Kate Simpson

Our beautiful son was born last week and we are so besotted 💙

📢 #EVADE project update 🏥 56 hospital sites registered and counting!! 🇬🇧 Site registration: redcap.link/evade 🚨 Due to prospective design we need teams AND approvals in place by 31/12 so we are synchronised for data collection in the new year. FINAL PUSH!! (1/1)

📢 #EVADE project update 🏥 33 hospital sites registered and counting!! 🇬🇧 site registration: redcap.link/evade 🚨 Due to prospective design we need teams AND approvals in place by 31/12 so we are synchronised for data collection in the new year. Lets go! (1/1)

Fridge for thee but not for me. When resident doctors talk about poor working conditions in the NHS, the UK immediately has the crab in a bucket mentality: it’s bad for everyone else too, why are doctors so elitist and special? We’re not saying that. But often we’re greeted with unpleasant reminders of how we can’t be treated with a shred of dignity. It’s a tiny thing. They’re always small things, but it sums up how we’re treated in the NHS. We are dehumanised and somehow expected to be grateful to our monopsony employer @NHSEngland @wesstreeting

@RupraRoshan @wesstreeting I also love the irony that the tag line features "one team" ... doesn't feel that way.

Hello my name is Plastic Surgery Reg I’m glad patients know who they’re seeing, or what “reg” stands for after waiting months or years for their appointment Nurses get their names, consultants get their names. Resident doctors? Don’t be silly, we’re not worthy @wesstreeting I’m unsure how much worse it can get with your proposed budget cuts. You’re already paying us less than before!

@BootsUK I had my order delivered and half the items were missing! I’ve contacted your customer support team who are yet to reply.

🚨 Excited to announce the next @uk_torch project #EVADE is now live! Please sign up below, we want as much representation as possible all over the UK 🇬🇧. redcap.mft.nhs.uk/surveys/?__das… @BSGTrainees @BASLedu @WAGE_media @OTavabie @jamesbmaurice @VSAthwal @sheiybani @ChrisMysko

A friend's daughter has just graduated with a First in Physiotherapy. 3000 grads. 50 suitable jobs nationally. She is now working at Tesco. There is a national shortage of Physios. Make it make sense!

PSA to GPs: progesterone only contraceptives can still suppress milk supply for lactating people and they should be counselled on this at postnatal check (I wasn’t and had this side effect).

📢 We are about to GO LIVE with our next project EVADE 📢 Evaluation of the Variation in Management and Outcomes after an Acute Decompensation of Liver cirrhosis Event From speaking to patients we know this is an area of unmet need! #livertwitter 🦋 bsky.app/profile/torchu…

@chelseajade7426 I don’t know the answer to this but I paid for it privately and it was only £20 which I felt was reasonable

Does anyone know if I’m still eligible for my flu vaccine via occy health if I’m on mat leave? Desperate to get it asap this year to protect tiny toes

Can I just put it out there that after I gave birth no one offered me tea and toast - I was led to believe this was the best thing ever and is offered to everyone in the NHS after having a baby 😅😅.

@hannah_ortho Congratulations! Very inspiring

17 years of postgraduate training ends today - what a journey it has been - 3 kids 👧🏼👧🏼👧🏼, 2 higher degrees 🎓🎓, MRCS and FRCS Orth exams 📚📚mat leave x 3, OOPR, LTFT and now finally CCT! 🥂

@mrseleanorohara Congratulations!

Only went and passed PACES at first attempt!!!!!

🧬 When the Gut Leaks Protein: What Every Gastroenterologist Should Know About PLE Protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) is a critical but under-recognised cause of hypoalbuminaemia. This #FGReview walks you through: 📌 Key causes: lymphangiectasia, Ménétrier’s, IBD 🧪 Diagnostic tools: faecal A1AT, lymphocyte counts 🧭 When to suspect, how to confirm, who to refer 🔗 fg.bmj.com/content/early/… #GastroTwitter #PLE #IntestinalFailure #Hypoalbuminaemia #FGInPractice #ClinicalNutrition @PhilSmithIsBack @OTavabie @dr_aditi_kumar @TrevorTabone @eathar_s @IrenePerezMD @KGananandan @zare_benjamin @medicalreg @dtleiberman @BASLedu @BSGtrainees @WorldGastroOrg @ulstergastro @SEEDendoscopia @EASLedu @AmCollegeGastro @Aegastro @SAGES_updates @UHSEndoscopy @WAGE_media @my_ueg @ESPENorg @ASPEN_nutrition @FelanpeO

The paper all of us female ERCPists need to see 👏 well done for writing this! Lack of visible role models is still a huge issue but hope this goes a small way to encouraging more (although we have a looooong way to go!)

@DrSdeG Beautiful, suits you!

New scrubs....what do we think of the lavender?

@Mrs_Bujni @DrHWazir You aren’t missing anything and I would assume many doctors would agree with your point!

Physician Associates are being renamed to Physician Assistants because the public was confused about their role. But here’s what’s truly confusing: A physician assistant now starts on a salary that’s nearly £10,000 more than a fully qualified doctor. Read that again. Doctors - who train for years, take on legal responsibility, make life or death decisions; are being paid less than the people assisting them. Even if doctors won full pay restoration tomorrow, they still wouldn’t be on equal footing. @wesstreeting, how on earth is that acceptable? Doctors are leaving. The NHS is haemorrhaging staff. Patients are waiting longer for their appointments because this Government refuses to fix pay and value and retain doctors. Is it any surprise doctors are striking?

@lengreview @RCoANews Why waste money when these training pathways already exist? A medical degree is essential to practise medicine. Do that then apply, like every other Dr, to a PG training programme.

@wesstreeting We were right. PAs have been used to replace Drs and harm has resulted. The GMC was created to stop non-Drs practising medicine. Will this now be reformed?