Delighted that the SCTS/GIRFT pathway for pleural sepsis surgery is now online www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...

Those confidence intervals in full!

Gun murders last year: US: 17,927 England & Wales: 22 Here's the data, per capita, in the chart below. It's the guns. I wrote about the evidence, with lots of data, along with a more personal response to the Annunciation Church shooting (where I was baptized): www.forkingpaths.co/p/guns-at-an...

Lung disease and social justice - COPD as a manifestation of structural violence. #WorldCOPDday www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/... @atscommunity.bsky.social @ats-assemblies.bsky.social

“We found that countries with higher levels of income inequality are associated with higher rates of obesity, diabetes, mental illness, asthma, drug use and infant mortality” – @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗

Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months. poliisi.fi/-/helsingin-...

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

A mandated reduction in cigarette nicotine content is likely to reduce the reinforcement value of cigarettes in a marketplace where noncombusted products are available, find Tracy Smith et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...

"You’ve been sold a giant myth when it comes to improving your health" www.newscientist.com/article/2485...

Lots of us end up as 'accidental managers', thrown in at the deep end without any formal preparation for leading a team. If this sounds familiar to you, ShiftWorks can help you to with an introduction and induction to management. Find out more: buff.ly/7fBXaq0

“Our 24hr study showed more than 9,130 cyclists moved along Bloor St. at the count point. That's over 9,130 people ... enjoying an affordable, healthy, noiseless, and climate-friendly way to get around.” - Bilal Khan, Community Bikeways #bikesky lloydalter.substack.com/p/threatened...

Great day at the Society For Cardiothoracic Surgery today. Lots of new work on education, minimal access cardiac surgery and quality improvement in the pipeline.

This is a genuinely terrible idea if true

Smoking rates in pregnant women have fallen 40% in 5 years. It is a stellar achievement that could be at risk if the services delivering this change are cut

📢 New blog: State of the Nation 2025 – Progress, Pressures and Priorities in Lung Cancer Care By Dr Lauren Dixon, NLCA Clinical Fellow 📑 More early diagnoses  📑 Treatment delays & capacity pressures Read the blog 👉 tinyurl.com/25jhf2up @hqip.bsky.social @btog.bsky.social #LungCancer

Great news. 2 more years of funding secured for the National Lung Cancer Audit in England and Wales

Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease caused by bacteria, was responsible for as many as one-quarter of all deaths in the US and Europe during parts of the 18th and 19th centuries. However, as we see in the chart for England and Wales, deaths from TB have declined dramatically in rich countries.

Caring for surgical patients requires skill both in and out of the operating room. Attention to 3 core communication skills offers a way for surgeons to collaborate with patients and families to make patient-centered decisions about surgery. ja.ma/4mI48TQ

New Podcast: BTOG does … Tobacco Dependency in Lung Cancer. Dr Emma O’Dowd talks to Professor Sanjay Agrawal. Wherever you get your podcasts or listen online btog.org/btog-podcasts/ #LCSM #LungCancer

Great @btog.bsky.social @nlca-natcan.bsky.social joint webinar last night. Latest data from the state of the nation report, updates on early signal reporting and other national lung cancer QI initiatives

Thank you to our panel from @nlca-natcan.bsky.social The webinar recording and podcast plus a copy of the slides will be available to members within a few days. The CPD applies if you watch the webinar within 4 weeks of the original live date. www.btog.org #LCSM #LungCancer

Hooray for oncology BlueSky! Great to see @btog.bsky.social on here

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

🆕 Rates of AMR up to 3 times greater in outpatients with cancer compared to those without cancer, suggests USA data. Find out more in @thelancetoncol.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/2uy9ttvv

❗️BTOG / NLCA ‘State of the Nation’ webinar on 15th May❗️ The National Lung Cancer Audit has been instrumental in improvement of lung cancer outcomes in UK Come and hear about our successes and challenges. Neal Navani always gives a beautifully clear and concise talk. 👍

ICYMI. Our latest National Lung Cancer Audit State of the Nation Report. Outcomes and data for the 40,084 people diagnosed with lung cancer in England and Wales in 2023. www.lungcanceraudit.org.uk/reports-publ... @nlca-natcan.bsky.social @natcan-news.bsky.social

Varenicline, combined with behavioral counseling, increased vaping abstinence in youth who vape nicotine and do not regularly smoke tobacco. #PAS2025 https://ja.ma/4cSV3TN

Everything you ever wanted to know about the National Cancer Audit Collaboration Centre (NATCAN @natcan-news.bsky.social), which the prostate audit is part of, is now available in a very handy summary paper form! Read it here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Please share it far and wide!

📢 The NLCA State of the Nation Report 2025 has published today! Read results for patients diagnosed in England and Wales in 2023. 👇 www.lungcanceraudit.org.uk/reports-publ... @btog.bsky.social @natcan-news.bsky.social

The National Lung Cancer Audit is now on BlueSky! Follow here

NLCA research Fellow Lauren Dixon presenting the National Lung Cancer Audit QI plan at @natcan-news.bsky.social . Access to and support from cancer nurse specialists is crucial to patient experience if cancer care.

Great start to the National Cancer Audit Quality Improvement Event at @natcan-news.bsky.social today with Michael Sykes. Learning how to use national cancer data to improve the quality of clinical care.

probably even starker for people even a smidge older than me but I do think a lot about how much the world has changed on that front in my lifetime, isn't it mad that I remember smoking in bars and at gigs, and being able to smoke in all flats/houses by default

We know the health & care system faces many challenges, & we know that the most complex challenges will only be solved by impactful cross-sector partnership working. Brush up on your partnering skills with our course Systems go! included in ShiftWorks. buff.ly/CjCzWuL

I finally found a strategy that’s dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food, and it’s a hilariously simple strategy. I wrote about it for @canarymedia.com. www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...

The UKLCC’S quality improvements hub is intended to be a repository for best practice innovation, resources from our UK Lung Cancer Conference 2023 and a toolkit for running your own meetings. Access hub ▶️ ow.ly/RBkF50TXVhf

Good morning, Utrecht! This is what a city where most people travel by bus, bike, and cargo bike looks like at 8:30AM. This is the future of cities. Goedemorgen, Utrecht! Zo ziet een stad eruit waar de meeste mensen met de bus, fiets en bakfiets reizen om 8:30 uur. Dit is de toekomst van steden.

In the API-CAT trial involving patients with active cancer and venous thromboembolism, extended anticoagulation with reduced-dose apixaban was noninferior to full-dose apixaban for preventing recurrent thromboembolic events. Full results: nej.md/41YkRZK #ACC25 | @accintouch.bsky.social

An extraordinary historical remnant from Scottish medical teaching history. Mortsafes prevented the illegal exhumation of bodies. They were then sold to university schools of anatomy (and extramural schools) for dissection.

We're very pleased and proud to present the latest president-elect of SCTS @enochakowuah.bsky.social A huge congratulations from all your team here at the South Tees ACU! #cardiacresearch #cardiothoracic #healthresearch

NLCA fellow Lauren Dixon presenting the latest National Lung Cancer Audit data at #SCTS2025 this morning. Exciting to see surgical resection rates at 20% in England- the highest ever. However, significant work to do to decrease surgical wait times. More at wwe.lungcanceraudit.org.uk.

Delighted to be helping at the National Clinical Improvement Programme stand at #SCTS2025 in Edinburgh today. Come and find out how NHS England data can help you understand and improve care for thoracic surgery patients. It's free, and we will even help you sign in!

Next level epidemiology superfandom!

Today I learnt how to refer to a pie chart in Portuguese.

Happy (early) Birthday to the father of Field Epidemiology! John Snow, who turns 212 on March 15th, is legendary for using disease mapping to determine the source of the London cholera outbreak in 1854. #JohnSnow #Epidemiology

Canadian diplomacy 2025. Carpet burn...

Teleprehabilitation reduces major cardiovascular events-mostly hospitalisation- after cardiac surgery

Integrated stop smoking interventions are essential to maximise the health benefits from lung cancer screening thorax.bmj.com/content/79/3... @ncsct.bsky.social @btog.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social @ashorg.bsky.social @ashorguk.bsky.social

Congratulations to Lauren Dixon and the rest of the NLCA team at #BTOG25. Poster prize winners for work on national patterns of SACT use in lung cancer