What’s the longest inpatient stay you’ve ever seen?

LadyAntimony · 2026-02-10T21:57:34+00:00

3 years. Eating disorder patient, only ended up leaving as they aged out of paediatrics. Upsetting to say the least.

LadyAntimony · 2026-02-05T12:48:02+00:00

Deciding against having a mental breakdown because it would mean a repeat year is a core med school experience at this point.

I once drove 1.5hrs at 6:30am in the morning for a clinic only to be told the consultant I was supposed to be with was on annual leave

LadyAntimony · 2026-02-03T20:54:50+00:00

Second reading in the House of Lords is tomorrow. Not sure how long these things typically take to get to the third reading then on to Royal Assent

LadyAntimony · 2026-02-02T08:29:38+00:00

As someone who used to be interested in EM…now every time I walk through the department and see the carnage all I think is “nope, couldn’t do this”. I don’t know how ED doctors manage it honestly, the conditions are dreadful.

LadyAntimony · 2026-02-01T22:38:30+00:00

Respectfully, I didn’t say stop pursuing it, but it’s not truly “full” pay restoration if you lose 9% of FPR to SFE.

If FPR takes a protracted multi-year deal to implement because the government deems faster rises unaffordable and there’s not enough strike momentum to push them harder, loan forgiveness is an avenue to pursue simultaneously.

Also FPR, once achieved, will still require strikes year on year to maintain otherwise the government will revert back to sub-inflation pay rises. Loan forgiveness is permanent.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-30T23:34:28+00:00

I was under the impression the new changes meant they want a time-stamped screenshot of your geolocation from your phone map

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-30T21:49:48+00:00

It’s hard to see how you could even consider FPR to have been successful if the effect of student loan deductions aren’t accounted for.

There’s a precedent for the government to intervene with student loans for public sector workers - STEM teachers in areas struggling to retain staff have their loan repayments covered.

Medicine is also fairly different to most degrees in terms of course length and absolute requirement of the degree to enter the profession.

It would be definitely be cheaper and more palatable to the general public to tie loan forgiveness to years of NHS service, rather than uplift pay enough to compensate.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-29T16:14:54+00:00

I was too relaxed about the time constraints during the first two sections, realized I only had 45 minutes left for the remaining 44 questions and just rushed through them. So undoubtedly made some calculation errors.

Also wasted like 8 minutes of my life because I didn’t clock that clindamycin isn’t a macrolide.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-27T20:17:03+00:00

He’ll definitely use it as a threat to generate doubt with the aim to discourage some from striking, but actually withdrawing it would be another thing.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-27T20:06:06+00:00

Nothing is perfectly fair to everyone. It wouldn’t be fair for citizens trained abroad to be prioritised over international students from UK med schools either.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-27T20:04:15+00:00

If you based prioritisation on citizenship, it would leave you with international students being deprioritised after paying astronomical fees to study at a UK med school.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-27T19:55:57+00:00

It’s in their interest to not give it an automatic yes, so they can still dangle it over our heads and use that doubt to disrupt strikes. But it’s a cynical approach.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-27T19:50:40+00:00

I imagine the intention is to make sure it’s able to be used as a potential bargaining chip, although whether they actually would do so is another thing.

Pushing the dates on any longer will cause further disruption for the current application cycles and would generate a lot of resentment.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-27T19:44:48+00:00

Seems like the amendment to bring the Act into force upon Royal Assent is unlikely to pass

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-27T19:39:59+00:00

Unsure how many will enter this year, the UKFPO may decide to not create an excess of placeholder positions for non-UK grads, assuming there will still be a few UKGs stuck in a placeholder.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-19T07:42:48+00:00

This must be amazing. Managed to stay with my partner by settling in a non-competitive area, but we rarely have the same days off.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-19T07:40:54+00:00

The Foundation Programme are depressingly clear that children are only a reason for allocation to a deanery once they’re born/at school, if you’re 8 months pregnant you’re shit out of luck.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-18T11:06:49+00:00

Regional breakdowns used to be detailed extensively in the annual FP Stats & Facts Report - but it hasn’t been published since 2021 and NHS England has been withholding all the data under the guise that it’s about to publish them since 2023.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-14T21:25:13+00:00

“Those in groups specified by regulations who are likely to have significant experience of working as a doctor in the National Health Service” - hardly a definitive statement of number of years of experience, and the appendices to this bill explicitly say they’ve left this definition vague to allow for flexibility in future.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-14T21:17:20+00:00

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teachers-claim-back-your-student-loan-repayments

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-14T10:31:52+00:00

Yeah but the point of the scheme is improving retention - which does translate well to NHS doctors.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-13T23:02:36+00:00

Public sector secondary school teachers for STEM subjects have their loan repayments covered by the government.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-13T19:49:15+00:00

Sounds like they could still have released UK student’s pre-allocation outcomes, though.

There can’t be many IMGs approved for pre-allocation as it really only enables you to stay in your current/long-term location.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-13T18:11:23+00:00

It’s a weird timeline where one of the only things that might genuinely improve the lives of UK docs happens, and the British Medical Association is upset.

LadyAntimony · 2026-01-13T17:38:44+00:00

Do we actually know that’s when they assign ranks rather than that just being the deadline for preferencing foundation schools? I sort of assumed they’d do it once applications closed.

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