Thanks again to all the support @wannabehawkeye @BreastSurgeon @asgbi @VanessaUoS, Tim Wilson and all the participants involved. @NELANews @BAPENUK.

…changing perceptions. People with obesity can be malnourished and might need nutritional support, even if they don’t ‘look’ like they do. …further learning. Albumin is not a marker of malnutrition in acute setting.

Clearly areas to work on…. …maybe incorporating days without oral intake until now/ likely to be without oral intake from now into routine clinical practice/ history taking, or even risk stratification tools, to highlight at risk patients or to standardise the process?.

Key figure: forest plot of log odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals for each of the different attributes in the binary logistic regression analysis

Pleased to announce another paper from my nutrition in EGS PhD has been published in @ColorectalDis yesterday! . . What factors drive decision making? . We examine six and ask surgeons, ‘Would you start artificial nutritional support in this patient?’.

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Does anyone recognise these challenges in their work place? How have you overcome them? Would be interested to know.

Huge thank you to @asgbi for supporting the study, and of course @VanessaUoS @wannabehawkeye @dmbaker13 Tim Wilson @sheffielduni and @DBH_NHSFT. Thanks also to @BAPENUK for allowing me to present the work last month.

3rd piece of work from my PhD published!. Barriers faced by surgeons in identifying and managing malnutrition in emergency general surgery: A qualitative study - Ashmore - Colorectal Disease - Wiley Online Library

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And the Student Recognition of Achievement award !! 🙏🏻 very lucky given the quality of talks and posters throughout the conference this year.

Thank you @BAPENUK for the opportunity to present my work. Couldn’t have been done without @wannabehawkeye and Vanessa Halliday @sheffielduni.