Emergency medicine consultant and researcher at Barts Health NHS Trust, Senior Lecturer at QMUL, opinions are my own

Joined January 2013
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We are giving a webinar tonight for our excellent Masters in Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. The title is 'What you want may not always be what you get!' Register here: tinyurl.com/vb59bk82 @LibbyLilias @QMUL

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I'm delighted to report we won best team award at the NIHR CRN RCEM 2022 awards. local.nihr.ac.uk/news/barts-… @Raine_A_C @RoyalLondonHosp @NHSBartsHealth

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Don’t know who did this, but it is superb. "'Restraint' or 'Dignity' might be better choices here" is 10/10
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What a great news ! @EuropSocEM @EusemY are proud of their @EJ_EmergencyMed and acknowledge the huge effort and work made by EiC @FreundYonathan his associates @barbrabackus @YordaYou @drbenbloom and all the editorial board ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻#proudpresident
Hi folks, The 2021 Impact Factor of the European Journal of Emergency Medicine is 4.11! We are ranked 7th / 32 EM journals. Yes that is right : EJEM is in the first quarter! Looking for a Q1 journal with timely decisions? We're here - submit!
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Top anecdote H/t @gsaab
On a weekend of Queen anecdotes, this won't be matched. Just lovely.
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All sites recruited participants to @CostedTrial trial last week, taking us over 600 recruits! Thank you all for your ongoing support. @NNUHResearch @drbenbloom @HUH_Research @LeicesterLungs @emerge_research @EDHomerton @AddiesEd @NIHRresearch @Drainpipes @caitlinnuea

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The columnists attacking the NHS don’t really have an explanation beyond clichés and lazy tropes about the NHS as a religion. Here are some hypotheses & more in the thread that follows 1/15
🆕 Does the UK have a problem with health outcomes compared to other countries? @markgdayan explores #NHS outcomes and stresses the importance of questioning whether we could have a health service that saves more lives. nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-it…
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So this is interesting. There is NOT ONE hospital physician or generalist surgeon on the @gmcuk Advisory Group, who put together the new standards. 4 doctors. 3 GPs (1 trainee, ?1 retired). 1 ophthalmic surgeon. Out of 12 Not a single person engaged in Acute hospital 1/
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ICYMI: At 9 am BST on April 4, @drbenbloom of @NHSBartsHealth is giving the (virtual) plenary address for our April 2022 Business Meetings, focusing on #COVID19 and the Emergency Care Data Set. It's open to observers. Zoom link: bit.ly/3uK9weV
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Delighted to be presenting plenary session at @SnomedCT Spring conference 2022 @NHSBartsHealth #ECDS #analytics #handover #ambulance
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This confused me - at King's Cross tube @OffMenuOfficial @perfectsoundpod @joelycett
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Good morning! We are SO excited that the day is finally here - we will shortly welcome the first researchers to our new #archives! For the first time, you can access all the collections we hold at a single, permanent site, with improved facilities & increased capacity (1/3)
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Emergency Medicine priority setting is back! @RCollEM is working with us to update the research priorities set in 2017. Please take part in the survey, RT and spread the word surveymonkey.co.uk/r/G5ZHH2L #jlaempsp #jlaempsprefresh
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A thread 🧵 on our (@vfjn2, Ian Roberts) recent perspective in #EMJ: What’s in a number? Problems with counting traumatic brain injuries emj.bmj.com/content/early/20… 1/8

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Knowing the rates of attendance, admission, surgery and mortality for patients with head and traumatic brain injury is critical in order to inform policies on prevention, resource allocation and to meet the needs of those who have sustained a TBI. 7/8
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When the best, or at least, the most quoted figure applicable is unreliable, we could be failing to meet the needs of our patients, and not even know we are failing. This is something we are addressing in forthcoming research. 8/8