Will Ricketts 💙 🕊️

I’m again undertaking a #StrideForGaza event to raise funds for @MedicalAidPal covering 98km between October 8-31. I know I have asked you all before, but as the situation in Gaza gets worse the people need aid more than ever. medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/will-ricket…

The BMA remains concerned and calls on the Israeli government to immediately release all arbitrarily detained Palestinian healthcare workers, including Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. With @AmnestyUK we have written to the foreign secretary demanding action to ensure that the Israeli government adheres to international law and medical neutrality. bma.org.uk/what-we-do/wor…

Read more about the AI Strategy: nelcanceralliance.nhs.uk/artificial-int… Listen on: Spotify: bit.ly/4dn4VG6 Apple: bit.ly/4uMJNQy Amazon: bit.ly/4d8NH0b YouTube: bit.ly/4npYM0e #ArtificialIntelligence #CancerCare #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation

👀 Sneak peek: what happens when cancer treatment ends, but recovery continues? Spotify: bit.ly/4mK3OVf Apple: bit.ly/4cI9gTR Amazon: amzn.to/4cIe0Zv YouTube: bit.ly/41Q6180 #CancerRecovery #NELCancerAlliance #CancerCare #BackToWork

Earlier diagnosis is rising—and transforming care. The latest BTOG x NLCA podcast explores how screening and stage shift are driving more surgery and better outcomes. Tune in 🎧 btog.org/btog-nlca-webi…

Don’t Ignore It – Even Once 💬 “I only saw blood once…” Blood in your urine might come and go. It might be very slight. But even a single episode should always be checked. #BloodInYourPeeSeeYourGP #BladderCancer #BCAM #CancerAwareness

BTOG welcomes the release of the report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Tobacco Advisory Group called ‘Smoking, Health and Social Justice‘. Contributors included BTOG steering committee member, Professor Matthew Evison. This report focuses on the entrenched injustice caused by tobacco and the disadvantaged communities where smoking prevalence remains very high – poverty, homelessness, social housing, mental health. The report focuses on the responsibility of the NHS – where there are opportunistic interactions with these communities – to deliver comprehensive opt-out interventions in all areas – inpatients, outpatient, and in the emergency department. One area this is critically important is cancer clinics and there is very robust evidence that supporting a patient to be smokefree at the time of a diagnosis of lung cancer makes treatment more effective, reduces complications & improves survival. BTOG supports the recommendations of this report that make smoking services an integrated component of lung cancer services a standard of care and improve outcomes for patients diagnosed with lung cancer. rcp.ac.uk/policy-and-cam…

Pleased that our case report on the rarely described EUS-guided transoesophageal pericardiocentesis for NSCLC posterior pericardial effusion has been published in Cardio-Oncology: rdcu.be/fgqPT @AdamJanuszewski @medicine98 @tb_doc @dr_manisty

This is great news @DHSCgovuk Together with the Government’s recent commitment to fully roll-out targeted #lungcancer screening in England by 2030, this has the potential to prevent thousands of avoidable deaths. Read our response: uklcc.org.uk/blog/april-202…

Thinking about the COVID-19 vaccine this spring? The vaccines used by the NHS are not live, so you cannot catch COVID-19 from them. Side effects are usually mild, and serious reactions are very rare. More information: 🔗 nelcanceralliance.nhs.uk/news/covid-19-…

👀 Sneak peek: what happens when cancer treatment ends, but recovery continues? Spotify: bit.ly/4mK3OVf Apple: bit.ly/4cI9gTR Amazon: amzn.to/4cIe0Zv YouTube: bit.ly/41Q6180 #CancerRecovery #NELCancerAlliance #CancerCare #BackToWork

@PauletteHamilto It's a political choice. Last year, there were 3000 Physio grads. Only 50 jobs in England suitable for newbies. This is despite insufficient Physio provision in many hospitals. Similar in the ambulance services. OT. Nursing. There are unemployed doctors. It's all broken.

This is a great listen 🫁

@Flattliner @timricketts_ Sadly had almost the exact opposite of that. I diagnosed my Mum’s tongue cancer, almost literally on her death bed she did a video for the local CCG and said “it was lucky I went to the Dentist with a cracked tooth otherwise I’d never have known” 😂

@timricketts_ If she or other family members start asking for advice, that's when to worry. At which point ALWAYS say, "It sounds like cancer" - they soon stop asking...

You can be a doctor who’s been working for 5 years, hold MRCP and almost be a registrar, but your Mother will still give you advice about minor medical maladies I assume this will continue if I ever become a consultant

A new NHS partnership could see your health data stored in a powerful tech platform built by a US tech firm intelligence contractor, but critics have sent a letter to all hospitals urging them not to use the software. @LauraBundock explains why. trib.al/mD8kYRf

🚨 Check out this new report discussing how can we provide fairer access to cancer treatments in collaboration with @macmillancancer ⬇️ publicpolicyprojects.com/no-patient-lef…

This week's question was written by Prof Paul Pfeffer, who is an Asthma specialist at Bart's Hospital. Answers to come Friday!

Check our publication: Characterizing Risk Factors &Outcomes in Patients With Unresectable, StIII NSCLC Who Do Not Complete or Who Experience Progression During/Within 42 Days of, Concurrent Chemorad: The POSITION Study ⬇️ clinical-lung-cancer.com/article/S1525-…

Doctors, nurses, and medics across Iran are being arrested by regime forces for treating protesters wounded by security shootings. Providing lifesaving care has been turned into a crime, with many facing fabricated charges, prison, and even execution. All to silence witnesses to the regime’s brutality. #IranMassacre

@DrLKVaughan @bmj_latest A great piece, a missed opportunity to emphasise that not all that is learned is taught.

Will the Medical Training Review finally resolve the split between 'training' and 'service'. Spoiler: probably not. Me in the @bmj_latest on the linguistic quagmire created by Calman. bmj.com/content/392/bm…