President and past Presidents of the SCTS at the 2026 Belfast Annual Meeting
Great start to the SCTS annual meeting this morning with an inspirational talk from Past President and Lifetime Achievement Award winner Sir Bruce Keogh. pictures here with the current and other Past Presidents
Are you a consultant thoracic surgeon in England who still hasn't accessed your NCIP data @nhsgirft.bsky.social ? We have a stand at SCTS in Belfast this week- get a login, explore the data and troubleshoot any issues face to face. See you there!
www.rcseng.ac.uk/news-and-eve... our annual National Lung Cancer Audit State of the Nation Report for England and Wales is online today. Encouraging improvements in early stage diagnosis and rates of surgery, but more still to do on reducing wait times for treatment.
Smoking (15.1%), infections (10.2%) and alcohol consumption (3.2%) are the leading contributors to cancer burden worldwide.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd
The National Cancer Plan includes proposals on #LungCancer screening, diagnostics, workforce and survivorship - offering real potential if implemented consistently & backed by resources.
More on the plan & what it means for lung cancer ➡️
www.uklcc.org.uk/blog/februar...
#WorldCancerDay
New best-practice recommendations on lung cancer prehabilitation have been published. Experts advocate offering prehab to all patients diagnosed with #LungCancer.
Read article 📄 ow.ly/p4Qe50XFLvF
Social determinants drive 30-day mortality after elective surgery.
by Sankar A, Ding J (...) Gomez D et 5 al. in JAMA Netw Open #Surgery #SurgSky #GeneralSurgery #MedSky
🪡 read our summary here
📖 read the article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen...
How does patient experience compare across different #NHS services?
In the latest surveys, #cancer patients responded most favourably of all the patient groups, while respondents to the Community Mental Health Survey rated their overall experience the lowest.
Find out more: buff.ly/QoEDiCE
ICYMI during the shutdown, here’s the announcement for the governors public health alliance (GPHA?)
Learn to to demonstrate the utility of the ultrasound doppler machine to scan the greater and short saphenous vein for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) surgery.
Apply here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3KmBSYQ
Get this: Coffee suppressed atrial fibrillation!
Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF
#AHA25 @jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A structured database would have prevented the need for this laborious data cleaning. I'm just sayin'.
The New England Journal of Medicine Hypertonic Saline or Carbocisteine in Bronchiectasis A Research Summary based on Bradley JM et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2510095 | Published on September 28, 2025 Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned. Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.
In the CLEAR trial, neither carbocisteine nor hypertonic saline reduced the number of pulmonary exacerbations over a period of 52 weeks in participants with bronchiectasis. Full trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/3Vtn1h4
#MedSky #PulmSky #CriticalCare
A major new JAMA review by Dr Catherine Murphy, Prof Ben Solomon & Prof Charles Swanton brings together global data on #lungcancer in people with no smoking history.
Around 1 in 5 cases are ALK or EGFR-driven - highlighting the need for testing at diagnosis.
#LCSM
💡Did you know the number of illicit cigarettes smoked in the UK has fallen by almost 90% since 2000, but the tobacco industry still exploits concern about illicit sales to fight regulation and protect profits... 1/3
🫁 Parents living with #lungcancer and their children (aged 11–24) are invited to take part in a research event in London this November.
The Open University study explores wellbeing and family support needs.
👉 openss.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etf8nRP4PKwwMIu
The American people deserve a public health system that puts science before politics.
That's why California and 14 other governors are joining forces to launch the Governors Public Health Alliance to protect communities and guarantee decisions are rooted in data and health.
An extraordinary and dangerous approach to public health- making the data fit your preconceptions. Paracetamol is safe.
Delighted that the SCTS/GIRFT pathway for pleural sepsis surgery is now online www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...
Those confidence intervals in full!
Gun murders last year:
US: 17,927
England & Wales: 22
Here's the data, per capita, in the chart below.
It's the guns. I wrote about the evidence, with lots of data, along with a more personal response to the Annunciation Church shooting (where I was baptized): www.forkingpaths.co/p/guns-at-an...
Lung disease and social justice - COPD as a manifestation of structural violence.
#WorldCOPDday www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/... @atscommunity.bsky.social @ats-assemblies.bsky.social
“We found that countries with higher levels of income inequality are associated with higher rates of obesity, diabetes, mental illness, asthma, drug use and infant mortality” – @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
🔗
Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months.
poliisi.fi/-/helsingin-...
