🚨NEW BGS REPORT🚨 The BGS has published a report examining data collected by Royal College of Physicians on #geriatricmedicine workforce. There are not enough specialist healthcare professionals being trained and retained to meet the needs of the population as it ages. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

Doing care home round today. GSTT Ageing & Health As ever so impressed by the care, professionalism and knowledge of our care home colleagues. Time that we as a society started to recognise and appropriately remunerate care workers.

I have a story about MENSTRUATION. Specifically my menstruation. Which is not in itself a special thing because like many people on earth I BLEED. But it’s special because it happened in Istanbul’s International Airport iGA Istanbul Airport Also I’m pretty angry. 1/

listen to her explain the Van Gogh soup protest. she’s got a point, no?

To my followers: do better

Great talk by Portsmouth Hospitals University NHST amazing Surgery School! 1268 patient results. After 2-hour pre-op session: Complications 18% to 10% - 1 day length of stay 61% stopped smoking 71% abstained from alcohol 65% increased #physicalactivity 56% changed diet. New WEBSITE: surgeryschool.co.uk

Even more amazing results from the POPS team! Magda Sbai showing that -Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment meant 15% decided against op. -Fewer complications -Better preparation for surgery -Cheaper / cost-effective

Lots of hard work by POPS@Royal Melbourne team paying off! Well done Rachel - amazing leadership! Building international collaboration for clinical services, research and education to address the needs of todays healthcare users POPS British Geriatrics Society Centre for Perioperative Care ANZSGM_POC

More than 2,700 children have been killed so far in Gaza. Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer you must act now to stop the killing and maiming of Palestinian children ✋ We demand a #CeasefireNOW! Join the campaign: map.org.uk/CeasefireNOW

When #transportforlondon put this poem in the tube, every day I’d receive messages about the poem calming anxiety. That’s the reason that I write, to be in service. Get the Black History Month handout that begins with this poem on the tube with lots of great Black British Poets

Awwww being investigated for genoc👁️de is so harddddd #icj

POV: you just made your new friend pro-Palestine 🇵🇸

Are you looking for an engaging fellowship working across specialties in the perioperative field? Are you interested in learning about and improving healthcare on a national level? If so, check out CPOC's latest Fellowship opportunity here cpoc.org.uk/cpoc-fellowshi…

So Leila Hegazy Leila Hegazy is a genius. Let's make her famous.

Our assistant service manager in POPS 👏👏👏

People living in the isolated north of Gaza have told the BBC that children are going without food for days, as aid convoys are increasingly denied permits to enter. Some residents have resorted to grinding animal feed into flour to survive 👇 bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

BBC follows Gaza’s tireless paramedics as they confront death and trauma at every turn bbc.in/49d3I0K

All I want for international women’s day is ceasefire now #CeasefireNOW

💥STOP SCROLLING 💥The 2024/25 POPS fellowships are open for application! If you ❤️ personalised, values-based health-care, learning new skills & collaborating in trans disciplinary teams then THIS IS FOR YOU. Geris, Surg, Aneas, Acute Med. Open to all. guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/current-vacanc…