A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged. A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death. And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.

Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.

This really the cracking of speeches: a banger. Worth reading in full.

Nope. Still don’t like this. Feels brutal #Strictly #SCD

First Christmas present bought, wrapped and labelled Now to hide it somewhere impossibly safe, never to be found again…

Hm. Either have a 5-judge panel Or have a Single(/Head) judge vote. But this looked off tonight. 2:1 lead just tossed aside. Where’s the scrutineer, let’s do proper ballroom marking #Strictly #SCD #RobshawRobbed

Important case: I have supported, please read and consider www.crowdjustice.com/case/exposin...

What was that? Was that a K pop? With Shaggy & Velma? #Strictly

What is happening #Strictly

Life goals: achievement unlocked #Orthosky 🐆

Here she comes… #Amy

Oh my… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Posted without comment #Medsky

Yes me too - it’s mostly other specialisties who have bad memories of their short rotations as f1s or preconceptions of what a surgeons life is like who told me it’s not a job for a woman

Please share: QR code to join survey on gender bias My experiences of support from surgeons has been wholly positive: the *only* negativity I ever faced about career choices came in PRHO (F1) from physicians, possibly projecting their 1970s feelings about house jobs.

I was sceptical, for sure. But on balance glad #Masterchef was aired. Who would want to rob these guys of such a life-changing moment? Certainly not a couple of middle aged men of a certain class…

Sharing @medicalwomenuk.bsky.social stats on female representation Is it odd I let out a little squeak of joy to see % T&O consultants ⬆️ one point? #MinisculeWins #Progress? #Medsky #Orthosky @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social

Harassment, groping and abuse in the operating theatre - the sexual predator surgeons getting away with a slap on the wrist. My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social with thanks to the brave women who spoke to me observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

‘Salty language’ requires re-training - when is spade is not a disturbed sociopathic nut-bag #Medsky #Orthosky www.bbc.com/news/article...

Follow-up to “Breaking the Silence” from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social “Turning the tide: progress and actions to support targets of sexual misconduct in surgery” #Medsky #Orthosky www.rcseng.ac.uk/-/media/File...

Messaging the Child to let her know I got on the right train (not a given) en route to @britorthopaedic.bsky.social #BOACongress2025 #Orthosky #MyPeople #HandandWrist

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Hats off to Duncan Leatherdale for one of the best opening paragraphs I’ve ever seen… 🥸 #Medsky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don’t go shopping in Tescos unless you are 100% fit and well… 👀 #PFD #CPR #coroner #Medsky www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...

I don’t know which intrigues me more… eyeballing an “all-action doctor” or watching the man-slaying lion drive a weaponised jeep… 🦁 #Beast #SummariseAMovie #Film4

Zimmer Biomet NexGen LPS with Option Tibia (stemmed non-augmentable) boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.1... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/2535711... #SW19 #Wimbledon

Not unique, I would suggest “… multiple women reported eye-rolling and dismissiveness in meetings. Female surgeons in particular felt “constantly excluded” by their male colleagues…” @hsj.co.uk @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social app.hsj.co.uk/2025/07/31/e...

And in local news… these two stories, released within a day of each other, fill me with an extraordinary foreboding for the future of local Health & Social Care #Surrey www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Coming on September 12th: The Re-Henge of Spinal Tap. youtu.be/hxkZ7krBzA8?...

Opinion piece: Patient Safety Review by Dr Penny Dash I read the review of patient safety by Dr Penny Dash . You can find it here: I made six pages of notes as I read it and have a few comments as you can imagine. I think the best thing for me to do at this stage is provide some high level key…

Mercedes-Benz workers in Germany are able to sign up to what it calls the “Mail on Holiday” deletion service. People messaging are given an alternative person to contact and then promptly told their email will be automatically deleted. You come back to an empty inbox www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Lovely IT remotely cleaning up the ME hotdesk … love their cleaning programme #HulkSmash

Is this the Worst Workplace in Britain? Political capital from human distress. Just give her a hug godammit and get her out of there. Horrible spectacle. Horrible speculation. Bad days happen. Don’t need to score points off it #BearPit #PMQs

A tribunal removed a doctor from the register after deciding serious misconduct took place. #Medsky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is an awful & to me genuinely shocking, story. It’s not that Jay was let down by the safeguarding *system*, tho of course that’s never acceptable, it’s the personal role played in the failure by the Bishop of Leicester, which raises serious questions of judgement www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A-ha… *there* we are. NHS_WTE becomes “NHS People” So that’s all good. #NHSRestructure #Medsky #NoTrainingTodayNoSurgeonsTomorrow

Our recent work exploring what makes wrist injury pathways work in the NHS bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/4... #wrist #scaphoid #injury #implementation #BMJ

Don’t leave carbonated cans in your car during high temps, friends.

In an act of unspeakable arrogance former BP oil executive Lord Browne of Madingley, as he is styled, is running to be Chancellor of Cambridge. It really adds insult to injury given the extraordinary damage the 'Browne Review' inflicted on higher education in Britain, the humanities in particular.

And that’s a wrap… ARCPs 2025 *done* 75 trainee portfolios reviewed & progressed Thank you @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social for hosting us, our Deanery support team, our Lay Rep and our SAC Liaison Rep👏👏👏 Good to catch up with the Military TPD and our HoS @ginnyab.bsky.social #TPDsonTour #KSSisBest

“The opinion of the College is that these deaths should be notified to the coroner, as due to the review processes involved, it is lawyers, not doctors, that are the most appropriate professionals to review these deaths” #coroner #assistedying

#MedSky www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

#NHS cost savings bite deep… #BlackCoffeeTime

This is a beautiful, beautiful thing happening here… lovely people 🫶

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Necrotising hay fever this evening #theDrugsDontWork

When a Sigh Becomes a Legal Issue: The Implications of Non-Verbal Discrimination from @parklaneplowden.bsky.social … every aspect of #NHS secondary care, take note (silently, without eye-rolling)