Academic Colorectal Surgeon, Committed to Student & Trainee collaborative research in Aus & NZ. Sunrrise Australia Trial and other studies coming

Joined September 2019
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Peter Pockney retweeted
Everyone’s talking about it but Season 2 of Covid is honestly dull as fuck. Same recycled plot points from S1. Initial shock has given way to depression and tedium. And all the “world leader” characters are stupid to the point of implausibility. Should’ve been a limited series.
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Peter Pockney retweeted
19 Jul 2021
Lack of collaboration in Australian #COVID research is a concern. Improvement needed for research impact! Congrats to our Evidence Integration team on this important paper out today in MJA. @angelacwebster @LeneSeidler onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

New review of Australian #COVID19 research finds lack of collaboration and crucial gaps | study by @CPC_usyd member Prof Angela Webster @angelacwebster & Dr Anna Seidler @LeneSeidler from @TrialsCentre in @theMJA @syd_health sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…
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Peter Pockney retweeted
I don’t say this lightly, but it is my humble personal opinion that the Prime Minister has failed his most basic duty to protect the country. He failed to implement a safe quarantine system and he failed to secure protection for his citizens in the form of good vaccine supply.
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Peter Pockney retweeted
What an achievement! 1500 patients recruited into @ROSSINI2Trial. Congratulations to the PI - @jules_cornish and the rest of the team at The University Hospital of Wales (@CV_UHB) for recruiting the 1500th patient. Thank you! #only5110togo #NotoSSI #Surgicaltrials
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Peter Pockney retweeted
15 Jul 2021
🥳 BIG NEWS! We have enrolled over 1000 patients! 🥳 Congratulations team for all the hard work reaching this milestone!

ALT trippy GIF by Pi-Slices

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Peter Pockney retweeted
Australian public messaging is an art form...
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Peter Pockney retweeted
Replying to @piersmorgan
A letter by son ❤️
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Peter Pockney retweeted
Boris Starling This is England. 1.This is England: Raheem Sterling, whose big sister would go with him to training and back every day, three buses each way, and never once complained. Raheem Sterling, who called the day he
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Peter Pockney retweeted
🏴‍☠️ @BorisJohnson had a hissy fit in his Parliament office over @Keir_Starmer calling the #DeltaVariant#JohnsonVariant,” so please don't RT; it will upset #BentBoris! #JohnsonVariant #JohnsonVariant #JohnsonVariant #JohnsonVariant #JohnsonVariant #JohnsonVariant
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Peter Pockney retweeted
6 Jul 2021
Here's a look at one of our #mostcited A #systematic review of #frailty after major abdominal #surgery - 35 studies/1,153,684 patients: ⬆️Morbidity (OR 2.56) ⬆️early mortality (OR 5.77) ⬆️long term mortality (HR 2.71) #SoMe4Surgery #openaccess doi.org/10.1002/bjs5.22
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THREAD: Where are we in UK with cases, where are we going and should we care? TLDR: nowhere good, somewhere worse, absolutely yes. 1/24 (yes, I know, another long one. Still worth a read I hope!)
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Peter Pockney retweeted
How to write a paper by @AndrewMIbrahim H/T @drkeithsiau
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Hi Su Ka I only made progress with refund from Qantas when I involved trading standards. 6/12 mucking about was sorted in a week, don’t let them waste your time, get help
29 May 2021
Really… @Qantas 3.5 hours to speak to someone… #wait #refund 😱
Peter Pockney retweeted
26 May 2021
@nhsswft @MarriottPJM @NNUH @NNUHResearch (didn't tag properly sorry)
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Peter Pockney retweeted
26 May 2021
🍾🎉 Recruitment is now complete!!! 🎉🍾A massive THANK YOU to everyone at our sites across the UK and Australia!!! 🌅 @WMRC_UK @NWRCsurgery @rwilkin_1 @pinkney_t @SarahDuff3 @MStott88 @Beccajfish @hsekhar1982 @DrJamesGlasbey @petecoe1 @PPockney @BhamCTU @LivUniNWSTC
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Peter Pockney retweeted
11 May 2021
Tweetorial on Radiation Risk from CT. How likely are you to get cancer from one or even five CTs in a year? We'll be taking the long scenic route through Chernobyl and Fukushima Daichi over 25 tweets to finally (and hopefully) arrive at an answer. 1/25
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Peter Pockney retweeted
NEW: v38.0 includes a conditional recommendation for timing of surgery following C19 infection. The Taskforce has reviewed evidence from a large multi-centre study of patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery (@COVIDSurg Collaborative). Details: bit.ly/3nNEzCU
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