@NBOCA_NATCAN Clinical Fellow, @LivUni PhD Student, @NHSHEE_NWest Colorectal Surgery Specialty Registrar 🔪 MRCS, PGCert
Manchester, England
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Leo Watton retweeted
Haiti v Scotland is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries occupy the smaller, mountainous part of a major island shared with a larger neighbour.
Haiti has western Hispaniola. Scotland has northern Great Britain.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
Leo Watton retweeted
As someone who graduated with a master’s in 2023, spent 2 years unable to get work and so had to return to university, I’ve been screaming this for years and it’s great it’s finally being reported on
What it’s missing is that even those with jobs are mostly…
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More than one million 16-24 year-olds not in education, employment or training, as report warns of "lost generation" - follow live bbc.in/3RvJvzi
Leo Watton retweeted
New guidance on sterile gown use during spinal anaesthesia aims to reduce unnecessary waste while maintaining high standards of patient safety.
Consensus guidelines published in @Anaes_Journal now buff.ly/rvtALwy
With @RCoANews, @OAAinfo, @RegionalAnaesUK, CAI, ANZCA
Leo Watton retweeted
Abdominal surgery in a patient with cirrhosis? The EASL guideline (2025) updates the management.🩺
Key message: risk stratification must be multimodal. The VOCAL-Penn score is recommended over classic Child-Pugh or MELD for elective surgical decisions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2025.…
Leo Watton retweeted
Chers confrères généralistes, cher(e)s collègues IDEL, vous avez sous les yeux une Infection du Site Opératoire (ISO).
Quelques conseils (venant d'un gars qui en a eu un paquet, géré encore plus et fait sa thèse dessus et donc appris quelques petits trucs utiles)
A dérouler
Leo Watton retweeted
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the best histopathology report in the history of the world. End of discussion.
Leo Watton retweeted
British Society of Gastroenterology and Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland position on tranexamic acid in upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding - Trudgill - 2026 - Colorectal Disease - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Leo Watton retweeted
📈 November’s most-read on STITCHES:
“Essential Anatomy for the Abdominal Wall Surgeon”
🧠 Consensus anatomy & PCS steps
🛠️ Top-down & Madrid TAR
🧪 Cadaver workshop validated
🎯 Key for complex abdominal wall surgery – a must-read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Leo Watton retweeted
🚀Last week, we launched Close It Quick, a joint initiative with @RCSnews , focused on improving outcomes and reducing delays in ileostomy closure for patients with rectal cancer.
Curious about how you can get your trust involved? Sign up now: ow.ly/prT750XyENO
Leo Watton retweeted
In case you missed it, we posted a short video with nifty tips & tricks to help make your next lap chole the best one yet 🏅
Check out this video & more OR Quick Hits ➡️ app.behindtheknife.org/video…
Ready to level up your lap chole game?
In this short video @georgoff offers up tips & tricks to make your next gallbladder the best one yet 👇🏼👇🏼
Leo Watton retweeted
📰 NBOCA 2025 State of the Nation Report out now: buff.ly/McEV3ZF #NBOCA #BowelCancer @NATCAN_news @RCSnews @HQIP
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📺Missed the @RCSnews @NBOCA_NATCAN Close it Quick webinar? Watch the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=_QEAlRDq…
Discover how the collaborative can support your hospital to improve the pathway for patients requiring a stoma as part of their bowel cancer care
Leo Watton retweeted
The latest NBOCA data dashboard is live! 💥
It provides a running quarterly overview of data quality of key items and performance indicators at NHS Trust level. 📊
See your results here: nboca.org.uk/reports/quarter…
@BowelResearch @bowelcanceruk @NATCAN_news
Leo Watton retweeted
rcseng.ac.uk/standards-and-r…
Thank you to our expert panellists:
@cam_colorectal
@KateWalkerLon
@EMBurns2017
@jules_cornish
Dr Katrina Attwood
Mr Chris Cunningham
@evanscolorectal
Sheena Macsween
Mr Jason Rai
@leowatton
@RCSnews @NATCAN_news
Leo Watton retweeted
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The race is on! JAL headed over the pole, Finnair taking the southern route.
🇯🇵 flightradar24.com/JAL48/3acf…
🇫🇮 flightradar24.com/FIN61/3ad0…
Who will make it to Haneda first?
Leo Watton retweeted
Our friend @Neil_J_Smart has given his
final lecture, the apprentices learning from his wise words, great times, & hard work - patients getting the very best. Legacy exists in the actions of those that follow & the stories continuing to be told & yes mate, “You did good” RIP
Leo Watton retweeted
To understand current UK training and the future provision of general paediatric surgery better, we would really appreciate if you can spare 5 mins to complete this survey. More data= a more accurate idea to help plan our future+ those of our paediatric patients. Thanks.
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📆 Congratulations to those of you who successfully landed an interview for the 2025 CST cohort! This is a really big achievement 👏🏽
Here's a free insight into my experience of the CST interview and how I felt undergoing this challenging process! 🔗
vasudevzaver.com/2020/11/29/…
Leo Watton retweeted
Most viewed in the last 7 days from @JAMASurgery:
Optimizing surgeon stress may offer an avenue to improve surgical performance, with increased stress benefitting patient outcomes for experienced surgeons.
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