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I was the resident radiologist at the trauma centre responsible for covering the British Grand Prix - Silverstone.
Reporting full body trauma scans for internationally known F1 driver after a race crash.
Glad RCR are taking a proactive & robust approach to clinical standards regarding physician assistants
Thankful for leadership by @DrStephenHarden @DrDLittle & others on this matter
Hope this continues across issues of Radiology standards, training & NHS inferior substitutions
But they sound cool for political/DHSC public relations stories. Hence there's money for these initiatives.
Two new BMJ studies suggest that robotic assisted hip and knee replacements offer no clear benefit over conventional surgery for implant survival, revision risk, or surgical complications
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
Linked commentary
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2926…
Devan Sinha retweeted
'Gingerbread men with chocolate trousers incur value-added tax (VAT) worth 20%, but no tax is charged on those with chocolate only for their eyes.'
Britain's taxes aren't unusually high - but they are freakishly complex, @TheEconomist says: economist.com/britain/2026/1…
Good thing thanks to Andy Burnham we're not "in hock" to the bond market anymore right?
NEW: The UK’s long-term borrowing costs have reached 6% for the first time in almost three decades
The yield on 30-year gilts rose five basis points to 6% this morning, a level last seen in March 1998
The global bond selloff has reignited this morning
bloomberg.com/news/live-blog…
Devan Sinha retweeted
Every day there is some tidbit of UK news that an editor would remove from a novel about a country undergoing a rapid decline because it was too silly to be realistic
EXCL: Ministers are being lobbied by the chief executive of a major British business to solve the NEETs crisis – by imposing a four-day week on top earners.
The high-flying boss, who has close links to the Labour party, is convinced that forcing the best-paid employees to work fewer days could be the silver bullet for moving the one million youngsters not in employment, education or training into the jobs market.
The only legitimate functions of the state: courts, policing, national defence and the opera.
Viva la democratic socialist revolución ✊
Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
"RAF pilot protocol post ejection MRI"
Spinal G-forces are huge- acute disc herniation, ligamentous injuries, micro fractures & facet distraction happen even without high impact uncontrolled parachute landings
Neuroradiology at the UK's military medcentre keeps you on your toes
Devan Sinha retweeted
The extent of the PISA gap between England + other western European countries is extraordinary.
In reading, the 25% most disadvantaged pupils in England outperformed the average for *all* students in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway etc...
A decade ago there was no gap
New post out:
England's schools are now the second highest performing in the world outside the far east, according to the PISA study.
Is this because of policy? Attitude to technology? Cultural factors like immigration? And where can we still improve?
samf.substack.com/p/why-engl…
Burnham really is a lucky general.
*For now
NEW
Bank of England hold interest rates with a 6-3 vote.
Says q3 growth will now be 0.4%
- in a surprise move the Bank’s auctions of Government debt (amassed for QE) are paused, and the Bank has decided to hold on to its stock of long term debts, partly to back up total banknote issuance.
It has proposed to Chancellor to sell its gilts directly back to Government/ DMO at market price (rather than auctions)
Wouldn't it be far more sensible to just disestablish the Church of England?
This is nonsense.
Why should a person of another religion or denomination decide on internal management and ecclesiastical promotion for Anglican Christians and their church?
EXC: Legislation to remove the constitutional bar on Catholics advising the King on Church of England appointments being introduced in the Commons tomorrow
It’s our first Catholic prime minister’s first bill
thetimes.com/article/deee4ae…
Devan Sinha retweeted
It’s pretty depressing to have two parties who say they’re committed to growth, but one raises tax in a way that damages growth, and the other refuses to cut tax in a way that boosts growth.
Devan Sinha retweeted
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But trust the current UK Labour government to decide that good educational standards & outcomes in England are a problem we should emulate the failures and decline of Wales and Scotland instead.
True.
The UK is the poorest country in northern Europe. Have to go to the Mediterranean PIGS or former Communist eastern bloc for lower per capita income (many of whom are due to overtake us in the next 5 years too because they actually want economic growth & development).
Exclusive:
Britain is “poorer than we often think” and cannot rely on higher public spending as a route to making the country “great again”, a former minister has said
Darren Jones, the former chief secretary to the prime minister under Sir Keir Starmer, said that higher public spending alone would not lead to economic growth
Writing for The Times, he said: “Britain is poorer than we often think. We won’t get richer based on higher public spending alone, and we can’t tax billionaires who don’t live here
“We shouldn’t rely on public spending as a route to some romantic version of making Britain great again as we look in the rearview mirror for a great history that is no longer available to us. We must face the future, and I know my colleagues are up to the challenge.”
He said Burnham’s ten-year plan, which is expected to be published in November, must “rise to these challenges, or the sugar rush of short-term announcements will be meaningless in the face of the populist backlash that will follow”
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
"obsolete" means higher job demand and larger compensation packages.
Med/rad AI is the gift that keeps giving. No luddites here.
This is the most first Michaelmas term coded crew outing I've ever seen.
Still respect to Buttigieg for rowing stroke position. Must be able to keep rhythm.
Wes Streeting has the chance to do the funniest thing
Healey to shelve his own defence spending target of 3% of GDP by 2030 ft.trib.al/Jyps4uh
