Surely we can do better than a massive majority male faculty at a conference primarily aimed at changing the way women look? I’m surprised this got past #TheRoyalSocietyOfMedicine - not to mention the endorsers of this course…

Women in Surgery WomenInSurgeryUK BAPRASvoice

1/2 Blood boiling 🥵 Yet another #Manel
I’m calling you out RoySocMed BAPRASvoice
Why do organisors and conference hosts use pics of all male faculty? Why not include your female experts?
MWF Women Speakers in Healthcare Roshana 🦴 @scrubssurvivors The Royal College of Surgeons of England Prof Scarlett McNally

RoySocMed is there no policy on this being 100% male / Manel on the poster advert? 2024? BAPRASvoice

On #InternationalWomensDay , Health Secretary Victoria Atkins met women in senior leadership at CUH, including staff working on cutting-edge research and clinical developments.

Read more: orlo.uk/KE7YB

Department of Health and Social Care

We're delighted to announce our second webinar on the theme of Women in Leadership! ☺️

We'll be hearing from Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Professor of Business Psychology and author of 'Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and How to Fix It)'.

For more info, visit tinyurl.com/wentsleader2

We rely on the courage of those who speak up. Of those who have suffered grave harm.

The safety of our staff and the safety of our patients are inextricably linked.

We need to tear down what stops us being safe, and rebuild. This must end.

thetimes.co.uk/article/female…

Female surgeons sexually assaulted while operating bbc.co.uk/news/health-66…

Culture change is long overdue. These behaviours are repulsive, repugnant and illegal. They have career & life long consequences. It’s not banter, flirting, your right, asked for, whatever.

Female surgeons sexually assaulted while operating bbc.co.uk/news/health-66…

New research has found that sexual misconduct is rife among colleagues in the UK surgical workforce, with women disproportionately impacted and staff believing organisations are not doing enough to protect them. Read more at news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-hea…

Sometimes I feel like I’m living in an alternate reality

Am I imagining all the injustices women face in this career?

But occasionally the rest of the world sees what we have to deal with - be it sexual assault or questioning our outcomes - and I remember that I’m not

Huge well done Tamzin Cuming Greta McLachlan ✒ and all others for all the hard work on getting this report out there

.Dr Liz O'Riordan will be chatting with Sarah Lilley about this on BBC Suffolk after 10am this morning...

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g…

One in three female surgeons have been assaulted by a colleague. Today they speak

thetimes.co.uk/article/5dfed7…

How it started (Aug 21)…

…how it’s going (Sept 23)

*Big* paper out in BJS

To be clear:

#Healthcare staff are being sexually assaulted & raped.
Today
Now
In the #NHS

More than reported below, for certain

academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…

#medtwitter #orthotwitter #surgery

It’s the culture 😞. The fear of victimisation is frequently proven to be valid, particularly in medicine, especially surgery, where people’s careers depend on their senior colleagues. The potential for abuse is even worse with the new MCR system. How do you address it GMC?

Some findings from our research. Read more at wpsms.org.uk
Let's make surgery a safe place to work
#MeTooSurgery

Read Tamzin Cuming being interviewed for The Guardian about our research
theguardian.com/society/2023/s…