Lots of highlights from Day 1 of #asgbi2024 but ours was the Hunterian Lecture delivered by Pankaj Chandak ❤️🥹 m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

Thank you RACSurgeons for inviting me, looking after me and letting me speak not only about #hernia but also other topics so close to my heart. #Respect #Equity #Support. I have never felt less alone, more empowered and mega grateful for all the new friends I found here..

“Patients are (often) right to be angry when they cannot see their GPs, but they are (equally often) wrong when they take this anger out on GPs and their colleagues.” The #NHS is in a very deliberately designed crisis. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

One month to go! I’m opening the UlsterMedicalSociety evening programme Thurs 10th Oct ‘A pragmatic optimist’s prescription for healthcare over the next 20 years’. Free in-person & virtual via eventbrite.co.uk/e/ums-presiden… The trainee elevator pitches are competing over the Whitla Cup 🥳👇🏽

Incredibly powerful talk by Rory Sutherland “Are we too impatient to be intelligent?” youtu.be/Bc9jFbxrkMk

Really enjoyed the first lizziebentham book “Murder in her first degree”. Can’t wait to start the second one. So please Lizzie wrote three but I am hoping she gets cracking on the next three soonest… Note to self - get a better signature forger…

I have written an open letter to Sean Doyle, CEO of British Airways about the recent changes to the Executive Club. If you agree with me, please retweet! British Airways Simon Calder Lisa Minot turningleftforless.com/an-open-letter…

turningleftforless.com/an-open-letter… An on point letter by my friend Michele British Airways

Very honoured to receive this award and in such prestigious company Sheona Macleod Thank you The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Thought provoking opening presentation from the Inspiring David Sellu at the Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference #DAUKconf25

DAUK is led by frontline doctors, for frontline doctors. Today's conference is being put on for free by our fantastic volunteer team. Please support our work gofundme.com/f/support-the-… #DAUKConf25

Excellent panel de-mystifying the fear of speaking to the media #DAUKconf25 𝙳𝚛 𝙿𝚞𝚗𝚊𝚖 𝙺𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚗 Dr Anita Raja Emmajourno helen fernandes

After lunch we move to thoughts from the legal profession. Imran Khan providing a compassionate & reflective account from his experience, but also from shadowing a trauma surgeon in A&E #DAUKconf25

Imran Khan KC fascinating talk on institutional responsibility and accountability (including discussion on recent Supreme Court decision on anonymity in Court of Protection hearings) A useful blog on the case Doctors’ Association UK openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/04/25/ref…

Some wonderful tributes to the irreplaceable unforgettable Jenny Vaughan. And check out the cheeky reference to the tortoise in the page margin. How about a clip of Lady Tank herself? ❤️ #DAUKconf25

Everyone needs friends like Professor Farah Bhatti OBE to take them to the Royal Opera House and Patrick Byrne to get them into the sold out V&A Cartier exhibition! 😍🩰💎

This week, RCSEd delivered the Training the Trainers course at the Medical Academies of Malaysia. 28 Cardiothoracic Surgeons sharpening their skills with the aspiration to become "the trainer they wish they'd had"!