Tom Kelly

Consultant Intensivist. Views my own.

[Dr Robert Laurenson @RobLaurensonD4P]

Latest NHS mail changes are about to cause chaos to rotational members of staff.

Information governance strikes again.

There needs to be urgent reform.

[Royal College of Emergency Medicine @RCollEM]

NEW REPORT📄

While you’re reading this, patients across the country are being cared for in trolleys or chairs in corridors, waiting hours and hours to be admitted, discharged or transferred.

That's the devastating reality of our EDs, revealed in the first report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Emergency Care, focusing on so called ‘corridor care’.

The research, compiled by RCEM, shows the scale of corridor care in England, and the impact it has on patients, as well as staff, through data, surveys and patient testimony.

A survey of clinical leads across 58 Type 1 EDs found almost one in five patients were being cared for in trolleys or chairs in corridors in England this summer.

Read the report, and its recommendations, here: https://t.co/OozeNJSH9M

@RCEMpresident @DrRosena @APPGEmgcyCare @PatientsAssoc

[Tom Kelly @DoctorTomKelly]

@YSHICUTherapies @allyw4rd Great work @allyw4rd! Congratulations 🎊

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Just a reminder that you can resuscitate a shock patient infinitely faster through an 18-gauge IV in their vein than a 14-gauge IV in the sharps container

[YSHICUTherapy @YSHICUTherapies]

What’s more Valentines than a Harp? 💟
Thankyou to our amazing arts team at @YSTeachingNHS. Music therapy every Friday on ICU. Beautiful voice of Sarah Dean. #rehablegend #arttherapy #musictherapy #ahp
@YS_AHPs

[Ian Higginson 🌈 @RCEM_VP]

Called out NHSE’s narrative that it’s possible to provide safe care in corridors. Used strong language putting our statement together, reflecting @RCollEM members’ and colleagues’ strength of feeling on this matter. Degree to which corridor care is normalised is dumbfounding

[David Warriner @DrDavidWarriner]

From my extensive experience as a resident doctor (14 yrs) & my limited experience as a consultant mentor/ES/CS/dTPD (5 yrs), fundamentally what resident doctors want is to feel like someone gives a shit about them and their training. Otherwise it’s a bleak & dark place…

[York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS FT @YSTeachingNHS]

After 34 years, ICU legend Elaine Hunter bids farewell to York Hospital this week 🤯

Elaine has been the lead nurse since 1990 and has made the ICU "the best place to work". Her compassion and high standards have touched hundreds of patients and staff. An inspiration!💙

[Rob Ferguson @r_fergo10]

Happy retirement to this absolute ICU legend @ElaineH89866972. The definition of what good leadership looks like. Steering our ICU @YSTeachingNHS through the good and the bad times all with compassion and professionalism and providing the calm amid the chaos. A true NHS great.

[Rob Ferguson @r_fergo10]

Amazing sand art to commemorate Organ Donation week and 30 years of the Organ Donor register on Scarborough beach! I’m so proud of the team effort across the trust @YSTeachingNHS @NHSOrganDonor #OrganDonationweek

[Tom Kelly @DoctorTomKelly]

@tracey_crosbie @DrCarolineMWF Peak whataboutery.. How would you suggest Whitehall go about getting waiting lists down then?! Currently accepting extra contractual work actually costs many senior doctors money. Make it make sense.

[Tom Kelly @DoctorTomKelly]

@DrCarolineMWF Same @DrCarolineMWF. Consultant here with young children in childcare and facing the same dilemma #payingtowork

[Tom Kelly @DoctorTomKelly]

@gilesfarrington @NHSElect @ICS_updates Great to see a formal framework for our critical care AHPs. Fantastic work @gilesfarrington!

[Aoife Abbey @WhistlingDixie4]

I’m in my fifth year as a consultant now so with that wisdom, here is my list of five key priorities for a successful career in intensive care:

1. Good colleagues
2. Good colleagues
3. Good colleagues
4. Good colleagues
5. Access to parking

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

@wesstreeting 6/ other tax cliff for newer consultants with young children highlighted by @TheIFS @DanNeidle and others

We all want to fix waiting lists. But we cant, and wont, pay to work

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Destroyed by Private Equity:
Bernard Matthews
The Body Shop
Byron Burger
Casual Dining
Cath Kidson
Comet
Debenhams
Flybe
Four Seasons Health Care
HMV
Maplin
Monarch Airlines
Paperchase
Poundworld
Southern Cross
Thames Water
TM Lewin
Toys R Us

Supermarkets, GP surgeries, next.

[York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS FT @YSTeachingNHS]

We have over 160 new doctors joining us today 🎉

Welcome to our Trust - we're so pleased you chose to begin your career with us.

Good luck. We can't wait to see the exceptional care you will provide to our patients 🩺

[Tom Kelly @DoctorTomKelly]

@goldstone_tony @jamesmurray_ldn @wesstreeting Will take a look @DanNeidle. Thank you Tony... Keep up the great work!

[Tom Kelly @DoctorTomKelly]

@phlegmfighter Such a wonderful explanation of the old adage.. Thank you!