THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: With well over 120 THOUSAND vacancies in the NHS, waiting lists just hit its HIGHEST ever level at >7.33 MILLION Current (& future potential) government need to FIX PAY to fix recruitment & #RETENTION RT if you want Rishi to fix this mess #payrestoration

Post CCT Fellowships for Hepatology & Liver Transplantation in the busy Birmingham UK Liver Transplant centre now out! Contact me or Abhishek Chauhan for details. jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

Bittersweet day as a legend of the Birmingham liver unit retires. An inspirational man and leader who helped shaped & navigate the liver unit to where it is today. Also who trained some phenomenal surgical colleagues to keep the 🔥 burning.. John Isaac you’ll be missed.

Today - let us give thanks to those Tory MPs who worked so hard for us during the Covid-19 pandemic: Miraculously their pay has pretty much kept pace with inflation since 2010, unlike that of NHS junior doctors and consultants, you know the ones we all clapped for in bad times.

A ground-breaking new Channel 5 series based here at UHB tells the stories of our remarkable and life-saving surgical teams and their patients. Follow them in theatre as they take on the challenge of highly complex procedures to save and transform our patients’ lives.

Calling all HPB surgery trainees! We are recruiting a Consultant HPB Surgeon to join the team. Essential criteria: Trained HPB surgeon ✅ Team player ✅ Forward thinking ✅ Lap HPB enthusiast ✅ Closing date 18 August GBIHPBA IHPBA E-AHPBA jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

Lots of fun at the annual Liver Unit tennis tournament! Fantastic sportsmanship and team building! Congratulations winners: 🏆Robert Sutcliffe #TessG, Runners-up: #RaviM #Rosiefaulkes 👏 Winners of 1st round losers #AnanyaN🥇

Great educational trip to the Other Place! AUGISt AUGIS GBIHPBA Prof Keith Roberts David Bartlett Marc Besselink

Privilege to host VIKAS DUDEJA and show our extensive program of liver and pancreas research Prof Keith Roberts Robert Sutcliffe Nikolaos Chatzizacharias Bobby VM Dasari Saad Rehman Kunal Joshi Sarah Powell-Brett Rupaly Pande James Halle-Smith Arul Edward Suthananthan David Bartlett angushann @Pete_Labib

Fantastic opportunity to join a high volume, dynamic and forward thinking HPB team. Application open for a locum HPB consultant at University Hospitals Birmingham Birmingham HPB & Liver Transplant Unit QEH Birmingham uhb.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/… GBIHPBA AUGIS

Joint statement on the the recent The Royal College of Surgeons of England annals publication - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy preformed by a surgical care practitioner

Some great news to end the weekend! University Hospitals Birmingham Uni of Birmingham Immunology and Immunotherapy Birmingham HPB & Liver Transplant Unit UHB Cancer Services we have become the first site in Europe to open to the pancreatic cancer vaccine study by Genentech and BioNTech to prevent recurrence! More about this next week!

A vacancy come up for next summer Birmingham Liver Unit Hepatology/Transplant fellowship (12 months). A great job and suberb springboard for career in liver transplantation beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba… Abhishek Chauhan Matthew Armstrong 💙 Sanchit

Had an excellent evening discussing cholangiocarcinoma with the MDT offsite last night! Lots of exciting things happening in this space in Birmingham! Sharan Wadhwani Prof Keith Roberts James Good

Very proud of James Halle-Smith who is a clinical PhD supervised by Prof Keith Roberts and Beggs Lab for winning the Rodney Smith Medal The Pancreatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland meeting this week on “Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency is associated with Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis in Patients with PDAC”

Some good….. SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! Julio Mayol Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸

EASL has released new CPGs on abdominal extrahepatic surgery in patients with cirrhosis and advanced chronic liver disease at #EASLCongress—a critical step in improving surgical outcomes for this high-risk population. 🏥🩺 🔍 Why it matters: As non-hepatic abdominal surgeries