Tom Dolphin 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Chair of UK Council @bma.org.uk
Anaesthetic consultant
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- It's twenty years today since I started my anaesthetic training, at Charing Cross Hospital. In that time I've looked after many thousands of patients, placed innumerable cannulas, injected rivers of propofol, and stuck a pine tree's worth of needles into people. 🧵
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- Fascinated by the fruit options at lunchtime 🍎🍐🍌🍇🍋
- Reposted by Tom Dolphin 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️Consultant Anaesthetist and BMA Council Chair @tomdolphin.bsky.social talks about the importance of collective action and local organising. If we want medicine to continue to be the viable career, the profession needs to behave as a group. Solidarity matters. #WSM2026
- A message for doctors and medical students for the New Year (and check your inboxes 📩): youtu.be/G8uZqQW51wY?... Thank you for all you did in 2025 for @bma.org.uk, our profession and our patients, and wishing everyone a peaceful and happy 2026. 🕊️
- A message for doctors and medical students for the New Year (and check your inboxes 📩): youtu.be/G8uZqQW51wY?... Thank you for all you did in 2025 for @TheBMA, our profession and our patients, and wishing everyone a peaceful and happy 2026. 🕊️
- Substitution of expertise with enthusiasm doesn’t work when so much of what our NHS clinical staff do is based on years of training, exams and experience. @bma.org.uk agrees with @rcn.org.uk that we shouldn’t be replacing expert clinicians the way the NHS is currently rushing to do.
- Well done @bmacymru.bsky.social on the new resident doctors' contract! Meanwhile in England residents fight on in their campaign and at the same time @bma.org.uk continues work on all the other issues our members care about. This is what an active, member-led union with amazing staff looks like!
- Heading Londonwards from visiting QMC in Nottingham to talk to obstetric doctors there (and management) about strikes and derogations. Clearly a department facing huge challenges, with doctors run ragged to make up for deep-rooted problems. Thank you for the frank discussions. @mbdoc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tom Dolphin 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
- Reposted by Tom Dolphin 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
- Reposted by Tom Dolphin 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
- Back here for the second time in a week to talk to an MP about the residents’ dispute and doctor substitution by non-doctors on rotas. Bumped into the Consultants Ctte co-chair in Parliament’s reception on her way in to meet another MP - literally a revolving door of @bma.org.uk -MP meetings today!
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- Reading the report really took me back to those days all doctors and NHS workers will remember; knowing it was coming, knowing it was going to be bad. The parts about the opportunities squandered - not just early on but repeatedly - to reduce the impact are really hard to read.
- Heading back home now from the GP conference in Manchester. Good meeting at the MRI afterwards; local members sold on the BMA strategy - they really get the importance of shifting to an organising model and how it gets wins in the workplace and on professional issues. @bma.org.uk
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- Pleasure to do this great panel hosted by @thefabians.bsky.social along w Nicola Rayner (@rcn.org.uk) and @kevinmckenna.co.uk We covered workforce planning (lacking), AI in healthcare (unready) and how to get from here to the 10 Year Health Plan’s end points (unclear but may be for us to determine)
- A pleasure to chair @bma.org.uk Resident Doctors Committee meeting today for the elections section. Congratulations to the new officer team, and thank you and well done to the outgoing team, who worked incredibly hard this last year for members. The fight to restore our pay continues!
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- Quick update on a few other things to end the day: Our NHS colleagues are angry; Residents in England are making some progress in talks; GPs in NI are acting collectively; @bma-ni.bsky.social are in dispute over unpaid uplifts; and @BMAstudents have a win on student funding. Have a good weekend!
- Doctors know we need nationally-set scope for PAs and AAs. Local scope will mean local scope creep, without a doubt - we're already seeing it happening. It's not fair on them and it's not fair on patients or the supervising doctors. So why is no-one taking this responsibility?
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- The BMA and many others warned that this was coming, and now it is here. The UK government must act immediately to prevent widespread death in Gaza from hunger. This is entirely man-made and is intolerable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
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- Well, @duolingoverde.bsky.social knows where it’s at ✊ Ensemble nous sommes plus forts; ensemble nous gagnerons!
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- Great to speak to the new F1 resident doctors at my Trust today about the role of trade unions in correcting the huge power imbalance between employer and employee, and some of the professional work we are doing as well. Most already @bma.org.uk members, but lots of new signups too! ✊
- Honoured to be at the Barts and The London Rites of Passage ceremony 2025 tonight - St Paul’s provides a magnificent backdrop for this key moment in the careers of these new doctors. 🖤🤍
- Resident doctors will be striking in England this time next week. I will be joining them on the picket line in support. The Secretary of State can end the dispute if he has the will to do so. @bma.org.uk remain open to further proposals after yesterday’s constructive talks.
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- Reposted by Tom Dolphin 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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- Are you a resident thinking about taking a locum shift on a strike day? Why risk actively undermining the strike, when you could just wait for your back pay from Wes’ pay award (such as it is) to arrive in August? 😇
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