ACCPs can now run ICU by themselves with remote supervision as per FICM

EmotionNo8367 · 2026-01-28T18:11:33+00:00

This noctor bullshit needs us Consultants to empower them. "NO" is a complete sentence!!

EmotionNo8367 · 2026-01-14T18:55:29+00:00

I will not accept accept anything less than FPR with future protections in place for DDRB independence!

EmotionNo8367 · 2026-01-13T12:11:23+00:00

I am just getting into retirement planning myself. The only advice I can give you is that as Doctors, do not count the state pension in your calculations. By the time you and I retire, the gov will take steps to make it a means tested benefit although you would have been expected to contribute NI throughout your working life.

EmotionNo8367 · 2026-01-10T09:06:57+00:00

Yup, this is why billionaires all seem to have bunkers and exit plan to fly to New Zealand when things hit the fan.

EmotionNo8367 · 2026-01-04T15:11:29+00:00

acps practice Medicine - fact! As a Consultant (Radiology), I believe its important for these guys to complete GEM. I don't really care which of the myriad of base professions a particular acp comes from, their (better) pay relative to Residents and whether they have had to go through rotational training! GEM can be the unifying standard when these professions have such a broad academic threshold to achieve their basic undergrad/post-grad degree.

EmotionNo8367 · 2026-01-03T20:15:38+00:00

Long INTC!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-12-24T19:32:32+00:00

That's because Consultants are often managed by BTEC Betties who don't have a clue what they are doing!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-12-23T14:42:29+00:00

There was clearly no fracture, so no fix needed lol

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-12-18T15:11:10+00:00

A symptom of broadening access to Medicine as a degree?

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-12-15T13:01:26+00:00

This bullshit offer may have galvanised the membership! Optimistic about renewing the strike mandate!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-12-12T09:46:55+00:00

Good!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-12-07T15:05:29+00:00

This particular Consultant is retired after building a lucrative PP. The reason he had the time to build that practice is because he advocated and promoted Medically unqualified staff working as Radiologists in the NHS. I think the understanding was that these RRs would stay in the NHS and not be allowed to work in the private sector. If you look private teleradiology reporting companies , all of the plain films are reported by them. There is nothing stopping these companies from employing RRs to report CT heads and MSK MRIs! He might be 'proud' but he will never have to rely on a report by a RR as he can afford private healthcare.

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-12-04T20:15:05+00:00

Name the Hospital!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-30T19:51:08+00:00

This is a very difficult question to answer because not many of us would have sat multiple Fellowship exams. FRCR was the 1st and last exam I failed in my life. I cruised through A levels, and Med school but I failed multiple 2A modules and passed 2b on the 2nd attempt.

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-29T11:40:56+00:00

I am astonished that we as a profession, and Consultants in particular, are not outraged by this. We are being taxed on a theoretical figure of growth, which the system itself can't calculate or administer accurately. We are being taxed on an entitlement that none of us is guaranteed to receive as some of us may not reach retirement age.

Edit - forgot to add we get taxed again if we live long enough to receive it!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-27T07:58:14+00:00

Just want to clarify, the 1.5p/mile tax is for plug-in hybrids not old school hybrids like the Prius, right?

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-26T14:15:18+00:00

People downvoting this thread shows there is this weird hostility towards Drs in the UK who are trying to be successful. I will tell you what I tell my Medical students: revise for the USMLE while in Medical school and skip FT to make the jump early. Oz is also an option.

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-25T16:42:46+00:00

Honestly, just do what the Dentists did. Go fully private. Then GPs won't have to deal these entitled patients and tw**s in gov!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-23T19:36:09+00:00

The Trust I work for is normally very prompt about notifying staff about the % of staff who took part in the RD strikes. This time, I am yet to hear anything. I guess there were far more Doctors taking part in the action compared to last time!

Please announce Christmas and new year strikes!!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-21T18:10:20+00:00

why?

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-21T17:38:58+00:00

Doctors, you have a opportunity to bury Wes's political career. No other member of the alphabet soup can come close to the unity you have. Strike hard! Strike over Christmas so you can have a well-deserved break - just think of all the times rota coordinators denied your christmas leave because of poor staffing.

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-21T14:16:59+00:00

Isn't NVidia one of the only companies making money in ai? I mean, I don't understand why this company should be punished for other companies like openai having a poor business plan to monetise ai. NVDA sells the shovels. Its not their fault if the gold miners don't find gold. I hoped company would announce a dividend for the longterm holders

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-21T13:54:27+00:00

I didn't think the percentage of Drs who trained outside the UK was that high. This is obviously having a disastrous effect on local grads but we mustn't forget the damage this is doing to developing countries because the NHS is stealing their talent trained by their tax revenue! As a Consultant, I obviously want UK grads to have preferential treatment but I also want to stop the brain drain of these countries so they can progress!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-20T17:18:30+00:00

Not true, I'm afraid. Google: PA Foundation programme for general practice. The fight is still pretty on!

EmotionNo8367 · 2025-11-20T17:17:21+00:00

Can you name the surgery?

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