Consultant in Acute Med at MFT and The Christie. Immediate Past President @acutemedicine. Editor Acute Medicine.
Joined October 2015
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Tim Cooksley retweeted
Proud to support @MENnewsdesk’s £42.5m campaign for a new cancer scanning centre at The Christie.
Advanced imaging enables earlier, more precise diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment—transforming care
🔗 manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…
400mg of tamsulosin would send anyone to hospital!
Almost 8 million over 50s are taking 5 medicines a day - the threshold for #polypharmacy - About 2.2 million take 10 drugs a day. For frail, elderly patients drugs can have cumulative, harmful effects and the NHS just isn't geared up to tackle the problem:
#tomorrowspaperstoday
Tim Cooksley retweeted
This new MASCC position paper from Tim Cooksley (@acutemed2) and colleagues outlines an approach for acute ambulatory management of low-risk FN in patients treated with chemotherapy/ICI therapy.
Read the full open-access article here: link.springer.com/article/10…
Tim Cooksley retweeted
🚨 READ ALL ABOUT IT ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Decompensated cirrhosis: an update of the #BSG X #BASL admission care bundle, recently published online in the journal! 🚨
Stuart McPherson (@stumcp) and colleagues provide an update to the original 2014 bundle, to incorporate recent advances in care 📊 and optimise ease of use ✅
fg.bmj.com/content/early/202…
With thanks to the authors: Stuart McPherson, Nadir Abbas (@NadirAbbas_X), Michael E D Allison, Dianne Backhouse, Helen Boothman (@h_boothman), Tim Cooksley, Lynsey Corless (@lynseycorless), Thomas Crame, Timothy J S Cross, Joanna Henry, Brian Hogan, Dina Mansour, Giovanna McGinty (@sheiybani), Gordon McKinnon, Jay Patel, Oliver D Tavabie (@OTavabie), Felicity Williams and Coral Hollywood (@CoralHollywood).
@PhilSmithIsBack @OTavabie @dr_aditi_kumar @DrJMKennedy @DunnePdj @TrevorTabone @eathar_s @IrenePerezMD @KGananandan @zare_benjamin @medicalreg @dtleiberman @DrLChina @acv69cardenas @GeriKeane @jamesbmaurice @drobeirne @BSGTrainees @basl_events @BritSocGastro
#HepTwitter #LiverTwitter #Hepatology #Cirrhosis #LiverDisease #DecompensatedCirrhosis #Decompensation #LiverHealth #PreventionIsBetterThanCure #AutoimmuneHepatitis #LiverTransplant #Biliary #PortalHypertension #LiverDocs #HepatologyEducation #LiverResearch #LiverCare
Tim Cooksley retweeted
“It's been underinvested in, steadily, for years & years...across governments, across many years — and you have to see it to believe it"
Outgoing @NHSEngland chair Richard Meddings talks to Sunday Times @olivershah
thetimes.com/article/ee6890a…
Tim Cooksley retweeted
#ICYMI No sign of winter pressures easing. A&Es bear the brunt of a gridlocked system.
Hospitals are running dangerously close to capacity, thousands of people each day remain in hospital when they could go home and the system is grinding to a halt.
Full article: rcem.ac.uk/no-sign-of-winter…
Tim Cooksley retweeted
New missives from the Department of Health and NHS England provide little ‘guidance’ as to how the most dangerous and shameful issues facing Emergency Departments – corridor care and excessive pre-admission waits – are going to be tackled, says RCEM
Read @RCEMpresident's response to the government's '2025 Mandate' and NHSE planning guidance, in full here 👇
rcem.ac.uk/new-guidance-fail…
Tim Cooksley retweeted
It’s official 💫! @JamieMJWeaver & I will now be co-leading The Christie International Fellowship Programme for Medical Oncology.
🧑⚕️We’re happy to have 40+ clinical fellows across various tumour groups, contributing to cancer care & research.
Watch the space…more to come 🌏!
Tim Cooksley retweeted
Low-risk febrile neutropenia: does combined chemotherapy/immune checkpoint inhibitor necessitate a change in approach? link.springer.com/10.1007/s0…
Tim Cooksley retweeted
Really great to see corridor “care” being highlighted as a terrible way to treat patients in national news. Let’s make sure that those patients suffering indignity in make shift cupboards and hastily made “off the clock” areas with little privacy or staffing aren’t missed.
Tim Cooksley retweeted
Immensely important and harrowing report from @theRCN.
The appalling harm to patients and the moral injury to teams looking after is intolerable.
Disturbingly these incidents are predictably increasing as the number of patients experiencing corridor care continues to rise. Dire.
Patients are dying in hospital corridors with some left undiscovered for hours, according to a harrowing report into the state of the NHS by the Royal College of Nursing. Other patients are left sitting on chairs for days - due to a lack of beds - or treated in unsuitable places, such as shower rooms or cupboards.
The RCN is calling for immediate government action to end so-called 'corridor care' which it says has become normalised.
@richardgaisford reports.
Tim Cooksley retweeted
The winter A&E crisis became serious in 2013/14 as austerity took hold. Ministers acted too late and did too little. A tragic and avoidable political failure
Deaths in corridors and miscarriages in waiting rooms: the NHS’s A&E crisis
thetimes.com/article/aca7f0d…
Tim Cooksley retweeted
"Flu did not cause hospital crisis"
"Fundamental issues remain unsolved"
"We're going to get into an even worse situation this time next year. That's very difficult to perceive...somehow I feel it will be."
@acutemed2 tells @hannagsslr
@RCollEM @RCEMpresident @ShelaghFogarty
Hospitals are rammed and 'next year could be even worse', warns top doc @acutemedicine
🖊️ @hannagsslr #DailyExpress
express.co.uk/news/uk/199890…
Tim Cooksley retweeted
Thoughts and best wishes of @acutemedicine to AMU nurse, her family and colleagues after this terrible incident.
Wishing her a speedy recovery.
Female member of staff seriously injured after being stabbed at UK hospital, police say bbc.in/3DPBXR0
Tim Cooksley retweeted
"This was predictable and inevitable given that hospitals were bursting at the seams before quad-demic. Fundamental issue is a continued lack of capacity: a tough flu season must be used as a political excuse for current situation" @acutemed2 tells @Smyth_Chris
@ShaunLintern
About 50 people a day are dying because of delays in A&E, analysis used by senior doctors has found ⬇️
thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
Tim Cooksley retweeted
How bad is this year's winter NHS crisis?
Well, analysis suggest A&E delays could be causing 50 deaths a day
Senior doctors warn of "dangerous" and "degrading" conditions and express frustration that no end is in sight to the annual cycle of chaos
Tim Cooksley retweeted
Should patients seen in #SDEC #AmbulatoryCare receive #VTE prophylaxis?
Our data @warwickmed @OUHospitals show VTE rate in SDEC as high as hospitalised patients.
Ability to ambulate does NOT equal reduced VTE risk.
@acutemedicine @UKHaHSoc @acutemed2
authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
Tim Cooksley retweeted
"The media is full of pictures of patients in corridors; long queues of ambulances outside EDs and stories of horrific patient experiences: this is seen and experienced by frontline staff every day. It is an appalling situation.
@doctor_oxford @ShaunLintern
💬 ‘As an urgent care doctor I see NHS at its worst – Starmer’s plan is deeply flawed’
🩺 Dr Tim Cooksley, a consultant in acute medicine in Manchester, tells @PMGallagher1 the Prime Minister risks an ‘eternal crisis’ in the NHS without urgent reform
trib.al/e5zxasp
A real concern here is that when flu season settles people will feel major NHS crisis is over and emphasis for urgent action reduced.
It won't be. It isn't the fundamental cause of current emergency.
@RCEMpresident
@RCollEM @doctor_oxford @ShaunLintern
"The reality for patients and staff is corridors full of patients experiencing degrading care
The fundamental issue is that there is a continued lack of capacity throughout the year - a tough flu season must not be used as a political excuse for the current situation" @acutemed2
Tim Cooksley retweeted
“It’s so blindingly - excuse my language - bleedin’ obvious that in an intelligent, affluent, civilised society we get this done.”
Sir Andrew Dilnot tore strips off the govt yesterday for deferring addressing the crisis in social care until 2028. (1/3)
theguardian.com/society/2025…
