Dr Amy Crees

Consultant Geriatrician | inpatient complex care | older surgical patients | I have type 1 diabetes | ❤️ may = bookmarking for later. She/her

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@SandyofSuffolk @HaQ_mAn 1. Lawyer is not a protected term
In the UK. It would be useful to know your title at work.
2. Barristers in the UK have undertaken extensive strike action in the past.

[Bristol Palliative and End of Life Care Research @PEoLCSW]

New paper from the NIHR-funded Equitable Bereavement Care for All study: How to tackle inequities in bereavement support for ethnically diverse communities: a national qualitative study using experience-based co-design https://t.co/ulCec3oS4L
@Lucy_Selman

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@theveindoc I don’t think I’ve heard that phrase in a good few years. Agree the risk needs to be managed. Just that creating a pool of appropriately trained people to do this in the scale required is massively resource intensive. With demographic shifts will become more so

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@theveindoc @Tristan27856485 Perhaps not litigation, but certainly complaints and inquests.

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@theveindoc Admissions happen. End of life can sometimes be unpredictable and scary. Sometimes hard to know if it is a “blip” or really it. Very understandable for HCPs to be concerned they are going to harm by not conveying to hospital. Not ideal but understandable.

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@theveindoc Who would you train in this risk and how would you do it?

Geriatricians (+others) working in the community here who in-reach into care homes and do a huge amount of advance care planning. Not straightforward, and need a lot of experience.

Even with all of this, unplanned 1/2

[Abi Rimmer @Abi_Rimmer]

Why doctors are uniquely vulnerable to domestic abuse by @AdeleWatersRx (from 2025) https://t.co/VbBZuSCs15

[Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney]

in which my complaint to the ASA about @drchatterjeeuk non evidence based blood testing claims from company Do Health is upheld on both counts. https://t.co/n9cFndUoyA

[Chris Donnan @CSDon73]

Polypharmacy is one of the biggest challenges in primary care. Balancing multiple conditions, medicines, interactions and side effects is complex.

The goal isn’t simply to reduce medicines—it’s to ensure every medicine has a purpose, remains safe, and adds value. 💊

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@grahamsphillips I don’t really know what this comment means

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

Release the geriatricians!

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨 EXC: An over-prescribing epidemic is sending 1,000 elderly patients to A&E every single day - a consequence of a fragmented NHS unprepared for the ageing silver tsunami heading its way as 468k baby boomers turn 80 this year: https://t.co/owHex6QSd7

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@Ada_02_05 @ShaunLintern This is not my approach, nor that of anyone with whom I work. It might be one of many many questions

[Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney]

free to read in the BMJ https://t.co/N5uPaEubfJ

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@parthaskar @ArunBaksi @PHU_NHS @RaoMala @drpratikc @ShivaniM_KC @Sajay70 @jsbamrah @Rezaidi @TheBMA @ABCDiab @docwas @DrLKVaughan Dr Baksi was the consultant who diagnosed me with type 1. I was 16 and just about to take my GCSEs, and I hadn’t considered Medicine. After a week of outpatient management, he said I should consider it - and here I am. RIP

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@sharrond62 “The law is intended to ensure that patients facing devastating fetal diagnoses, serious pregnancy complications or other complex medical circumstances can receive timely care without unnecessary legal uncertainty.”

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@sharrond62 https://t.co/89l7nmUsFP

[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@DrSdeG We have just travelled to the NL and Starbucks there has a blended matcha/ banana drink 🤢

[Louella Vaughan @DrLKVaughan]

Just reading over the new rules on IG, as circulated in letter from Jim Mackey.

It is entirely appropriate to reiterate that patient records should be ONLY accessed for work-relate purposes. But the new rules are draconian and restrict the types of reasons doctors often do
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[Dr Amy Crees @AmyLCrees]

@CoastingGP Can anyone post a screenshot of this article? I don’t have access and am completely flabbergasted by this snippet