Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in shoulder, elbow, hand & wrist surgery. Tweets about the lighter side of NHS, medicine, and sometimes cars, gadgets & sports.
Northampton
Joined May 2013
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Alistair Jepson retweeted
If you have pain in your thumbs for no reason, or if your pain doesn’t go away after injury, it may be the start of thumb #arthritis.
A top consultant #orthopaedic surgeon, Mr Alistair Jepson (@upper_limb), explains how it can be treated: bit.ly/3uZSaKn.
Alistair Jepson retweeted
#Covid_19 will heavily impact delivery of elective #surgery globally. In our @BJSurgery paper we project that 28.4 million operations will be cancelled due to #COVID19 related disruption.
#SoMe4Surgery #COVIDー19
🔗bjssjournals.onlinelibrary.w…
Alistair Jepson retweeted
*NATIONAL RECRUITMENT*
For anyone in 🇬🇧 who was applying to CT or ST in *any* specialty, you’re gonna wanna read this
#medtwitter #orthotwitter #medicine #surgery #MedEd #coronavirusuk #coronavirus #Covid_19 #COVID19 @AoMRC @AoMRCTrainees @MattHancock
Alistair Jepson retweeted
👇This needs sorting, urgently in the next couple of days @RishiSunak @MattHancock
Healthcare workers, bullied out of the pension scheme by ill conceived taxes, need to be confident of FULL death in service and ill health retirement benefits
Fix this now please.
RT widely pls
Many of us who have had to opt out of the NHS pension scheme because of the tax nightmare are now stepping up to help our #NHS Potentially risking our lives. However we no longer have death in service cover. How can that be right? @goldstone_tony @MattHancock @RishiSunak
Alistair Jepson retweeted
V IMPORTANT 👇: Gvmnt pledged to fix the pensions fiasco in 30d. YOUR MP needs to know how it is affecting YOU & YOUR PATIENTS. Act now & (re)write to your MP-see template below. It take 5minutes - pls CUSTOMISE
🙏retweet widely & share with colleagues off twitter
#ScrapAAinDB
Help us ensure the Govt honours its pledge to review the punitive pension tax system within the first 30 days in office by using our template letter to ask your MP to push the Chancellor to scrap the taper and annual allowance in defined benefit schemes e-activist.com/page/52831/ac…
Alistair Jepson retweeted
Great interview @CNagpaul @TheBMA
“ludicrous situation doctors preventing doing extra hours... taxed more through pensions than they would earn... that could be scrapped immediately... just get on and do it and allow doctors to look after patients”
#ScrapAAinDB
RT if you agree
Alistair Jepson retweeted
A number of #BSSH members have featured in radio interviews as part of our ongoing joint #Firework safety campaign 🎆
Grey Giddins - @BBCBristol bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07qrr…
@handconsultant - @BBCOxford
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07r0s…
Jill Arrowsmith - @BBCDerby
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07q44…
Alistair Jepson retweeted
On behalf of our members, we would like to remind the public to stay safe to those celebrating #NationalAvocadoDay! 🥑
Nobody wants to fall victim to #AvocadoHand so please place the avocado on a surface when removing the stone and save yourself a trip to the #HandSurgeon🖐️🔪
Alistair Jepson retweeted
Times editorial hits the nail on the head. Time for Chancellor to listen to @theBMA and act to change "stupid taxes" thetimes.co.uk/article/the-t…
Alistair Jepson retweeted
A chancellor and health secretary that understand that current pensions taxation - especially the tapered annual allowance - is an existential threat to the NHS and patient safety AND that 50:50 WONT solve it. Retweet if you agree! #ScrapTheTaper
Alistair Jepson retweeted
Someone is choking and needs the Heimlich maneuver. The time it took for someone to understand what should be done. It is important to spread this knowledge. – at Fortaleza, Brazil
Alistair Jepson retweeted
Profoundly worrying results @nhsemployers @FirstActuarial survey. 18% reduced hours, 44% thinking about it. I agree entirely with the quote - this is going to have a DISASTROUS effect on patient care @MattHancock @PhilipHammondUK . What do you propose @BorisJohnson @Jeremy_Hunt ?
Alistair Jepson retweeted
Stronglines has teamed up with Alistair Jepson, specialist @upper_limb orthopaedic consultant at @BMI Three Shires in the management of #frozenshoulder.
Frozen shoulder aka Adhesive Capsulitis is characterised by… instagram.com/p/ByPomGUJpg3/… – at Wellingborough, England
Alistair Jepson retweeted
great talks by Dr Lalonde at the Wrightington WALANT Course
Relative motion splints cure hand and finger pain when a pencil test is positive growkudos.com/publications/1… via @growkudos
Alistair Jepson retweeted
Good sound advice from the @BritOrthopaedic association on how to deal with the effects of #winterbedpressures on #orthopaedictraining
Alistair Jepson retweeted
Our Chief Executive, Dr. Sonia Swart received a letter from Tom Pursglove MP for #Corby & East #Northamptonshire.
The letter below was written to thank the staff at #TeamNGH for the hard work and dedication towards helping local people. – at Northampton, England
Alistair Jepson retweeted
Let's help encourage company car drivers into electric vehicles by signing this petition to bring forward Benefit-in-Kind reductions for EVs. Please RT and share!
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Alistair Jepson retweeted
It's #ThumbsUp Tuesday!
This 46 year old right handed lady had an eight year history of worsening arthritic thumb pain. Given a joint injection in December 2017, she had a KERIMEDICAL SA Touch CMCJ replacement courtesy of Mr @upper_limb on 11th June 20…lnkd.in/gRcAKJc