@UniofNewcastle @NCL_medscience

What a lovely evening hosted by @BMAFoundationMR. Feeling very grateful for this opportunity to work on Meniere’s Disease and add new knowledge to this important topic.

Congratulations to the second 2025 Philip Baker grant winner: Dr Michael Mather🌟#medresearchawards @UniofNewcastle

Wow, this really sets it in perspective. #JuniorDoctorsStrike #BMA #PayRestoration

A woman with hypertension presented to the clinic with a 4-day history of abnormal sounds in her ear. On examination, a small spider was seen moving within the external auditory canal of the left ear. The molted exoskeleton of the spider was also present. https://t.co/dye2sbbiL9

Surgery is more effective than nasal sprays for symptoms of a crooked septum. Read more here - https://t.co/jSdOid7VJN This adds to the evidence to inform doctor-patient discussions & informs discussions with health commissioners. #Research #NAIROS @JamesOHaraNCL @NIHRresearch

To understand the medical brain drain from UK to Oz, look at my🇦🇺 fellowship payslip. Fortnightly salary = 12470 AUD = 6528 GBP. = £170 000 per annum as a trainee. UK consultant salary = £88 000 p.a. We will lose our best doctors from the UK if we don’t fix this.

Annual cost of helping 23,000 hugely wealthy families by abolishing inheritance tax: £7.1bn Annual cost of lifting 250,000 children out of poverty and reducing poverty for a further 850,000, by abolishing two child benefit cap: £1.3 billion. We have the wrong priorities.

The @humancellatlas is a global effort to map every cell in the human body. It’s open to scientists all over the world. Prof @Muzz_Haniffa, a researcher and dermatologist, will tell us more about it in our #TwitterSpace 🔊 Set a reminder ⤵️ https://t.co/sxOueNjap7

Do the fair and reasonable thing @DHSCgovuk #FullPayRestoration

Dear @jeremy_hunt, As Chancellor, please can you explain how scrapping inheritance tax is ‘affordable’, yet addressing brutal real terms pay cuts for the country’s teachers, doctors, nurses, paramedics & all other vital public servants is not? Thank you.

GMC 2023 report makes for terrifying reading; 77% are planning to make a career change. Adverse effects on wellbeing was the most cited reason for leaving (75%) Many plan to move abroad with 80% saying it's because doctors are treated better and 66% due to higher pay. (1)

Well, @theBMA has been warning that this was happening for years, but we keep being told "oh, people are lining up to get into medical school! You're worried about nothing!" There's no point getting people through medical school if we then drive them out of the NHS afterwards.

Dear 🇬🇧, The @Conservatives have starved the NHS of £40 BILLION a year over the last decade and they want you to be impressed with this £1B uplift. It's a joke. With pay/conditions so terrible here, this will simply train more staff to go work in Australia. #SOSNHS

Learnt a lot from this brilliant session on OME 👂

The biggest study of its kind revealed that patients who had a tonsillectomy had 50% less sore throats over two years, compared to patients who did not undergo tonsillectomy @JamesOHaraNCL @NIHRresearch @NewcastleHosps

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:

Dear @SteveBarclay, There seems to be a lot of interest on UK #MedTwitter (@RoshanaMN) 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.🧵

Members of the public can see through govt spin People know how hard doctors work, and with all the training, qualifications and responsibilities - “for pittance” “They deserve everything. 35% and more” Full support ✊✊ #EnoughIsEnough #PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike

Salaries for Australian ‘junior’ Doctors WITHOUT oncall pay Embarrassed much @DHSCgovuk @SteveBarclay ?