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Consultant doctors: Solutions for a medical recruitment crisis An escalating consultant recruitment crisis is threatening NHS capacity and patient outcomes according to a special investigation by BMJ Careers.

Full report here.

Thanks to @emmajourno.bsky.social and Emma Weinbren.for their hard work on it.

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NHS spends £674m filling up to 1 in 3 consultant posts with locums Managers regularly wait over 12 months to secure a candidate, placing a strain on finances and impacting on efforts to cut waiting lists.

What a waste of money, particularly when we have doctors desperate to get into specialist training

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Why are German trains so bad? Decidedly off-brand

White House scrambles to correct error strewn MAHA report The US government has hastened to correct multiple citations in its first Make Our Children Healthy Again assessment,1 which pointed to non-existent studies or dead internet links. New errors have cre...

The perils of using AI to do your research...

From @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Lead Clinical Editor | 07 March, 2025 | Jobs and careers with BMJ Group Jobs and careers with BMJ Group -

A great opportunity to come and work with us

#meded #editing #journalism

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Hi please would you add me? Thank you!

Heard some dark predictions from @parthaskar.bsky.social last week that there will be a large number of doctors out of work this August due to lack of NHS posts. Why are we in this ridiculous position?

Looking forward to discussing how to #EmpowerIMGs in Newcastle today

I went to my own ‘funeral’— it was one of the best days of my life The intensive care doctor Matt Morgan, 44, on why he wanted a memorial service while he’s still alive

Never thought a living funeral could sound so good

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Two successive health and care secretaries spent nearly £500,000 dismantling and then rebuilding ministerial offices in their department, HSJ has learned.

excl from @henryanderson1.bsky.social

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Getting increasingly irritated by publications without BlueSky as a sharing option, especially if X is there. I'm trying to promote your article on a site that actually allows people to see it. Help me help you man.

Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk sponsored British pharmacies in pursuit of sales Danish drug company gave money for Google ads to promote weight loss services and received data on web traffic and prescriptions

I think we are going to see much more of this

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🧵 Pulse oximeters overestimate arterial oxygen saturation and provide more variable readings in people with darker skin pigmentations.

Despite guidance from the @fda.gov, the reporting of participant skin tones in pulse oximeter testing has been inconsistent.

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BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

BBC News - BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
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Headline should have been: When lactose met intolerance

Jacklin Kwan wins award for exposing fake healthcare news Jacklin Kwan is the winner of the 2024 Sarah Hughes Trust Prize, awarded annually for new journalism that exposes false or misleading information in health or medicine.

It was a delight to judge this award on behalf of @mja-uk.bsky.social (although annoyingly I had to recuse myself from judging the winner's application!).

A worthy winner

Thanks to @roysocmed.bsky.social

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a picture of the parthenon in greece with people standing in front of it ALT: a picture of the parthenon in greece with people standing in front of it

I don't understand in 2024 why we can't just digitally recreate the Parthenon/Elgin marbles and give the originals back...

Major focus this year was updating all our learning resources for GPs on how to manage pregnancy complications, both immediately and in the longer term

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#meded #pregnancy

Nearly 25% of nurses and midwives in the UK are recruited from abroad The record-high 200,000 foreign-trained members of the workforce now represent 23.8 per cent of the register, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

You won't read it in the article, but this is a direct result of the coalition government cancelling the NHS bursary for nursing degrees in 2017.

Short-term decisions have long-term consequences.

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A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

🚨 BREAKING: MPs vote for #AssistedDying to become law for terminally ill people. Ayes - 330 Noes 275

Big day...

Finally out. Asthma Guidelines NG245

Move over SABA ➡️ AIR & MART now main treatments

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng245

#PharmSky

First joint BTS, NICE, SIGN guideline on asthma published today

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/NG245

A fair point. We'll look again at that

#NHSTalkingTherapies, the flagship psychotherapy service offered by the NHS, was heralded as a game changer when it launched in 2008. 16 years on, I’ve done some data digging to inspect its inner workings.

@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social

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Long-term antipsychotic use increased from 2011–2020, while proportion of patients receiving an annual psychiatrist review fell.

Researchers warn that 360 000 patients may be ‘trapped’ on antipsychotics doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

Dr Phil Hammond thread - shit life syndrome (poverty, poor diet & poor housing etc) creates chronic illness

From Dr Phil Hammond

We are working on a whole new set of courses on #palliativecare for BMJ Learning, starting with this one on pain management.

If you want to know more, please contact: @journal-kristoffer.bsky.social