It's actually interesting that there's a huge reduction in availability of locum roles in Australia this year (even for the more limited first part of academic year) due to how many doctors have come over from the UK.

It's like a tidal wave lol

This will come as absolutely no surprise to anyone working in emergency care. A few thoughts on why things have changed so much over the last decade (and why ‘attendance numbers’ are not comparable). 🧵

Please watch. Please listen. Please share. Please raise awareness
#BowelCancerAwarenessMonth
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Exclusive: Thousands of pests including rats, cockroaches and bedbugs have been found at NHS hospitals in England as the health service buckles under a record high repair bill. theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Tonight’s #Panorama looks at the care #NHS patients received when treated in private hospitals. Without commenting on specific cases, I set out 3 reasons we would be concerned by a substantial increase in the proportion of NHS patients treated in private hospitals. A thread >>

Have a look inside our new Community Diagnostic Centre at Barking Community Hospital which is just weeks away from seeing its first patient 😀

The first clinical trial using a mRNA-nanoparticle to deliver a protein replacement, which gets into liver cells and restores mitochondrial function. For a life-threatening, ultra-rare disease that has no treatment.
New nature, with results in 16 patients
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Interested to spend time at the US National Cancer Institute? A funding opportunity from ⁦NIHR Research⁩ nihr.ac.uk/funding/cancer…

Did you know?

'Non-white' BME representation in medicine? 46.8%

Even stevens at 'trainee' level

And then it slides away

Any initiatives to tackle this?
Of course not
Cos 'It's everyone's priority' -right? NHS England Workforce, Training and Education

Leadership isn't about chat
It's about accountability.

A major Ilford hospital is set to open two surgical theatres in a bid to cut wait times for patients. dlvr.it/T4vy2m 👇 Full story

“It was a massive effort to help tackle our waiting list.”

Shout out to the BHRUT NHS 🏥 women’s health team, who completed 60 operations in just six days during their gynaecology week! 💪

They performed 38 major surgeries and 22 robotic procedures to help cut their waiting list.

In 1997, Hans Eysenck died the most cited psychologist in the world. THEN he was posthumously cancelled. An enquiry said his work was 'unsafe'

Code for 'problematic but TRUE'

Eysenck studied human intelligence and discovered 8 traits common to geniuses across history. A thread:

Pay for highest paid/most skilled public sector workers (doctors, experienced teachers etc) has been cut drastically. Public sector diverging ever further from private sector. Papering over the cracks by bringing in more from abroad. Not sustainable.

thetimes.co.uk/article/f79327…

On January 6th, a friend texted me. He'd found an injured dog by a garbage dump in Bangalore. It couldn't walk, it couldn't even stand. Most of its fur was gone, it was covered in sores. He didn't have the time to help it but sent me this picture. 🧵👇🏿

“The UK’s 144 universities contribute £130 billion to the economy, more than farming, forestry, fishing, mining, arts and entertainment combined.”

UK has 11% of the world’s most-cited research papers

2020-21, 21,000+ startups spun out of UK universities
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Change starts with actions!

So, the current advice appears to be as follows:

1) Practices must not use PAs as if they are GPs.

And

2) They will not get funding for PAs if unless they are used as if they are GPs.

And

3) There is still NO additional money to employ any doctors.

8/

This is a hard read. No sense of anyone in the NHS speeding up discharge despite an engaged and tenacious family pushing for it.
How my mum, 82, got trapped between the NHS and social care. thetimes.co.uk/article/83e91b…

Many conditions treated by surgeons first require primary care screening and referral.

Dr. Sara Schaefer this week in Health Affairs connects primary care shortages to higher rates of emergency surgery for conditions that should be treated electively
healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…

📌5 takeaway messages on elective surgery from the new NHS-E 2024/25 Priorities Guidance

england.nhs.uk/publication/pr…

I’ve focussed on the bits I think are likely to help patients, work, and can happen quickly. 🧵:

1. New patient - elective clinics
“Increase the proportion of all…