This is in follow-up to the original request made to the General Medical Council (GMC) in October 2023, regarding the regulation of Medical Associate Professionals (MAPs) in the UK. Follow-up, dated 8 December 2023:

Roughly transcribed (there may be errors); links open to the Scottish Parliament TV website. Alternative link (YouTube) Committee members: CH: Claire Haughey (Convener) PS: Paul Sweeney (Deputy Convener) SG: Dr Sandesh Gulhane

TL;DR The Guardian were caught collecting user data without consent in LocalStorage (similar to cookies). The Guardian repeatedly denied there was a problem. They’ve now fixed their website. Naughty Guardian. Don’t be like the Guardian.

Request, dated 26 October 2023: In your news article “More information on PAs and AAs” [link], “Our work to introduce regulation of PAs and AAs is wholly funded by direct grant from the DHSC and closely managed to ensure no cross-subsidisation from doctor fees.

I had a bit of bother getting Mastodon up and running on a Fedora box so figured I’d write up the main sticking points. Preamble The scope is to: Put most of this inside Docker Use AWS S3 for object storage Use AWS SES for mail If you’ve got Postfix already running locally, or don’t want to run storage on S3, just ignore these bits.