geriatrician with a special interest in acute geriatrics and Frailty and parent of 4 small boys.
South West, England
Joined February 2009
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Any UK medics know if there is contractual agreement around DCC allocation for admin? Previously had 1.5 PAs but proposed to go pro-rate to 1.5 to 7 clinical. Also, anyone know if OOH shifts count towards total ( on shop floor not off site)?
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Medical schools have worked hard to broaden entry and address socio-economic barriers but once students are offered a place, the economic hardship is very real and long-term…
Grad entry medical students are particularly badly impacted by the drop in NHS England funding. While undergrad students are fully funded until the end of 4th year, funding for grads drops at the end of 1st year, meaning even more of a financial shortfall. #StopTheDrop (1/2)
ALT A graph showing a sharp drop in funding for graduate medical students following their first year.
ALT A graph showing a sharp drop in funding for undergraduate medical students following their fourth year.
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No matter how good our drugs are, the fact that the majority of people don’t take them remains a massive and unchanging problem
A cohort study of nearly 40 000 older adults with fragility fracture found that fewer than one-third filled a prescription for antiosteoporosis medication in the year after hospital discharge.
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What’s wrong with medicine? A geriatrician’s perspective.
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@lucypgeridoc @EileenBurns13 @mancunianmedic @Trisha_the_doc @danfurmedge @jupiterhouse1
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When is someone going to look at the health economics of having NHS clinical staff work normally when Covid positive (“if they feel well enough”)? Because knocking out other staff - which then causes bank/agency spend - is surely £££. Plus costs of infecting patients.
Anyone else had issues with @Doctors_net_uk deleting your inbox and not responding to emails asking for support? I’ve lost documents I had there for easy access and safekeeping that are expensive and difficult to replace.
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I’ve read a lot of tweets this week referring to “signing a DNAR” form as though it means condemning someone to death.
CPR is in fact a very specific treatment for a specific condition and only works if the person has enough physiological reserve to be revived.
@DrLindaDykes
CPR is not a treatment for #ordinarydying. Every instance of futile CPR - which is what will happen if nobody has sorted out the protection of a DNACPR for someone whose life is coming to an end - is a tragedy. Please, doctors, nurses, patients, families - #havetheconversation.
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Doctors on the ground would be very happy to help the understanding of those who may want to help solve this problem
Down to providing the minutiae of what would be helpful and how PAs could be *helpfully* and *safely* employed
They just need to ask
Thanks for reading
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What an amazing team!! Time to celebrate and look forward to the new year, #remainingpositive, we just hope this isn’t our last Christmas party! 🎄🎅@PTOTSLTDietAHPs @consultantpara @RUHBath
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At the end of the day a lot of medicine can be summarised into guidelines. It took doctors to do the research, to appraise the data, to write the guidelines to come up with them! But sometimes you have to think beyond them. And you have to recognise when you need to do that!
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High tech hospitals would undoubtedly save money. They’d have saved money if they’d been invested in decades ago.
MPs need to spend some time with us on the ground to see the tech situation, and see how far away we are from this. Because of successive government failures.
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Weekend update!! 📰 12 patients visited with 11 discharged at home. Equipment provided, therapy and clinical reviews with some phone triage added into the mix! ☎️ supporting our frail and vulnerable in our society @swasFT @NHSBSWICB @HCRGCareGroup
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Today we welcome Frankie to the team on rotation from @RUHBath, evidently it’s the most popular choice for the therapist! The service clearly demonstrates the value of MDT working in this current climate, keeping out most vulnerable residents at home, prevent the 2nd fall
Surprised to discover yesterday that HEE published a brief on frailty in 2021 that used work published about @SquadRuh to support what should be happening. Not sure why I didn’t know as I’m first named author for the original study!
Excellent document that lots of places will hopefully find helpful.
📢New BGS publication!
We have today published a new resource aimed at supporting healthcare professionals who want to offer a front door frailty service to older people presenting at emergency departments. #FrontDoorFrailty bgs.org.uk/policy-and-media/…
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Thank you so much for your time today @brunning_adam to discuss acute frailty and frailty SDEC here at @RUHBath. Really great to have the opportunity to hear your insight!
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1-year functional outcomes after cardiopulmonary resuscitation for older adults with pre-existing long-term care needs doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad0…
