Dr Stephen Ward

Consultant in Pain Medicine @GSTTnhs | Chair: NICE Guidelines on Back Pain, RA & Epilepsy |

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@TerribleMaps If a ship can hold a million barrels and a truck only 250, why not put the ship on a truck and drive it over? Simple.

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@RoshanaMN Writing a letter is just the tip of the admin iceberg associated with an appointment. We are now our own secretaries - enter diagnosis and encounter details, fill out TCI form, arrange follow up appointments, address letters to the appropriate people/departments. This adds time.

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@DrHuw If the starting wait is, say, 300 days, then this '3x faster fall in waiting times' (1.4% reduction vs 4.2% reduction) looks like 295 days vs 287 days. I wonder what that amounts to in £crackteam per days saved.

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@Art_Li Incoming: ‘You MONSTER!!’ Etc

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@Art_Li This Tweet might need a bit of tweaking, Arthur 😂

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@howie_hua 95% of 300 is the same as 300% (ie x 3) of 95

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@valhumphreys51 I triage referrals for GSTT pain clinic. 99.99% of the rejections are because of inadequate information. We have clinics for pelvic, facial, spinal, urological, vascular pain etc- where do we put the ‘please see this patient with chronic pain’?

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@camtudor If my pain intensity is lower, I will be able to do more rather than: if my level of function is better, my pain will be less. I think that’s how people think about it but maybe I’m wrong

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@camtudor I would probably contest that. Pain intensity (and not the functional impairment associated with pain) is reliably the No.1 priority for patients in just about every study that I have read. Maybe with chronicity that balance shifts a bit

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@parthaskar @iDrSunny @ExplosiveEnema2 This is scandalous. A clear, blatant and ocean going attempt to influence the outcome of an independent review.
This is the sort of thing that should make @BBCPanorama salivate.

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@parthaskar @lengreview @DrAsifQasim @DrSelvarajah @DrLKVaughan @ShrillaB @Rezaidi @TIME_research @sasbanerjee @COPDdoc @Zudin_P @respirologist Ps I think the ‘uniform’ bit is the killer blow

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@parthaskar @lengreview @DrAsifQasim @DrSelvarajah @DrLKVaughan @ShrillaB @Rezaidi @TIME_research @sasbanerjee @COPDdoc @Zudin_P @respirologist I met Prof Leng during my NICE guideline work - she really is an outstanding individual when you see her in action.
She would not have enjoyed this gig but to create an ‘oh, it’s kind of ok but could have been a bit better for us’ piece of work for both sides is impressive

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No idea how you can keep this up for almost 10 hours

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Amazing 36km swim by my little sister - Capri to Napoli (beat nearly all of the men 😄)

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@mancunianmedic I’ve been waiting for my old girl to sprout since seeing your post. Here she is in all her glory

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My crazy idea that back pain might have a viral cause - huge thanks to the @TwinsUKres team. Hope it leads somewhere https://t.co/d8mGFx7jHY

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@DrLKVaughan Interesting that it started with the term Physician’s Assistant’ (assistant to the physician) and somewhere along the line became ‘Physician Assistant’ (a physician who assists)

That one little apostrophe - where did it go?

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@cjsnowdon The review does not include international evidence for good reason: Indirectness.
Indirectness (apples and oranges) absolutely poisons a systematic review.

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@Art_Li @AnaesUnited @RCoANews It’s Schrödinger's scope

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@InfamousGasman So the very next day I go to log in to EPIC on my mobile and find this