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One case involved a consultant who reported that a PA had “overruled” their request for a specific patient investigation
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Hundreds of thousands of retired staff will be forced to wait up to another 20 months
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The management of haematological malignancies is still “gender blind”, despite clear sex differences in many aspects of these cancers, international researchers have concluded
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A new £20 payment for GPs who seek specialist advice about referrals starts this month, but the number of requests they make can be capped to protect local NHS budgets
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REGISTER: https://t.co/NpXNUEXIcu
Experts discuss thrombophilia & VTE in pregnant patients, the clinical impact of thrombophilia, antithrombotic therapies for pregnancy complications & the prevention of pregnancy-related VTE.
@HaemSTAR_UK
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@MiddeldorpS @GiuliaSimini1

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Nearly 10,000 jobs are expected to be lost in the restructure, with savings of more than half a billion pounds a year redirected to frontline services
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The removal of a requirement for a High Court judge to approve assisted dying applications will leave doctors “unduly exposed” if the bill becomes law - Medical Defence Union
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The GMC has clarified that no doctor can escape past fitness-to-practise issues by changing their gender - after suggesting the opposite to a national newspaper @gmcuk @Telegraph
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Most haematologists are women, mirroring a dominance of females in the medical workforce for the first time in the UK’s history
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The addition of daratumumab to lenalidomide and dexamethasone offers long-term health related quality of life benefits to transplant ineligible patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, researchers report

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Hugely excited for this webinar from Saskia Middledorp lead on sooo many pivotal studies in H&T.

Part of @HaemSTAR_UK's research-focused 2 monthly webinar series hosted by @thelimbichaemUK

Tues 25th March 08:15 - 09:00 GMT

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Doctors whose careers are in jeopardy due to exam results botched by “human error” face an important deadline as medical bodies battle over what should happen to them @NHSEngland @gmcuk @RCPhysicians @TheBMA
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A coroner has warned that the NHS is compromising public safety by employing physician associates in roles outside their competency, after a woman died from a condition that a PA misdiagnosed as a nosebleed
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NICE has backed a new treatment for preventing relapse in certain adults with B-ALL
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REGISTER: https://t.co/jyhlu6DCRU
Join the limbic in collaboration with the BSHT for an exploration of how Von-Willebrand Factor platelet interactions could play a role in the chances of survival for patients with intracerebral haemorrhage.

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“As a doctor it is heartbreaking to be unable to treat patients due to systemic issues"
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"Careers have been put on hold. Mental health has suffered. Families have been financially strained. Jobs and training placements have been lost.”
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@TheBMA @RCPhysicians @MRCPUK

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The CAR-T will be available for routine use in certain patients after NICE overturned an earlier decision
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The UK has become a target market for international private equity investors
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Typical screening tools are “unreliable” and “unsafe” so hospital docs must ask the right questions - UK experts
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