Katherine Macfarland

Junior doctor interested in digital health, mental health and public health.

[Katherine Macfarland @katherine_macf]

Day 2 of #Rewired25 and the room is bursting!

[Digital Health Rewired @DHRewired]

We kicked off the #Rewired25 Digital Transformation Stage with three big keynote presentations from @chat2sonia, CTO at @NHSEngland (pictured), Mike Bracken partner at @PublicDigitalHQ, and Umang Patel CCIO of @MicrosoftUK. Look out for the write-up on @digitalhealth2 soon.

[Katherine Macfarland @katherine_macf]

Thought provoking stuff at #Rewired25

[NHS Digital Academy @NHSDigAcademy]

Digital Academy launches Beyond the Basics AI training
Following our basic awareness learning, we are launching our free to access Beyond the Basics AI training, mapped to the AI capability framework and approved by AI in healthcare experts. Found here: https://t.co/VhvrBaWS9I

[Katherine Macfarland @katherine_macf]

@doctor_benji @vintagebooks @JonathanCape @CBGBooks Up there with Tara Westover, congrats 🎉

[Katherine Macfarland @katherine_macf]

Fantastic integrative work by Iain on the ketogenic diet as an intervention for Bipolar Disorder at the #rcpsychic inspired by its use in epilepsy

[Iain Campbell, Ph.D. @IainCampbellPhD]

Ketogenic Diet is an established treatment for epilepsy with 13 RCTs and over a century of clinical use.

Anticonvulsant medications are used in the treatment of Bipolar Disorder and a large patient group is calling for more research on ketogenic diet for bipolar.

Learn about our pilot study of a ketogenic diet for Bipolar Disorder and newly founded UKRI MRC Metabolic Psychiatry Hub.

Metabolic Psychiatry Symposium at 11.55am in Cromdale Hall @rcpsych #RCPsychIC

[Katherine Macfarland @katherine_macf]

@foodmoodcentre @FeliceJacka @hmstaudacher @Tetyana_Rocks Link to buy might be helpful :)

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The inventor of Karaoke, Shigeichi Negishi, has passed away at the age of 100.

[Pleasance @ThePleasance]

NHS psychiatrist, award-winning comedian AND now soon-to-be-Penguin-published author @doctor_benji joins us tonight and Friday night!

Last tickets for Benji Waterstones - You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here 👉 https://t.co/XwJ09ARguT

[Vintage Books @vintagebooks]

This #WorldMentalHealthDay, we’d like to introduce you to one of 2024’s most vital memoirs: You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life by @doctor_benji.

Find out more here: https://t.co/Sf4gKGWuRk

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

We're still out on the picket lines today, fighting for #PayRestoration - Join us across the country as day three begins.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike #CallUsBarclay

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Today it has been reported that during our first round of action in England mortality rate was 11.1% above the 5 year average.

What they haven’t reported was that in Wales, where no strike action took place, mortality rate was 14% above the 5 year average. 1/3

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

The junior doctors operating on your appendix are paid just £66.55 between them. For a potentially life-saving procedure, which lasts about an hour.

Is this a fair price to put on high quality healthcare?

#PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike

[Oli @DrOliBol]

During the strikes I’m reminded that I, for approx £22 per hour:
- Am often the most senior surgeon overnight
- Operate to remove your child’s appendix, your gallbladder or fix your hernia
- Come in on days off to see how you are after I operated on you.
My barber earns more.

[Katherine Macfarland @katherine_macf]

Round 2 of doctor strikes. Here's hoping it'll be resolved at the negotiating table soon and it doesn't come to a round 3 🤞 fantastic turnout at the march yesterday!

[Katherine Macfarland @katherine_macf]

So many sad stories on this thread. Even sadder: they're not rare. Close friends are treated poorly by the NHS Trusts on a regular basis, emotionally manipulated into exhausting themselves. I hope non-doctors read this and understand why we're considering strikes.

[Katherine Macfarland @katherine_macf]

Fantastic set of 3 talks on VR / XR right through from the lab to industry to (future) clinics. Thanks to @xrha__ @panxueni @rcpsychDPSIG

[Katherine Macfarland @katherine_macf]

Just spent 20 mins of my post-nights day off playing* the demo for this... Christmas present for my niece sorted! 😺💻🌟
*I mean, testing it out... honest!