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Provider cartels, servile to political ghouls, and genuinely awful managers (sadly too often lapsed clinicians) are ruinous for UK healthcare: here’s an excellent example.
Words delivered without a hint of recognition of the irony.
NHS England's chief executive accuses Treasury officials of "nonsense" and "pointless process" in pushing NHS for savings.
Jim Mackey said "It’s like they’ve got memories that… just get erased every 40 minutes.”
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It’s 2026 and AI is transforming tech… meanwhile the NHS is stuck in the dark ages.
What an absolute farce NHS IT is.
@andyburnham this is an easy win.
Make nhs.net Great Again.
(Then can we please have a unified single patient care record please?)
This is what happens when you let servile accountants and nebulous working-from-types home run a health service unchecked.
Want to answer a complaint? Well now you can’t look at the records to do so? Who makes up this nonsense without consultation? While I agree we should protect privacy much of this is over reaching & seemingly doesn’t apply to Palantir digital.nhs.uk/data-and-info…
We don’t make our own toothpaste. So why are we still “making” so many injectable medicines at the point of care?
New editorial on why anaesthesia should lead the move to ready-to-administer medicines.
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#prefilledsyringes #anaesthesia @Anaes_Journal
1/10
Prefilled syringes are not a magic fix.
They still need good storage, segregation, selection checks, training and evaluation.
This is a system intervention.
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#prefilledsyringes #anaesthesia @Anaes_Journal
9/10
The better question may not be whether we can afford ready-to-administer medicines.
It is whether patients can afford us continuing to hand-make them at the point of care.
associationofanaesthetists-p…
#prefilledsyringes #anaesthesia @Anaes_Journal
10/10
Extrapolating from surgeries done, there are NO indications for surgical rib fixation.
(Minimal exaggeration for point-making)
What are the indications for surgical rib fixation?
#anaesthesia #MedTwitter
@NavnielKaur
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The Ockenden Nottingham report is not only a maternity report. It is also a major patient safety report for anaesthesia. 🧵👇
Safe maternity care needs anaesthetists who are visible, available, senior and properly resourced.
ockendenmaternityreview.org.…
#anaesthesia
1/10
The report explicitly says long-term increases in anaesthetic training numbers and consultant posts will be required to meet growing demand.
That is an important national message.
Safer maternity care will require more anaesthetists.
ockendenmaternityreview.org.…
#anaesthesia
9/10
The lesson for anaesthesia is clear:
Good people working harder is not a safety strategy.
Safe maternity care needs planned capacity, senior presence, proper support staff and shared governance.
Workforce planning is patient safety.
ockendenmaternityreview.org.…
#anaesthesia
10/10
