Happy to contribute to this important statement @ahascience.bsky.social on cuffless devices led by @jordybc.bsky.social ! Cuffless Devices for the Measurement of Blood Pressure: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association | Hypertension ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

The majority of doctors supported the recent strike. So why did the Department of Health suggest the opposite? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... WTAF?

The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric. We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result. www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

Paying my respects to Mani this evening 😢

@ukkidney.org guidelines for managing blood pressure in adults and CYP on dialysis is now published in BMC Nephrology 👏🏻 @profdg.bsky.social @hswapnil.medsky.social Find it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

With Nye Bevan in Cardiff today

Proud to have worked with colleagues and friends around the world on #ACHIEVE. We're disappointed spiro didn't prevent CV death/heart failure hospitalizations, but we've shown it's possible to do publicly funded large RCTs of repurposed meds in ESKD. More to do! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.theguardian.com/business/202... From someone who has been PI on multiple clinical trials in people with kidney disease this is deeply concerning … @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

Unlike Radiohead it doesn’t look like the Smiths will be touring again anytime soon 😢 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

bihs.org.uk/news/21/prof... Graham was my boss and MD supervisor at St George’s, University of London. He started me on a journey that continues to this day. Our East Kent Hypertension Clinic is part of Graham’s legacy. A giant in nephrology and CV medicine 🙏🏻

18km continuous ascent to Col de la Colombière with my mate Bryan over the summer 🥵

Aleppo by Jenny Saville

Poole Harbour

Nephrology community take note 👇 #nephsky @bmj.com Risks of assuming homogenous effects of ancillary treatment in heterogenous healthcare systems in global RCTs www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Getting Away With It All James #IOW2025 ❤️

@ukkidney.org #UKKW25 Prof David Wheeler and one of my fave slides reminding us how nephrologists weren’t so good at RCTs 🤣 but how times have changed … 1/2

💪 PD lets patients manage care at home, maintaining hope as they wait. 👥 We honor recipients, donors, and all who navigate this path with strength. PD supports this journey. #WorldTransplantDay #PeritonealDialysis #TransplantDay

🌱 Today is #TransplantDay, celebrating organ donors' life-saving gift. At ISPD, we emphasize the journey before that crucial call. 🫘 #PeritonealDialysis (PD) is more than a treatment; it's a vital bridge offering freedom and quality of life for those awaiting a transplant. #WorldTransplantDay

Most comprehensive clinical practice guideline on the management of hypertension in dialysis patients - first-of-its-kind globally - based on extensive systematic literature review

How about the siRNA (hot off the press from yesterday's @jama.com ) Zilebesiran summary evidence @drjmluther.bsky.social at @hypertensioncanada.bsky.social #CHC25

Thanks @ukkidney.org for my 🎁 … I’ve always hankered after a sprung-loaded self-retracting lanyard (such a thing must have a specific name 🤣)

This *headline* is misleading @jama.com RH = BP uncontrolled on 3 agents inc a diuretic. KARDIA-2 participants had BP uncontrolled on MONOTHERAPY - including submaximal amlodipine! When combined with an ARB dSBP was -4.5 mmHg so only moderately additive to existing RAASi #nephjc

“Science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party.” EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent. In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.

This is wonderful news 🙏🏻 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Remarkable conduct from the GMC. The Leng Review is currently investigating whether PAs are safe seeing patients. Yet here's the GMC steaming ahead will rolling out 1000s more PAs, in the face of fierce opposition from doctors with major safety concerns. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It is a legitimate question to ask @wesstreeting.bsky.social @skinnock.bsky.social: what actual actions are @teamlabouruk.bsky.social going to take to address the inhumanity of corridor care which persists in my Trust (SE England) today on a sunny April morning? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Aaand it’s official, we have a new antihypertensive class!!!! 🎉🍾🎊 I like this RCT design in particular because it was open to both uncontrolled not-yet-resistant AND resistant hypertensive patients, opening to door to prescribe it as an earlier line agent www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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I'd completely forgotten that the 2026 World Cup is being held jointly between the US, Mexico and Canada. Christ what a mess. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Have you checked out the programme for UK Kidney Week? The 1st draft is ready with an overview of plenaries, main sessions, moderated posters & social events. ✨We're excited to share it with you, to give you a feel for the great content planned for #UKKW25! Download➡️www.ukkw.org/programme/

www.ukkidney.org/about-us/new... @ukkidney.org Guidance on managing blood pressure in CYP and adults on dialysis 👏🏻

@ukkidney.org Clinical Practice Guidelines for management of blood pressure in adults and CYP on dialysis Just published 🥳

30 years old today and still totally stunning 👏🏻 open.spotify.com/album/35UJLp...

Brilliant ✊

Paper here www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Our new paper on the evidence base for Physician Associates and Anaesthetic Associates in the UK is out today! Coauthor @martinmckee.bsky.social has done a thread here. #healthpolicy #academicsky 🧪

Spring antlers

Standing there proudly in a Union Jack suit, while your leader vigorously defends a foreign politician who has just dismissed Britain as a "random country" that hasn't fought a war in forty years, is quite something

My 1st year at med school. So much optimism 🙏🏻

Column: In the Musk Revolution lessons from 20th Century history will be deleted www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Women in India donate nearly twice as many organs as men, yet men are more likely to be recipients, finds this BMJ analysis of the data. Why is this the case, and how do deep rooted gender inequalities play into it? www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Beyond words 😢

Images from 2024

A friend of mine has just shown me a gifted family heirloom, given to the first doctor in Maidstone

eGFR effects of treatments for IgA nephropathy, from Dr Brad Rovin @glomcon.org (One of the top 10 stories coming from #NephJC)

Kent this morning ❄️

Surgeons showed significantly greater manual dexterity compared with physicians, nurses, and non-clinical staff when assessed using a buzz wire game. But had the highest rates of swearing www.bmj.com/content/387/...