🎉🎇 2025 Thread! 🎇🎉
📻 Coming up in 2025 will be… series 11 (eleven!) of NHSTftC - we’re planning to be recording in March and April, stay tuned for links to be in the audience for those shows. I think they’ll be airing in the summer…
My latest on @Medscape makes the case that no, diet and and exercise are not better than medications for obesity. As in literally not better. Idealistically maybe there's room for argument (though I don't think so tbh), but the data on drugs' superiority is unequivocal 🧵
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Bristol friends especially - Rachel makes lovely pots, Heidi and Ian make lovely glass and they’re doing a pop up for Christmas at the beginning of December.
We’ll be exhibiting at the Annual Allied Health Professionals Conference in Wales tomorrow. Visit our stand to find out how we’re making a difference to health and social care in Wales.
🎓 @UniofReading is hiring a Lecturer in Dietetics for its newly-launching MSc Dietetics pre-reg course. Find out more about this role and apply by 4 November ⬇ https://t.co/FcnCAPECVF #DietitiansJobs
These stats, just released, are a national scandal.
Over 15,000 doctors applied to GP training this year.
Yet @NHSEngland is letting only 4000 of them do so.
Yes. That’s 11k potential new GPs lost to the NHS - when we’re crying out for GPs.
Many replaced with PAs - madness.
In the autumn and winter months, the sun is not strong enough for us to make vitamin D in our skin. Government advice is that everyone should consider taking a daily vitamin D supplement from October to March. Vitamin D is also found in some foods - see https://t.co/fE5Zv8PBTS
A new global study suggests that one in three children is now shortsighted: https://t.co/PCwz8ZLKmr
We have published guidance recommending the routine adoption of lenses that slow the progress of shortsightedness in children and adolescents in Wales: https://t.co/z1zdS4ShrH
Actually, thinking about it, the entire nation should be ashamed for making the very same doctors and nurses who risked their lives to try and save their fellow citizens’ from Covid beg and strike without pay just to get their pay in line with inflation! It’s a f’ing joke!