Ross Vanstone (@rjvanstone) 's Twitter Profile
Ross Vanstone

@rjvanstone

Consultant Anaesthetist with interests in RA, Acute Pain, QI & Patient Safety. Tweets exploring ideas & reflections - not medical advice.

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Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ (@amit_pawa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It has been nearly 1 year since #RAUK21 & since our new RA-UK President Alan Macfarlane started in his role He’s already achieved so much so for our society & for #RegionalAnaesthesia - & now in under 2 weeks- #RAUKISURA22 begins! 💥 Join us ra-ukmeetings.com

It has been nearly 1 year since #RAUK21 &amp; since our new <a href="/RegionalAnaesUK/">RA-UK</a> President <a href="/ajrmacfarlane/">Alan Macfarlane</a> started in his role

He’s already achieved so much so for our society &amp; for #RegionalAnaesthesia - &amp; now in under 2 weeks- #RAUKISURA22 begins! 💥

Join us ra-ukmeetings.com
Ross Vanstone (@rjvanstone) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just getting comfortable looking forward to day 2….awaiting the full English breakfast #RAUKISURA22 AWESOME day 1…great work RA-UK & ISURA 👏👏👏

Just getting comfortable looking forward to day 2….awaiting the full English breakfast #RAUKISURA22 AWESOME day 1…great work RA-UK &amp; ISURA 👏👏👏
Tanya (@gonggasgirl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Manual in line stabilisation during tracheal intubation: another pointless thing we do for no good reason? Slides from Matt Wiles talk at #naccs2022 : sthjournalclub.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/mils-n…

Peter Neville (@peteneville65) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help. I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).

Tim Cook (@doctimcook) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Anaesthetists, intensivists, surgeons & medics.. An unusual & personal editorial from the estimable John berNerd Carlisle …some of you’ll love it …some of you’ll loathe it But I recommend you all read it …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Ross Vanstone (@rjvanstone) 's Twitter Profile Photo

180 responses (after deleting a similar number of ‘bots’😠). No responses from Northern Ireland Or Wales yet Lloyd Turbitt Tom Lawson can you help please?

John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention. At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem. Let’s dig deeper:

NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention.

At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem.

Let’s dig deeper:
Dr Tony Goldstone (@goldstone_tony) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Want to know what's happened to avg gross pay, in real terms (CPI) from March 09 - Dec 22 see below👇 If you work in the NHS your pay has been BRUTALLY slashed in real terms- the rest of the economy, not so much If you havent already - Return Your Ballot RT for #PayRestoration

Want to know what's happened to avg gross pay, in real terms (CPI) from March 09 - Dec 22 see below👇

If you work in the NHS your pay has been BRUTALLY slashed in real terms- the rest of the economy, not so much

If you havent already - Return Your Ballot
RT for #PayRestoration
Tom Lawson (@vapourologist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sir/Madam/Mx, This “greatest generation” of older doctors, largely male and selected on mainly ‘old boys’ connections, clearly do not do their homework. Retirement is brutal and demanding very little hours, and senile dementia does happen… #DontBeLikePeter

Sir/Madam/Mx, 

This “greatest generation” of older doctors, largely male and selected on mainly ‘old boys’ connections, clearly do not do their homework.  

Retirement is brutal and demanding very little hours, and senile dementia does happen…

#DontBeLikePeter
Tim Cook (@doctimcook) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Things that can make or break my day: include patient & surgeon But right up there is the ODP* Undervalued, often unseen & consistently underpaid. Loads of them travelling the country to bolster NHS work. Great folk. *operating department practitioner :an anaesthesia factotum

Ross Vanstone (@rjvanstone) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Consultants & specialists. Are you confident performing all plan A blocks? Our survey found only 22% expressed confidence in performing all Plan A blocks. Great work Xiaoxi et al👏. Paper is free for 50 days Lloyd Turbitt Dr Simeon West. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Tim Cook (@doctimcook) 's Twitter Profile Photo

GMC Whether within or outwith the GMC it’s a good step that PAs & AAs will soon be regulated Within regulation should be agreed scope of practice What that scope of practice is should be nationally agreed, actioned & regulated Doctors are important stakeholders in determining the

<a href="/gmcuk/">GMC</a> Whether within or outwith the GMC it’s a good step that PAs &amp; AAs will soon be regulated

Within regulation should be agreed scope of practice

What that scope of practice is should be nationally agreed, actioned &amp; regulated

Doctors are important stakeholders in determining the
Olly ☕ (@ollyvangaal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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