GP & Trainer Cathcart St Ayr, Stakeholder GP South Ayrshire HSCP, LMC, married dad of 4, ❤️🏌️‍♂️ , Killie FC, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 , 🏃‍♂️🚴‍♂️, 🇪🇺 & the NHS!

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Slightly off topic medical post. Please vote for my daughter Rosie who has been selected as a finalist in Most Promising Child Vocalist, Nextup Awards. Click here to vote- strawpoll.com/YVyPv0N14gN Listen to her sing here- nextupawards.co.uk/public-vo… Thank you 🙏
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The best thing about ‘Stranger Things’ is my teenage kid wants to stick on Fleetwood Mac, Bowie, The Clash and Prince. Musical education disguised as a sci fi show! 😎😍
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Love this. A great part of being a GP is seeing the immense contribution of carers every day. 😍👏👏
Charlie's Bar in Enniskillen have released their 2025 Christmas Ad. The bar shot to fame in 2023 for their low budget film following an elderly man’s lonely walk through town before finding company in the pub. 6 mill people saw the 2023 clip.This year's ad is focusing on carers.
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“Try this cure for the trainee doctor crisis” A remarkably refreshing opinion piece in @thetimes. Unlike our health secretary, @FraserNelson clearly gets it. @wesstreeting @NHSE_WTE @DHSCgovuk @karinsmyth @LaylaMoran @CommonsHealth @BMAResidents 1/3 thetimes.com/article/d4534d9…
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Here is the full response from Chair @ChrisProv22 to today's SNP pledge to deliver a new network of walk-in GP services. 👇
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Why not just fund the existing ones properly ! Another politician grandstanding and not really working out what the issue is. Continuity of care is far more cost effective than walk in services.
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🚨📽️ NEW STAND WITH YOUR SURGERY VIDEO! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Find out about the difference our ask for #fullfundingrestoration would make. Read the details about our call for £290m to fill the funding gap that has developed since 2008. bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
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🚨📽️ NEW STAND WITH YOUR SURGERY VIDEO! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Find out about the difference our ask for #fullfundingrestoration would make for GPs and patients across Scotland. 👀 Have a watch below.... 👇👇👇 1/2
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GPs warn £290m funding gap threatens future of NHS- ALL practices are working in crisis mode due to these real term cuts. Despite most of the work of the nhs being done in the community- money has been continually eroded- when will it stop? bbc.com/news/articles/cn4wrw…
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🇦🇩..who knows their flags to confirm our location? 🤣
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🚨📰📻 Read @DrIMChairSGPC’s comment on @AuditScotland report on GPs in this morning’s @heraldscotland. Also, listen out for Dr Morrison on @BBCRadioScot Good Morning Scotland at 8:15 discussing the issues it raises and the urgent need for direct investment in GPs. – at Scotland, United Kingdom
Here’s a look at today’s front page of The Herald. Subscribe here for exclusive access: heraldscotland.com/subscribe and #BuyAPaper
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The reality of our current situation in Scottish primary care. Urgent investment in core General Practice needed to recruit and retain more very much needed GPs. Otherwise we a training GPs who can’t find work whilst access to GPs is insufficient. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rk…
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Thank you to everyone that completed the survey on @PracticeIndex so that we could collect data on the #nationalinsurance and #nationallivingwage changes. The results are staggering. Please share in your networks and encourage your colleagues across General Practice.
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A reminder Power of Attorney is arguably more important than a will, and more urgent. Just had a call on @thismorning from an older lady asking about moving bills into her name from her husbands, who she's caring for as he has early stage dementia. Yet she hadn't yet done Power of Attorney. This is by far the more urgent consideration. Get it done while someone has the capacity to sign it. Then if and when they lose their faculties, the transition so you can look after their finances (and health and welfare) for them is relatively easy. If not, leave it too late, and the money may be locked away unless you got to the Court of Protection which is often and expensive and time consuming nightmare. Better still get a PoA when young. I did mine before I was 40. It is in place, so that if I lose my faculties in the future at that point (not before) someone can take over.
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Excellent to see this pilot community spirometry service get going! 👏👏 should lead to more accurate and early diagnosis of COPD in South Ayrshire.
New COPD testing comes to Girvan! South Ayrshire HSCP launches a new pilot for early diagnosis at Girvan Community Hospital. Click here to find out more 👉 ow.ly/1g1Z50UR3vX
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Look forward to hearing future details on this. A sensible approach to invest more resources in primary care.
"We've listened and we've been persuaded." We welcome @ScotGovFM's acceptance of our long-standing call for a greater proportion of new NHS funding to go to primary and community care to give GPs the resources they need.
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Looking to lose weight in the new year? Weigh to Go Ayr United is a 12 week lifestyle programme from men being delivered by Ayr United Football Academy in partnership with NHS Ayrshire & Arran 🍎 For more info or to book, please email [email protected]
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Cheers for the ‘gift’ @StalkerGavin! 💙🤔 If they play like that he can bring it every week! @KilmarnockFC
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You’re accomplishing. You’re making people proud. There is so much time for things to get better. Give yourself that opportunity. You’ll be amazed with what you can achieve.
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Very impressed by how strongly Scotland’s #SLMC24 reps really care about improving and sustaining services for our patients. With that in mind very interested in today’s Scottish budget plans…
Replying to @now_its_nora
Ayrshire&Arran’s @Simonfaz79 fantastic and again emotional speech to motion 82: describing the stark reality of the looking worst case scenarios - staff redundancies and *immediate* patient safety disaster. We are reminded that patients are voters. CabSec here in 10mins… #SLMC24
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