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Joined April 2010
Honouring the life and legacy of James Fountain—a remarkable surgeon, colleague, husband, father, and friend. He touched countless lives and will be deeply missed.@BritOrthopaedic @BritishHip
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Proud to be part of LOTS !
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Fantastic achievement and a honour to have the new president elect of @baskonline working at @Liverpool_Ortho. Well done @AlasdairSantini. @BritOrthopaedic, @TheKneeJournal, @AintreeMTC @LivHospitals
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The highly renowned Mersey ST3 Interview Course is back this February. A virtual half-day format with Consultant interviewers familiar with the whole process. We will also have recent successful registrars. Sign up below. Limited places available. tickettailor.com/events/mers…
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Delighted to see @geampat of @LivUniMedicine recognised as student teacher of the year for @livuniHLS at tonight’s @LivUni Guild awards
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Amazing achievement by the Netballers and coaching staff . Well done everybody ! 💥🤩👇
An amazing morning of netball for #teambirkenhead at the Merseyside championships, with U14 & U15 teams winning to be crowned county champions & the U19s coming runners up. Well played everyone, an outstanding achievement ❤️🖤
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So Pret baristas will now be earning up to £14.10 an hour. New NHS doctors - after their 5-year medical degree, whopping £80,000 of student debt, & life & death responsibilities - get paid £14.13 an hour. And the government wonders why they're striking? bbc.co.uk/news/business-6481…
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Photo captions: 1. The complete set of the AO cortex screw with matching instruments 2. Mathys' drawing of the AO cortex screw dating back to October 6, 1958 3. Bloch inserting the screw with the screwdriver 4. Medicine historian T Schlich's book was published 20 years ago
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1/ 🧵 on "Total Reward Statements" (or Annual Benefit Statements) Dear @nhs_pensions As you know Ive been asking publically & privately if you could PLEASE make the TRS slightly less useless? Here's why you need to change it, & quickly (please RT if you agree)
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Our academic fellow jobs have finally been advertised. Great job for those CV building ahead of ST3 application with 3 days clinical and 2 days academic a week. The post is combined with @LivUniMedicine where a teaching qualification is possible. nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Merseysid…
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That’s 250 participant randomisations! @AintreeMTC @wicksyontour and well done to all our site teams for helping us achieve this milestone 👏 @benollivere @SITU_Oxford
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There are still a couple of slots available for any Registered Nurses or ODP’s to attend our April open event! 😃 With interviews taking place on the day, this is an opportunity not to be missed! 👏 Register to attend on the link below! ✅ bit.ly/383rilH #TEAMLUHFT
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Congratulations to Cheshire Borders Pathfinder Plus winners team 327 from St Andrews (Meols) #cheshirehike
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Not sure whom to credit with this stroke of genius but 👏👏👏 – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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A first for Europe:@Liverpool_Ortho have successfully delivered all 6 AO Clinical Training Modules to 16 delegates across 2 groups of theatre staff. In collaboration with Depuy Synthes support staff-outstanding work everyone @JNJMedDeviceUKI, @AintreeMTC, @AOTrauma, @AOFoundation
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Well done to James Chapman on his 2 podium presentations on rib fractures @EFORTnet virtual Congress this morning. Very well presented bravo 👏 @LivHospitals @wicksyswife @wicksyontour @DavidJMelling
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Medics - this takes 10 seconds and may help dispel pension myth and nonsense
IMPORTANT: Pls Tweet your MP to ask them to attend @BMA_Pensions briefing event on 1 July. Takes <1m using the tool below 👇 e-activist.com/page/85043/tw… *Urgent* action needed now to prevent unfair pension rules & taxation impacting doctors & forcing them out of the NHS Pls RT!
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Liverpool’s Major Trauma Centre led public access bleeding control programme in action. And it works.
Happy and sad that our initiative with @Knifesaversuk come in to play for serious knife attack. Very well done to security who used his training to stop the bleeding. @MerseyPolice @Bond_media @MayorLpool @TAXIALLIANCELPO @accjonroy @merpolchiefcon @emilyspurrell @Distopian
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UK PJI have announced this years series of webinars - kicked off by a world leader in periprosthetic infection @ParviziJavad on 25th Feb uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/r…. Full series: yumpu.com/s/64XEQAhyIg2MTZNp Please retweet.
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