Harriet Ball

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Harriet Ball

Harriet Ball

@haariet

Neurology trainee and researcher, interested in cognition & functional disorders

Bristol, England Katılım Haziran 2009
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Anish K Patel
Anish K Patel@anish_k_patel·
One of the most misunderstood parts of medicine: Why health professionals ask you to repeat your story. When we take a history, we’re recognising patterns and testing possibilities. What is causing this? How serious might it be? What can I do to help? 1/n
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Margaret McCartney
Margaret McCartney@mgtmccartney·
PSA screening media coverage is currently very poor. Various charities are not helping but instead adding to the confusion and hype. The Times today carries another high profile individual story of how they were "absolutely" saved by screening with PSA testing.
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Margaret McCartney
Margaret McCartney@mgtmccartney·
oh for goodness sake @RishiSunak @Keir_Starmer ! if there was data showing a clear benefit of screening it would already be being done. this is not the way to generate evidence based safe healthcare. the UK National Screening Committee exists - use it!
Rishi Sunak@RishiSunak

Prostate cancer is now the UK’s most common cancer - yet there’s still no national screening programme for the most at-risk groups. Today, I asked the Prime Minister to change that 👇

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Sergi Costafreda Gonzalez
Sergi Costafreda Gonzalez@CostafredaSergi·
As psychiatrists, we’re at the frontline of assessing mental state, capacity, and potential coercion in complex assisted dying cases. Our expertise is going to matter for safeguarding vulnerable people. Why exclude the Royal College of Psychiatrists from these vital discussions?
Rajiv Shah@RajivShah90

The Terminally Ill Adults Bill Committee has just voted 14 to 8 against calling oral evidence from the Royal College of Psychiatrists I have no words

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Alex Mortimer
Alex Mortimer@AM_Mortimer·
The move to 24/7 mechanical thrombectomy provision for ischaemic stroke: an observational study of the impact on referrals, activity, procedural efficacy, and safety at a supra-regional centre academic.oup.com/pmj/article-ab…
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Verónica Cabreira
Verónica Cabreira@Veronicabreira·
#Mementum App for #Functional cognitive disorder, our feasibility trial in NHS Scotland is just finishing, watch this space 👀 Big thanks to my team @AlanCarson15 @jonstoneneuro, Lisbeth Frostholm, all stakeholders and incredible patients, as well as the whole @CognissHQ team
Cogniss@CognissHQ

✨Meet Verónica Cabreira @Veronicabreira, a neurologist in training & researcher at the Uni of Edinburgh, building the 1st potentially scalable treatment for patients with #FunctionalCognitiveDisorder, a condition that affects millions worldwide. 🌍 #DigitalHealthMakers #nocode

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Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts@char1iewatts·
Big news, everyone! The new Ashley Down Rail Station finally has an opening date: Saturday, September 28. This is going to make such a difference to transport in Bristol 🚂
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Robert Howard
Robert Howard@ProfRobHoward·
Led by the wonderful Becky Gould, we show Acceptance and Commitment Therapy improves quality of life in people with MND. Open access in Lancet today. Wonderful to be part of a trial with a positive result for once! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Verónica Cabreira
Verónica Cabreira@Veronicabreira·
How would 45 expert clinicians from 12 countries approach seven clinical vignettes from memory clinics? It turns out clinical positive characteristics alone allow a very clear discrimination between FCD and neurodegeneration. Our #delphistudy is now out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/en…
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Michael Baum
Michael Baum@MichaelBaum11·
My letter in the Times has generated a lot of interest so I thought it might help if I described the time line for reaching this frame of mind. I attach a copy of the letter and then run through a series of tweets to tell the story.
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Harriet Ball
Harriet Ball@haariet·
@twmbach27 Happy Down syndrome day! Glad to see George is thriving x
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Thomas Minton@twmbach27·
This is my son George. The most beautiful, adoring, kind and funny son I could wish for. You make every day wonderful Georgie boy and it’s a privilege to be your dad. Happy World Down Syndrome Day everyone!#WorldDownSyndromeDay #BeMoreGeorgie #WDSD2024
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Charlotte Summers
Charlotte Summers@charlot_summers·
🚨Calling all medically-qualified people with (current or former) experience of clinical academia. 🚨 @The_MRC are seeking to understand the decline in the UK clinical academic workforce & are seeking input. Please take the time to fill out their survey: forms.office.com/pages/response…
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Elizabeth Mallam
Elizabeth Mallam@MallamElizabeth·
🎉 our next advert is out for our expanding FND team in Bristol 🗣️ Psychologist, band 8b This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the direction of our fully comprehensive FND team! Job description etc - nbt.nhs.uk/careers/curren…
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Margaret McCartney
Margaret McCartney@mgtmccartney·
If you are interested in the way politicians try and influence the decisions that NICE takes about what drugs to approve, and what general practice does, and how evidence is regarded. please do read this. (I cannot tell you how many hours this took. What we found was shocking.)
The Pharmaceutical Journal@PJOnline_News

A year-long investigation by @deb_cohen and @mgtmccartney has raised questions over the influence of the UK government and NHS England on NICE’s approval of cholesterol-lowering drug inclisiran pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/featur…

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