Huge congratulations to our Imaging Fellow Rajesh Varma for winning the award at #ESCCongress2024 for Best Clinical Case...!
Over 1000 submissions, 4 selected for presentation, winner announced today 🥂🥳
Excellent mentorship from @EuniceOnwordi too
We are very pleased to have had our development of a specialist heart valve clinic accepted for showcasing at the @UHSFT We are UHS week
You can even vote for the posters on Staffnet. Do have a look! 😁
Working in the NHS is just not what it used to be.
Really disheartening. I feel for the juniors. Their training has been shattered by having to cover rota gaps all the time. Their pay has not kept up with inflation. They are having to compete with other healthcare professionals
Fascinating keynote talk from Prof Partha Kar at #RCPUpdate Bournemouth. Amazing how the world of diabetes has changed in the past 20 years!
Note to us in Cardio: Euglycaemic ketoacidosis. Remember that with the next SGLT2i prescription
We have just passed 3000 patients seen in our heart valve clinic!
Our multidisciplinary heart valve service involves cardiologists, cardiac physiologists, healthcare science assistants, an advanced nurse practitioner & a cardiology GPSI
Clinics thrice weekly
#cardiotwitter
Congratulations to this year's top trainers - voted by trainees in the BJCA survey! 👏👏
Overall 🥇 - @JayminSOfficial
Intervention 👨🔧 - @andrewvanezis
EP ⚡️ - Dr Kim Rajappan
Imaging 📷 - @dorsetcardio
HF ⛽️ - Dr Angshu Sengupta + Dr Michael Kuehl
ACHD 🫀- Dr Sam Fitzsimmons
Important talk and highly informative results of the BJCA survey in #BCS conference. Positive changes counteracted by the need of more work to improve training environment @tom_cardio @bjca
Open letter to the UK Government and NHS bodies to Stand in Solidarity with Sudan
#KeepEyesOnSudan@RishiSunak@JamesCleverly@SteveBarclay
We, the undersigned, are writing to you to join the call of the Sudanese Doctors Union (SDU-UK) to stand in solidarity with the innocent unarmed civilians in Sudan. Since the 15th of April 2023, an armed conflict between the military and paramilitary has erupted in the capital Khartoum and other cities in Sudan. The death toll is getting worse, and the number of serious casualties is reported to be in thousands.
As health workers in the national health service in the UK, we are aware that a large number of Sudanese colleagues are following the dire situation in their home country with serious concerns.
Almost 70% of health facilities are out of action in the capital either due to direct air strikes or the inability of the health workers to reach hospitals. Despite announcing temporary periods of ceasefire, this agreement was not implemented, and there are no safe corridors for health workers to reach hospitals or primary health facilities. Direct attacks on hospitals and pre hospital ambulances by security forces are affecting safe access to health. A serious medication shortage is emerging in Sudan.
What is further alarming is the direct bombing of local pharmaceutical factories in Khartoum. There are ongoing calls by the civilians on social media platforms for important lifesaving medication, e.g., insulin. The short and the medium-term impact of the damage of this armed conflict on the screening programs, vaccination programs, antenatal care, malnutrition, and TB care, amongst others, is expected to be really severe.
As civilians flee their home seeking safe shelter, an evolving refugees’ emergency situation is being reported at the northern and eastern borders of Sudan.
We are reaching out to the UK government and NHS bodies, and the relevant agencies to
▪️ stand in solidarity with the civilians in Sudan and those stranded in the borders to ensure their safety and wellbeing
▪️ support diplomatic efforts for ceasefire and to ensure safe passage and corridors to and from Khartoum to access health and basic needs
▪️ facilitate medical deployment to the borders to avoid a humanitarian crisis in collaboration with British partners on the ground
▪️ provide wellness services to Sudanese health workers in NHS in such critical times
Signatories:
APPNE (Association of Pakistani Physicians of Northern Europe) @appne_official
BAPIO (British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin) @BAPIOUK
BBPA (British Bangladeshi Psychiatrists Association)
@BPPA_Official
BEMA (British Egyptian Medical Association)
BIMA (British Islamic Medical Association)
@BritishIMA
BIPA (British Indian Psychiatric Association)
@bipa_uk
BPPA (British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association)
@BPPA_Official
BSAPCH (British Sudanese Association of Paediatrics and Child Health)
@bsapch
BSDO (British Sikh Doctors Organisation)
@BritishSikhDocs
BSN (British Sikh Nurses)
@NursesSikh
BWIH (Black Women in Health)
@BWIHUK
CamDocUK (Cameroon Doctors UK)
@CamDocUK
MDA (Muslim Doctors Association)
@Muslimdoctors
SDA (Sikh Doctors & Dentists Association)
@BritishSikhDocs
CamDocUK (Cameroon Doctors UK)
@CamDocUK
MDA (Muslim Doctors Association)
@Muslimdoctors
SDA (Sikh Doctors & Dentists Association)
@BritishSikhDocs
#لا_للحرب
#الدم_السوداني_واحد
#KeepEyesOnSudan
In our latest Off Script, @dr_benoy_n_shah argues in support of the UK #JuniorDoctorsStrikes. "The fact that salaries from April 2003 and April 2023, for the same job, are even remotely comparable is truly staggering," he says.
Read the full blog here:
https://t.co/6a8HR1NAin
Madeleine Albright said there's a special place in hell for women that don't help other women
I feel similarly about the retired or soon-to-retire senior medics, who did extremely well from medicine, writing into national papers punching down on the generation below
For shame
This will hopefully be of interest & educational value to all the valve enthusiasts out there. Our previous 2 webinars were very well received, so we hope you can join us on December 2nd!
#MedTwitter#cardiotwitter#echofirst#ACCFIT#EACVI
Prof @MichaelPapadak2 reports the cardiac outcomes of 104,369 people aged 14-35 who screened by @CRY_UK and followed up for 630k person years. 1 in 300 had serous disease; >40% had intervention. Chances of missing a serious condition was 1 in 1250.#CRY2022