Now available: 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

BRILLIANT opening talks at the #fearless conference! #womenempoweringwomen #weneedtospeakup #sexismisunacceptable @acutemedswbh @scfaloon Richard Burnell

Thankyou Women in Healthcare Leadership for this great project! All women are superheroes 🦸‍♀️ 🙏🏻 @scfaloon for nominating me! “It doesn’t matter where you come as the impossible is nothing !”

Congratulations to Dr Rowan Hardy, Verus Arthritis Career Development Fellow @IMSR_UoB for getting a paper "Therapeutic glucocorticoids: mechanisms of actions in rheumatic diseases" published with Nature Reviews Rheumatology nature.com/articles/s4158…!

EULAR Guidance for patients with rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) about COVID-19 outbreak. Protect yourself & others. Read the full guidance: eular.org/eular_guidance… #EULAR #FightingRMDsTogether #eularPARE

We have just updated our #coronavirus #COVID19 #rheumatology guidance. This is our most significant update to date. Please take a look: bit.ly/19Covid

Things are tough for us all in healthcare right now. Really tough. But we can, and we must, help each other. Take a moment today to ask a colleague #HowYouDoing, and check if they are OK. Together we can face anything. ❤️💪👊 #HowYouDoing #NHSThankYou #TogetherAgainstCOVID

The nasopharynx goes back, not up. When you take a nasopharyngeal swab or insert nasogastric tube, NEVER aim upwards towards the brain. Go LOW and go SLOW.

Such brilliant news that Alex RIchter has been promoted to Professor Clinical Immunology at the University of Birmingham. Please join me in sending Alex our heartfelt congratulations. Professor Alex Richter, Immunology and Immunotherapy, @unibirm_MDS

If you change your mobile phone number or get rid of the land-line, then please update your phone contact details with your GP as this feeds through to your secondary care provider. That's all I am saying.

The last Star of the Week we're featuring this month is Nursing Associate Anita Kaur who has had glowing feedback from colleagues and patients alike for her work during the pandemic supporting community teams and helping prevent admissions due to diabetes complications. 💙💙💙

Our doctors issue a stark warning about coronavirus. And the reasons why they want you to stick to the rules. Sandwell Council @PHE_WestMids #COVID__19 #birminghamlockdown #nhs #coronavirus #Sandwell #Lockdown #NHS #StayAlert

T-9 days (single digits!) until rheumatology boards. Topic for today: IT’S NOT A TUMOR!! Ok, actually, they’re definitely all tumors. Today I’ve got some MCQs for everyone.

Congratulations to Dr Sarb Clare (Sarb Clare MBE) for the well deserved MBE - announced today in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. You can read more about our remarkable medic by clicking the link ow.ly/NODz50BOn6c #birthdayhonours #queensbirthdayhonours #MBE #NHS

So honoured & humbled to receive a Queens Honour MBE 🏅 I am overwhelmed with all the kind and loving messages!☺️Credit to all the amazing NHS workers and my SWB NHS Trust family and our community who I am privileged to serve! Huge kudos to the phenomenal nurses the true heroes 🦸‍♀️

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Really enjoyed speaking to Deva Situnayake for this latest episode of the Rheumatology & Rheumatology Advances in Practice #podcast! The accompanying paper can be found in October's issue of the journal and also here: doi.org/10.1093/rheuma… #behcets #behcetsdisease #epidemiology #cardiovascular #thromboembolism

We would like to thank our caring colleagues Bham Women's Hosp 💙 and University Hospitals Birmingham for saving our much loved #SWBfamily member Perpetual and her twins. #AllInThisTogether

Living with rare autoimmune disease ANCA-associated vasculitis can be challenging however there are many patient organisations that you can direct your patients towards for support in their AAV journey. Visit understandaav.com to learn more #AAV #Vasculitis #RareDisease

My last #tweetorial focused on the GCS. Now let's look at another hugely important clinical window into the brain: the pupil. What does a 'blown pupil' really imply? What about small fixed pupils? To understand this, we need to see how pupil size is governed. #FOAMed 1/20