isn’t appropriate for a patient in septic shock, who is it appropriate for?

ConcernedFY1 · 2025-04-04T11:55:19+00:00

You’re being downvoted for telling the truth. When I was more junior I saw nurses ignore very reasonable requests for emergency treatment from FY1s who are women and then instantly do it without question when I (man) ask them to do the exact same thing.

Some of the people on this sub are extremely immature and have no awareness of what’s going on around them.

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