Millie Walker

Resident Doctor | Neuro ICU Clinical Fellow👩🏻‍⚕️

[Millie Walker @millie_walker36]

A delayed happy International Women’s Day #IWD2024 but yesterday I was celebrating - I have been offered an amazing JCF role in Neuro ICU! 🧠🌟

I celebrated with some country music at #C2C2024 🤠

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

"When a borrowed phrase captures intended meaning more precisely, it will make its way into your personal lexicon."

Clinical words and phrases often work their way into doctors’ everyday language. @nikkixnabavi reports
#BMJChristmas
https://t.co/ml9IuQTvB5

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

There is a silent medical scandal ongoing in the UK.

A staggering 20,000 NHS doctors will be potentially out of a speciality training job this August. This means doctors can’t train to be consultants or GPs, despite the rising waiting lists.

The UK has spent time and public money on the education of UK medial graduates, yet 1000s of them are unable to find a speciality training job. This is a colossal waste of money and an example of diabolical workforce planning.

The training spaces are being centrally restricted by the government, yet @wesstreeting refuses to act. Why?

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

There is a massive scandal within the NHS that the public aren’t being told about.

20,000 NHS doctors aren’t being allowed to become specialists, due to a lack of training jobs for them. These jobs are being centrally restricted by the government.

Doctors want to help the NHS, but are being held back from doing so. There is no rational explanation for this. When it takes months to see a specialist, or years to get your operation ask yourself why.

It is shocking that 1000s of doctors are out of training jobs, yet the only thing @wesstreeting has proposed is yet another ‘review’.

An entire generation of doctors are being tossed aside. Those responsible should be resigning in shame.

[St John Ambulance England @stjohnambulance]

A third of Brits are afraid to give CPR to a woman because they are worried about touching breasts.

In a cardiac emergency, taking fast action is the right thing to do. Make sure you have the skills and the confidence to save a life: https://t.co/T8QTGEn48T

#CPRBra

[Millie Walker @millie_walker36]

I have never in my medical training and career even seen a female CPR mannequin …..
These sort of changes need to be happening in every medical training establishment 👇🏼

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

A woman is killed by a man every three days in the UK

“Domestic” – that word that somehow doesn’t feel adequate – because terror can also happen in the home.

My thoughts on the Bushey tragedy

[Millie Walker @millie_walker36]

What a way to be closing out my O+G rotation - yesterday I completed my first c-section from first incision to closure as primary surgeon! 👩🏻‍⚕️

[Millie Walker @millie_walker36]

As a med student, I felt unsupported + uninspired and considered leaving. Luckily I rediscovered my passion.

Med students deserve better + we're doing a disservice to the profession by not supporting our future colleagues and leaders to flourish.

https://t.co/6WjRPlVHlM

[Karim Brohi @karimbrohi]

This week @London_Trauma System is publishing our Palliative and End of Life Care in Older Trauma Patients best practice guidance. Please share widely!

https://t.co/RARYXMhq2c

Key Principles:

All healthcare professionals involved in the care of older trauma patients have a responsibility towards the identification and management of an individual’s palliative and end of life care needs.

Palliative support for older trauma patients should be provided in conjunction with, and not separate to, best available curative/life-prolonging interventions

All older trauma patients should be looked up on local health records to see if they have an advance care pathway

Prognostication at the outset can be difficult. Where the appropriateness of clinical interventions is uncertain, ‘time limited trial of treatments’ should be considered, alongside patients wishes and preferences.

Effective communication between TUs and MTCs is essential and palliative care referral pathways should be in place within trauma networks to facilitate individualised decision-making.

Where specialist services at MTCs are requested to guide treatment options, senior TU clinicians managing the patient should factor in and convey relevant information about a patient’s medical background and personal values, to enable shared decision-making on prognosis, treatment intentions and the best location of ongoing care.

Thank you to @TraumaEMC and everyone involved in producing this guidance.

[mau @villainsaints]

born to read books forced to have no time to read them

[Millie Walker @millie_walker36]

Some pre-holiday studying before hitting the slopes tomorrow 🧠 🎿

[Millie Walker @millie_walker36]

@Emma_J_Wells Millie Walker - this looks wonderful!

[Robert Howard @ProfRobHoward]

The NHS certainly feels in worse shape than it did in 2010 but these figures show just awful things have become.

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

politician in training

[Tim Ricketts @timricketts_]

Based on some recent conversations, I felt like a thread was needed on some of the issues surrounding medical training, and how they intersect with the long term workforce plan.

Buckle in for a long one

1/14 🧵

[Ella Burchill @ella_burchill]

Wickedly brilliant.

[Millie Walker @millie_walker36]

Very proud to have my poster at the #WCP23 and a very interesting few days learning from the great minds of @WPA_Psychiatry in the beautiful city of Vienna 🇦🇹

[Millie Walker @millie_walker36]

@WPA_Psychiatry Great session from @WesselyS on the final day of #WCP2023