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Dr Justine Burns
@justineburns.bsky.social
Consultant Anaesthetist, Human Factors/Ergonomics enthusiast, Simulation. Runs The Airedale Human Factors Workshop
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New dates for our CIEHF accredited human factors workshop - scan the code to book 😊😊
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Resident doctors should not be instructed to sign-off potentially unsafe prescriptions.

Today, council chair Dr Phil Banfield has written to Mark Hackett, Interim Chief Executive University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust to raise serious concerns about unsafe working arrangements.

Read the letter 👇
June 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New dates for our CIEHF accredited human factors workshop - scan the code to book 😊😊
May 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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I don't understand why registration for PAs and AAs is voluntary. It should be a condition of their employment that they are registered for regulatory purposes with national standards for scope of practice. I also fail to understand the point of these roles existing.
Today @gmcuk.bsky.social starts regulating non-doctors as it opens voluntary registration of AAs and PAs. It does so without any national agreement in place to confirm scope of practice for these roles, and so puts patient safety at risk.

Read our full statement: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
December 17, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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Posted this at the old place, but thought folks on @bsky.app might like to know I finally met my "mother".
December 12, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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Talking about starter packs again. Why? We need to find our community. Our interests. Build a new world away from EM & X. It works if we make it work. Starter packs speed this along! Follow and repost. Liking doesn’t boost posts on this algorithm. Repost content you like so folk find it! 🤩
a man with gray hair and a beard is saying oh lawd here we go again
ALT: a man with gray hair and a beard is saying oh lawd here we go again
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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The whole point of the GMC is to keep patients safe from harm.

But what if, like OFWAT & OFCOM, it’s turning into another politically-neutered, failing regulator?

I cannot stand silently by as the GMC fails patients in the PA debacle.

Here’s why 👇

app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/68829/...
Why Britain’s doctors are in revolt
To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients at risk
app.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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"Although multiple NHS bodies (the GMC included) insist publicly that PAs are not being used as substitute doctors, this is clearly happening, despite PAs’ more superficial training" @doctoroxford.bsky.social
app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/68829/...
Why Britain’s doctors are in revolt
To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients at risk
app.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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I wish someone involved in our theatre renovations had read this…..
December 8, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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'I much prefer the British spelling of “diarrhea” which is “diarrhoea” because it looks like you’ve lost control of your vowels.' -- Sal Robins
November 21, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Physician and anaesthetist associates - I have secured a short debate in the #HouseofLords on December 5
November 26, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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I’m always struck by how the messy details of how people actually work, and why they work in the way they work - work-as-done - seem to receive so little attention in industrial, work and organizational psychology (or occupational and organisational psychology).
November 25, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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Was talking to @maffygirl.bsky.social and @urethroplasty.bsky.social about this and thought I’d share.
Perhaps the greatest perioperative medicine trial (n)ever undertaken. The CRAC-ON trial.
A @chrimesy.com classic

associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Complete relinquishing of anaesthetic conscientiousness, optimisation and nuance (CRAC‐ON) trial
Click on the article title to read more.
associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Thank you!
I am reposting a few of my blogs for my new followers - may be of interest to some

http://suzettewoodward.org/2024/11/23/the-problem-with-incident-reporting-copy/
November 23, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Shakespeare for the 21st century...

7. “To even, or can’t even, that is the question”
6. “All that glisters is not goals”
5. “Out, dammed Spotify!”
4. “As You, like, Like It”
3. “Romeo, Romeo, WTF Romeo?!”
2. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your earbuds”
1. “Alas, poor Yorick. He got ratio'd”
November 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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Independent review into safety concerns raised by thousands of doctors and patients
But
No pause
In Uni admissions
In recruitment
In registration by GMC

PAs have been “reassured” that it is a PR tactic

I would agree as no steps taken to safeguard patients in meantime
November 20, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Wes Streeting asked today in the House about scope for PAs. After usual woffle (essential role, they do what they alone can do, etc) it turns out there's a big announcement coming out soon....
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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My six favourite European Mr Men character names...

6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso
5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel
4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing
3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo
2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs
1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump
November 18, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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A common misconception about pyschological safety is that is about being 'nice'. If the people banging on about #PsychologicalSafety actually read the literature rather than making assumptions, they would understand the highest level is *the ability to disagree*. Even robustly, if required.
November 16, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Shameless advertising post for “The Airedale Human Factors Workshop”, a CIEHF-accredited one day training course in Yorkshire ☺️
November 16, 2024 at 10:47 AM