Father, Husband, Doctor Who fan. Also work in emergency medicine & dabble with education and saying yes to too much stuff.
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Jamie Sillett retweeted
Faith is campaigning with other blood cancer patients and charities including @AnthonyNolan for @NHSEngland to change the rules on second transplants bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xk…
I'm fundraising for @AnthonyNolan in memory of my Mum who died of AML.
In September I will be swimming Windermere (17km).
Check out my @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/jamie-si…
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And the key cause of poor performance is not unexpected demand: it is unpredictable exit from A&E to a bed (which is mostly determined by poor operations process across the whole hospital and mostly not inside the A&E at all)...
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And NHSE seem adamantine in their refusal to see the problem as one of exit block, preferring to focus on demand reduction and diversion (which doesn't work if the last decade is a guide and would not help even if it did).
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Get on the blood stem cell register.
“Being a stem cell donor is your chance to save someone’s life."
"It’s like the lottery - You buy a ticket by getting on the register, you might win and save someone’s life - so why not buy a ticket?”
@almurray on the importance of signing up: bit.ly/4oUBdwE
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"Every hour lost to poorly designed administrative activity is an hour not spent examining, teaching, or treating."
Administrative overload harms patient care and wastes clinical time, @SammyArab @KaranChhatwal_ @HamaadAKhan
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For those like Kemi Badenoch banging on about banning striking it's wise to read this document from the GMC about how the rest of the world sees us as a place to work in medicine; TLDR easy to get in but rubbish pay, conditions, treatment by employers & quality of life. Make that worse at your peril. Fix the pay review body, government have never wanted to pay doctors appropriately since 1948!
gmc-uk.org/-/media/documents…
Five years in and I am already on the fifth go round for explaining why recruitment of doctors is needed in the ED and that max weekend frequencies mean we will always need bank/locum staff.
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And when you say “this doesn’t feel safe” (and you are already working so far past safe that it has to be really bad to say this) you are met with nothing. Because there is nothing that anyone can do.
Duty of candour is a total joke and just adds to the burden and moral injury
40 years old, educated to post graduate level and literally responsible for people’s lives at work… I have had to ask special permissions to be able to print in colour.
Why can’t we treat people like adults? I certainly feel less valued by my employer than before this decision
This is sadly very accurate…
When we treat NHS people like office furniture, spare parts, plug and play, we lose something far bigger than a line on a spreadsheet. We lose memory. Damage trust… confidence, continuity, capability. myemail.constantcontact.com/…
Any @RCollEM appointments commitee reps on here available 12/5 for a panel @NGHnhstrust? Happy to run over teams but we’re struggling to get anyone.
Would also appreciate a r/t to share wider. Thanks.
A tweet worth reading and reflecting on how you and folk in your department would behave.
FY1 changeover day which for me means having to firmly assert to a whole new department that yes, I can open doors for myself, and repeatedly being asked ‘what happened to you’ #DisabledDoctors
ALT Selfie of Tiri from the waist up, wearing turquoise scrubs with a ‘Doctor’ lanyard and ID cards, purple stethoscope and 2 bleeps. She has shoulder length light brown hair and neutral framed glasses. She’s in a black wheelchair which is partially in the image.
Jamie Sillett retweeted
We get asked a lot by single disease groups to do something different / better. These are all important conditions. The problem is that asking us to prioritise one condition is tacitly asking us to deprioritise others.
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“It leaves a hole in your soul”
— Anonymous RCN nurse
More than 5,000 nurses have shared their harrowing experiences of so called #CorridorCare
#EndCorridorCare
#ResuscitateEmergencyCare
Patients are dying in hospital corridors with some left undiscovered for hours, according to a harrowing report into the state of the NHS by the Royal College of Nursing. Other patients are left sitting on chairs for days - due to a lack of beds - or treated in unsuitable places, such as shower rooms or cupboards.
The RCN is calling for immediate government action to end so-called 'corridor care' which it says has become normalised.
@richardgaisford reports.
I can believe this was the ‘least worst’ choice faced by a department. These decisions are being made up & down the country because there isn’t capacity for everyone coming through the doors. I know I am one bad shift from choices like this myself.
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Corridor nurses and care in corridors utterly normalised (this is an advert for a corridor nurse but sadly it’s nothing new). Don’t be fooled as critical incidents stood down: they’ll be back. Almost every hospital is treating patients in corridors and car parks. @RCollEM
Naming no names… but have definitely worked places where the culture is that calling a critical incident is discouraged.
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Marshall, aged 21, is searching for a stem cell donor – but right now there’s not a single match worldwide for him.
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ALT Marshall sitting at a table in a restaurant, wearing a patterned short-sleeve shirt.