Hannah Walton

A crucial element of the management of patients with acute upper GI bleeds is deciding which hospital site they need to be treated at, a factor research often overlooks.

@clairenorms Do you remember what this website was? I need to waste my spare time for the rest of the week

This is the good stuff!!👇

@AGonzalezCiscar Thanks Andrea - loved our ward rounds

CCT day today - grateful to everyone who has supervised and guided me from GI and gen med in South-East Scotland, and at St Mark’s Hospital. There were plenty of bleeders, a little sweat and almost no tears.

@Jonathansegal85 @ParulKalia4 Thanks Jon! Going back to the big smoke in a few weeks, this time a little south of the river

@hanwal9 @ParulKalia4 Well done Hannah what an achievement!

@ParulKalia4 Aww thank you! It means so much to hear that. What are you doing these days? Any chance you fancy a career in the greatest specialty?

@hanwal9 Wow! I worked at Northwick same time as you were at St Marks and you were a brilliant Reg! You may not know me but I learnt a lot from you just by referring patients. You were always so keen to teach, you never made me feel bad as new doctor trying to refer! Congratulations!

@ShahidaDin1 @PlevrisN @chershiong Thanks Shahida! It’s been a great 5 years and proud to be part of the Made in Edinburgh club

🎉🥳🥂Congratulations @PlevrisN @hanwal9 @chershiong hugely privileged to have played a part in your gastroenterology/hepatology training. Looking forward to working with you all post-CCT. Welcome to the Made in Edinburgh club!

BSG gastroduodenal session at #BSGLIVE24 this morning - 9am, hall 10B. I’ll be presenting an unusual case of gastritis, plus there’s plenty of real-world expert advice on gastritis.

@RobertaASiT @SCheruvu01 @EdinburghColo Congratulations Roberta!

What an amazing weekend at #ASiT2024! I am beyond excited to have been elected President of ASiT. Thanks to Council for your support, @SCheruvu01 for your hard work and mentorship over the past year, and @EdinburghColo team for being an inspiration since my first steps as an FY1!

Physicians, GPs, FY/IMT doctors, medical students and anyone else who wants an update in #Crohns disease, its management and complications - our brand new article in Medicine Journal gives a comprehensive overview 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #MedEd

@PaulAshYoung 2019-2020 a.k.a. the one with all the covid re-writes. No pay, no time in lieu, couldn’t even pick the best clinics. At the end of the year my ES wrote on my form “hasn’t done any form of management this year”.

@on_lothianbuses Another day and another miserable commute where the 38 didn’t turn up. It was late on Friday too.

@hanwal9 Hi Hannah, we will continue to monitor and analyse passenger numbers on all routes and should we decide that they require to change the the frequency of the service then we implement such where resources permit and it is viable to do so.

@on_lothianbuses every weekday morning the 38s to RIE getting to Morningside between 8 and 8:30 are full. Passengers turned away. They also either don’t turn up or are very, very late (todays 8:05 was actually at 8:21). Any chance of a double decker and a reliable timetable?

@on_lothianbuses Given passengers are being turned away daily, can there be an additional bus? It goes past kings buildings and then on to RIE so a very heavily used route at peak times.

@hanwal9 Hi, we appreciate it is frustrating when buses are delayed. However, at peak times services do encounter delays which are outwith our control. Unfortunately, due to the low bridge at Balgreen we are unable to operate double deck buses on this route.

@MStott88 @stevenbollipo @drkeithsiau I appreciate the royal colleges aren’t strictly bound by national borders but a policy by an English college is not necessarily taken up in Scotland.

@hanwal9 @stevenbollipo @drkeithsiau Yeah but…it doesn’t follow gold standard practice for consenting for an invasive procedure….atleast not from RCSEng

The BSG are updating their guidelines for colonoscopy and I am part of the working group focusing on “pre-procedure” aspects of colonoscopy. Which aspects are important to patients, practitioners or services that we should not overlook?

@MStott88 @stevenbollipo @drkeithsiau There’s an explanatory booklet sent out, and it’s good practice (should be compulsory really) to check if patient has questions when they arrive in the room. Benefits are cutting time between procedures. Obviously it can have problems.

@hanwal9 @stevenbollipo @drkeithsiau This doesn’t make sense. You post the consent form which they sign and a nurse checks!?! Consent is a process. Sounds dodge.

@stevenbollipo @drkeithsiau It needs to be said, but what is said has to be accurate. We have postal consent in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and the nurses confirm on arrival - I’ve had lots of patients think I’m a med student/v. junior trainee and refuse. If explained by cons that I’m a senior reg patients are happy for me to do it

@drkeithsiau Yes of course, I always introduce the trainee and ask them if it is ok if I can let them participate in parts of the procedure. It is perfectly ok for them to say no. (Nobody ever said no so far). To think that they can’t say no because this is a teaching hospital is wrong.

@Amy_Armstrong1 @beans2er @MauWgh @WghLothian Yeah I’d be up for that.

@hanwal9 @beans2er @MauWgh @WghLothian Amazing! Thanks. Its something I've a gap in UTD knowledge around which is useful in frailty life, so keen to swot up 🧠! If you're keen/willing, I could see if there is a slot @ regional EM SpR teaching which gets you a lovely certificate too...no stress if you're too busy tho!

Interesting and useful presentation on iron deficiency anaemia by one of our GI regs, Dr Hannah Walton, doing their internal medicine block in @MauWgh @WghLothian

@Amy_Armstrong1 @beans2er @MauWgh @WghLothian Absolutely. Will add in some notes and send it to you

@beans2er @MauWgh @WghLothian Would love to see this if Hannah doesn't mind sharing...@hanwal9 👀

@liambarker When I lived in London I had someone who was Irish ask me where in Ireland I was from 🤦‍♀️