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In 2011 just 784 people waited more than 12 hours in a Scottish A&E – last year more than 76,000 did.

Read our new analysis of the latest Scottish ED performance data and full response by RCEM's VP for Scotland here - tinyurl.com/bdeskmc2

📌URGENT: The Associated Press is one of the foremost news operations in the world. Without it, most media entities could not survive.

📌Well, the AP has now been barred from the White House.
I'd suggest very strongly that any media that gets its news from AP takes a damn stand here in solidarity.

Pulling resources and blocking access to key scientific data will cause untold long term harm It’s been a disturbing couple of weeks in the United States for scientists, public health workers, and healthcare providers. In January, shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President and ...

My piece about science censorship and cutting diversity training programs in @bmj.com today: www.bmj.com/content/388/

“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."

Deeply disappointed and angry that we have a populist as health sec - I thought Starmer had better judgement that to appoint such idiots

Scottish Refugee Council tartan scarf In partnership with Slanj Scotland, we are delighted to launch our new tartan scarves in our officially registered Scottish Refugee Council tartan....

Hi Mark,

Our tartan scarves are now available to buy from our website!

scottishrefugeecouncil.bigcartel.com/product/scot...

The details are atrocious! Hard trigger warning!!!

Refugees are part of the very fabric of our communities and we are delighted to introduce our very own Scottish Refugee Council tartan!

We have chosen the colours to reflect the vibrant diversity of Scotland that we all know and love. 🧡

#AyeWelcomeRefugees

Absolutely delighted that for #LGBTHM25 we've launched an updated version of the Rainbow NHS Badge @gstt-nhs.bsky.social!

The new design uses the Progress Pride flag, and is intended to better represent LGBT+ patients, families and staff

When censorship kills: the assault on public health communication The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must now remove words like "evidence-based," "transgender" and "science based" from their websites, publications and research papers. As a health r...

When censorship kills: the assault on public health communication. As a risk and emergency communicator I had to write about this. We cannot remain silent - this touches the core of what we do. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-c... #riskcommunication #emergencymanagement

“The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals” - @jeremyfaust.bsky.social in Inside Medicine

Please, for the love of god, don’t vote for any political party in Britain that threatens to privatise the NHS.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

If you weren’t clear: a President ordering a Federal health and disease agency to delete pages on its website is a public health crisis.

Screenshot from a friend in the US. From the UK, watching news emerge from American, it looks horribly like a dystopian movie. #CDC

‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use Clinical trials find one-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients

Absolutely fantastic news as sickle cell gene therapy is to be rolled out for sickle cell academia with a one off treatment curing 97% of patients 🧪

Are you suffering from burnout?

The signs can be vague and difficult to distinguish from other causes of fatigue, the burden of shift work or other mental health conditions.

Check out this table for the domains and signs of burnout.

#AnSky #MedSky #wellbeing #burnout

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We often talk about standards of aviation safety & how they inspired patient safety improvements in healthcare. As UK EDs are critically understaffed most shifts, news the air traffic controller was doing the job of 2 in the D.C. crash hits hard when we are often doing the same in overcrowded EDs.

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Our members and their colleagues are dealing with an extremely challenging winter - a 'quad-demic', 'corridor care', ambulances backed up outside, not enough beds, exit block. Part of RCEM's role is to advocate to secure positive policy changes that will help them and their patients. So when the m Advocating for Emergency Medicine doctors and patients in hospital Emergency Departments (A&E)

📣 We will not stop advocating for you.

🗣️ We want to STOP 🚫 the harm caused by #corridorcare & other dangerous guidance.

Our members, their colleagues & patients deserve better.

💬 Our expectations are being made loud & clear through the media: youtu.be/3LCnqUVtU_o

It's the Lunar New Year! We wish all those celebrating a brilliant time and be sure to send us pictures if your having an ED party!

Our EDI Calendar highlights significant dates for recognising and celebrating.

Download it for free: rcem.ac.uk/equity-di...

There used to be a name for people who seek to profit from spreading lies about their own country

Post nightshift, reminiscing of og twitter and the brilliant connections made through that and #foamed so thought I'd join 🤞🏼