Health people can have a sense of humour too.
The health bible the BMJ kicked things off with an earnest piece about whether or not Peppa Pig was encouraging the waste of GP’s resources. You can read the piece here.
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust contributed to the debate with this tweet:
Following today’s article in the @bmj_latest, we can confirm that Dr Brown Bear no longer locums with the Trust, and is subject to the outcome of a fitness to practise investigation…and he’s a fictional bear https://t.co/kQwO10HoEA pic.twitter.com/uZj5aFhkOB
— CUH (@CUH_NHS) December 12, 2017
Not leaving things there, the medical profession responded:
He’s not even registered with the GMC… pic.twitter.com/ERPlk7Wqef
— Abi Rimmer (@Abi_Rimmer) December 12, 2017
And the trust responded too:
There must have been a claws in his contract…
— CUH (@CUH_NHS) December 12, 2017
The food is good though…. pic.twitter.com/fc3ZEcinYs
— CUH (@CUH_NHS) December 12, 2017
Why is this good? The debate around Peppa Pig was a slightly tongue-in-cheek discussion on when and when not to use a GP. For an NHS Trust to remind people that they were human too isn’t such a bad idea. There was no significant event that would have overshadowed the jest.
Thanks to Rachael Stray for spotting this.