1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: OK on the eve of junior/consultant strikes, we need to talk about these charts (NEW data just in!) 👇
We need to look at them to fix waiting lists & its increasingly clear next GE will be won or lost on the NHS
Please read the whole 🧵 & share widely / RT
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11/ @Jeremy_Hunt was quite right to call this a "national scandal" needing fixing "immediately".
Lets be clear, ☝️doesnt do that (nor announced by @theresecoffey).
RT if you need Mr. Hunt / Barclay to fix these issues on 15th March budget
#FixNegativePIAs#TaxUnregistered
Completely agree with the House of Lords on this
The chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt should urgently read the report from the former chair of @CommonsHealth@Jeremy_Hunt and act on its findings with punitive pension tax destroying retention
RT if you want him to listen (to himself)
1/IMPORTANT - If you are a doctor we need YOUR Help please! (Free tool)
PLEASE take a few mintues to to respond to the DHSC consultation on pensions taxation
More info here - especially on the crucial government ommision to fix inflation issues with #FixNegativePIAs
See👇 & RT
The next one we'd like to draw your attention to is 'The impact of advanced clinical practitioner led idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus diagnostic pathway to reduce elective waiting list times' by Elizabeth Cray and Samuel Jeffery. See it on our conference platform!
The next one we'd like to draw your attention to is 'The impact of advanced clinical practitioner led idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus diagnostic pathway to reduce elective waiting list times' by Elizabeth Cray and Samuel Jeffery. See it on our conference platform!
@drtintin99@UHBNeurosurgery Of course, but too many patients (historically at least) have revisions based on exacerbation of headaches and raised LP opening pressure, when there is no threat to vision. Medical treatment of headache should be preferable.
@drtintin99 Revision rates high in this group of patients (slit ventricles/obesity contributory) but can be reduced with good surgical protocol @UHBNeurosurgery and using OCT/papilloedema to guide decision on revision, treating headache independently from ICP
@drtintin99 Reported improvement in headaches in these studies is potentially misleading. Many have initial improvement but most relapse despite normalisation of ICP. @IIHDrBirmingham has presented good data on this.
Ventricular catheter revisions increase the likelihood of more revisions for obstruction - Dr Carolyn Harris outlines the pathology of catheter blockage #hydrocephalus2022
1/ SCOOP: Important scoop from @JosephineCumbo@FT@SarahNev
“As the @TheBMA has repeatedly highlighted, it is within the gift of the Treasury to fix this by urgently amending the Finance Act to prevent senior doctors from being forced to retire,”
Pls share widely / RT
1/ 🧵 on "Total Reward Statements" (or Annual Benefit Statements)
Dear @nhs_pensions
As you know Ive been asking publically & privately if you could PLEASE make the TRS slightly less useless?
Here's why you need to change it, & quickly (please RT if you agree)
Out today - analysis of how much weight loss is needed to reduce ICP in #IIH patients with increased body weight- a complicated and stigmatised aspect of IIH that needs careful consideration -https://t.co/lhYo1DCDud @GreenJournal @IMSR_UoB @NANOSTweets@EHF_Official@DrMollan
Doctors' pay has been cut in real terms by 30% since 2008.
A new doctor handling emergencies & cardiac arrests earns £9k less than in 2008.
Or £14 an hour.
Yet doctors campaigning for pay restitution are already being smeared in the press as "militants".
Seriously?
Really useful data from telemetric ICP studies following shunt surgery presented at #csfday2022 - expectation management is important and highlights need to consider headache symptoms may be independent of ICP
@YousefHyder94 defining characteristics of people with #IIH who require #CSF diversion surgery. #headache returned for most patients around 6months after surgery, despite normal #icp @IMSR_UoB @DrMollan @IIHDrBirmingham @IIHUK