Stuart Durham

Retired Emergency Medicine Consultant. European Trauma Course Director. Point of Care Ultrasound enthusiast. Burnt out and not as good as I used to be...

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@liambarker @medicluke You get the same brush off with ED referrals

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@KMcG_CEO @LancsHospitals Good bye

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@TotalResus @LeechCaroline Surely less and less?

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@NickFerran @_johndunne He probably just fainted! Lie him down for gods/allahs sake!

[Chris Moulton @DrChrisMoulton]

Please retweet if you think that these hard-working and undervalued colleagues deserve to be treated better.

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@HelenBevan @PennyPereira1 @DrAmarShah @NHSConfed Sounds management speak rather than clinical shop-floor common sense. Must admit I’m time expired but probably not alone.

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

I understand LTHTR are employing another Management Consultant to tell the Exec how to do their job! They will pay a fortune, wait for the report, not act on its recommendations and here we go again!

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@LawrenceDunhill Massive under-reporting from Preston/LTHTR

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@dralangrayson @DrJenGunter Is there no cream for that?

[Dr Linda Dykes has moved to Bluesky @DrLindaDykes]

This is a bloody stupid idea. In fact it is beyond stupidity. It is verging on insanity. Is it really beyond the wit of man to grasp the need to unblock flow right through the system? Expanding ED without a magic staff tree will result in dead patients. https://t.co/mv5c4QBmYj

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@ShaunLintern A bit of a simplistic analysis Shaun. Times are bad but please do not lower yourself to scaremongering journalism

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@NewHospitalsLSC @LancsHospitals @UHMBT We have seen increasing use of the ED’s but this is not all due to new cases. At one time there were various access points for emergency and urgent care but these are now very limited leaving ED’s as the only access point. The front door is open wide but with massive exit block.

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

@EGLS_ Has to be a wire , occasional reverberation beyond it?

[Stuart Durham @StuartDurham3]

I've #justsponsored Team Emergency Department, who's fundraising for Syria Relief on @JustGiving. Donate now https://t.co/hGpxEQOeAP

[Andywebster @Andywebster]

Harrogate is a lovely place to live and work

[Lawrence Dunhill @LawrenceDunhill]

This includes a good 10 mins on the Chorley A&E/Matt Hancock controversy....
#Lancashire

[Lawrence Dunhill @LawrenceDunhill]

On the Chorley A&E controversy...

Health minister Edward Argar confirms Matt Hancock had no legit power to stop the reconfig/closure.

But when DHSC holds the purse strings on big capital project ££s (which Lancashire badly needs), you 100% need to stay on their good side

[Lawrence Dunhill @LawrenceDunhill]

Here we go then...

Matt Hancock's out-of-process intervention in the Chorley A&E closure now being used to try and keep another small dept in Devon open.

The mention of North by North West refers to this-https://t.co/E5EWAW8ABI

[Lawrence Dunhill @LawrenceDunhill]

More bad news for emergency clincians at Preston/Chorley Hospitals...

Understand they've been told Chorley A&E must return to 12-hour opening from Monday (it's been at 8 hrs in recent months)

The clinicians are adamant the service is already unsafe, & this'll make it even worse

[Lawrence Dunhill @LawrenceDunhill]

'If a local reconfig is against interests of a local area, then SoS should be able to intervene' - says Matt Hancock

But who decides what's in their interest?

With Chorley A&E reconfig -which he has stopped- there were multiple reviews by clincians & expert grps recommeding it