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The Association of Anaesthetists @assocanaes.bsky.social · 1d

It's day 3 of #SASWeek25, with a focus on SAS development

💰 Members can apply for our SAS Educational Grant - up to £2,000 buff.ly/Kego0kr
☃️ Get an exclusive SAS member rate for Winter Scientific Meeting 2026 buff.ly/ohVlbf9
🚀 Apply for our Leadership Development Programme buff.ly/lF6rBLN

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The Association of Anaesthetists @assocanaes.bsky.social · 1d

Today for #SASWeek25 we're focusing on SAS development.

Ready to take the next step?

📽️ Watch Prof Jamie Read share three pactical tips on how SAS doctors can access and thrive in leadership roles.

3 top tips to access leadership roles as a SAS doctor

For SAS Week 2025, Prof Jamie Read shares three practical tips to access leadership roles as a SAS doctor.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 18h

I LOVE updating this slide.

It is awesome to bring new allies to the cause, and it really does make a difference.

#SASsix

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 22h

I hope folks enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.

"Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth."

Still though, wear sunscreen folks.

#SASweek25

Royal College of Anaesthetists @rcoanews.bsky.social · 23h

SAS development is today’s #SASWeek25 theme - and who better than Dr Rob Fleming to share his top four lessons for achieving your goals? ⬇️

1. Put yourself forward
2. Have a vision
3. Relationships matter
4. Keep yourself well

Read his Bulletin article 👉 https://ow.ly/ZaOF50X7SlP

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drelainemonaghan.bsky.social @drelainemonaghan.bsky.social · 23h

Happy SAS week! On day three thank you to my consultant and nursing colleagues who brought the cakes.
#SASsix #SASsky #SASbychoice #NHSLanarkshire #SASWeek25

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SAS-imran @sas-imran.bsky.social · 2d

Achievable is an important word in all of this. A contract that people can't access is pretty pointless.

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The Association of Anaesthetists @assocanaes.bsky.social · 2d

It's day two of #SASWeek25
📽️ Find out why SAS anaesthetists choose this path

Why choose SAS?

This is "Why choose SAS?" by Learn@ on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 2d

📊 Join Gavin Cleaver for a webinar exploring essential insights on sex- and gender-based research analyses. Learn about the SAGER guidelines, see real examples, and get practical tips for responding to the guidelines.

📅 21 October, 2pm BST
👉 Register: hubs.li/Q03FQ_6l0

Join Gavin Cleaver for our Lancet Webinar on the importance of analysing, reporting, and interpreting data according to sex and gender on Tues, Oct 21, 2025 at 2pm BST/9am EDT. The Lancet Webinars. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.

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Medical Protection @medicalprotection.bsky.social · 2d

The NHS 10-Year Plan includes a commitment to support SAS doctors in their career development, but meaningful change requires action.

As we celebrate #SASWeek25 Dr Karen Ellison explains how the SAS Six framework can help make this commitment a reality

www.medicalprotection.org/uk/articles/...

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NHS Grampian @nhsgrampian.bsky.social · 2d

THREAD // It's #SASWeek25 and we’re celebrating our specialty, associate specialist, and specialist (SAS) doctor workforce. Now in its fourth year, the aim of SAS Week is to highlight the impact of SAS doctors.

www.nhsemployers.org/articles/sas-week-2025

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Dr Anushka Aubeelack @bumblebeenush.bsky.social · 2d

A senior doctor via a different route. Autonomous within their clinical niche, as consultants are"

A quote from a good friend ☺️

Some of our fabulous doctors @bhrut-nhs.bsky.social 🥰

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#SASWeek25 #SASsix #NHS

Meet the SAS workforce at Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trusts

We dive into the evolving role of SAS doctors, their pursuit of career progression, and the vital support they receive from dedicated mentors and departments. From leadership roles to pursuing MBAs, learn how SAS doctors are breaking barriers, gaining recognition, and balancing expertise with training for the next generation of medical professionals. Part of #SASWeek25

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 2d

Day 2 of #SASweek25 is focused around the Specialist role.

The Specialist contract, for senior, experienced and autonomous colleagues, should be an achievable destination in a SAS career.

Employers and doctors need to understand and actively promote the role.

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SAS Specialist

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #SASweek25 to all who celebrate.

Remember, a SAS doctor is for life, not just SAS week.

#SASsix

SAS six infographic, featuring the six asks to make a SAS career a viable alternative.

Every early career SAS doctor should have access to an educational supervisor.

All SAS doctors should have equity of access to professional development opportunities relevant to their stage of career.

All specialty doctors who meet the required capabilities should have the opportunity to become specialists.

Senior SAS doctors should be offered the opportunity to be educators at every level on a par with consultants e.g. educational supervisors, clinical supervisors, directors of medical education.

All extended roles in leadership and management should be open to all substantive medical staff that is, consultants and appropriately experienced SAS doctors.

All LEDs employed for more than two years within one NHS employer should be offered the opportunity to transfer to the appropriate SAS contract.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch wants a UK ICE.

Given that US ICE is destroying America, this is not a smart idea.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 3d

The UK had by my calculations, per capita, twice the number of fatalities as the Republic of Ireland. Ireland wasn’t exactly gold standard. Experts were begging the UK govt & opposition to follow basic science, to no avail. The UK scientific establishment was silent. Only Independent SAGE spoke out

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 3d

On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”.

Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448

Cover of The Lancet's Oct 4, 2025 issue. Cover quote reads: "Most medical and surgical societies worldwide have remained silent or issued vague statements about Gaza's healthocide [...] Staying silent while pretending to be neutral is, in effect, a form of complicity."

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

🚨This petition has now passed 72,000 signatures! Thank you so much for your amazing support 🙏

You can support the campaign to change the law by signing the petition here👇

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

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zoerob.bsky.social @zoerob.bsky.social · 4d

#SASweek25 starts tomorrow. All the amazing nominations for SAS dr of the year!

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 4d

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4d

LATEST: Police are to be given greater powers to restrict protests by allowing them to consider the 'cumulative impact' of repeated demonstrations

Police to be given greater powers to restrict repeated protests

www.thenational.scot

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 4d

The HPV vaccine is doing what had been promised.
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS

h/t @boghuma.bsky.social

#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪

Light blue background. Young woman with dark hair makes a sign of strength with her arm and she has a vaccine bandaid on her upper arm. It says "The HPV Vaccine Works!"

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7d

🚨already at almost 39,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 40,000 today 🙏

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account.

You can sign here👇
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

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