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drphilhammond

  1. Catch 22 for doctors' strike. If we're going to withdraw services that don't affect patients, why are we doing them in the first place?
  2. Massive, vanity-driven, throw all your cards up in the air structural change is always crap for patients. They get lost under a pile of wonk
  3. @DrBruceElliott Clinical staff with a special interest in patient safety, safety experts and more chief executives than ever before
  4. I asked David Nicholson whether he was in favour of the NHS reforms 'I lack the imagination to come up with the Health and Social Care Bill'
  5. Not one of 700 delegates at Patient Safety Congress think NHS reforms will make the NHS safer, most think it will make it more dangerous
  6. Thanks to heroic whistleblowers who contributed to Shoot the Messenger. It's shortlisted for the Martha Gelhorn prize drphilhammond.com
  7. People of Southampton. Come learn how to pleasure yourselves + save the NHS. Saturday 8PM @theberrytheatre theberrytheatre.co.uk/whats%20on/com…
  8. GIRLYMAN at the Hen & Chicken, Bristol, tonight from 8.15pm. Quite simply some of the best harrmonies you'll ever hear jazzata.com/Gig11.html
  9. A few tickets still left for benefit gig at Bath Komedia tomorrow night. Thanks for huge local support komediabath.ticketsolve.com/shows/2012/5/2…
  10. 62% of people over 75 have chronic pain, apparently. Talking about that next with @fionamackichan bbc.co.uk/iplayer/consol…
  11. Now we're onto the importance of parenting skills bbc.co.uk/iplayer/consol…
  12. Talking about surgery for children with epilepsy now (or listen again later) bbc.co.uk/iplayer/consol…
  13. @LaurenceVick They'll say numbers are too small to be statistically meaningful which is why we need fewer, larger, expandable centres
  14. @BillHicks123 No data so far as I'm aware + RBH may still be chosen. It's more about signing up to the process + accepting the outcome
  15. 20 years after Private Eye broke the Bristol heart scandal, child heart surgery still hasn't been safely reorganised drphilhammond.com/blog/category/…
  16. @amateuradam Done. And looking forward to sharing a stage at the LMC
  17. Adam Kay on stage is a delight to behold. Musical comedy that's very, very funny. Catch him on tour before he combusts bit.ly/amtrans
  18. @amateuradam Coming to Bath Komedia on Sun. Drink after? Could you do on stage plug 4 my show on May 20? It's a benefit stopstoweyquarry.co.uk
  19. @MaryLHB @NHSwhistleblowr Thanks Mary