Dr Steve Taylor
@drstevetaylor.bsky.social
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Let’s really ‘Bring back the Family Doctor’ Wes Streeting with a real patient focused contract & real funding to make it happen
Patients want to see GPs & GPs want to see patients
Your GP, here for you - time to make it happen, it’s in your hands
dauk.org/our-call-for...
Patients want to see GPs & GPs want to see patients
Your GP, here for you - time to make it happen, it’s in your hands
dauk.org/our-call-for...
Reposted by Dr Steve Taylor
Online GP Forms 8–6.30pm
A more convenient way to find out there aren’t enough appts in GP practices & aren’t enough GPs
Not enough £ to provide the services everyone will expect because of this continued messaging.
Not possible to do more with less.
Put your money where your mouth is, Wes!
A more convenient way to find out there aren’t enough appts in GP practices & aren’t enough GPs
Not enough £ to provide the services everyone will expect because of this continued messaging.
Not possible to do more with less.
Put your money where your mouth is, Wes!
January 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Online GP Forms 8–6.30pm
A more convenient way to find out there aren’t enough appts in GP practices & aren’t enough GPs
Not enough £ to provide the services everyone will expect because of this continued messaging.
Not possible to do more with less.
Put your money where your mouth is, Wes!
A more convenient way to find out there aren’t enough appts in GP practices & aren’t enough GPs
Not enough £ to provide the services everyone will expect because of this continued messaging.
Not possible to do more with less.
Put your money where your mouth is, Wes!
Online GP Forms 8–6.30pm
A more convenient way to find out there aren’t enough appts in GP practices & aren’t enough GPs
Not enough £ to provide the services everyone will expect because of this continued messaging.
Not possible to do more with less.
Put your money where your mouth is, Wes!
A more convenient way to find out there aren’t enough appts in GP practices & aren’t enough GPs
Not enough £ to provide the services everyone will expect because of this continued messaging.
Not possible to do more with less.
Put your money where your mouth is, Wes!
January 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Online GP Forms 8–6.30pm
A more convenient way to find out there aren’t enough appts in GP practices & aren’t enough GPs
Not enough £ to provide the services everyone will expect because of this continued messaging.
Not possible to do more with less.
Put your money where your mouth is, Wes!
A more convenient way to find out there aren’t enough appts in GP practices & aren’t enough GPs
Not enough £ to provide the services everyone will expect because of this continued messaging.
Not possible to do more with less.
Put your money where your mouth is, Wes!
Reposted by Dr Steve Taylor
Reposted by Dr Steve Taylor
#NHS DAILY WORKLOAD since 2022
111 - 55k calls a day - unchanged
999 - Ambulance 21k - up 1.6k
Hospital
- Urgent Admissions - 13k - unchanged
- A&E - 48k Majors - up 2.5k
- A&E - 28k Minors - up 2.5k
- Treatment - up 8k
- Outpatients - up 50k
General Practice - 1.6m - up 230k
111 - 55k calls a day - unchanged
999 - Ambulance 21k - up 1.6k
Hospital
- Urgent Admissions - 13k - unchanged
- A&E - 48k Majors - up 2.5k
- A&E - 28k Minors - up 2.5k
- Treatment - up 8k
- Outpatients - up 50k
General Practice - 1.6m - up 230k
December 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#NHS DAILY WORKLOAD since 2022
111 - 55k calls a day - unchanged
999 - Ambulance 21k - up 1.6k
Hospital
- Urgent Admissions - 13k - unchanged
- A&E - 48k Majors - up 2.5k
- A&E - 28k Minors - up 2.5k
- Treatment - up 8k
- Outpatients - up 50k
General Practice - 1.6m - up 230k
111 - 55k calls a day - unchanged
999 - Ambulance 21k - up 1.6k
Hospital
- Urgent Admissions - 13k - unchanged
- A&E - 48k Majors - up 2.5k
- A&E - 28k Minors - up 2.5k
- Treatment - up 8k
- Outpatients - up 50k
General Practice - 1.6m - up 230k
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General Practice is being short changed by NHS England
Payments to GP practices average £169 / patient / year for all the services they provide ~ average 6-7 appts / year
A&E get £113 minimum per attendee
Out patients £152 minimum for seeing a professional on first attendance
Payments to GP practices average £169 / patient / year for all the services they provide ~ average 6-7 appts / year
A&E get £113 minimum per attendee
Out patients £152 minimum for seeing a professional on first attendance
January 2, 2026 at 12:32 PM
General Practice is being short changed by NHS England
Payments to GP practices average £169 / patient / year for all the services they provide ~ average 6-7 appts / year
A&E get £113 minimum per attendee
Out patients £152 minimum for seeing a professional on first attendance
Payments to GP practices average £169 / patient / year for all the services they provide ~ average 6-7 appts / year
A&E get £113 minimum per attendee
Out patients £152 minimum for seeing a professional on first attendance
A relatively mild flu season follows warnings from NHS England, NHS Providers & Wes Streeting of ‘super flu’ ‘tidal waves’ ‘double whammy’ ‘worst ever crisis’
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
A relatively mild flu season follows warnings from NHS England, NHS Providers & Wes Streeting of ‘super flu’ ‘tidal waves’ ‘double whammy’ ‘worst ever crisis’
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1.9million attendances at A&E over 5years for ‘minor’ things
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E ‘extra’ attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E ‘extra’ attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
January 1, 2026 at 7:58 AM
1.9million attendances at A&E over 5years for ‘minor’ things
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E ‘extra’ attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E ‘extra’ attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
General Practice is being short changed by NHS England
Payments to GP practices average £169 / patient / year for all the services they provide ~ average 6-7 appts / year
A&E get £113 minimum per attendee
Out patients £152 minimum for seeing a professional on first attendance
Payments to GP practices average £169 / patient / year for all the services they provide ~ average 6-7 appts / year
A&E get £113 minimum per attendee
Out patients £152 minimum for seeing a professional on first attendance
January 2, 2026 at 12:32 PM
General Practice is being short changed by NHS England
Payments to GP practices average £169 / patient / year for all the services they provide ~ average 6-7 appts / year
A&E get £113 minimum per attendee
Out patients £152 minimum for seeing a professional on first attendance
Payments to GP practices average £169 / patient / year for all the services they provide ~ average 6-7 appts / year
A&E get £113 minimum per attendee
Out patients £152 minimum for seeing a professional on first attendance
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With Health Visitors in the news being asked to do more
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Funded by Local Authorities rather than NHS leading to more cuts & fragmentation.
Children are being neglected.
Let’s hope Wes Streeting will put money where his mouth is.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Funded by Local Authorities rather than NHS leading to more cuts & fragmentation.
Children are being neglected.
Let’s hope Wes Streeting will put money where his mouth is.
January 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM
With Health Visitors in the news being asked to do more
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Funded by Local Authorities rather than NHS leading to more cuts & fragmentation.
Children are being neglected.
Let’s hope Wes Streeting will put money where his mouth is.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Funded by Local Authorities rather than NHS leading to more cuts & fragmentation.
Children are being neglected.
Let’s hope Wes Streeting will put money where his mouth is.
With Health Visitors in the news being asked to do more
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Funded by Local Authorities rather than NHS leading to more cuts & fragmentation.
Children are being neglected.
Let’s hope Wes Streeting will put money where his mouth is.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Funded by Local Authorities rather than NHS leading to more cuts & fragmentation.
Children are being neglected.
Let’s hope Wes Streeting will put money where his mouth is.
January 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM
With Health Visitors in the news being asked to do more
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Funded by Local Authorities rather than NHS leading to more cuts & fragmentation.
Children are being neglected.
Let’s hope Wes Streeting will put money where his mouth is.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Funded by Local Authorities rather than NHS leading to more cuts & fragmentation.
Children are being neglected.
Let’s hope Wes Streeting will put money where his mouth is.
Reposted by Dr Steve Taylor
OVERWHELMED GP PRACTICES NOT TO BLAME FOR A&E WAITS
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
OVERWHELMED GP PRACTICES NOT TO BLAME FOR A&E WAITS
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
1.9million attendances at A&E over 5years for ‘minor’ things
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E ‘extra’ attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E ‘extra’ attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
January 1, 2026 at 7:58 AM
1.9million attendances at A&E over 5years for ‘minor’ things
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E ‘extra’ attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E ‘extra’ attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
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This is a story about patient needs
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
December 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is a story about patient needs
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
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There are 160million GP consults / year
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5 years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E additional attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5 years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E additional attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
December 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
There are 160million GP consults / year
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5 years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E additional attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5 years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E additional attendances
Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million
OVERWHELMED GP PRACTICES NOT TO BLAME FOR A&E WAITS
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
OVERWHELMED GP PRACTICES NOT TO BLAME FOR A&E WAITS
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
Not the headline you will read but GPs are not to blame
190,000 a day additional GP practice appointments compared to 2019
Emergency Departments have seen a rise of 3000 attendances a day, whilst admissions remain unchanged
Reposted by Dr Steve Taylor
This is a story about patient needs
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
December 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is a story about patient needs
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
Reposted by Dr Steve Taylor
I dug behind the industry paywall to find out, what *are* the geniusly clever things that AI can predict will increase NHS A&E pressures?
You’ll never guess
- Flu
- Winter
- Icy weather
- Friday nights
- Christmas
- New Years Eve
Jeez, Dom’s old mates at Faculty AI (o yes) really saw Wes coming
You’ll never guess
- Flu
- Winter
- Icy weather
- Friday nights
- Christmas
- New Years Eve
Jeez, Dom’s old mates at Faculty AI (o yes) really saw Wes coming
December 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I dug behind the industry paywall to find out, what *are* the geniusly clever things that AI can predict will increase NHS A&E pressures?
You’ll never guess
- Flu
- Winter
- Icy weather
- Friday nights
- Christmas
- New Years Eve
Jeez, Dom’s old mates at Faculty AI (o yes) really saw Wes coming
You’ll never guess
- Flu
- Winter
- Icy weather
- Friday nights
- Christmas
- New Years Eve
Jeez, Dom’s old mates at Faculty AI (o yes) really saw Wes coming
This is a story about patient needs
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
December 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is a story about patient needs
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
1.9 million over 5 years
1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care
Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations
And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc
Both need funding
Reposted by Dr Steve Taylor
Let’s go back to 2010!
We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months
Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been
THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….
We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months
Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been
THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….
December 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Let’s go back to 2010!
We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months
Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been
THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….
We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months
Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been
THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….
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Another Winter (year) of people treated on hospital corridors
Another New Years honours list for failure
5000 extra permanent core hospital beds promised in Jan 2023, ‘delivered’ in Winter 23/24, but absolutely no evidence of their existence
Thanks Dame Pritchard
Another New Years honours list for failure
5000 extra permanent core hospital beds promised in Jan 2023, ‘delivered’ in Winter 23/24, but absolutely no evidence of their existence
Thanks Dame Pritchard
December 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Another Winter (year) of people treated on hospital corridors
Another New Years honours list for failure
5000 extra permanent core hospital beds promised in Jan 2023, ‘delivered’ in Winter 23/24, but absolutely no evidence of their existence
Thanks Dame Pritchard
Another New Years honours list for failure
5000 extra permanent core hospital beds promised in Jan 2023, ‘delivered’ in Winter 23/24, but absolutely no evidence of their existence
Thanks Dame Pritchard
Another Winter (year) of people treated on hospital corridors
Another New Years honours list for failure
5000 extra permanent core hospital beds promised in Jan 2023, ‘delivered’ in Winter 23/24, but absolutely no evidence of their existence
Thanks Dame Pritchard
Another New Years honours list for failure
5000 extra permanent core hospital beds promised in Jan 2023, ‘delivered’ in Winter 23/24, but absolutely no evidence of their existence
Thanks Dame Pritchard
December 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Another Winter (year) of people treated on hospital corridors
Another New Years honours list for failure
5000 extra permanent core hospital beds promised in Jan 2023, ‘delivered’ in Winter 23/24, but absolutely no evidence of their existence
Thanks Dame Pritchard
Another New Years honours list for failure
5000 extra permanent core hospital beds promised in Jan 2023, ‘delivered’ in Winter 23/24, but absolutely no evidence of their existence
Thanks Dame Pritchard
Reposted by Dr Steve Taylor
Becoming a GP
Minimum - 5yrs medical school - 2yrs in hospital
GP Training:
40hrs a week over 3yrs
Continuous e-portfolio work placed assessments
AKT exam
Oral exam
Additional communication skills
Over 20,000 hours of training
Then free to safely see undifferentiated (undiagnosed) patients
Minimum - 5yrs medical school - 2yrs in hospital
GP Training:
40hrs a week over 3yrs
Continuous e-portfolio work placed assessments
AKT exam
Oral exam
Additional communication skills
Over 20,000 hours of training
Then free to safely see undifferentiated (undiagnosed) patients
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Becoming a GP
Minimum - 5yrs medical school - 2yrs in hospital
GP Training:
40hrs a week over 3yrs
Continuous e-portfolio work placed assessments
AKT exam
Oral exam
Additional communication skills
Over 20,000 hours of training
Then free to safely see undifferentiated (undiagnosed) patients
Minimum - 5yrs medical school - 2yrs in hospital
GP Training:
40hrs a week over 3yrs
Continuous e-portfolio work placed assessments
AKT exam
Oral exam
Additional communication skills
Over 20,000 hours of training
Then free to safely see undifferentiated (undiagnosed) patients
Reposted by Dr Steve Taylor
2026 could be the year to ‘Bring back the family Doctor’ Wes Streeting
To do so will require a patient centred GP contract with the vision & resources to genuinely bring quality, safe, focused care
This is in the hands of Govt, DHSC, NHSEngland
dauk.org/our-call-for...
To do so will require a patient centred GP contract with the vision & resources to genuinely bring quality, safe, focused care
This is in the hands of Govt, DHSC, NHSEngland
dauk.org/our-call-for...
December 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
2026 could be the year to ‘Bring back the family Doctor’ Wes Streeting
To do so will require a patient centred GP contract with the vision & resources to genuinely bring quality, safe, focused care
This is in the hands of Govt, DHSC, NHSEngland
dauk.org/our-call-for...
To do so will require a patient centred GP contract with the vision & resources to genuinely bring quality, safe, focused care
This is in the hands of Govt, DHSC, NHSEngland
dauk.org/our-call-for...
Becoming a GP
Minimum - 5yrs medical school - 2yrs in hospital
GP Training:
40hrs a week over 3yrs
Continuous e-portfolio work placed assessments
AKT exam
Oral exam
Additional communication skills
Over 20,000 hours of training
Then free to safely see undifferentiated (undiagnosed) patients
Minimum - 5yrs medical school - 2yrs in hospital
GP Training:
40hrs a week over 3yrs
Continuous e-portfolio work placed assessments
AKT exam
Oral exam
Additional communication skills
Over 20,000 hours of training
Then free to safely see undifferentiated (undiagnosed) patients
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Becoming a GP
Minimum - 5yrs medical school - 2yrs in hospital
GP Training:
40hrs a week over 3yrs
Continuous e-portfolio work placed assessments
AKT exam
Oral exam
Additional communication skills
Over 20,000 hours of training
Then free to safely see undifferentiated (undiagnosed) patients
Minimum - 5yrs medical school - 2yrs in hospital
GP Training:
40hrs a week over 3yrs
Continuous e-portfolio work placed assessments
AKT exam
Oral exam
Additional communication skills
Over 20,000 hours of training
Then free to safely see undifferentiated (undiagnosed) patients