A radical plan to introduce units that have existed for 10 years in the majority of hospitals.
Marvellous.
Will next week's radical plan be to introduce penicillin to the NHS?

Treatment and Outcomes of Cervical Artery Dissection in Adults: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/ST…

AHA Science Shadi Yaghi Victor J. Del Brutto, MD, MSc AshuJadhav Tracy Madsen MD PhD Eva A. Mistry, MBBS, MSCI, FAHA Setareh Salehi Omran, MD Eytan Raz

The #NHS summed up in one picture

Language matters! ILAE officially endorses the term 'antiseizure medication' (ASM) over antiepileptic drug (AED) because ASM more accurately describes the symptom-targeting nature of the medications

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

NHS and the whole of society must act on social determinants of health for a healthier future bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Here’s a snapshot of just 20 letters rec’d this afternoon from hospital & other NHS colleagues

Half need us to do something eg refer, order investigations, send info back

It’s not just GP time, but admin & secretarial too - when 95% staff are in hospitals

Resource allocation that equitably follows the patient in a transparent way with high quality care being the only metric that matters.

Tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food are the three leading causes of preventable death in England, and key drivers of #HealthInequalities .

Our briefing outlines five policy changes to support local government in addressing these risk factors.

Read more 👇
health.org.uk/publications/r…

Doctor exodus: tens of thousands planning to move abroad, NHS England warned: GMC report says significant numbers are ‘very likely’ to leave, citing higher earnings and a better quality of life as the main causes
thetimes.co.uk/article/doctor… via Eleanor Hayward

'It's distressing': Mental health patients twice as likely to wait 12 hours in A&E | ITV News. itv.com/news/2024-04-1…

Breathless after MI/PCI? Not clinically in heart failure and NT-pro-BNP unexciting? On dual antiplatelets?

If one of them is ticagrelor, there is a good chance that it is the cause. #ticagrelor SAM Online

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). 🧵

'Lads, the first rule of Opsec: don't give away the super-duper password'.

'If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions'

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

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Rubbish mobile phone infrastructure is also a problem for things like using apps to park your car, or work from a train

This isn’t an ‘EV problem’

It’s a ‘Britain doesn’t invest and has cr*p infrastructure’ problem

Interesting poll on trust in various occupations / professions.

* idea pinched from Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥

As a medical student and junior doctor , we spent hours being taught how to break bad news to patients. Now patients are finding out about awful diagnoses and results on the nhs app before speaking to anyone. How has it come to this and exactly who is this good for? NHS England

Me

1/12 - Mystery #1

You are seeing a patient recently diagnosed with heart failure and started on GDMT. You notice that their hemoglobin (HGB) has increased (12 → 13 g/dL) in the intervening weeks.

🤔Which medication is the likely cause of this increase in HGB?

Emergency medicine in Canada is in crisis. Here are 11 reasons from someone in the trenches.