Congratulations to Dr Rachel Hawes - pre hospital consultant and anaesthetist at Newcastle’s RVI - who received an OBE yesterday for bringing the lifesaving’ Blood on Board’ to the North East and Cumbria - a major collaboration with Great North Air Ambulance blood bikes cumbria Northumbria Blood Bikes x.com/drrachelhawes/…

A neurosurgery service improvement project to reduce cancelled ops due to lack of HDU beds has resulted in a 93% reduction over the past 6mths. A huge improvement in patient experience! #success #teamneuroRVI

Nicholas Soames James O'Brien Well said..Nicholas Soames

Such great minds up north! #NorthernPowerhouse #standingonshouldersofgiants x.com/teamneurorvi/s…

This is so fantastic to see - thank you for sharing Helen x.com/hmorton86/stat…

Interested in epilepsy? the North East Epilepsy Research Meeting this year will be on September 14th @NeurosciNCLUni and features Mark Cunningham Joris Veltman CANDO NCL and Dr Fergus Rugg-Gunn among many ncl.ac.uk/ion/events/ann…

Working with clinical teams and #epilepsy organisations, across the UK & beyond, to tackle #epilepsy deaths, is vital and core to what we do @ SUDEPAction. 21 years on, there is still much we can do together - our #Prevent21 campaign helps us achieve this sudep.org/prevent21 x.com/teamneuroRVI/s…

The GIRFT national report on cranial neurosurgery is now available on the #GIRFT website. gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk It has the full support of the SBNS. and we strongly endorse the 15 recommendations made in the report.

Well done #teamneuro for establishing a regular football fixture #Flourishatwork. 👍⚽️New players always welcome although keen to avoid any more surgeons in moon-boots, please Akbar ...!

#BBCLeadersDebate so is the presenter dileberately being biased against Labour!!!

Boris and Rishi nicking Avengers Endgame Tagline ‘Whatever it takes’

#bbcqt you have a prof of public health on the panel....let’s not fall into the Brexit mentally of ignoring experts...what an entrepreneur feels does not beat science!

#bbcqt the nhs has capacity due to the hard work and efforts of NHS staff...the government has failed to deliver on their role...delayed PPE, delayed Testing and as a consequence, despite the best efforts of the nhs, the death toll has been so tragically high

Before they rush out a plan for contact tracing, have they considered how it will work in the NHS and social care, or will this be as haphazard as testing has been previously #Covid_19 Prof. Devi Sridhar

#bbcqt how is contact tracing going to work in hospitals and care homes? If one doctor is tested positive, are all the people they have had contact with going to be isolated! Has this been considered or is this going to be another government oversight?

Before they rush out a plan for contact tracing, have they considered how it will work in the NHS and social care, or will this be as haphazard as testing has been previously #peston

Boris Johnson has taken a leaf out of Blackadder manual!! #lostit #wibble #borisbubble m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2DCEx…

The current pressures on NHS were meant to be relieved with the nightingale hospitals....why is the opposition not challenging the mismanagement of the nightingale initiative? Why is the government not being held accountable for this complete failure!! #bbcqt

@Newcastle4palestine If you see injustice, fight them with your hands, if you can’t fight then fight with your words, if no one is listening then know what is right in your heart and pray for the oppressed!