Freelance Medical Educator at https://xitter.cf/t.co/E1tgcXx2KL 25 years service in NHS, 14 as Emergency Medicine Consultant. Also triathlete, magician, singer, podcaster
North East, England
Joined February 2014
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Ok #meded #MedTwitter It's time to leave.
I loved what #Twitter gave me when I joined up.
A nice community of medics, sharing stories, sharing education.
I'm not getting that now, so ... So long.
I'm off to try @Peerr_io and work on @LinkedIn
James McFetrich retweeted
Yes, it's #IndependenceDay today ... not that one though!
Now two years since I stepped away from full time clinical work in the #NHS
Rock on 🤘💰
@TyneOperaHouse
11th - 14th September
Tickets available now: bit.ly/TTrockofages
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Dispatches on C4 24/06 is going to be a difficult watch. Working in EM feels like a war and it brutalises many staff. Please remember these are caring professionals whose work environment prevents them doing the job they were trained to do, but they still come back day after day.
Thanks #C4NHSdebate
Sadly no real solutions beyond the inevitable request for more money💰and the joyful fingers crossed 🤞 “we need to be optimistic for the future”
Reminds me of bed management meetings before a bank holiday weekend
Love this
#BeMoreAdrian
He’s a great chap!
As I watch this, and it’s a difficult watch for anyone who cares deeply about the NHS, I have to say (again) I’m very impressed by Dr Adrian Boyle @RCEMpresident
We need more senior leaders calling out terrible standards in the NHS, speaking truth to power.
All College Presidents (and AoMRC) should #BeMoreAdrian
Thank you Adrian for all that you do
James McFetrich retweeted
As I watch this, and it’s a difficult watch for anyone who cares deeply about the NHS, I have to say (again) I’m very impressed by Dr Adrian Boyle @RCEMpresident
We need more senior leaders calling out terrible standards in the NHS, speaking truth to power.
All College Presidents (and AoMRC) should #BeMoreAdrian
Thank you Adrian for all that you do
Over two months, a Dispatches reporter has filmed secretly while working in a major NHS A&E department. The undercover footage exposes the suffering and dangers patients face on a daily basis.
WATCH 'Undercover A&E: NHS in Crisis' tonight on @Channel4 at 9pm.
Quite nice to have a debate on the #NHS without politicians!
The NHS is tired of being a political football and since 1948 no political party has covered themselves in glory about how the NHS is managed.
Time for a cross-party style of leadership?
#C4NHSdebate
@RCEMpresident Adrian Boyle nailing it as always - the problem is NOT inappropriate attenders to ED but flow through the system
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HOWEVER, the solutions to the inhumane situations that patients experience in emergency departments lie largely outside of emergency medicine. Risk needs to be shared across the entire hospital whilst system solutions are prioritised by NHS Leaders & Politicians #notjustmoremoney
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This isn't winter, this isn't one A&E, this isn't one system. It's everywhere, and it is entirely avoidable by prioritising safe & dignified emergency care. Stop blaming patients and driving "efficiency" and "redirection" - whole system approach is not just the front door...
What has been seen today on @C4Dispatches is sadly not isolated.Our members are doing their best in a system in crisis. It should galvanise those who form the next Goverment into action. This is not okay. This should not be normalised. Patients & our members deserve better
Fun evening of TV ahead thanks to @Channel4 and #dispatches
Will be really interesting to see what the take is on this and the debate with @krishgm afterwards.
#EM as always the canary in the coal mine for the #NHS
Awful patient stories from #c4dispatches and rightly this narrative should be theirs.
Remember every worker in healthcare who sees this everyday and can’t do anything about the pressures is also affected #moralinjury #emergencycare
Will be interesting to see the debate as a result of this brave reporting by #c4dispatches of #emergencycare
I feel so sad for all those patients; and also for the staff depicted presumably without their consent and probably are identifiable within their Trust