PAs and ACPs are helpful to the medical workforce and are beneficial to alleviate pressures but they ARE NOT and WILL NEVER be doctors. On the back of the RCEM statement, we need to stop this rubbish of shorter and less competitive degrees usurping opportunities for doctors who have been through 5 years at uni, 2 years of mindless rotations and further hoops to jump through.

I work with SNPs/PAs and they are great people overall. However, I am sometimes upset as SNPs get the joys of vascular access whilst I am mindlessly going on the ward round and doing the umpteenth TTO. Why are we not taught vascular access? Why can't they be doing the TTO/ward round stuff?

NHS training is RUBBISH. Sorry, it's DOGSHIT.

I'm bloody done.