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3 Feb 2025
'Doctor, I'm worried about this patient's observations.' We find them bolt upright, gripping the rails, wheezing with each gasp. RR & BP up, sats down. Classic APO - we got here just in time. Yet an AI for detecting deterioration might have missed this. Our paper explains why...
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Hugh Logan Ellis retweeted
Feb 20
Just one more example of how the UK is a formerly dynamic and growing economy behaving as if it is still a dynamic and growing economy, and then being surprised when things that used to work (and work for other countries that haven’t stagnated) no longer work here.
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12 Dec 2025
"Why are early career doctors angry?" asks @DAaronovitch on BBC Briefing Room.
Two consultants who qualified in 1979 and 1990 are on to explain.
Part of it? Feeling that consultants don't understand their struggles. Funnily enough, that didn't come up.
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12 Dec 2025
I'm a loyal listener, but this was disappointing. Goddard even admits on air he knows the consultant situation better. Here are 16 reasons we're angry, by the excellent @DevanSinha x.com/DevanSinha/status/1741…
30 Dec 2023
Doctors pay dispute is only one, though totemic & overwhelming, of many serious issues affecting working conditions & unattractiveness of the NHS to doctors.
Once started listing issues to express problems doctors face:
XVI Theses on UK Postgraduate Doctors’ Discontent😬
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12 Dec 2025
I think this reddit user captured the feeling of disconnect well too: reddit.com/r/JuniorDoctorsUK…
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Hugh Logan Ellis retweeted
13 Nov 2025
Here's a chart of the marginal tax rate for someone with two kids. They pay 53% tax on every £ they earn between £60k and £80k. 62% on every £ they earn between £100k and £125k.
9% more if they've a student loan
(See all the detail in our calculator, pinned to my profile)
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24 Oct 2025
In the UK's national frailty screening tool, harmful alcohol use is weighted 25x more heavily than dressing problems
This improves prediction. But does it capture frailty?
New commentary with @Krockdoc in @age_and_ageing
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ALT eFI2 scoring formula showing weighted coefficients for health conditions. Highest weights: harmful alcohol use (0.162), palliative care (0.061), falls history (0.074). Lowest weights: dressing/grooming problems (0.006), self-harm (0.001), respiratory disease (0.001). Score categorisation: Robust (0-0.0857), Mild frailty (0.0857-0.1624), Moderate frailty (0.1624-0.2392), Severe frailty (0.2392-1).
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24 Oct 2025
Thank you:
To the reviewers who genuinely improved this work
To @age_and_ageing & the editorial team who are incredibly helpful
And of course to @Krockdoc! It is an immense privilege to work with someone who literally wrote the book on frailty indices 8/8
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18 Oct 2025
I just stumbled upon this preprint that shows the Early Warning Paradox isn’t just theory, it happens in practice.
Lovely work from @katsiferis and colleagues across more than two million hospital admissions in Denmark.
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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18 Oct 2025
Even more interestingly, they tested a “NEWS-Light” that just uses the easiest vital signs to measure: heart rate, respiratory rate, SpO₂, AVPU and oxygen requirement.
It performed almost as well as the full NEWS and could be done faster and more reliably
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18 Oct 2025
It’s a good reminder that not every problem needs more machine learning.
Sometimes the real progress comes from simple, transparent measures that can be applied to more patients and actually make life easier on the wards.
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Hugh Logan Ellis retweeted
22 Jul 2025
Our powerful @Daily_Express front page for tomorrow.
The brutal suffering in Gaza must end. The shocking image shows Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, one, who weighs the same as three-month old baby due to the humanitarian crisis following the continued blocking of basic aid to civilians by Israel.
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Hugh Logan Ellis retweeted
23 Jul 2025
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
The police have confirmed there will be no further action and all bail conditions lifted: however, even when no charges are brought, being arrested under the Terrorism Act leaves a record potentially affecting travel and employment.
Read the full story as well as Mr Farley’s description of what happened on the day itself in the latest Private Eye.
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