Connor Cummings

Interested in social determinants of health & striking the optimum level of medicalisation 👨🏻‍⚕️ 🏥 🌳 RSM Medicine & Society President-Elect ⚖️

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

🧬 Is a biopsy always necessary prior to the treatment of prostate cancer?

💥 Our new work, out now in European Journal of Radiology, suggests not.

⚛️ We have found that, in some men, experienced radiologists were able to identify tumour on MRI with a level of certainty greater than we accept for tumours elsewhere in the body.

🚴🏻‍♂️ This is an early, single-centre study and more research is required to validate these findings more broadly.

🌳 If replicable, our results could pave the way for quicker treatment of prostate cancer at reduced cost to the NHS!

https://t.co/2My1NSJKQA

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

🧠 Tardive dyskinesia can be a debilitating and stigmatising condition.

👨🏻‍⚕️ Our latest research helps us to better understand the underlying mechanism, so that we are able to offer new, targeted treatments to patients.

https://t.co/HHPujcVVBo

[Tatler @Tatlermagazine]

Professor Peter Fonagy: How to help young people forge emotional resilience and wellbeing
https://t.co/rnnR8VkIKl

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Prostate cancer can be diagnosed without invasive biopsy, study finds https://t.co/eCDWlHk51B

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

🌳 The ability to safely recommend some men directly for treatment without the need for a biopsy would be a significant advancement in prostate cancer care.

🥼 Our new research is an early step toward that being a possibility in the future!

https://t.co/DOXRugth4o

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

@ProstateUK @PCFnews @HealthFdn @PCR_News @TheKingsFund @DHSCgovuk

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

@JackParkr Great idea!

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

Clever design to ensure everyone goes green and uses the hand dryer!

@rorysutherland

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

@wesstreeting Totally agree.

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

🏜️ Free on Monday evening?

🩺 Hear me battle it out at The Great Debate on Social Media at the Royal Society of Medicine (@RoySocMed)!

https://t.co/cGKqonZdnU

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

@DPJHodges Maybe he realises the public don’t agree.

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

.@AndyBurnhamGM has already lost two Labour leadership contests. I think that all of this swooning over him says more about the level of desperation across the country to believe in someone (read: anyone) than it says about charisma, uniqueness, nerve or talent.

[The Royal College of Radiologists @RCRadiologists]

Our 2025 census has found that 8 in 10 radiology leaders and half of cancer centre leaders think staff shortages are causing patients' conditions to worsen by delaying diagnosis and treatment.

Read more @SkyNews ⬇️

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

@ollieburtonmed @iDrSunny Hope to see you at the debate, Ollie!

[The Royal Society of Medicine @RoySocMed]

❓ Should doctors be on social media?

It's a question of growing public interest — and one that goes to the heart of how medicine communicates in a digital age.

🎤 The RSM Great Debate is one of our most celebrated public event series — an evening of rigorous debate, expert opinion and open discussion on the questions that matter most to medicine today.

Joining the panel for this instalment is Professor Tim Mitchell, President of the Royal College of Surgeons — one of the most prominent figures in British medicine.

🎟️ Free tickets — but places are limited. Secure yours here: https://t.co/2GvQ0g1kEA
📅 Monday 29 June | 5:30–7:00pm | 📍 RSM, London

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

This latest offer from the government to resident doctors is not materially different to those that have already been on the table.

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

🥀 I’m reading that the government sees increased cost pressures because of the unexpected war in Iran as a reason to *reduce* the planned increase in defence spending…

😵‍💫 Please, someone, make that make sense!

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

@jackjonestv So great to (finally) run into you, @jackjonestv! (1:57)

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

@FraserNelson Interesting! Do you have the data going further back than 2022? My feeling is that many more young people are leaving in recent years than in the 2010s and earlier.

[Connor Cummings @ConnorCummings]

@HaringeyLabour @wesstreeting The Wood Green CDC opened in August 2022 - two years before the Labour government took office.

It is the product of a lot of hard work, but I’m not sure that it’s fair to say that it is a product of ‘having a Labour council and a Labour government working together’.