HS2 is absolutely vital. Totally agree w Andy Street. Post Brexit we must be AMBITIOUS for our country and hungry for our economy. What signal would it send if we cancelled our highest profile infrastructure project and weakened our commitment to share prosperity around the country?

Thrilled for this to have been published - work with Neil Smart and Ian Daniels FRCS that I hope challenges perceptions of QoL post surgery for rectal cancer #colorectalsurgery

🏅 A MOTM performance from Tom Lawday, so good to have him back! #COYQ

The ISCP is mandatory for all surgical trainees. It costs £260 per year every year. With the erosion of pay and increasing expenses of education and training we are calling on the Joint Committee on Surgical Training to scrap the ISCP fee.

The COVIDSurg Centre Survey has launched! All hospitals that have participated in CovidSurg in 2020-22 can take part Authorship for up to two collaborators Dashboard (example below) shows whether the survey is open at your hospital ➡️ globalsurgery.redcap.bham.ac.uk/surveys/index.… #SoMe4Surgery

Are you a UK based colorectal surgeon at #ACPGBI2022? The The Plato Project interviews are under way in the Strathblane Office! We are fully booked today but have slots tomorrow if interested in participating in research live at @ACPGBI! Get in touch directly or via the BRUK stand.

#TeamExeter on tour

The CAMELOT Study is looking at #pain relief in UK patients undergoing emergency #laparotomy. If your hospital is interested in taking part, we would love to hear from you #surgery #Research #clinicaltrials NELA (also on Bluesky @rcoa-cri.bsky.social)

Wrote and recorded this NHS parody of ‘you’ll be back’ from #hamilton at the end of 2020 but feel it is more pertinent now than ever. youtu.be/S7ANrNt1Ak8 #NHSCrisis #BMADoctorsVoteYes #SaveOurNHS #fairpayfornursing

Leaked intel on The Telegraph health correspondent Lizzie Roberts’ plan to demonise The BMA’s Rob Laurenson while he attended a friend’s wedding during the #JuniorDoctorsStike

Although the ballot remains open until 27 June we want to give our members enough notice to minimise any impact on urgent care. IF industrial action is announced, the first round of action is planned for 20 and 21 July 2023. bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/…

Can existing models accurately predict #surgicalsiteinfection after gastrointestinal surgery? Our systematic review in BJS shows too often these use inadequate modelling strategies, are difficult to use in practice, & lack external validation. doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn…

Merry Christmas to all those working in the NHS today Many staff in the NHS are grossly underpaid (even on Christmas day👇) but none more so than Junior Doctors who frequently graduate with >£100k debt RT to support them & ask government to pay them ALL fairly #PayRestoration

I will just leave this table here to do the talking. The Royal College of Physicians leadership has attempted to mislead its Fellows at the #RCPEGM. 🔗 rcp.ac.uk/news/rcp-publi…

Dear 🇬🇧, I can't stop thinking about my employer caring so little about suicidal doctors that it's chosen to cut the 0.007% of its budget it spends on the mental health service that helps keep them alive. Thanks, @nhsengland. And they wonder why doctors are leaving in droves.

ASiT and the Surgical Specialty Training Organisations have released a joint statement in response to a recently published in The Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons England What should be the #priorities in delivering surgical care? Share with us your thoughts 🔗

Most recent in handful of Qual studies where patients (esp. older) describe barriers to SDM in EmLap “I just don’t feel like there were any choices”. Urgency and symptom severity key themes. How do we tackle this? Samuel Lawday Jugdeep Dhesi NELA (also on Bluesky @rcoa-cri.bsky.social) doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.01.021

Pleased to finally get this paper out there - its been a long haul - thanks to all authors invovled journals.lww.com/aosopen/fullte…

Many #Cancer patients undergo invasive surgeries in their final months of life, even though it's unclear if they benefit from them. Paper by Samuel Lawday, CharlotteChamberlain et al. published in Annals of Surgery Open News tinyurl.com/bddamwe3 Paper tinyurl.com/yn9jxfw2 #CancerResearch