After analysing 60+ leaflets, working in healthcare 15 yrs and being a patient advocate for many years, here's the thread with 23 poster visuals all hospitals can do to empower patients to lead on their care. Fully educating, empowering and encouraging patients can save lives 👇

Thank you to all our amazing porters from Gloucestershire Managed Services 💙

Brilliant! Thank you. Gloucestershire Stroke Units CGH Stroke ESD Team Glos Happy Reading 😊

Dear 🇬🇧, 3 years ago, we fought for you and we never gave up. As we strike now for our patients, for our professions, and for our NHS against a corrupt govt assaulting your NHS for profit, we need you more than ever before. Stand with us, and together, let's fight back. #SOSNHS

Dear Steve Barclay, There seems to be a lot of interest on UK #MedTwitter (Roshana 🦴) in how enticing Australia is for UK docs. Here are a few examples, from a junior doctor who made the move, of the international market you're competing with. You should be worried.🧵

Steve, Tom and Julie were left with aphasia after their strokes. When the Words Away Went, follows their journeys as they prepare for some of the most challenging milestones in their recovery so far. Watch the film online now at stroke.org.uk or stream on Channel 4.

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1/ Short 🧵 on lies, damned lies, & statistics I've seen some rather misleading use of statistics on the BBC / Sky today, its not clear whether they dont understand the differences, or they are trying to mislead Please read all & share / RT

Thanks Channel 5 News Catherine Jones for the credit & excellent report - much more balanced reporting of the figures than Ive seen elsewhere in the media today!

"I am talking about something that will make a woman feel special" 🧡 Winner of the Great British Sewing Bee, Cardiff breast surgeon Asmaa Al-allak, told Eleri Sion why she started making custom bras for her patients.

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 75 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight Please take just two seconds to show you care

Thank you The Times and The Sunday Times for publishing our letter in response to “sexual misconduct in surgery” . We would also like to thank Dr Peter Hilton for illustrating our points so effectively in his! Please RT. BAOMS MWF Women in Surgery Dorothy Byrne @ScrubSurvivors

Congratulations to colleagues from GHFT and GHC - joint winners at tonight’s Clinical Research Network Annual 2023 Awards in the Collaboration in Research category. Ensuring stroke patients along the whole of their pathway can contribute and benefit from research. Huge well done

Take 2 minutes to watch this. It’s one of the best interviews I’ve seen so far on the #DoctorsStrike. Thank you Dr. Hilary Jones MBE.

Wondered if anyone was interested in applying to help us expand in Gloucestershire by joining a dynamic team of Acute Physicians with one of the most interesting medical takes in the region? Apply through NHS jobs. I am available if you have questions. NHS Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sobering data. Significant return on investment for all ICS and most importantly an ability to prevent, treat and rehabilitate this recoverable condition 🧠 Making stroke a priority makes sense as end to end evidence based pathway already in policy NHS England Stroke Association

FOR STAFF: From Monday, we're beginning the Perfect 12 Days of Spring, a clinically-led programme that aims to improve flow across the system. 🖱️ Visit our intranet to find out more and get involved. 👀 Look out for news and updates across the 12 days from Monday

🧠MRI lesions ~ ⭕️Small Vessel Disease type Cerebral amyloid angiopathy vs. Hypertensive arteriopathy #NeuroTwitter #NeuroRad #Neurology #Neurosurgery #stroke #MedStudentTwitter #FOAMncc #MedTwitter #amyloidangiopathy #FOAMncc #neuroscience #brain #Alzheimers #Alzheimer

In this cohort study of patients with ASPECTS 0-2 based on NCCT within 24 hours of stroke onset, those treated with EVT had higher odds of a favorable functional outcome compared with those who received SMT. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Huge thank you to everyone Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for looking after me following an incident with a garden fork through a foot 😬. (Not quite the start to a week off I had planned 🥴😅) CGH ED, Radiology, TAU, GRH Theatres, porters, site team and 9A staff all brilliant. Thank you. 🙏