Anyone recognise this?
I finish my morning ward round. Pleased with my self because I've said 5 people can go home. The patients were delighted. I told the team, I told the ward sister, there were no therapy issues.
3 of them are still there the next morning.
Now why is that?
There is a problem inside hospitals caused by our reliance on specialists.
Day1: Plan: XXXology review
Day2: Plan: await XXXology opinion
Day3: Plan: Chase XXXology
Its actually a "system trap" known as "shifting the burden to the intervenor". An addiction leading to bottlenecks.
Just about to do an ERCP in theatres. Introduced myself to the consultant Anaesthetist- “I think we have met before”- yes I used to be your F1 she said…😳😵💫
#bitoldforthismalarky
🤣🤣🤣
Here are a few common ones:
“CRP’uo” - we’d booked some tests just to be sure- (Educate)
Too many other jobs- HMR done too late -missed transport- (process problem).
Patient was due to go at 7 pm- query about meds - “own team to review mane” 😡😵💫- that’s why they need to go early
It’s very easy at the moment to slip into the habit of having a few drinks every evening. Nice though that is, please try and have 3 or 4 days off each week. I don’t want to be seeing y’all in my clinic when the lockdown lifts!😉
#loveyourliver
.
#britishlivertrust
#liver4life
Massive thanks to UHS security tonight- just got back to car after long shift- flat battery 🙄😗😳
Phone rings: “we heard you left your lights on- do you need jump starting?” Sorted - Cheers “D” you’re a top bloke.🙂
Myself and Banksy earlier today!
(1st I knew was on the 10 o’clock news!)
#uhs
#COVIDkindness
Cheers
#Banksy
Well done to all my superhero nurse colleagues 🙂
I’m not saying specialists are bad ( I’m one myself) but we often forget that we all trained as medical professionals and we shouldn’t just delegate anything slightly out of our immediate comfort zone to someone with a fancy title!
#dependency
Giving up alcohol for a dry January as some sort of “ annual detox” after a year of excess, makes about as much sense as maxing out your credit cards all year and then trying to fix your finances by just eating toast for a month.
Its annoying when we are asked to prioritise discharges. Like we don't do that already? We don't keep people as pets you know!
And we only get asked when there's a crisis. Thing is if we are honest, we don't see a few extra hours or even a day as a big deal do we?
#thinkaboutflow
Lots to be worried about currently- loved ones, long held plans, finances. All very acute to the individual. Take time to find out what your colleagues fears are, support them and share your own. We will all get on better.
#COVIDkindness
You can curse the darkness or you can light a candle. We have so many resources at our disposal, but even if we think we have nothing, we always have kindness and compassion. Let’s make sure we feel proud this time next year.
#COVIDkindness
#backtoworktomorrow
#NHSheroes
UHS Hepatology virtual away day this afternoon.
Off to a great start with announcement that we are the 1st UK liver centre to achieve IQILS level 2 accreditation!🙂 big thanks to
@janishapatel2
for all her hard work pulling it together.
#UHSFT
#IQILS
Very impressive service from UHS staff Covid testing.
Monday night: Daughter coughing (probably a cold but...) service contacted, Swab Tuesday morning, negative results Communicated 7am Wednesday morning, back to work straight away!😉
Thank you!
@UHS_IPT
@UHSFT
@UHSOccHealth
🙂
Not just talking about medical specialists- safe guarding, TVN, SALT, all sorts of outreach services. All set up for the best of reasons but then people become dependent on them
Well done to our amazing Hepatology nurse specialists for their terrific work among the underrepresented patients of Southampton. Eliminating HCV. Treating the untreatable.
@UHS_LiverTeam
#UHSHeroes
Just waiting for the train to Bristol.
BASL end of life care in liver disease Meeting. Excited to be presenting our work to produce a ready to go business case for advanced liver disease services. You can download it.
#letsscaleup
#BASL
Who actually has the final say on when someone goes home?
The Doctors?
Therapists?
The patient?
The patients relatives?
Safeguarding team?
The porters?
Transport?
Social services?
Managers?
None of them think they do when you ask them. (I have).
#whoisincharge
#uhsft
#nhs
Anyone else noticed? A lot of former drinkers with cirrhosis have started again. Lots of decompensated liver disease coming in this weekend. They are all bored, stressed or depressed.
😕
#covidcollateral
When you have a deadly disease and a readily available, side effect free cure, there’s a moral imperative to treat everyone infected.
It’s not a new idea that how a society treats its most vulnerable people is how it should be judged- we hope by 2025 we can feel justly proud.
Great to be part of
#Southampton
#HepC
elimination steering meeting today. We are so excited to work in
#partnership
& share best practice & learning from our
#Peer
project. Fantastic ideas shared & coupled with well tolerated & easy treatment the project is going to be amazing
Lots of things can be done to bring forward discharge by a few hours, which makes a massive difference to those waiting on trolleys or hoping to get their op. The discharge paperwork may not be sexy, but it has a bigger impact on health than ordering another CT scan- so do it 1st
No Flow in the whole hospital = very bad.
Those people on the trolleys have worse outcomes the longer they spend there.
We need to make flow central to all that we do (because it is).
Central to patient safety, central to our elective programs, central to staff well being.
#nhs
We’re expanding 👍.
2 new locum luminal Gastro consultant posts (with a view to becoming substantive) and 2 clinical fellow posts- out now!
Join our dynamic, forward looking team in Southampton. (great hepatology support as well😉)
#uhsft
#Gastroenterology
Same down in Southampton- it’s like people in the know have seen what’s happening and don’t want to catch it!
Funny that🙄.
Had mine this morning)
Very slick operation from the vaccine team by the way- thanks
#uhs
Vaccine hesitancy is clearly not prevalent amongst hospital staff judging by the queues that appeared when the
#CovidVaccine
became available at
#ICHT
. Surely food for thought for those who are still resistant
I wouldn’t have expected a new petrol car to come with a full tank, but for some reason I did assume my electric car would be fully charged when I picked it up!🤔
Made it home with 5 miles to spare!😳
Pleased with it though🙂
Sadly the wards are full of people with alcohol related issues at the moment- some of them who are having problems for the 1st time, some who thought they had left it behind. It’s an all too common entry in the notes “has been drinking +++ since lockdown”
😕
2020 has been tough. 😢
When things get difficult, alcohol is often the first thing we reach for to handle stress, worry or sadness. But over time, that can actually make us feel worse.
On
#AlcoholAwarenessWeek
, find a better way to cope:
Come and join our team. This is a great opportunity for an ambitious nurse, looking after people with the full spectrum of liver disease. Bring your 6 Cs and be the the 7th (continuity) for our patients!
DM me if you want to know more🙂.
@UHS_LiverTeam
Intentional foreign body ingestion- see our Southampton experience in the latest issue
@FrontGastro_BMJ
.
Seems to be a growing problem nationally, in need of a coordinated response. DM me if you have experience to share.
This has been a game changer for me-that extra bit of time has allowed me to set up studies, establish some university collaborations and publish papers (all in the 1st 6 months!). Previously I was sitting watching my ideas slowly evaporate as there was no time to properly think.
“We know that research-active organisations achieve the best outcomes for patients.” 💙
Hear our Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Trevor Smith (
@GastroDrSmith
), explain why
@UHSFT
is investing in research.
Could you be a future research leader? 👇🏥
Great energy from the Southampton Gastro- Hep team at our away day. Thanks everyone for all you great ideas and enthusiasm. Super excited about the next few years.
#uhs
#gastroenterology
#hepatology
#NHS
@Dr_Stig
@UHSFT
Sadly not standard, but TBF quality of referrals not always compelling- E referrals drive down quality too and they end up being low priority tasks.
General problem in many hospitals. The problem is though lots of it doesn’t need referral anyway. Needless Delays.
Thanks Louise
This was always a team effort.
Without you guys we would have achieved very little despite the Fantastic drugs we now have.
We have to get them to the people who need them and that’s what the peers do so well.
Thanks so much!👏👍🙂
In in view of
@HepC_Hants_P2P
11th birthday, todays
#HepC
hero is Dr Mark Wright
@Marktheliverdoc
who supported us from the very beginning. This is especially poignant as back then peers were yet to be established and it was a fairly new concept. Mark empowered us for
#HepCULater
Given the normal rates of blood clots in the population, it looks like the AZ vaccine actually PREVENTS them!
( it certainly prevents the very high rate of thrombosis in people who would have otherwise got Covid)
#eurovaccinemadness
Very excited about our symposium on parallel planning in advanced liver disease. Wednesday day, Hall 5, 9am start. See you there?🙂
It’s not about palliative care, it’s about good care.
#BSGLIVE22
#BSGLIVE2022
When I was 10 I got dragged along to a family wedding. My brother and I were told we had better behave or else “there will be no Christmas”. It’s almost like Boris and Matt were my parents!
( It did work though so 🤞)
#covidchristmas
#COVIDIDIOTS
It’s working really well. combination of 1. Going to the patients, 2. Treating in cohorts, such that you always have the previous cohort encouraging the next one, 3. the fantastic peer support. We are on a roll.
#NoHep
#hcvelimination
#hcv
#inclusion
#uhs
Phenomenal ‘Accessing the Inaccessible hepatology outreach clinic led by Mark
@Marktheliverdoc
& his wonderful nurses Liz & Becki 1️⃣1️⃣ patients screened for
#HepC
treatment 💯 % attendance- just shows power of
#partnership
working & incredible impact of
#PeerInterventions
#NoHep
Another thing that strikes me is the youth and enthusiasm of the key players in this field - this is setting the scene for the next 30 years of Hepatology, so even though palliative care in liver disease is in its infancy, it’s going to grow up fast!
#BASLEOL_2020
Ryan and Charlie with our Mayor at the launch meeting of the program to eliminate HCV from Southampton by 2025. Great collaboration from community partners and pharmacies.
#hcv
#nohep
#inclusion
#cgl
#uhs
#wessexodn
@javediqbal_123
But does said respiratory physician need a GI consult every time their patient get diarrhoea?
Or does the GI team need a respiratory consult every time a patient with UC gets a cough?
We need specialists for complex conditions not every symptom 🙂
100s of patients like this nowadays- the end of HCV is in sight. The only effect people notice from taking the pills is that they feel better and they are virus free at the end of the course. 😀
We just need to find them all. Tell your friends. Tell everyone.😉
#HCV
hepCULater
Fantastic collaboration between the BASL end of life care community and some fantastic NHS managers. This is a tool to make it easy to set up palliative and supportive care services for liver patients around the UK. Down load from the link below or from the BASL website.
#BASL
Just out! "Developing a generic business case for an advanced chronic liver disease support service"
A support service for patients with advanced liver disease in their last year of life self-funds and saves bed days.
@marktheliverdoc
@hudsonbe81
Have also started doing this in the last few days. Actually the patients loved the idea- apart from being relieved by reduced exposure they also relished the thought of not spending a half/whole day on a 15 minute appointment.
Maybe we should do it AV as well?
Good idea from 16 year old this evening. “Your grandparents asked me what you want for Xmas”
“No presents please- I’d like them to vote for the party of my choice in the general election”
She’s lucky to still have 4 of them... 🤔
#GeneralElection2019
Asking the Drinks Industry to self regulate on behalf of the Government makes as much sense as asking the Arms Industry to negotiate peace treaties on behalf on the UN.
#minimumunitpricing
Adrian Chiles: “It’s plain wrong to sell three litres of strong alcohol for almost nothing. Our labelling rules are plain wrong. Why don’t beer taps say, ‘3 units in a pint’ on them? This self regulation of the alcohol industry needs to change. It’s not working.”
Thanks for coming up Joe- they are a great team and as a visitor consultant doing my current “tour of duty” on the Covid wards, I couldn’t agree more!🙂
Thank you to our wonderful teams on G7, G8 and G9 today - I can’t thank you all enough for all you’ve done and continue to do to care for our covid patients and during my visit today not a single complaint from anyone - just awesome care x
@UHSFT
Fantastic work from the Gastro Hep nursing team, who have through their amazing work created this important improvement in patient care effectively for free ( financially anyway) by smart use of resources.
#uhs
#GIBLU
Great to see all the great work going on “talking the talk” about various micro elimination strategies for HCV. Meanwhile my specialist nurse team and I are “walking the walk” at Andover inclusion this morning with 7 new patients for treatment!
#inclusion
#HCV2018
#nohep
Screening another 9 in Andover on Monday- real progress now. No way we could do this without the peer to peer support and the set up at the centre.
#NOhep
#hcv
#HepatitisC
A whopping 5️⃣3️⃣ people seen in our 6 hepatology outreach clinics this month. With another 7️⃣ starting
#HepC
treatment. We 💕 our model of
#PeertoPeer
intervention, specialist nurses & familiar surroundings, together we are eliminating
#HepatitisC
privileged to be part of
#NOhep
Brilliant day in Bristol.
BASL end of life care in liver disease SIG meeting.
Great energy, great ideas and some great plans. Thanks for coming everyone and thanks for organising Hazel. Time to scale up!🙂
#basl
#endoflifecare
#liverdisease
#hepatology
The long stay patients are no longer receiving treatment as they languish, trapped in a web of well intentioned obstacles. Even bring discharge forward by only a couple of days each makes a massive difference across the system as a whole.
#flow
#nhs
Maybe I just can’t find it, but is there anything on parallel planning, symptom management or end of life care in liver disease at this year’s international liver congress? (Asking for a patient) 😬.
#ILC2022
Existential threats in hospital from not improving patient flow:
2. Moral Hazard to staff- Choosing who comes in and who doesn't, balancing "unsafe" discharges against unsafe trolley waits for others. Burnout and exhaustion.
#NHSCrisis
Just a thought- wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to apply the same methodology to other non “malignant” chronic disease in need of palliative and supportive care.
Just out! "Developing a generic business case for an advanced chronic liver disease support service"
A support service for patients with advanced liver disease in their last year of life self-funds and saves bed days.
@marktheliverdoc
@hudsonbe81
A lot can happen over 1 more night. You might think you are being kind/cautious but when the patient is better risks of infection, falls, clots etc might out weight the benefits. Plus those extra 24 hours get divided up amongst the patients on the trolleys in ED.
#Flow
#NHS
#UHS
It’s going to be a fascinating evening- This is right after the BSG controversy in endoscopy webinar on similar topics! Look forward to meeting you all 🙂
In the long term the NHS needs investment and it needs to expand things like palliative care, psychiatry, medicine for older people as well as more GIM training and less reliance on specialists. In the short term there are a lot of things we can do around system change.
#Flow
UHS Grand round "season 2" starts this time next week.
Title "Earth as an analogue for human spaceflight" by Dr Deepa Bangaru-Raju- AMU consultant and Space doctor at the ESA.
Super excited. See you there. There is lunch and the CPD is free!
#UHSFT
#UHSgrandround
Not only individually clever, conscientious and committed, but even more importantly worked as a great team.
Well done, thanks for all the hard work and good luck in your careers.
You are welcome back to
#teamhep
anytime 🙂👍
Another batch of brilliant young doctors 🌟 complete their hepatology placement
@UHS_LiverTeam
Working with such a talented and dedicated team was a real joy 🤩
Thank you! 🙏
Virtual End of Life Care in Liver Disease Conference today.
Great to see such high attendance but even better to see how far We have come in such a short period of time.
#BASLEOL_2020
Accessing the Inaccessible
#Andover
hepatology outreach clinic is on fire 🔥 today 7️⃣ patients started their
#HepC
treatment today & will be managed totally in the community. Well on way to
#MicroEliminition
in this rural community. Fantastic work led by Joel & Piers
#Recovery
Thanks to my amazingly efficient ERCP team- 1st patient sorted out and fixed by 9.15am! 2nd by 10am. Bring me some more!
#almostunheadofefficiency
#ercp
# UHS
Agree also.
We have robust comprehensive plans in place as well as huge resources mobilised. The teams are highly motivated and fired with a passion to do everything we can to help our population. This is why we chose to do what me do.
The average ERCP produces as much radiation as 120 chest X-rays.
How much do we know about radiation safety in ERCP? Proud to see our paper out today in
@FrontGastro_BMJ
Thanks to my co-author mentors and to
#GITwitter
#GIGang
for your input! 👏🙌
I’m interested to know what nursing colleagues think.
You also have specialist teams to refer to- safeguarding, infection,TV, SALT etc. That also produces big bottlenecks. Being quite old, I have seen an erosion in confidence to deal with these things over time.
#RCN
#nhs
There is a problem inside hospitals caused by our reliance on specialists.
Day1: Plan: XXXology review
Day2: Plan: await XXXology opinion
Day3: Plan: Chase XXXology
Its actually a "system trap" known as "shifting the burden to the intervenor". An addiction leading to bottlenecks.
No quick fixes to the problem of having long stay patients waiting for under resourced community services but we may recognise some of these:
-Discharge planning not starting until optimised for home.
-Not clear when optimised for discharge.
-NH wont take patient until next week.
When I 1st became a consultant we used to joke about needing “a teenager” to come and fix the IT. I’ve been here long enough now that those “teenagers” are now my consultant colleagues! Easy life, Happy days!😉🤣
#uhs
Shout out to the UHS IT Tech chaps, who kindly managed to tell my new work mobile phone what it needed to do today. Thank you 😊 sign of my old age, it was so easy when a phone was a phone🤣
@UHS_siteops
@hettie1972
@JoeTeape
@brookj3
@UHSFT
Well, if the new test for recovery from Covid is whether you can drive to
#BarnardCastle
and back that’s going to make it bloody awkward pre-screening cases for Endoscopy here in Southampton.
Ground breaking, paradigm shift, game changer. There. Got them out of my system. Off to the conference now.
#easl
,
#ilc2018
,
#proportionate
tweeting 😉