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James Chess

@ChessMD

Consultant Physician & Chief Medical Information Officer Swansea Bay/IT lead WKN; proud father of 3; Triathlete, Nocturnal MTBer /trail runner

 Swansea UK
Joined November 2014
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Aged 16+ and recently, currently or about to receive outpatient care? Join the Swansea Bay Patient Portal for blood test results, clinic/appointment letters and much more sent direct to your smartphone/PC. *NEW*: now available via the NHS Wales app. More: sbuhb.nhs.wales/Patient-Port…
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An empty factory in Port Talbot could become the site of a new dialysis centre as part of a £70 million investment in South Wales renal services. sbuhb.nhs.wales/news/swansea…
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WKRU@TheWKRU21 Feb 2024
Some new research - "What are the factors that determine treatment choices in patients with kidney failure: a retrospective cohort study using data linkage of routinely collected data in Wales" - congratulations @ChessMD - take a look 👀 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3835…
What are the factors that determine treatment choices in patients with kidney failure: a retrospe...

What are the factors that determine treatment choices in patients with kidney failure: a retrospe...

There is room for improvement in current pre-dialysis treatment pathways. Many patients remain undecided about dialysis choice, and others who may have chosen home dialysis are still likely to start...

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🧵1/5: Great to see our new paper "Trajectories in chronic disease accrual and mortality across the lifespan in Wales, UK (2005–2019), by area deprivation profile: linked electronic health records cohort study on 965,905 individuals" live @LancetRH_Europe doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.202…
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We are inviting people with kidney disease to share their views on the reasons for declining the opportunity to have a kidney transplant. Please retweet or forward on to anyone who may be suitable. Thank you Get in touch with Emma [email protected]
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Thanks to colleagues in @DigitalSBUHB & @DHCWales for helping the Welsh Kidney Network @RenalWelsh develop a digital care summary for Kidney patients in Wales delivered to the Welsh Clinical Portal. dhcw.nhs.wales/news/latest-n…

New digital service delivers vital information for renal care

A digital summary of renal patient care is now available in the Welsh Clinical Portal (WCP), making vital information accessible where and when it's needed.

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9/0 Nylon@9Nylon31 Dec 2022
If NHS nursing was a meritocratic system we would surely see far more nurses of Filipino origin in senior roles by now. What happened?
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John Watson@dr_lungs16 Jan 2022
I am completely in favour of compulsory vacations for all NHS staff during the pandemic. If necessary they should be forced to take them.
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Brilliant presentation from Nikki Ellery and team this morning summarising the benefits of our patient portal. Many thanks @RslewisSally and colleagues at CEDAR for undertaking this evaluation. @hamish_laing @sarahwright1111 @DigitalSBUHB @MattSBUHB @ChessMD
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Matt John@MattDMJJohn5 Feb 2021
Great to see another example today of the digital tools being developed @DigitalSBUHB to support our front line clinicians. The Cancer Treatment Summary electronic form will enable Oncologists to digitally update GPs on patient treatment plans. Piloting soon @SwanseabayNHS
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This week the Renal Transformation team @SwanseabayNHS took its in-house electronic patient record it developed in 2016 to yet another renal unit in wales. Welshpool joins the renal units in Swansea, Carmarthen, Withybush, Aberystwyth, Wrexham & Mold in delivering care digitally
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Great to see our new paper Protocol for the development of the Wales Multimorbidity e-Cohort (WMC): data sources and methods to construct a population-based research platform to investigate multimorbidity bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/1… led by Jane Lyons & great collab team #TeamScience
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This week the Renal Transformation team ⁦@SwanseabayNHS⁩ took its in-house electronic patient record to Mold & Wrexham renal units. Adding another 600 dialysis sessions & 1500 drugs a WEEK❗️ to the 1200 sessions & 6000 drugs already digitally managed in Swansea. All 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿next
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It’s amazing how people come together in a crisis. @DigitalSBUHB have rolled out MS Teams across the HB this week allowing seamless, secure messaging, voice and video calling across desktops and personal mobile devices. Well done team for giving us the tools to deal with C19.
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Our COVID renal website ⁦@SwanseabayNHS⁩ has been updated with dietary information for haemodialysis patients who have changed to twice a week dialysis. Call our renal dietitians if you need advice. Check your blood test results on PatientView📱 sbuhb.nhs.wales/hospitals/a-…

Renal Services

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Rhian rice@RhianRice7 Mar 2020
Thanks to the home dialysis team & renal services @SwanseabayNHS for the amazing care and continued support of my brother in law. What a few week. You are truly amazing. Happy birthday 48th Bri xx @DeeSwanseaBay1 @MattSBUHB they are life savers @evanthomas211 @ffionleighxoxo
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Thanks to the team and patients who spared me their time at the #renalmedicineservice @SwanseabayNHS this morning to discuss all things #epma #pharmacyintegration #innovation really enjoyed it and learnt a huge amount #revalidation @Brown_ie_Chris
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Congrats to team Withybush. On #WKD this completes our roll out of EPMA (Electronic Prescribing) to dialysis units in @ABMHealth & @HywelDdaHB using the shared renal EPR. 5k doses meds per week – Safe, quick, lean #Once4Wales, @kidneydayUK, @FMC_AG, Vitalpulse.com
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Congrats to the team in Aberystwyth RDU & thanks to our partners - @HywelDdaHB , @FMC_AG, vitalpulse.com/
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This week we have digitised another of our dialysis units in @HywelDdaHB⁩ . One more to go and the entire region (2 health boards) will have 5000 💉💊 per WEEK digitally prescribed for dialysis alone from the coordination centre at Morriston hospital @ABMhealth #prudenthealth
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Mark Wardle@mwardle1 Feb 2019
Ok. Fancy parsing natural language and extracting @SNOMEDCT? This uses my open-source SNOMED toolchain and the @AWS Amazon Comprehend Medical API. Notice how generates a "best match" for non-interactive use but provides a list of choices if it is being used interactively.
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