In our 'Best of a decade' series the most cited research paper of 2015 focused on prehabilitation in preoperative rectal cancer patients British Journal of Anaesthesia ARS & BJA Research Forum Malcolm West Mike Grocott bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-…

*New* I’m an ICU doctor. The #NHS isn’t ready for the #coronavirus pandemic theguardian.com/commentisfree/… by Tim Cook

A huge thank you to everyone UCLH who transformed our Block Room to Critical Care overnight. Outstanding teamwork & leadership Melanie Tan 💙 Elaine Thorpe いしかわ まみ Roger Wendy Nordeen Jonaline Archie, Recovery Team, Med Physics Team & our army of TSAs & HCAs #COVID19 ⭐️ 🙌

COVID +ve patient >2m away - contact precautions <2m away - droplet precautions Aerosol generating procedure - airborne precautions 2/3

contact precautions = gloves + apron droplet precautions = gloves + apron + surgical mask +/- eye protection (risk assess) airborne precautions = gloves + eye protection + N95:FFP3 + fluid repellent long sleeved gown 3/3 & end!

What would anaesthetists do without coffee! Huge huge thank you Nespresso UK&Ireland for your kind generosity! Keeping #teamanaesthesia and #teamCCU UCLH fuelled! #NHSstaff #NHSheroes

PPE made simple and logical...I hope 1 understand the modes of transmission COVID-19 is predominantly droplet and contact

This is Saima. She works in my team. She drove to Wokingham yesterday to collect Oxygen consumables for UCLH from the suppliers warehouse. Saima is amazing! This is what ‘Herculean Effort’ looks like! Give Saima some 💙 #nhsprocurement HCSA #NHSheros #supplychain

🔐Time to rethink whether tracheal intubation and extubation are aerosol generating procedures? This new paper which has been reported already in Guardian Healthcare The Guardian Guardian news is now online, free to access and #FOAMed for all! Tim Cook 🔗onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Everyone should read this: Super clear examples of when, where and how you’re at risk from #Covid19 and how you can keep yourself safe. A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air. From El Pais. english.elpais.com/society/2020-1…

I don’t think there’s much more exciting in an NHS career as seeing a new hospital come to life. So impressed w everyone UCLH working so hard to get this stunning building ready for patients. I salute you all 🙌 & proud to be part of the team #oneteam

UCH theatres on the move again, changing green and blue pathway to create more ITU beds and for theatres to continue operating our cancer patients. Im so proud that our theatre team have done everything in just one day. #Team work @vsweeney431 RoSalyn Gutierrez Miss Blabbaholic

The final 12 ready to go! That’s an extra 51 ICU beds in less than 2wks! Extraordinary teamwork from all involved UCLH You Are Amazing!🌈🌈 🙏🙏#wecandothis #nhs #pride @vsweeney431 Marcel levi @FloPanelCoates Rabina Tindale Luke O'Shea @CNOEngland @MelanieWatts77 @Mystique1104

We must learn from this, urgently, dispassionately & completely; without evasion or spin, starting right now, to prepare us for tomorrow & all the tomorrow’s that follow. To do anything less would be to dishonour those we have lost & those who fought to save them. #NHS #Covid19

For #WorldPatientSafetyDay myself & Patrick Waterson have some thoughts about human factors & maternity. Patrick Waterson is one of the CHFG Trustees & expert, he’ll be tweeting about systems, here I’ll share reflections about non-technical skills 1/

Excited to be running for the Royal College of Anaesthetists council election. Remeber to use your ballot.Every vote counts!

Massive Congratulations to Finn Catling benebenve and @NeunMax, today’s Transfer Team for completing NCL-ACTS 800th Critical Care Transfer!! Thank you so much to all our staff who’ve made this incredible milestone possible! Arndt Melzer Riaz Aziz🇵🇰🇸🇦 UCLH Geoff Bellingan NECCTAR Team

To FAQs: 1) Report and data here: icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audi… 2) Their analysis accounts for confounders such as e.g., boosters only being recent; rates are per 100k people per week. 3) Overall, the ICNARC analysis is exceptional. I just gave their dataviz a hand. (Their plot).

NHS staff need "better paid jobs" too, Rishi ➡️Making the UK a great place work in healthcare ➡️Discourage UK talent fleeing for higher pay abroad ➡️RETAIN staff > waiting lists down > grow economy ➡️RETAIN to train increased numbers of future docs & nurses ➡️Restore pay fairly

Publishing the #NHSWorkforcePlan is a big step forwards but without addressing: ⭕Leaver rates in NHS staff ⭕Years of below inflation pay rises Then training more staff will do little to address the problem if the NHS cannot hold onto the staff it already has.