Tim Rogerson

Hear more about today’s huge GreenED accreditation announcement from Dr Sandy Robertson, our ESIG Chair and Co-Clinical Lead of the @rcemgreened.bsky.social Programme 🏅🎉

Amazing achievement! Well done team ED Wales!!

Bag of new pillows

For some this may not appear of any significance… but for anyone from ED it’s a game changer… brand new pillows delivered to ED - is it a sign we are turning the corner for Emergency care in the UK? Or just luck?

But due to my loyalty to BlueSky and now hatred of X I’m relying on people reposting it here!!

20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%

etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

This is what a government can actually do… make difficult decisions that are at most an ‘inconvenience’ for some but actually reduce casualties on the roads.

But sadly it’s hard to own the success while SM and some gutter politics use the inconvenience for political gain 🤦🏻‍♂️

A&E waits might be the biggest cause of avoidable death in England New data from the ONS on their analysis of mortality and A&E waits has enabled new, better calculations on the magnitude of excess deaths ...

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If the Emergency Department is the safety net for all healthcare, Community Emergency Medicine is when we go fishing with that net to ensure everyone who needs our expertise has a fair chance of receiving it.

#NationalCEMConference2025

Roath park lakes from the air

2 air ambulances at the Cardiff base!

Newport from The air

Hills and wind farms in south wales

Sunshine means busy days on the Wales @air-ambulance.bsky.social - at one point all 4 helicopters were in the air across Wales yesterday!

Quite the mix of rural / urban environments we can cover in one day!

Heli on the cardiff heliport pad at sunrise

Wales air ambulance landing at Uhw

Wales air ambulance on the pad at guh

Wales air ambulance on a road on the side of a hill

Happy 10th Birthday to EMRTS Wales 🎂 🚁 ! An amazing partnership between the NHS and the Wales @air-ambulance.bsky.social

An amazing team, service and views over Wales too!

In England? Not sure Wales has signed up yet?

Surprise! This may have passed me by in the deluge of nhs memos.

Summary seems to be make it notifiable then when we have a vaccine programme we can see the effectiveness - good news overall but obvs an admin burden in the meantime 🧐

Shut down the youth clubs.
Sell off the playing fields.
Put up "no ball games" signs.
Make public places hostile to teenagers.
Then:
"Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."

I feel seen!

(Just need to add the glasses and grey hair for full bore EM cons transformation!)

The #BritishSocialAttitudes survey asks the public for their opinion on different aspects of #NHS care. 📊

The 2024 findings on A&E are stark - just 12% said they were satisfied with the length of time it takes to be seen in A&E.

Read more: buff.ly/I5vYtWs

🎉Exciting Announcement!🎉

🌟We're pleased to introduce Dr. Ami Jones as the new FPHC Accreditation Lead!🌟

A huge thank you to outgoing lead Dr. Richard Lyon for all their contributions in this role which have been invaluable🙏

Read more here bit.ly/4l90jq4

#FPHC

Well. Here we are: The Atlantic has done something an awful lot like I thought they should.

And it’s lead to them publishing the details they initially redacted: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Urgent action needed to harness tidal power in Severn estuary, say experts Commission launched in 2022 says lagoon project, not full barrage, should be backed by UK and Welsh governments Urgent action is needed to harness the UK’s potential for tidal range energy in the Severn estuary but smaller lagoon models should be pursued…

Urgent action needed to harness tidal power in Severn estuary, say experts

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

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This is as bad as you might expect or possibly worse - X isn’t just an echo chamber for the far right crazy, it’s actively silencing the sensible 🤦🏻‍♂️

CO-SIGNED

Rapid arrival of Helimed 57 at the Morriston pad to be reunited with the clinical team of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @air-ambulance.bsky.social

Ambulances: Welsh government to overhaul response time targets Targets will focus more on survival rates, over time taken, and prioritising the most urgent calls.

As the conditions and responses become ever more complex and nuanced it seems a sensible option to offer a suite of measures for the ambulance response.

Hopefully we can do the same for the ED ‘targets’ and have less blunt measures!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

With this check, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2m in 1866

What happens if they want it back & invade Alaska?

Would the US be happy to exchange land for the prospect of peace?

Or just like Ukraine would they fight to keep their land?

www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas

Thank you @london.gov.uk

It may be unrelated, but my daughter's asthma has also improved massively in the last year.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yep exactly! I was surprised even though I’d been told the forecast ☔️

Cloudy skies

Dark rainy skies from the heli

Spoke to soon…

Sunrise over the helicopter

Spring is officially here - a sunny start to a HEMS shift at last! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @air-ambulance.bsky.social

Here’s hoping the beeb have got it wrong 😬

Absolutely agree! This could be a flag ship attraction and further the regeneration of the whole area… surely @dawnbowden.bsky.social @prifweinidog.gov.wales should step in for these national projects as finally ended up happening with Cardiff Parkway?