Doug West
@dougwest.bsky.social
Thoracic Surgeon in Bristol, England. Work for National Lung Cancer Audit @nlca-natcan, and National Consultant Information Project @GIRFT, also RCSEd. Hon Sec, Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dad, runner, occasional sailor.
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.
Response to National Lung Cancer Audit — Royal College of Surgeons
Results from the National Lung Cancer Audit (NLCA) in England and Wales have been published today by the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN). The findings demonstrate improvements in e...
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February 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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.
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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
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd
Global and regional cancer burden attributable to modifiable risk factors to inform prevention - Nature Medicine
Global cancer estimates across 185 countries show that 7.1 million new cancer cases were attributable to modifiable risk factors in 2022, with smoking, infections and alcohol consumption being the lea...
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February 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd
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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
More on the plan & what it means for lung cancer ➡️
www.uklcc.org.uk/blog/februar...
#WorldCancerDay
February 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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
More on the plan & what it means for lung cancer ➡️
www.uklcc.org.uk/blog/februar...
#WorldCancerDay
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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
Read article 📄 ow.ly/p4Qe50XFLvF
January 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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
Read article 📄 ow.ly/p4Qe50XFLvF
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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: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843731
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: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843731
January 22, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843731
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: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843731
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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
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
January 11, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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
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
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ICYMI during the shutdown, here’s the announcement for the governors public health alliance (GPHA?)
December 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
ICYMI during the shutdown, here’s the announcement for the governors public health alliance (GPHA?)
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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
Apply here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3KmBSYQ
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
Apply here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3KmBSYQ
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Blackpool report: why do England’s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals?
Blackpool report: why do England’s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals?
Clinicians in deprived areas are overwhelmed by generational ill health and poverty
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December 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Blackpool report: why do England’s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals?
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Get this: Coffee suppressed atrial fibrillation!
Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF
#AHA25 @jama.com
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Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF
#AHA25 @jama.com
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November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF
#AHA25 @jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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A structured database would have prevented the need for this laborious data cleaning. I'm just sayin'.
November 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A structured database would have prevented the need for this laborious data cleaning. I'm just sayin'.
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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
#MedSky #PulmSky #CriticalCare
October 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
#MedSky #PulmSky #CriticalCare
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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
Around 1 in 5 cases are ALK or EGFR-driven - highlighting the need for testing at diagnosis.
#LCSM
October 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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
Around 1 in 5 cases are ALK or EGFR-driven - highlighting the need for testing at diagnosis.
#LCSM
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💡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
October 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
💡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
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🫁 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 Open University study explores wellbeing and family support needs.
👉 openss.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etf8nRP4PKwwMIu
October 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🫁 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 Open University study explores wellbeing and family support needs.
👉 openss.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etf8nRP4PKwwMIu
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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.
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.
October 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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.
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.
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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...
Delighted that the GIRFT/SCTS joint pathway on surgery for pleural sepsis is now online. Many thanks to Rory Beattie, Guillermo Martinez, Syed Qadri, Jee Soo Choi and the GIRFT team for highlighting…...
Delighted that the GIRFT/SCTS joint pathway on surgery for pleural sepsis is now online. Many thanks to Rory Beattie, Guillermo Martinez, Syed Qadri, Jee Soo Choi and the GIRFT team for highlighting ...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Delighted that the SCTS/GIRFT pathway for pleural sepsis surgery is now online www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...
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Those confidence intervals in full!
September 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Those confidence intervals in full!
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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...
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...
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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...
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...
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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
#WorldCOPDday www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/... @atscommunity.bsky.social @ats-assemblies.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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
#WorldCOPDday www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/... @atscommunity.bsky.social @ats-assemblies.bsky.social
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“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
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The wealth gap – and the health trap
What drives the differences in population health among rich nations? Kate Pickett on the lower “wellbeing-adjusted” life expectancy of more unequal countries
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August 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“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
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Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months.
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July 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months.
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