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Panda surgeon retweeted
🆕Best practice tool for primary care.
Interactive, one‑page ‘poster’ to support assessment & management of neck & back pain, inc. red flags, pain advice, videos & referral guidance.
Read more/bookmark👉ow.ly/afKC50YT7p3
#PrimaryCare #MSK #SpinalPain
@PandaSurgeon
It’s happening for the last time !
June 2026. Book your place now. Limited places left .
thelastdilemmas.co.uk
Panda surgeon retweeted
📊January data now live in GIRFT’s Spinal Interface Dashboard (SID).
The SID brings together monthly ICB survey returns, giving a clear, comparative view of the clinical effectiveness and efficiency of interface spinal services.
🔗ow.ly/uT4u50Y05qv
#NHS #SpinalCare #ICBs
Panda surgeon retweeted
📢Good news klaxon 📢
Independent research from the team @NCAlliance_NHS offers evidence that using our pathway & guidance for suspected cauda equina syndrome (CES) results in fewer patients admitted to hospital
🔗bit.ly/48zGuTl
Use our pathway: bit.ly/46NFl8K
Panda surgeon retweeted
🎉 Over 530 joined our live webinar today! We explored how to improve spinal care pathways through:
✅ Simplifying patient journeys
✅ Data-driven design (Spinal Interface dashboard demo)
✅ Multidisciplinary team approaches
📺 Catch up here: ow.ly/fWC550WUE6m
#SpinalCare
Panda surgeon retweeted
🆕VFF pathway
Developed with cross-specialty input, the thoracolumbar vertebral fragility fracture (VFF) pathway sets out best practice from admission to discharge, ensuring equitable, high-quality treatment.
More/download: ow.ly/m7zS50WHtgH
#FragilityFracture #NHS
Panda surgeon retweeted
📢19K+ clinicians have used our Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES) interactive pathway. Have you?
Use on any device for instant best-practice guidance to make critical decisions faster.
Scan the QR code & save for quick access!
#NHS #PatientCare #CaudaEquinaSyndrome #CES
For those who have contacted me about downloading the spinal surgery elective hub guidance it can be downloaded here
gettingitrightfirsttime.co.u…
Panda surgeon retweeted
🗣️The new way of working is here & paying dividends for patients across our system...
- Henry Budd, spine lead @RoyalDevonNHS & @NHSDevon, where an ambulatory spinal pathway led to 96% day case rate
See our guide to increase HVLC spinal cases in yr hub 🔗 bit.ly/48r30NR
Panda surgeon retweeted
We’ve had an excellent first day at BADS Annual Conference 2024
We look forward to seeing all those of you who have booked for the dinner and ceilidh dance at Cornerstones at 7pm.
#BADS2024 #DaySurgery
Dilemmas in spine 2024. Sold out again. Not long now
dilemmas2024.co.uk
Panda surgeon retweeted
@BASSspine @UKSpineSB @BritScoliosis members...
Around 400 spinal surgeons now have access to NCIP data - you can view your own practice for procedures in 30+ dashboards
What're you waiting for?
Learn more & register: bit.ly/3Q9bLDw
#YourNCIPYourData
Panda surgeon retweeted
👀Have you seen this? Please share widely
@ASGBI @GeriSoc @RCObsGyn @theABN_Info @RCOphth @BritOrthopaedic @Simonkenny15 @BAPS1953 @RCPCHtweets @GenQ5Lesley @lanyon_peter @RheumatologyUK @PandaSurgeon @BASSspine @BAUSurology @BSCOS_UK @BAUNnurses @BAPUSurgeons @BAPOrl @BAETS_UK
Since last July, GIRFT has focused on supporting 2 cohorts of trusts to move 'further and faster' to rapidly reduce long waits
Now the Further Faster programme is being rolled out to ALL trusts who want to do the same
▶️Watch: youtu.be/Ir2QuGvjb-U
More: bit.ly/4a32ipk
Dilemmas in Spine 2024
Places can now be booked for the next chapter in the Dilemmas Conference Series
dilemmas2024.co.uk
Panda surgeon retweeted
“An evaluation of PIFU (patient initiated follow up) in outpatients setting”
@NuffieldTrust nuffieldtrust.org.uk/researc…
"Factors associated with poorer outcomes for posterior lumbar decompression and or/or discectomy: an exploratory analysis of administrative data" — Read it on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…