These new extra-contractual rates in @uhbtrust are abysmal.
The average hourly rate for a plumber is £50 per hour.
For an emergency plumber it is £112.50 with a £110 call out fee.
Massive withdrawal of locums is the only answer to this.
Giving a human factors talk next month at a critical care conference
Hmm... BMJ study found ICU trainees urine was x2 as concentrated as their patients
Even a 1-2Kg loss of body water can reduce analysis/decision making by 15-20%
Drinking regularly helps maintain performance
Zaf is a taxi driver. He’s born and bred Sunderland
He broke down when he described the hate he’d received
This was seconds before racial slurs were thrown, telling him to “go back to his own country”
A short clip. Hard, but important, so please watch
You destroyed a library. It was MORE than a library, it was a food bank, a source of heat for people in the winter, a place for kids from low income families to use the internet, or do their homework. Why destroy something so vital? Yeah you’re so patriotic guys.
Interesting related fact came up in our Trust Trauma Audit today:
In the last 5 years at the Royal London, no patient with traumatic cardiac arrest and thoracotomy who survived prehospital & ED phases of care had chest compressions during resuscitation.
If you remember nothing else about this government’s last 5 years, remember that they broke the rules they made and partied while we were in lockdown.
It has always been one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us.
I’ve spent 6 years at med school, 5 years in general medical training, 2 years in specialist cardiology training and are referred to as “a junior doctor” yet the fact that NHS management thinks a 2 year degree makes a “heart specialist” tells you all you need to know
Among adults in the ICU who had sepsis or septic shock, the use of prolonged β-lactam antibiotic infusions was associated with a reduced risk of 90-day mortality compared with intermittent infusions, finds meta-analysis.
https://t.co/ICkASpeWtn
#CCR24