Head of Programmes, Modernising Patient Pathways, Centre for Sustainable Delivery CfSD All views expressed my own
Joined December 2013
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Amazingly well done on your honour @MaggieC58402532 . Well deserved!! @NHSGGC #ellsa @RahEllsa @RAHSurgery #emergencylaparotomy @nela ardrossanherald.com/news/248…
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The Scottish Arthroplasty Project (SAP) aims to encourage continual improvement in the quality of care provided to joint replacement surgery patients.
🆕View the latest annual report here: publichealthscotland.scot/pu…
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📰Read the BMJ quality improvement report, with input from the Modernising Patient Pathways, Ear Nose and Throat, Specialty Delivery Group, which showed over 90% patient satisfaction when clinical information is provided immediately after GP referral.
👉bmjopenquality.bmj.com/conte…
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Great to see another specialty adopting the principle of sharing information from first referral. Patients apparently like it! #MedTwitter #PatientExperience @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting @fifehandclinic @NHSScotCfSD
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Feeling encouraged that the grafting is paying off. Day 0 mob up, post op LoS down. March post op length of stay looking good.
Next steps identified.
#TeamOrtho #KNorth #IRHElective #MDTisKey #OneTeamOneDream #babystepsforward @LouiseWatsonAHP @SuseOc @davidmcd07 @MCKENNA07
Scotland ain’t half bad, great weekend 40mins out from the city……. And a shorter way to get back down 😜
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🚨 Job alert! 🚨
Join us at @BU_Orthopaedic as our new Lab/Data technician with opportunity to study for a funded part-time MRes/PhD
Closing date 1st Jan 2024
Job advert
bournemouth.ac.uk/about/jobs…
Video about ORI
youtu.be/UPfZE2mwbEU?si=OYMX…
If anyone has two secs and wants to help aid my son’s football club get free team kit… would be much appreciated. Please vote for East Dunbartonshire FC
1/4 FINAL - GAME 3
Up tonight, we have two very classy strips! Same drill, 24hrs to go nuts and shout far and wide for your favourite to progress!
#WorldCupOfStrips
@official_edfc vs @StRochsJuniors
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52%St Rochs FC
2,758 votes • Final results david mcdonald retweeted
📢Booking is now open for the 12th @ERASsocietyUK Conference, 24th Nov 2023, London.
📈Abstract submission open until 31st August.
Full details here mailchi.mp/65a11f43c6b7/book…
#enhancedrecovery #ERAS #surgery
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Another great opportunity for anyone with knowledge & skills in improvement & redesign & an interest in #cancerprehabilition
apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/J…
#prehab #rehab
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🎺New Publication! 📘
'Patient-centred outcomes after emergency stoma formation - how can we improve post-operative quality of life?'
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Come and join us @BU_Orthopaedic
Fully funded PhD opportunity in data science!
"Development of a learning health system for orthopaedic surgery using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques"
PhD opportunity with on @FindAPhD: findaphd.com/phds/projectdet…
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Delighted to share the news that both Raigmore Hospital and the National Treatment Centre - Highland both had patients this week who came in for joint replacement and were discharged on the same day. Also known as a day zero discharge
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@SipTilSend Fluid fasting before surgery: the ultimate example of medical sophistry? - Checketts - Anaesthesia associationofanaesthetists-p…
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1st health effects study from our vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activty #VILPA framework.
- New paper: tinyurl.com/NatMedVILPA
Post-publication expert commentary: tinyurl.com/VILPA
#VILPA research framework: below
@Matthew_Ahmadi_ @ma_hamer @JasonGill74 @gibalam
Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity (VILPA): we developed a 4‑Pillar research framework to understand the potential of regular short bouts of higher intensity incidental physical activity bit.ly/3oy5l2c new Leading Article in @SportsMedicineJ. THREAD-->:
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How little vigorous intensity #PhysicalActivity (VPA) is enough? Two bouts/day of only ≤2mins each ➡️35%⤵️ in CVD death risk (!) tinyurl.com/EurHeartJrn 1st device-measured VPA dose-response paper ➡️ MUCH smaller amounts than recommendations in (questionnaire-based) guidelines
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Vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA), 3-4 minute bursts per day, associated with ~40% reduction of all-cause mortality, cancer and cardiovascular mortality nature.com/articles/s41591-0… @NatureMedicine @ma_hamer @M_Stamatakis
