Sam Jeffery

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

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

[Elizabeth Cray @ElizabethCray13]

🗣️ Neurosurgical ACP colleagues #advancedpractice

📍We have an exciting full time job opportunity #ACP

🌊 Consider relocating to #SouthWest #workthensurf

👇🏼See the advert below

https://t.co/rECe1zpyNq

[Jude Fewings @jude8771]

Job opportunity-We are looking for a dynamic Band 7 OT to lead our Neurosurgical OT team and complete our MDT ICU Rehab team.
Support given for both clinical and managerial aspects of the role.

https://t.co/VgAfaHgPse
@TantamKate @MTCPlymouth @AnnJamesNHS @jimmibruce

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

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

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

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)

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

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

[Sam Jeffery @Samuel_Jeffery]

Great work from @ElizabethCray13 helping to advance the service we provide for #NPH @UHP_NHS @DerrifordNurses

[NHS England Workforce, Training and Education @NHSE_WTE]

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!

[NHS England Workforce, Training and Education @NHSE_WTE]

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!

[Sam Jeffery @Samuel_Jeffery]

@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.

[Sam Jeffery @Samuel_Jeffery]

@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

[Sam Jeffery @Samuel_Jeffery]

@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.

[Richard Edwards @PaedNeurosurg]

The perfect CSF shunt for #hydrocephalus #NPH ? - Prof Jan Malm outlines the requirements - we have a long way to go …
#hydrocephalus2022

[Richard Edwards @PaedNeurosurg]

Ventricular catheter revisions increase the likelihood of more revisions for obstruction - Dr Carolyn Harris outlines the pathology of catheter blockage #hydrocephalus2022

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

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

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

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)

[Translational Brain Science Research Birmingham UK @BrainLabBhamUk]

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

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

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?

[Translational Brain Science Research Birmingham UK @BrainLabBhamUk]

Mr George Tsermoulas discusses the equipoise underpinning the upcoming IIH INTERVENTION trial due to open shortly - #IIH ⁦@NIHRresearch⁩ @UHBNeurosurgery⁩ ⁦@The_SBNS⁩ ⁦@DrMollan⁩ ⁦@BHPComms⁩ ⁦@NANOSTweets⁩ ⁦@UK_headache⁩

[Sam Jeffery @Samuel_Jeffery]

Seems there’s a lot more I need to learn about OCT! Excellent talk from @DrMollan

[Translational Brain Science Research Birmingham UK @BrainLabBhamUk]

Optical coherence tomography confirms shunt malfunction and recurrence of raised intracranial pressure in optic atrophy https://t.co/VvQy1jO397 @DrMollan @MarkHeadache

[Sam Jeffery @Samuel_Jeffery]

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

[Claire Fisher @ClaireFisherCNS]

@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