Max Watson
@DrMaxWatson
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Husband,father grandfather,Palliative Care learner, hopeful in collaboration through Project ECHO -everyone a teacher, everyone a learner approach.
Dungannon, Northern Ireland
Joined September 2018
Measured, informative, practical Assisted dying (AD) - where are we now in the UK, where could we be, where should we be …. Can we have a process that keeps AD separate from medicine ? https://t.co/hWkoo5e08h
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BMC Palliative Care - It seems probable that some form of medically-assisted dying will become legal in England and Wales in the foreseeable future. Assisted dying Bills are at various stages of...
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Listen to "February Workforce, Hospice Funding and Climate Change" by Palliative Care ECHO Update HospiceUK
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Listen to "Clinical Palliative Care ECHO Update January 2024" by Palliative Care ECHO Update HospiceUK
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The October Palliative Care ECHO podcast is now available https://t.co/6R66n88kDh - use of policies and protocols in hospices, the growth of palliative care services through Project ECHO, a review on seven day working and an introduction to the REACT programme in Bradford A&E
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This Month Matt is looking at protocols and guidelines in palliative care and their merits and demerits, Max is highlighting the developments in the world wide ECHO movement, particularly in Pallia...
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The ECHO movement has clearly evolved to a new level of impact on health outcomes across the world evidenced through extensive research but more importantly in the lives of millions of people. With the new ECHO AI research tools that evidence is going to grow dramatically.
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Active deliberate steps to share knowledge to the furthest corners of a community changes things. David Bernstein MetaECHO2023
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At MetaECHO2023 and just inspired by what the echo community is achieving all over the world rapidly moving forward in health, education, and many other areas. Showing that collaboration together can really make things better and we have the evidence to prove it.
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Straw Poll: on Friday I asked my final year tutorial group of their intentions after F2; seven of 10 said leave. A proportion will not return. We invest emotionally and financially in training them; it is utterly heartbreaking to witness their instinct to leave our NHS.
NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention. At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem. Let’s dig deeper:
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@johnsweeneyroar @BylineTimes @BylineTV @CaolanRob JFK's speech at the UN, 1961 "There are not three forces, but two. — One is composed of those who are trying to build the kind of world described in Articles I & II of the Charter. — The other, seeking a very different world, would undermine this organization in the process."
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Really disturbing to hear Labour plans to do away with GP practices.. Do they have any idea just how much work GP practices do so very efficiently compared with the beureaucratic quagmire elsewhere? Has the lesson of the 2004 not been learned?
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This is not a twitter feed that appeals six days before Christmas. But Prof Deng has been consistently correct in his COVID predictions.
⚠️THERMONUCLEAR BAD—Hospitals completely overwhelmed in China ever since restrictions dropped. Epidemiologist estimate >60% of 🇨🇳 & 10% of Earth’s population likely infected over next 90 days. Deaths likely in the millions—plural. This is just the start—🧵 https://t.co/VAEvF0ALg9
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IS THIS THE "TEMEL PAPER" FOR 2022 providing good evidence for commissioners of palliative care impact in A&E departments? https://t.co/QoAWlZ0McD
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Palliative care services (PCS) have improved quality of life for patients across various cancer subtypes. Minimal data exists regarding PCSfor metastatic hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) and gastroin...
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Free Iranian protest rapper Toomaj Salehi #FreeToomajSalehi #FreeToomaj - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/wW08KNgIpR via @UKChange
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Free Iranian protest rapper Toomaj Salehi #FreeToomaj
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After three years, tonight Dr Laurence Dorman finished his term as RCGPNI Chair. All of us are grateful for his passion, boundless energy and thoughtful leadership. Thank you @laurence903 and the very best of luck to @ursulaamason as our new College Chair #TeamGP
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Imagine living in developed country where face masks are the norm and not stigmatised. That’s Japan with almost 10 times less COVID deaths than England.
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"We need an Executive now. We need a proper multiyear budget now. Above all else, we need proper public accountability now. Under no circumstances can our overworked health service doctors and staff be held accountable for the harm we know will arise this winter" Tom Black BMA NI
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This is the most inspiring thing I have done over the past year in the face of so much which is negative. Collating examples of passionate people doing things to make a real difference for those approachng the end of life has done me good. Be inspired too!
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