Delighted to be shortlisted @HSJ_Awards 2025 for STaRT-HF: Structured Titration and Rapid Treatment for #HeartFailure across @NHS_NELondon delivering remote monitoring & individualised care, transforming treatment for people living with HF. Couldn't be prouder of the team!
Disappointing from @aliceTTimes!
Full of misapprehension, if not misinformation.
1. The ask has ALWAYS been full pay restoration. Doctors are not worth 30% less than they were in 2008.
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This headline is ableist trash.
Shame on you @michaelsearles_ for writing such utter nonsense.
Expect a strong written rebuttal in due course.
Dr O Olusanya
Consultant Intensivist, St Bartholomew’s hospital
GMC 6100365
🚨: St Bartholomew's Hospital have randomised their seventh participant - bringing the study total to 72! 🥳Great teamwork 💪🎉 #BCIS4@NHSBartsHealth@primustime
@DrLKVaughan This drives me mad too. The original assertion was that a CNS should have comparable knowledge in their narrow scope, eg heart failure, as an ST5, ie a gen cardio SpR doing HF work. Never that they had the knowledge/expertise of an ST5 cardiologist. Never equivalence. Nuance key.
Virtual wards for acute #heartfailure are the aim from @NHSEngland
Are they safe? Are HF teams embedded in patient pathways? What are the barriers for care closer to home?
Complex comorbidity and social care are significant challenges @uclh, but #teamwork works! #BSHAM25
Results of 6 months of STaRT-HF: Structured Treatment and Rapid Titration for #heartfailure at #BSHAM25
14 months in, 225 diverse north east London patients, aged 18-92. Meaningful 📈 in cardiac function and 🚨zero🚨HF admissions.
Find out more: https://t.co/51lBrrbIhA
💡The ATLAS Virtual Ward lets low-risk NSTEMI patients to wait safely at home:
• 1,760 bed days freed
• 0% readmissions
• Inpatient stay cut from 7 → 3 days
🎥 Dr @Bhcintervention describes how https://t.co/jhk9Q7FZ42
#ClinicianVoices#DigitalHealth#Cardiology#NHS
💡Pharmacist-led, digital-first heart failure care
• 92% optimised across all four drug classes in weeks
• 0 30-day readmissions
• 659 outpatient appointments avoided
🎥Dr @primustime describes how it works: https://t.co/TfLT2LpiGX
#ClinicianVoices#HeartFailure#VirtualWards
Fantastic News for patients. A dedicated, state of the art centre of excellence for Breast Cancer. Amazing contribution @Barts_Charity https://t.co/qC71DFExV1
Each year, 40–60k people in England are diagnosed with high-risk heart failure. Current waits of 7–8 weeks for echo mean 13% are hospitalised before review.
A 2-week pathway could cut this to under 5%, avoiding thousands of admissions and saving trusts and ICBs millions in costs and bed days.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with NHS England, is seeking 5 additional pilot sites to fast-track adoption of the 2- and 6-week HF pathways by March 2026.
Funding of up to £40k is available, with support from NHS-approved transformation teams and HF clinical leaders.
For interested the sites, the EOI online form (https://t.co/UcuwpH4kLT) needs to be submitted by close of business Friday October 17th 2025.
For more information or to submit an EOI please contact [email protected]
An insightful initial 2 days for Cohort 12 at @BH__Academy & @TheKingsFund Aspiring Medical Leaders programme with colleagues across @NHSBartsHealth and @NHSHomerton. Thank you @MrPramodAchan and team for dispatching us enthused, motivated, reflective and curious for next steps!
We’re finalists #HTNAwards2025 Best Use of Digital for Improving Care Pathways 🎉Bart's pharmacy-led Rapid Up Titration Pathway for Heart Failure delivers:
92% med optimisation
0% 30-day re-admissions
100% patient satisfaction
https://t.co/3b5SCs6keK
#VirtualWard#NHS