The #NHSParlyAwards recognise outstanding staff contributions from across our workforce. The deadline for nominating staff this year has now been extended to 26 April.

You can find out more about the criteria for each category and how nominate staff at nhsparliamentaryawards.co.uk.

Narrative review summarizes left-sided diverticulitis pathophysiology, advances in diagnosis, prevention strategies, and surgical approaches and decision-making. ja.ma/3vY6Rmy

Neil Smart Georgina Hicks Sas Banerjee The Dukes' Club @ACPGBI Lillian Reza Charlotte El-Sayed Mohamed Rabie Katie Siggens Sarah @ACPGBI_EduTrain Imperial NHS 💙 So if your distal anastomosis is actively bleeding at the end of your case are you calling a gastroenterologist every time to scope and clip or inject it? Rather than do it yourself? Or your watch and wait rectal cancer reassessment. All colorectal surgeons should be trained to

After the NHS Practitioner Health defunding debacle, Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 nails it in The BMJ 👏

Those in Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England & GMC who like to dismiss or, worse, try to silence doctors raising concerns on social media really, REALLY need to start listening.

bmj.com/content/385/bm…

GP Anisha went to her own GP after experiencing tummy pains and changes to her poo. After further tests, she was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer.

Her tumour was completely removed, and she is now cancer-free!

#BowelCancerAwarenessMonth

Today we welcomed our first patients in to our new state-of-the-art Community Diagnostic Centre at Barking Community Hospital 🙌💙

Patient feedback has been brilliant including from local resident Sam (below) who was the fifth person to have a MRI scan this morning

There’s no such thing as “being trained in the medical model”

You either have a medical degree or you don’t.

You either are a doctor or you’re not.

There are no grey areas here

Getting asked by Medscape UK to talk about one’s career wasn’t quite in the list of things when one set out 25 years ago

Thank you

Even if one person has had their lives changed or inspired by the work along the way?

It’s been a wonderful time x

Link:
medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/pa…

We are working hard to understand the state of Colonoscopy training for Colorectal trainees.

Key findings from Colonoscopy training survey:

‼️only 30% of trainees have a dedicated training list

🆘 29% may have to extend CCT to achieve Colonoscopy numbers

Barriers to

The Dukes’ Club have released some key findings from the recent colonoscopy training survey of our members.

Colorectal trainees have a long list of CCT requirements to fulfil and master
👉 Indicative minimum operating numbers in key procedures
👉 1600 cases
👉 200

We’re pleased to announce that ASiT’s Non-Financial Cost of Surgical Training report is now out 📝

🎯 With 459 respondents, this is the #biggest survey to date on the non-financial cost of surgical training in the UK, representing all surgical #specialties in all #deaneries

Superb.

Why does it take so much public pressure to do the right thing 😳

Basic simple workforce management isn’t it

Good on all for making NHS England Dr Navina Evans do the U turn Chris Hopson

Dr Rachel Clarke Natalie Silvey
Top work indeed

Onwards 👌🏽

Today?

Is Bengali New Year

Or as we call it?

শুভ নববর্ষ

An auspicious day heralding the start of new things

May it bring you all prosperity & happiness 🙏🏽

Commonly used classification systems for upper GI endoscopy 💡

cghjournal.org/article/S1542-…

💥 NHS STAFF 💥

Please consider signing this open letter to Victoria Atkins & Amanda Pritchard at NHS England expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut NHS Practitioner Health funding for hospital staff.

Please share widely 🙏

Letter here:

forms.gle/YmXpi8dxSbW7UR…

💥 NHS staff 💥

If you, like me, are horrified by NHS England’s decision to axe funding for psychological support for new hospital staff from Monday, watch this space.

Public letter to govt for you to sign is inbound. Natalie Silvey’s brilliant idea. Coming shortly 💙

🔥Appendicitis and CT scans🔥

Is your practice evidence-based, or just based on previous difficult cases? The new RIFT-2 paper is published today in impact-surgery.com

Here is why I CT scan nearly every patient with a medium/high risk of appendicitis 🧵:

Clare Gerada The number of EMPLOYED GPs has dropped. There are an estimated 3000 GPs that are unemployed.

ARRS funding to GP practices SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDES employing GPs. We have evidence of PAs directly replacing GPs, even though they are absolutely NOT qualified to do so.

11,000 junior

The length of GMC’s public consultation document on PAs - an eyewatering 300 pages - looks almost designed to be a barrier to meaningful engagement.

The BMA has produced a precis.

Please read. Please engage.

This is your NHS - make your views heard.

Thank you 💙

Reminder of work starting with GMC hat on

Ensure they have induction process in place
Ensure supervisors, support & care

THAT is what helps in reducing unnecessary/biased referrals to GMC

Thank you to the #FirstFive areas who have agreed to start the process

It will be fun