Michael Mather

Dad and Husband. ENT Clinical Lecturer. Gardening, food and allotment enthusiast.

[Michael Mather @MichaelMather6]

@UniofNewcastle @NCL_medscience

[Michael Mather @MichaelMather6]

What a lovely evening hosted by @BMAFoundationMR. Feeling very grateful for this opportunity to work on Meniere’s Disease and add new knowledge to this important topic.

[BMA Foundation @BMAFoundationMR]

Congratulations to the second 2025 Philip Baker grant winner: Dr Michael Mather🌟#medresearchawards @UniofNewcastle

[BMA Foundation @BMAFoundationMR]

Congratulations to the second 2025 Philip Baker grant winner: Dr Michael Mather🌟#medresearchawards @UniofNewcastle

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Wow, this really sets it in perspective.

#JuniorDoctorsStrike #BMA #PayRestoration

[NEJM @NEJM]

A woman with hypertension presented to the clinic with a 4-day history of abnormal sounds in her ear. On examination, a small spider was seen moving within the external auditory canal of the left ear. The molted exoskeleton of the spider was also present. https://t.co/dye2sbbiL9

[ENT UK @ENT_UK]

Surgery is more effective than nasal sprays for symptoms of a crooked septum. Read more here - https://t.co/jSdOid7VJN This adds to the evidence to inform doctor-patient discussions & informs discussions with health commissioners. #Research #NAIROS @JamesOHaraNCL @NIHRresearch

[Nigel D'Souza @mrnigeldsouza]

To understand the medical brain drain from UK to Oz, look at my🇦🇺 fellowship payslip.

Fortnightly salary = 12470 AUD = 6528 GBP.

= £170 000 per annum as a trainee.

UK consultant salary = £88 000 p.a.

We will lose our best doctors from the UK if we don’t fix this.

[Wellcome @wellcometrust]

The @humancellatlas is a global effort to map every cell in the human body. It’s open to scientists all over the world.

Prof @Muzz_Haniffa, a researcher and dermatologist, will tell us more about it in our #TwitterSpace ���

Set a reminder ⤵️
https://t.co/sxOueNjap7

[Dr Robert Laurenson @RobLaurensonD4P]

Do the fair and reasonable thing @DHSCgovuk

#FullPayRestoration

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Dear @jeremy_hunt,

As Chancellor, please can you explain how scrapping inheritance tax is ‘affordable’, yet addressing brutal real terms pay cuts for the country’s teachers, doctors, nurses, paramedics & all other vital public servants is not?

Thank you. https://t.co/tfS1e8hgWT

[Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @thomasdolphin]

Well, @theBMA has been warning that this was happening for years, but we keep being told "oh, people are lining up to get into medical school! You're worried about nothing!"

There's no point getting people through medical school if we then drive them out of the NHS afterwards.

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear 🇬🇧,

The @Conservatives have starved the NHS of £40 BILLION a year over the last decade and they want you to be impressed with this £1B uplift. It's a joke. With pay/conditions so terrible here, this will simply train more staff to go work in Australia.

#SOSNHS

[Michael Mather @MichaelMather6]

@HelenCocks5 It was the same yesterday. Changed trains 3 times for what was due to be a direct journey 🙃

[Michael Mather @MichaelMather6]

Learnt a lot from this brilliant session on OME 👂

[ESPO (Pediatric ENT) @ESPO_PedENT]

Great sesssion today on the #OME . Thank you to all the speakers, moderator and chair. Lots to think about! #ESPO2023

[Newcastle University @UniofNewcastle]

The biggest study of its kind revealed that patients who had a tonsillectomy had 50% less sore throats over two years, compared to patients who did not undergo tonsillectomy @JamesOHaraNCL @NIHRresearch @NewcastleHosps https://t.co/14VyYAlvgA

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention.

At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem.

Let’s dig deeper:

[Rattled Doc @rahttled_doc]

Dear @SteveBarclay,

There seems to be a lot of interest on UK #MedTwitter (@RoshanaMN) in how enticing Australia is for UK docs. Here are a few examples, from a junior doctor who made the move, of the international market you're competing with.

You should be worried.🧵

[Roshana 🦴 @RoshanaMN]

Salaries for Australian ‘junior’ Doctors WITHOUT oncall pay

Embarrassed much @DHSCgovuk @SteveBarclay ?