Dr Vivek Trivedi, "The government have spent £1 billion on cover during strike days, which incidentally, is the cost of restoring our pay in the first place." #PayRestoration

This is horrifying, and I don’t mean their use of a #ComicSans lookalike font in an advert for professionals. #PayRestoration
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RT @amateuradam
How depressing to see this in the BMJ. It’s hard to say those figures don’t present a compelling argument. It all leads to a big question for the govt: if you don’t address doctors’ very reasonable pay concerns, alongside their conditions and wellbeing, guess where they’re going?
https://twitter.com/amateuradam/status/1653650299255488512

Umm… read the room? Oh yes, that’s right: you’re not in it. #PayRestoration

RT @veggieequallife
This is misleading.

I am a 3rd year doctor at Core Training level or Specialist Registrar Level 1.

Here is my payslip.

I get paid £19 an hour. My salary is £40257 a year. Not £55900.

#PayRestoration @BMA_JuniorDocs @Doctors_Vote https://twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1646541019788222466

A handy little explainer for politicians. #PayRestoration #WhereAreYouSteve
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RT @cardiacpolymath
If you don't work in the NHS doctors training, pay & career progression is a bit confusing

Now the #JuniorDoctorsStrike is on you might reasonably ask what does time served really lead to?

So in this thread I'm going to compare doctors to our dearly beloved 650 MP's

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https://twitter.com/cardiacpolymath/status/1646615291655335938

RT @BMA_JuniorDocs
Our London rally is well underway - great to see so many supporters taking over Trafalgar Square 👏
#JuniorDoctorsStrike #PayRestoration

#JuniorDoctorsStrikes
#PayRestoration

On the junior doctor picket line at Kings Hospital London where the junior drs appreciated the solidarity & support
They want #PayRestorationNow

RT @BFujer
Dear @SteveBarclay, as an #NHS patient I urge you to put forward a credible offer that addresses the concerns of our junior doctors. It's in your hands to protect both patients and staff! #payrestoration

https://twitter.com/JustTreatment/status/1645711540346138626?s=20

To save a life sounds really dramatic but it’s something doctors do everyday - most probably a “junior doctor”. Personally, I am not sure how many lives I have saved, not all of them make a fixed memory but I know for sure that there is one lady who I will remember forever who is alive today, watching her twins grown up because of me & my team, who were also junior doctors. Pay them what they’re worth. #juniordoctors #juniordoctorsstrikes #PayRestoration #consultantsoftomorrow #bma

Thankfully our @BMA_JuniorDocs colleagues have had enough of being gaslit into believing they are responsible for broken systems, rather than for being the mechanism by which they will be fixed. #PayRestoration #WhereAreYouSteve

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us. It’s just such a pity @theRCN didn’t learn from our mistakes. #PayRestoration #NoPreconditions 9/9

In 2016, after industrial action that saw non-emergency covering Junior Doctors downing tools and attending the picket lines, the government offered talks.

A short 🧵 based only on the fallible memories of a tired man this Friday evening… 1/9
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RT @BMA_JuniorDocs
Our JDC co-chairs have again written to @SteveBarclay requesting a meeting to discuss how we secure full #payrestoration for junior doctors in England.

We look forward …
https://twitter.com/BMA_JuniorDocs/status/1641856357832720413

I really think this message needs amplification. The reason Australia is the go-to destination for the #UKMedicineBrainDrain is precisely because industrial action in the 2000s created *better pay and conditions* for our colleagues there #PayRestoration
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RT @LiangRhea
@PKPlunkett I am with you Patrick- I supported the resident doctors in Aotearoa NZ through their strikes in the 2000s and it's one of the reasons the working conditions …
https://twitter.com/LiangRhea/status/1639519281573683200

Whatever the @BMA_JuniorDocs industrial action goes on to achieve (and I hope it’s #PayRestoration) can we remember to add “warm on-call anaesthetists” to the list? Thanks to @HowellsGlyn and @NorthBristolNHS for fixing this so quickly.
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RT @brisgasdoc
@HowellsGlyn @DeakinSue1 Look what arrived today in the @NBTAnaesthesia Obs on-call room! Thanks to @HowellsGlyn and his estates colleagues for facilitating this. Seriously thinking ab…
https://twitter.com/brisgasdoc/status/1638596007863754775

Working a night shift to support #juniordoctors and their fight for better term and conditions and #PayRestoration For too long the degradation of pay in the NHS has gone unchecked. You all deserve to be paid a wage worthy of your knowledge, skill, dedication, experience and professionalism #nhs #doctor #JuniorDoctorStrikes

So far, @NorthBristolNHS maternity has been kind to me. Have even found time that take my @TheBMA mandated “consultant working SHO night shift” selfie. Really struggling to pace myself, though - is it lunchtime yet!? #TeamNights #PayRestoration

Strong work from an @uhbwNHS picket colleague. Couldn’t have put it better myself. #PayRestoration #DrRetention #PtSafety
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RT @SouthWestBMA
Best picket outfit? @TheBMA @BMASevernJDC @dr_emmacoombe #JuniorDoctorsStrike
https://twitter.com/SouthWestBMA/status/1635241992556015616

@russellt not yet… their T&C’s are broadly similar to those in England and the Scottish ballot for junior doctor stokes is planned for the end of March. They are also asking for full pay restoration, which they should absolutely get. #bma #juniordoctors #JuniorDoctorStrikes #PayRestoration

£14 an hour!! That is all. At the moment Pret A Manger pays its barrista’s £14…. Pay restoration would increase their salary to £19 an hour. £19 an hour for all they do (not to mention their debt) is quite frankly a bargain! #PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorStrikes #JuniorDoctor #supportNHS #SupportJuniorDoctors

Junior doctors in the UK strike this week. They’re asking for 26% #PayRestoration That does sound like a lot but let’s look at why…
1st people to see you when you’re admitted
Take a history & examine you
Decide what investigations are needed
Undertake some of those investigations themselves
Use their training & the results to work out what is probably wrong with you
Prescribe all your medications
Initiate your treatment and take responsibility for these decisions!