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Tweets strictly personal. Student of the (brain) genome.

United Kingdom
Joined September 2017
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We don’t begrudge our hard working NHS colleagues their London Weighting allowance. But London is no cheaper for doctors. Doctors deserve parity to mitigate the higher cost of living and working in the capital. Doctors in London, vote in our indicative ballot now 👇🏼
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proud to comment on this ground breaking study by @_dianes_ at @ChrisAWalsh1 lab. Your brain may select neurons with the most intact genomes, in development and aging! The brain liquidates billions of mutant neurons around the time we’re born nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Government value consultant's demands at £1-2b. It's worth noting that the NHS budget is £280b (so =0.7% of budget max). Consultants are at the very pointy end of providing NHS care & also *driving improvement*, this isn't done by people with spreadsheets or in Whitehall. Improving burnout, morale, retention & time to improve services isn't a nice to have it's essential for the very survival of the NHS.
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Christos Proukakis retweeted
This one graph encapsulates why consultants are striking. Since 2008 they have had a 20% real terms pay cut! Significantly more than the rest of the public sector. Enough is enough. To all my consultant colleagues, this GP stands with you in solidarity.
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Christos Proukakis retweeted
Consultants don’t want to strike, but after 18 months without formal negotiations, they cannot wait any longer. These strikes are planned to take place on 25 and 26 November, with Christmas Day levels of cover provided. There is still time for the Government to make progress.
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"It seems to me that a decision has been made to replace doctors and to remove distinctions between doctors and other professions. It's no coincidence that the NHS continues to struggle with efficiency, productivity, and safety problems while we progress further towards a blended workforce without the necessary training supervision or regulation." Via @bmj_latest bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026…
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If a country doesn't want to pay for a "free" health service.... why should it have one?
Basically...what the powers that be are saying is this. 'We can't afford the NHS. And to sustain it, you, staff, need to take a below inflation pay-rise aka a cut.' Now- to improve work productivity, you need a couple of other things- beyond pay. Good working conditions, less discrimination The NHS can't offer any of the above. And wonders why the NHS isn't productive. Workforce planning is an ethereal thing in the UK health care system. So we are where we are.
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very good point. Why should doctors not be able to ship around for better pay, but have to accept the NHS virtual monopoly?
Effectively NHS staff must face real time pay cuts to fund the service. I was once a big advocate for the NHS but now I think there is no way in a monopoly employer that we will ever get fair conditions.
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strike dates coming up?
Emergency meeting of CC tonight re 'talks', Government seriousness, 'affordability recommendation' to the DDRB.
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Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
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ENOUGH!!! We can not, and will not, tolerate yet another pay cut!!!
Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
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Another week, another paper for @GeorgeTofaris & colleagues This week, they report the epitope accessibility & topology of extracellular vesicle-associated α-synuclein proteoforms, rather than their abundance alone, discriminate synucleinopathy subtypes academic.oup.com/brain/advan…
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Christos Proukakis retweeted
Delighted to share our latest @TofarisLab paper in @Brain1878 by @_Suman_Dutta et al. Using dSTORM to map the topology of extracellular vesicle-associated α-synuclein, we identified disease-associated conformers in both brain- and blood-derived EVs. academic.oup.com/brain/advan…
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Dylan Cope died after an A&E nurse practitioner mistook his abdominal pain for flu, having ignored his GP’s referral for suspected appendicitis. His family thought she was a doctor. A coroner found he would have survived had a senior doctor examined him. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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"Braak stage was not associated with H&Y at death, disease duration, age at death, or brain weight in autopsy-proven #Parkinsons patients. These findings provide evidence that path. α-syn–based staging does not represent a model of clinical progression" neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN…
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over a week since a child was killed on a zebra crossing outside @highgate1565 and no sign of @haringeycouncil providing a "lollipop person". Cant be that hard... @HaringeyLibDems @BBCLondonNews @HamandHigh @LBC @SkyNews
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I unfortunately laughed way too hard at this 😭
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Christos Proukakis retweeted
For Palantir lobbying and buying politicians is a high return investment for contracts worth hundreds £m and huge training datasets Watson is one of many
Later today protesters will demand ‘No Palantir in our NHS’    While they protest, someone, somewhere will get an operation scheduled earlier, a cancer diagnosis quicker, a loved one home from hospital sooner - thanks to the software that those protesters would switch off.   Here is what you won’t hear. Trusts using the software have recorded: • 117,000 additional operations • 14.3 per cent reduction in discharge delays for long stay patients • 5.6 per cent improvement in the number of people receiving a cancer diagnosis within 28 days     As a more articulate person once said: ‘certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.’
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