Jim Nolan
@nolanjimradial
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Professor of cardiology at Keele University All views expressed are my own JFT97 YNWA
Joined May 2017
A radiologist reached out: “So many of my patients will never know how much I think about them, gather second and third opinions about them, and ruminate about whether I've given them the best version of myself. I know I'll never meet them, but I hope they know how much I care.”
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Doctors aren’t underpaid by accident. For over a decade, policy choices suppressed doctor pay, ignored inflation, underestimated risk, and prioritised cheaper staffing. Politicians assumed doctors would stay anyway. Now that assumption has backfired, and doctors are walking away.
I would like Wes to answer 2 questions honestly: Why is he paying doctors less than their assistants? How does this year’s sub inflationary pay rise reflect the commitment he promised to fair pay restoration last year? People are sick of the broken promises & gaslighting
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Global leaders united at the GHA One World Summit 2025 to drive action on global health, SDGs, and digital transformation moving towards a more connected and resilient future. 🌍✨ #GHA1W #GlobalHealth #OneWorldSummit #LeadershipForChange
#CNN #BBC #CNBC #NDTV #SkyNews #TimesNow
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I'll tell you who's 'holding Britain to ransom'. It's 156 billionaires, not 77,000 resident doctors.
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Have we all forgotten the harm and suffering caused to patients and staff trying to deliver good care whilst trust “leaders” blindly pursued meaningless KPIs to secure foundation status?! Couple this with “increased private sector” and PFIs and the NHS is in real trouble. 🤦🏻♂️
Health secretary @wesstreeting announces "a new generation of foundation trusts" he calls the Advanced Foundation Trusts. Eight trusts are in the running to be the first, but all will become them he says...#BackToTheFuture
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"Those last four weeks of her life when she was in the hospice, I think it's odd to say, but were some of the happiest of her life." Sir Michael Palin reflects on the care his wife received in a hospice, as he calls for more support for hospices in the budget. #Newsnight
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The elite are the 1% - so they can't win in a democracy. In order to win they need to convince half of the remaining 99% to vote for them. To do this, they first buy up the press. Then they demonise minority groups and create a made up crisis to convince you that the minority
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I'm actually embarrassed to work in the NHS. No dignity for patients, people die before coming to hospital, unemployed doctors, doctor rota gaps filled by anyone who's not a doctor, almost every hospital in the UK can't hit cancer targets yet CEOs are on £150k+ increasing every
NHS under severe strain as RCP warns doctors are being asked to “perform the impossible”: 🚨59% of consultants report vacancies 🚨83% say rota gaps harm patient care 🚨59% treated patients in corridors Corridor care unsafe; urgent workforce & social care action needed
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Original Article: Beta-blockers after Myocardial Infarction with Normal Ejection Fraction https://t.co/1LiJFFvnm3
@AHAScience | #AHA25
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NHS under severe strain as RCP warns doctors are being asked to “perform the impossible”: 🚨59% of consultants report vacancies 🚨83% say rota gaps harm patient care 🚨59% treated patients in corridors Corridor care unsafe; urgent workforce & social care action needed
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"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care." Please read my piece on the astonishing underfunding of NHS palliative care 🙏 Di you know
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Lurking underneath the 'compassion' and concern for autonomy of the #assistedsuicide campaign is a frightening utilitarian ethos that wishes to rid our society of inconvenient lives. Exactly the same arguments as today were heard in the 1930s.
Prof Martin Vernon, of the British Geriatrics Society, says there could be “pressure within the system” for assisted suicide to become a solution for the funding crisis in health and social care. “I do think that is a very real and present threat.”
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I have come to know that cruel phrase that its time to move on well. I have seen the air sucked out of a room when civil servants have used it on grieving mothers and still injured survivors. I've seen it said to flooded communities still living in caravans and back bedrooms.
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I miss the person who I was 30 seconds ago before I read this comment.
@SatanicSF @jonathanstea Immunology, vaccinology & virology ignores human biology. We have a sophisticated defense system with memory. A self-healing internal & external body made by God. The miracle of watching a wound heal back together is evidence of our self-healing body
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I see half the number of patients I saw before EPR. Slow, clunky, and poor infrastructure mean I am much much less efficient than I used to be.
Surprisingly little research on EPRs effects on quality of care and productivity. Probably decreased productivity in ED due to: 1) writing notes on paper while talking to patient then transcribing into EPR after. 2) login time. 3) slow typing 4) searching through ‘too much info’
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Babies of Black mums are 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, an NHS study shows. The research showed ‘how existing biases and injustices in society are reflected in clinical settings, disproportionately affecting women and babies.’ https://t.co/7ZP7HEKUVh
theguardian.com
Analysis of England and Wales units also finds 63% higher risk to babies whose mothers live in most deprived areas
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