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              Cardiologist @BartsHospital & @UCLH #HeartFailure #InfectiveEndocarditis #yescct #PhD. Personal opinions.
              
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           Delighted to be shortlisted @HSJ_Awards 2025 for STaRT-HF: Structured Titration and Rapid Treatment for #HeartFailure across @NHS_NELondon delivering remote monitoring & individualised care, transforming treatment for people living with HF. Couldn't be prouder of the team! 
          
                
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             💡The ATLAS Virtual Ward lets low-risk NSTEMI patients to wait safely at home: • 1,760 bed days freed • 0% readmissions • Inpatient stay cut from 7 → 3 days 🎥 Dr @Bhcintervention describes how  https://t.co/jhk9Q7FZ42 
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             Breaking 🚨: St Bartholomew's Hospital has just randomised their sixth participant - bringing the study total to 57! 🎉 Great teamwork 👏#ClinicalTrials #BCIS4 @NHSBartsHealth @primustime
          
          
                
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             💡Pharmacist-led, digital-first heart failure care • 92% optimised across all four drug classes in weeks • 0 30-day readmissions • 659 outpatient appointments avoided 🎥Dr @primustime describes how it works:  https://t.co/TfLT2LpiGX 
            #ClinicianVoices #HeartFailure #VirtualWards
          
          
                
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             Fantastic News for patients. A dedicated, state of the art centre of excellence for Breast Cancer. Amazing contribution @Barts_Charity 
          
            
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              East London is to get its own dedicated breast cancer centre of excellence when two hospital buildings are returned to NHS use next year. Thousands of women will benefit from faster diagnosis, safer...
            
                
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             Each year, 40–60k people in England are diagnosed with high-risk heart failure. Current waits of 7–8 weeks for echo mean 13% are hospitalised before review. A 2-week pathway could cut this to under 5%, avoiding thousands of admissions and saving trusts and ICBs millions in 
          
            
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             I recently gave an interview to @kingshealth about our recent article on social deprivation and #endocarditis - check it out here:  https://t.co/vpEykw4Ae0 
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             An insightful initial 2 days for Cohort 12 at @BH__Academy & @TheKingsFund Aspiring Medical Leaders programme with colleagues across @NHSBartsHealth and @NHSHomerton. Thank you @MrPramodAchan and team for dispatching us enthused, motivated, reflective and curious for next steps! 
          
                
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             Our first paper from the London Endocarditis Research Network is out today in #EHJQCCO
             https://t.co/NV4O4PCimE  Thank you to all of my co-authors! @drdworakowski @primustime @JGrapsa @Dr_Kamatamu @NGFairhurst @_antocannata @ru_nhs @DrNileshPareek
          
          
            
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              AbstractAims. Infective endocarditis (IE) remains associated with high mortality despite diagnostic & therapeutic advances. The impact of social depriv
            
                
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             We’re finalists #HTNAwards2025 Best Use of Digital for Improving Care Pathways 🎉Bart's pharmacy-led Rapid Up Titration Pathway for Heart Failure delivers: 92% med optimisation 0% 30-day re-admissions 100% patient satisfaction  https://t.co/3b5SCs6keK 
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             Committee Member Positions: Call for Resident Doctors & Trainees. The BSH is inviting passionate resident doctors and trainees to join our committees. This is a great opportunity to connect with senior, experienced professionals, gain insight into the intersection of clinical 
          
                
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             🏆STaRT-HF shortlisted HSJ Awards 2025  https://t.co/JbDnbbQy84  100% HF meds optimised in 6 weeks 0 follow-up clinics 0% readmissions Want to run your own high-impact cardiology pathway? #JumpStart can fund it 📅Apply by 31 Aug→  https://t.co/eZx7JFJoD5 
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             That’s a wrap on #LondonMitral!🎬 With first-class education delivered by exceptional speakers, the meeting offered valuable learning through expert-led discussions on innovation, decision-making, and patient care aimed at enhancing clinical practice.💡 Thank you to everyone 
          
                
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             🔥 #LondonMitral is hot in more ways than one! ☀️We’re on-site in a sun-soaked London, where leading experts from across Europe are sharing the latest in mitral valve surgery. Tilly, Sian, and Dom are in the capital, capturing a packed day of high-quality medical education and 
          
                
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             RFK Jr. went on national TV and spouted egregious, dangerous falsehoods about vaccines. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. @FoxNews might not fact-check him, but I will. I've reviewed the trials. I've catalogued them. I have receipts. 🧵 
          
          
                
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             📢 Webinar: The Acuity Pyramid in Action 🗓 12 June | 7–8pm BST Join leading clinicians 🫀 Dr Bastiaenen – LQTS Monitoring 🧬 Dr Burford – Mavacamten Titration 💊 Dr Primus – HF Rapid UpTitration 📈 Dr Das – Elective Surgery at Scale 👇 Register Now  https://t.co/DbzWENEJcX 
          
          
                
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             We are calling for the government to make Heart Failure a national priority and to publicly raise awareness of HF symptoms. This will reduce the impact and burden of HF on the patients and the NHS (currently costing £2 billion annually) and reduce the high numbers of patients 
           🫀Nearly 200,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with heart failure each year, and this is rising. @DrRanj shares key signs to look for and ways to increase your heart health. Watch in full 👉  https://t.co/voAfIoeRaZ 
            
            
                
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             Thanks to all those who supported my campaign for RCP VP. I am naturally disappointed. But the RCP is a democracy. The Fellowship, even those who want change, think what the current SLT is doing enough. I hope that is true. I continue to think that the challenges the 1/ 
          
                
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