George Couch

[George Couch @GeorgeACouch]

@johnboyne @mancunianmedic It wasn't a mistake. It was an Easter egg.

[George Couch @GeorgeACouch]

@jdpoc I reckon he had a magic pressurised stocking. He's got to get all the coal for the naughty kids somewhere.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I cannot stand silently by as @gmcuk fails patients in the PA debacle.

Its entire point is to keep patients safe from harm - but it’s failing dismally.

My piece on why the GMC is no longer fit for purpose👇

https://t.co/Zn8BkBstoG

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

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This is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of UK medicine.

28 eminent UK doctors have written publicly to @LaylaMoran, the new chair of @CommonsHealth, to report something nothing less than scandalous.

Read their letter here (1/n) 👇

https://t.co/qh5iZj7Xnj

[George Couch @GeorgeACouch]

@D_Rodders Heaven forbid, they might think you're a surgeon!

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

If you have not heard of Trump’s Project 2025 yet you need to watch this right now.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

[George Couch @GeorgeACouch]

@D_Rodders Snap

[George Couch @GeorgeACouch]

@PolitlcsUK https://t.co/XJkJgdGgHl

[CRUK Cambridge Centre: Pancreatic Cancer Programme @CRUKCamPancCan]

Meet @itspelicanoc 👩‍🔬, a 4th year PhD student in @JCarrollLab @CRUK_CI & part of the Ellis Future Leaders Academy by @PancreaticCanUK. Her research on how different CAF populations affect the pancreatic cancer epigenome could reveal new drug targets. #PancCanSpotlightTuesdays

[CRUK Cambridge Institute @CRUK_CI]

Are you ready Cambridge!? 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Scientists from our @JCarrollLab are urging people to back life-saving research and sign up for Race for Life.

Dr @shalvrao and her colleagues are among the Institute staff who'll be lacing up their trainers on 30 June!

➡️ https://t.co/FepMhuE4j0

[Tim Cook @doctimcook]

Thanks for asking

As some one who has worked in the NHS for 35 yrs and examined its working throughout that time my list of what needs changing would start with

Stop breaking the system by defunding it in the name of efficiency. It is way beyond the point at which trying to cut things can improve efficiency. It is doing the opposite. Now not enough diagnostic centres, not enough doctors, not enough beds (numerous reports - ask @NuffieldTrust or @TheKingsFund or @HealthFdn)

The rest are relative minutiae but areas to address include

* understanding that promotion of the private sector as a realistic alternative to the NHS is flawed. The private sector can do sone things well (low risk procedural
stuff) but is no substitute for real NHS hospitals with the full gamut of services (staff, systems, space)
https://t.co/5UEr0DJIGc

*don’t dumb down medicine.
There appears to be a concerted effort to suggest that medicine has become less complex, easier to learn, answers available on google etc and as a consequence medicine can be taught over a shorter period and the role substituted by others who are notably less trained/qualified.
The truth is that medicine has become more complex, delivered to ever older more complex and more comorbid patients with ever higher expectations (most of which are actually met). https://t.co/MBvAISjraq This all happens in the framework of an environment in which litigation (certainly costs and numbers to an extent) is mushrooming. https://t.co/96MGGYPbjc While there may be value in working in new ways the lie that doctors can be replaced by less qualified alternatives because the job has become easier is misplaced, disingenuous and dangerous (as well as quite likely being cost-ineffective). There is a danger these systems will be brought in without testing of efficacy, safety or cost effectiveness.
https://t.co/KQM8KMpNO1

https://t.co/oFAYdi3s4n

* IT systems that are slow, outmoded, inefficient and don’t talk to eachother. Wasting thousands of hours of clinicians time every day.

Hope that is enough for now.

At the core it is FUNDING.
No point in reform without funding.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Should be required viewing for anyone claiming we must get rid of the ECHR.

[Zach @Zacharyros3507]

In honor of Andre Braugher, here's one of my favorite scenes from Brooklyn 99

[CRUK Cambridge Centre @CRUKCamCentre]

Initial results from Cambridge-led PIONEER trial show that new combination hormone treatment could be more effective for post-menopausal ER+ breast cancer patients and reduce side effects.

Presented at #SABCS23 @SABCSSanAntonio

@Anticancerfund

👉 https://t.co/wBCs8SARlZ

[Sean Adams @seaninsound]

Every. Word. Of. This.

👏 @GeorgeMonbiot

Never heard an applause like this on #bbcqt either.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Prof Dame Harries testimony was the most illuminating of the week so far

Bear in mind, Johnson only needed a handful of scientists to agree with his callous “take it on the chin” response

The Inquiry seems to ask whether Harries was one of them

1/n

[George Couch @GeorgeACouch]

@nickopotamus @instagram @AmazonUK Warm hands, cold heart

[George Couch @GeorgeACouch]

@D_Rodders Err, wot?

What effects on appropriate and inappropriate referrals has it had?
Maybe we should train and hire more nurses rather than relying on patient advocated for clinical escalation.

[Shalini.Rao @shalvrao]

Great talk, Super proud of @itspelicanoc , @JCarrollLab @CRUKCamPancCan #AACRPan23 @PancreaticCanUK