Happy leap-year-day? My attention was drawn to this piece from Full Fact: So I sumbitted a request to the Australian Department of Home Affairs for the following information: Number of General Migration (subclasses 189, 190 and 491) and Employer Sponsor Migration (subclasses 186, 187 and 482) visa applications lodged, granted, refused and on hand from 2013 to 2023 (inclusive), by year, for applicants with British nationality or applying from the UK, for Medical Practitioner ANZSCO 253.

This is in follow-up to the HSCS committee hearing, 16/01/24. Original request, 16 January 2024: I refer to your appearance before the HSCS Committee today, 16th January 2024, regarding the regulation and expansion of Medical Associate Professional roles within NHS Scotland.

This is in relation / follow-up to this Tweet, regarding PAs being recruited to supervise doctors at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness: On 23/12/2023 the following request was sent to NHS Highland:

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.

Resources for talk given at University of Edinburgh, 11 August 2023 Links to articles MacDonald, R. (2023) ‘GMC is criticised for investments in Nestlé and McDonal’s’, BMJ (Online), 380, pp. 580 Available at: https://doi.

Allan MacDonald (jnr) - flute, bodhran Ronald MacDonald - piano Iain MacMaster - whistle, accordion Allan MacDonald (snr) - pipes Òrain agus port no dhà aig cèilidh còmhla ri Raghnall agus Ailean – join Ronald and Allan MacDonald (and friends) for a cèilidh of Gaelic, Scottish, and Irish tunes and songs.

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.