
DrAndyPT
@andysant_nhs
Doctor and Personal Trainer. Supporting more mature athletes. And those who have yet to mature. Sometime wildlife photographer
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15-11-2011 16:13:23
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Join the conversation about the Future of General Practice in Devon and Cornwall with local MPs and ICS leads making up our panel tinyurl.com/3d73mkr3 Luke Pollard MP DrAndyPT GeorgeEusticeMP Steve Double


Have you written to your MP to tell them we need urgent action to save general practice? This winter has been one of the most challenging on record. Join us in calling on Department of Health and Social Care and Steve Barclay to take action to address GP pressures. ➡️ rcgp.eaction.org.uk/GP-Pressures




Delighted to have been invited to the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust AGM and hearing about the wide range of partnerships and projects occurring to deliver world class care to the people of Devon and Cornwall


If you are a National Trust member, please, don’t vote for the oddly politically-linked candidates who claim to “Restore Trust”. Their aim is to limit access to knowledge; to stop extra layers of understanding being added. History belongs to us all, but they want to keep it.


GP appointments Oct 23 - just putting it out there 👇 3.1m MORE appointments than in Sept 23; 1.6m people EVERY DAY; 72% face to face. Primary care keeps on giving! NHS Confederation #PCnetwork

St Luke’s pilot East Cornwall urgent care service took to the road for the first time last week delivering specialist hospice support to the doorsteps of patients on the Cornish side of the Tamar Bridge. Read our blog: bit.ly/3RrY9Um NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Hospice UK Cornwalllivenews




Flowchart from NHS England. “Do not perform urine dipsticks: Dipsticks become more unreliable with increasing age over 65 years. By 80 years half of older adults in care, and most with a urinary catheter, will have bacteria present in the bladder/urine without an infection.”


Our paper in The BMJ reports a dose-response relationship in delirium episodes and rates of subsequent dementia among >650K inpatients in NSW Australia. Reducing #delirium could be effective in #dementia prevention. Emily Gordon Shlomo Berkovsky Prof Ruth E Hubbard bmj.com/content/384/bm…



