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Great to be speak on Sky News UK Tonight earlier this week. Highlighting issues in Emergency Medicine and how Investment into health and social care will improve outcomes for our patients.
📢We are pleased to welcome Dr Katja Empson @KatjaEmpson to her new role as Vice Chair of RCEM Wales. Katja takes over from Dr Rob Perry, who has now been appointed as @VP_Wales_RCEM.
Welcome Katja, we wish you every success in your new role 🏴!
Congratulations @hkmurch for being appointed EM Specialty Tutor for @cardiff_EU & @WalesEM Look forward to working with you, supporting EM training in Wales, and specifically @CV_UHB@cavmtc You’ll be fab! #makingEMgreat
Chest and head injuries cause particular concern for our patients. However, if you feel like you can still use the phone, and it's not a 999 emergency, please #PhoneFirst and call #CAV247.
Emergency Consultant Tim tells why it's safe to do so 👇
CPD points from @RCoANews now approved! Join @dalecgardiner@JillFeatherston and I for an webinar on how to use practical ethics (might be useful in the current circumstances...) 26th Jan 1830 https://t.co/5d4zw6X931
Unless there has been a coincidental 50% rise in ICU admissions for other reasons (narrator: there hasn’t https://t.co/FMzse6iTPj), the only explanation for an unprecedented surge in ICU occupancy this winter is people who are there *because they caught Covid*.
We can also address claims like "hospitals are always full in winter", or "it’s just people who were already in hospital for other reasons catching Covid on the ward"
Here are numbers of people in ICU beds (for any reason) in London hospitals, each winter
Spot the odd one out
NEW: a common response to reports of hospitals struggling this winter is "it’s no different to a bad flu season!"
I’ve tracked down historical data on flu ICU admissions, including winter 2017-18, a record high.
Here’s how England’s Covid winter compares to a bad flu season 📹
For the record
Junior doctors are the unsung heroes of this pandemic. Working all across our hospitals (and in primary care). Constantly having to adapt to new wards, new situations, ever changing rotas and a new disease. Working incredibly hard.
Unbelievable professionalism 👏
To all junior doctors working in the Emergency Department:
I know it's busy and stressful but please be courteous to your colleagues, the nurses & support staff, but especially your patients.
For 99.9% attending ED is the most significant thing they're doing that day. Be kind.
Been in our ED this afternoon with Steve Curry our COO. Thanks to Wayne and Katja for hosting us. Very impressed with how the staff have been coping in exceptionally difficult circumstances, and continue to provide high quality compassionate care. Thank you to all our staff.