Louise MacKenzie

Gas girl. Mummy. Peloton and F1 fan. Generally optimistic.

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

@missyaelliott maybe we’ll try Sofia on this!

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

13 year old Ambidextrous kid Lucas hits forehand on both sides and no backhand he’s lighting up the junior tournaments…

This is insane 🤯

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

@EdinPublishing @Assoc_Anaes For good reason! It’s great learning and with plenty to reflect upon after the day.

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

This is not the way to engage female sports fans… implication is that sky sports is just for the boys. I hope not what they set out to achieve!

[BMA Students @BMAstudents]

More than 7 million patients are stuck on waiting lists, yet medical students and doctors are facing unemployment.

A recent @TheLancet study predicts the UK will be short of 11,000 consultant physicians by 2048. The government must act now to fix this crisis.

[Lionesses @Lionesses]

WINNERS 🏅

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

What a powerful and moving interview with John and Amy Hunt. Such dignity and love in the face of the most horrific of circumstances. @vicderbyshire brilliant as always. #StandingStrong

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

@LDNLutonAirport drop off now barrier free with no way of paying on-site (not even a qr code available!!) System built to gain from huge fines for people forgetting, with no reminder system. Not to mention the £5 for 5 minutes charge in the first place… @APCOAUK

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

Thank you to the sunglasses team @JohnLewisRetail Welwyn who fixed my sunglasses this morning. Really going above and beyond. 😎😎😎

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

Never thought I would cry after watching golf- what an evening! #rorymcllroy #Masters2025

[The Masters @TheMasters]

Worth the wait. #themasters

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

@DrLojoRial I’m sure they’ll miss you! Good luck wherever you’re off to next!

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

Merry Christmas from @Enterprise car hire… cancelling a booking from months ago with less than 24 hours notice. Now costs over double the price in Edinburgh!! @EDI_Airport @Edinburgh_CC @Daily_Record

[Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team @MercedesAMGF1]

Imagine… Thank You, Lewis

[Louise MacKenzie @drloumackenzie]

@sas_sobauk @QEWoolwichAnaes @LGAnaesthesia @RCoANews @LG_NHS @Jonatha94008168 @b33nu @VPurday @LGT_Qi @LgtMed @RCoAPresident Wow congratulations!! Hard work pays off!

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Here's our last parody song about the #USElection2024. It's called "Bohemian Trumpsody" (based on the inimitable @QueenWillRock but with only six voices & no overdubs) & we've self-trolled in it as 'libtards' already, just to save folks time who might be offended 🎶🗳️🤞
👉https://t.co/heCwcVztt3

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

I really do worry people have forgotten what Covid-19 was like for NHS staff. I went onto ICU wards and saw it myself. I spoke to staff broken by relentless death.

@Kevin_Fong testimony @covidinquiryuk needs to be heard:

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

It’s quite damning of our politics that a debate without politicians is so refreshing, respectful and gets through so much detail. I know our programme on fixing the NHS isn’t full of fireworks, but it’s telling me a lot more than a sterile argument about tax and some vague pledges. #c4nhsdebate #c4dispatches

[Tim Cook @doctimcook]

Thanks for asking

As some one who has worked in the NHS for 35 yrs and examined its working throughout that time my list of what needs changing would start with

Stop breaking the system by defunding it in the name of efficiency. It is way beyond the point at which trying to cut things can improve efficiency. It is doing the opposite. Now not enough diagnostic centres, not enough doctors, not enough beds (numerous reports - ask @NuffieldTrust or @TheKingsFund or @HealthFdn)

The rest are relative minutiae but areas to address include

* understanding that promotion of the private sector as a realistic alternative to the NHS is flawed. The private sector can do sone things well (low risk procedural
stuff) but is no substitute for real NHS hospitals with the full gamut of services (staff, systems, space)
https://t.co/5UEr0DJIGc

*don’t dumb down medicine.
There appears to be a concerted effort to suggest that medicine has become less complex, easier to learn, answers available on google etc and as a consequence medicine can be taught over a shorter period and the role substituted by others who are notably less trained/qualified.
The truth is that medicine has become more complex, delivered to ever older more complex and more comorbid patients with ever higher expectations (most of which are actually met). https://t.co/MBvAISjraq This all happens in the framework of an environment in which litigation (certainly costs and numbers to an extent) is mushrooming. https://t.co/96MGGYPbjc While there may be value in working in new ways the lie that doctors can be replaced by less qualified alternatives because the job has become easier is misplaced, disingenuous and dangerous (as well as quite likely being cost-ineffective). There is a danger these systems will be brought in without testing of efficacy, safety or cost effectiveness.
https://t.co/KQM8KMpNO1

https://t.co/oFAYdi3s4n

* IT systems that are slow, outmoded, inefficient and don’t talk to eachother. Wasting thousands of hours of clinicians time every day.

Hope that is enough for now.

At the core it is FUNDING.
No point in reform without funding.

[Association of Anaesthetists @Assoc_Anaes]

We are enormously disappointed to read that Practitioner Health are halting new registrations from secondary care.

We are concerned for our members who may need immediate help, lack local trust support, or have confidentiality concerns.

Full statement🔗https://t.co/umDYHFtiaz

[Clare Gerada @ClareGerada]

There is no ‘backstory’ to ending of 2/care @NHSPracHealth other than (we’re told) - no budget. To remind, it was established following suicide of a psychiatry who also killed her baby and highlighted the barriers doctors have in accessing mental health care.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

A historic win celebrated in true Italian style 🇮🇹🎶

Italy recorded their first ever win over France in the U20 Six Nations and marked the occasion with a rendition of 'Nessun Dorma'.
#BBCRugby