Katie Ward

Chest and GIM Consultant at Imperial College NHS Trust, Hackney resident

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@cml_smith i’ve had plenty of probs with nhs admin but i don’t think the probs with rotas are solely the fault of rota coordinator or the trust; trainees don’t belong to the trust

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@cml_smith phoning up doctor colleagues (and patients) is and will always be an important part of nhs work, email just doesn’t work for many interactions
the problem is the system and having to write a rota to keep the service safe with doctors rotating and moving in and out of training

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@cml_smith you just don’t know what’s going on when people don’t answer emails they could be sick or have left or have died (yes i have emailed someone in our trust who had sadly died )

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@cml_smith i’m really sorry you are cancelling but in any aspect of life if you don’t get an answer to an email/s try phoning and find out what’s happening
ED is open 24/7 and any of the docs in training there would be able to tell you over phone which cons is in charge of trainees

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@cml_smith the complexity is immense…rota coordinator doesn’t know who’ll be off having a baby in 9m or who will drop out of rotation

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@cml_smith i’d always recommend contacting the unit training lead and the clinical lead for these sort of things, they are the ones working on the floor with trainees

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@cml_smith also rota coordinators don’t have power to say we will manage without an sho on those shifts, or get a locum

[Imperial Vasculitis Centre @ICL_Vasculitis]

Fantastic start to the Vasculitis Day at the Hammersmith with masterclass on EGPA by @SalmanRespdoc ILD Vasculitis by @drkatieward and ANCA Vasculitis by @stephenmcadoo

Warm welcome to all delegates in person and online

#vasculitis @ImperialImmuno @ImperialNHLI @vascuk

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@EveningStandard amusing comment on the weather in last night’s Standard

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@DrHugoA Thanks Hugo!
Blank notes are not great though, screen shots often make it crash and blank notes are not really searchable

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@TalkTalk How do I get my TalkTalk TV box delivered? We’ve had 2 failed engineer dates, I have tried the phone Line and it directs me to webchat, I tried webchat and no help, I emailed a complaint and no response

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@mayorofhackney Thanks

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

Well deserved @mathenge_maggie 👏

[Sandy DelosSantos @Dsandelor]

Congratulation to our new Band 8 in 4South @mathenge_maggie. We are all proud of her and privilege to have worked alongside a hard working and kind hearted Matron. @drkatieward has worked with her for almost 18 yrs and can be testament for her exemplary character❤️❤️❤️.

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@AnushaRohit @DrNeilStone Lupus patients always get an ECG to look for cardiac involvement; but dose used in UK RECOVERY trial for HCQ in Covid was much higher than lupus dose of 200-400mg (it was malaria dose)

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@zackferguson Doing a gas or pleural aspiration without local

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

Yes Jo all those years we’ve been prescribing it and we didn’t know it had to be approved by @MattHancock

[Jo Evans @OncoloJo]

@MattHancock Holy 💩! I’ve been prescribing an unapproved medication all this time?
Also worth citing the NNT, which is 8, and the fact that in covid-19 where the patient is not requiring oxygenation support, it could lead to harm...

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

@ChrisMasonBBC only thing that stops the glasses steaming up with mask is tape over the top of nose (not a good look) #masks #COVID19 PS have u had a day off this week??

[Katie Ward @drkatieward]

This is so right

[Nashaba Matin @NashaMatin]

Medicine is an art and a science. Watching how a patient walks into the room and the expression on their face gives me 100 non-verbal clues as to their state of health and mind. Telephone clinics have their place but don’t replace clincial skills.