Tom Mackrell @TMackrell

#First5 in #TeamGP. Salaried GP in West Leeds PCN/WLFP Interested in #meded, health equity Own views. He/him Leeds Joined February 2013

Tweets

537
Followers

396
Following

957
Likes

2K

@DrKatie.BSky.Social @doctor_katie

a month ago

Editor: I’m so proud of our 6,200 GP practices nationwide who delivered 388,000,000 appointments in the past year on record tiny proportion of NHS budget where 0.02% interactions result in a complaint. I hope @wesstreeting @SKinnock would also decry this reporting. @BMA_GP

Daily Mail @DailyMail

a month ago

Damning figures that shame every GP surgery in England: Complaints reach record high, with 'poor communication' and 'staff behaviour' top reasons for patients' anger trib.al/UaXiE0U

15 11 23 42K 4

4 33 104 12K 2

View Details

Dr Dave Triska @dave_dlt

3 months ago

🧵A Monday morning in general practice. Real numbers from one small rural GP surgery By 9am this morning, our practice had already processed 240 clinical tasks. That's 4 a minute. 80 consultations, 125 prescriptions, 22 documents, 13 results. Before most people had started work.

2 21 44 3K 4

View Details

@DrKatie.BSky.Social @doctor_katie

6 months ago

Letter to The Guardian 31 December 2025 @TheBMA @theguardianfeed @guardian @guardianletters

12 88 194 28K 6

View Details

@DrKatie.BSky.Social @doctor_katie

6 months ago

To quote my colleague James Booth, regarding the Resident Doctors’ action this week: “Lots of MPs hitting social media. I was a junior doctor (as we were called then) just over twenty years ago. I worked hard: long, stressful hours… 1/x @TheBMA @BMA_GP @BMAResidents

9 73 195 30K 17

View Details

Dr Asif Qasim MA PhD FRCP @DrAsifQasim

7 months ago

This is delibratley misleading from @wesstreeting and @DHSCgovuk Online bookings do not increase access. If anything they swamp the system and make clinical prioritisation harder - with delays to patients with urgent clinical need GPs have been seeing increasing numbers of patients online and in person in the last 5 years without the resources or funding they need. Soundbites from Wes and DHSC don't improve care or fund the NHS. @DrSteveTaylor @TheBMA @BMAResidents @DrNeenaJha @RobLaurensonD4P @thomasdolphin @mattster

Department of Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk

7 months ago

"It's about time the NHS caught up with the rest of the 21st century." @wesstreeting tells @BBCBreakfast how we're modernising GP services, with almost every practice offering online access for patients. More: gov.uk/government/new…

160 15 46 39K 2

37 216 426 18K 11

View Details

Dr Dave Triska @dave_dlt

8 months ago

A tale of a Monday morning in a GP surgery (mine). The waiting room looked calm. Calm isn’t quiet. It’s control. A look behind the scenes of a “quiet” GP morning in this Substack: open.substack.com/pub/davetriska… @Parody_RCGP @DrSteveTaylor @doctor_katie @DrSelvarajah

6 27 102 6K 11

View Details

Ankit Kant @ankitkant

9 months ago

Imagine creating a system where hospitals are paid to do less, meanwhile GPs get paid less to do more…with patients ultimately losing. Oh wait, that is the system. And the government then post Drake memes implying they are on the side of patients.

Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern

10 months ago

NHS pays hospitals £33 per patient they remove from waiting lists. Thousands have been deleted. While this could be valid in most cases, there are fears it could lead to mistakes and the process lacks transparency: thetimes.com/article/d71894…

53 153 256 78K 34

5 75 161 9K 4

View Details

@DrKatie.BSky.Social @doctor_katie

9 months ago

@NHSEngland According to this data 💥5,967 (over 96%) of practices in England have at least one online consultation system 💥5.1 million patient online submissions occurred in August 💥3.5 million clinical, the rest admin (For context every A&E nationwide offers 67,000/day) 3/x

2 25 44 2K 0

View Details

@DrKatie.BSky.Social @doctor_katie

9 months ago

@BMA_GP have articulated our concerns professionally & in good faith GPs have been labelled “laggards” & “blockers of progress” despite eRS; EPS; GPSoC; GPC-UR read access; 99% surgeries on cloud-based telephony; & access higher than any point in 77 yr Hx of NHS: 1.5m pts/day

1 16 52 12K 0

View Details

Dr David Wrigley @DavidGWrigley

10 months ago

GPs are being asked to open up online consultation software from 8am-630pm Mon-Fri from 1/10/25. No flexibility from @NHSEngland @DHSCgovuk @wesstreeting around suspending it if completely overwhelmed or staff sickness limits capacity. Patient safety will be compromised by this..

19 80 193 21K 10

View Details

RTW parkrun @RTWparkrun

2 years ago

It’s parkrun day! Come and join us for 5k of running, walking, jogging or volunteering among friends you’ve not yet met. All are welcome and parkrun is free of charge. Simply sign up for a barcode on our website (& bring it!) then turn up for briefings at 8.50am. See you soon.

0 1 4 306 0

View Details

Tom Mackrell @TMackrell

2 years ago

some talk of difficulties following referral in accessing diagnostic services at #WYLeDeR. Is the shift from 2ww to 28 days to diagnosis target an opportunity to facilitate more reasonable adjustments and make that first hospital appointment a better experience/reduce DNA rate.

0 0 2 135 0

View Details

Leeds GP Confederation @LeedsGp

2 years ago

🎗️ We’re encouraging more people in Leeds to take part in cancer screening. Read our Cancer Care Coordinator, Claire’s experience with cervical screening and understand the importance of early detection. 👉 Read Claire’s Story Here - leedsgpconfederation.org.uk/2023/10/13/a-d… #CervicalScreening

0 1 1 113 0

View Details

Andrew Giles @giles_home

2 years ago

A post on unfunded, and underfunded work in primary care. Last year I did some analysis on LES schemes and freebies practices do, it wasn't exhaustive. 10 non-core things like phlebotomy, ECG, B12 etc that aren't funded in our area. I revisited it today, some rough searches and maths suggests around 270,000 appointments worth a year of unfunded work, across a 350k population. That's around 50% of all outpatient appointments per year, for the same population. For FREE. Except its not free, it's paid for by late nights and stress or by diverting time funded from contractual income to cross subsidise commissioning gaps, at a time when patients are expecting more and more. Is that sustainable? No one wants to stop, as it will be awful for patients, hospitals certainly can't do 50% extra, for free, but in practices it is taking care away from patients, either today, or in the future when the practice folds. If you work in an NHS org, and the free work practices do is not on your risk register, flashing, with bells on, I think 2024 might be more painful than it already will be.

6 46 94 29K 7

View Details

Tom Mackrell @TMackrell

2 years ago

@AiLyn_Runner @WfldHospice @UKRunChat You flew past me going up one of the hills! Well done. Looks like the marathon training miles are paying dividends!

1 0 1 49 0

View Details

David Oliver @mancunianmedic

2 years ago

take note people on here who say "there are no GP appointments" more than there have ever been, with fewer GPs than a decade ago and UK GPs seeing twice as many patients as counterparts in other high income nations And average patient on GP list having 6 appointments a year

The Health Foundation @HealthFdn

2 years ago

General practice in England is under strain with rising numbers of appointments (33.5 million in January 2024) but falling numbers of fully qualified permanent GPs. Our #GeneralPracticeTracker has key data on appointments and practice staff numbers ⬇️ health.org.uk/news-and-comme…

1 16 10 20K 2

2 51 94 12K 3

View Details

@DrKatie.BSky.Social @doctor_katie

2 years ago

The @Conservatives, @DHSCgovuk & @NHSEngland have decided, rather than being the ‘stepping stone’ year to signal safety, stability, and hope - 2024 will instead signal reduced patient access to GP services as well as likely closures of GP practices across the country. 🧵👇

9 150 244 72K 11

View Details

lizzie sweeting @lizziesweeting

2 years ago

Join @ali_cracknell @Annawinf and other team members talking about our experience of supporting care homes with QI. Please share with colleagues who may be interested @alison_iliff @AlecTinkerPH @sarahdebiase

Improvement Academy @Improve_Academy

2 years ago

Join our masterclass on how to support care homes in quality improvement & implementation on 7th March 2024, 12.00-13.30. Confirm your place today by emailing [email protected]

0 9 8 2K 1

1 4 5 682 0

View Details

Ai Lyn Tan @AiLyn_Runner

2 years ago

parkrunners inspire each other!😀 🤝Pass it on! Thank you @ndosie for your sponsorship Here's the message you sent 5 years ago about #parkrun! If, like Mwidimi, you #loveparkrun & would like to sponsor me, you'll get a shout out too! 👉🏼justgiving.com/page/ailynforp… #ukrunchat #runr

Improvement Academy @Improve_Academy

2 years ago

Join our masterclass on how to support care homes in quality improvement & implementation on 7th March 2024, 12.00-13.30. Confirm your place today by emailing [email protected]