Dan Rogers
@leicdan.bsky.social
Gastroenterologist and Intestinal Failure Physician. Interested in nutrition, malnutrition, prison healthcare, wildlife and gardening. Previous @bapen.bsky.social Secretary and Trustee.
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Dan Rogers
@leicdan.bsky.social
· Jan 11
This is the final slide in most of my teaching presentations.
Nutrition is important, and should be on the radar of all healthcare professionals. Without it your patient won't get better.
#Nutrition #Malnutrition #BAPEN
Nutrition is important, and should be on the radar of all healthcare professionals. Without it your patient won't get better.
#Nutrition #Malnutrition #BAPEN
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Ask. Look. Listen - these actions can make a big difference.
Our State of the Nation 2025 report shows early identification of malnutrition and timely nutritional interventions not only improve lives but also ease healthcare costs.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4ne3uMU
Our State of the Nation 2025 report shows early identification of malnutrition and timely nutritional interventions not only improve lives but also ease healthcare costs.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4ne3uMU
October 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Ask. Look. Listen - these actions can make a big difference.
Our State of the Nation 2025 report shows early identification of malnutrition and timely nutritional interventions not only improve lives but also ease healthcare costs.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4ne3uMU
Our State of the Nation 2025 report shows early identification of malnutrition and timely nutritional interventions not only improve lives but also ease healthcare costs.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4ne3uMU
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🗓️ Get ready! UK Malnutrition Awareness Week is back on 17th - 23rd November
BAPEN and the @malnutritiontf.bsky.social are raising awareness about malnutrition - its risks, signs, and prevention.
Keep an eye out for daily themes, tips, and ways to get involved #UKMAW2025
BAPEN and the @malnutritiontf.bsky.social are raising awareness about malnutrition - its risks, signs, and prevention.
Keep an eye out for daily themes, tips, and ways to get involved #UKMAW2025
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🗓️ Get ready! UK Malnutrition Awareness Week is back on 17th - 23rd November
BAPEN and the @malnutritiontf.bsky.social are raising awareness about malnutrition - its risks, signs, and prevention.
Keep an eye out for daily themes, tips, and ways to get involved #UKMAW2025
BAPEN and the @malnutritiontf.bsky.social are raising awareness about malnutrition - its risks, signs, and prevention.
Keep an eye out for daily themes, tips, and ways to get involved #UKMAW2025
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🚨 Brand new FREE teaching series! The Leicester Medical School Radiology Society are hosting 6 sessions, delivered by students, and supervised by consultants. The first one covers chest imaging, and is on Monday 17th November at 1900 UTC. Sign up at linktr.ee/leicesterradiologysociety
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🚨 Brand new FREE teaching series! The Leicester Medical School Radiology Society are hosting 6 sessions, delivered by students, and supervised by consultants. The first one covers chest imaging, and is on Monday 17th November at 1900 UTC. Sign up at linktr.ee/leicesterradiologysociety
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Hoopoes bred in Leicestershire & Rutland in 2023, the first confirmed breeding record in the UK since 1996. Here’s the family - parents and three offspring. Can you see them all? Read more about rare breeding birds in 2023 at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-...
📸 Carl Baggott
📸 Carl Baggott
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hoopoes bred in Leicestershire & Rutland in 2023, the first confirmed breeding record in the UK since 1996. Here’s the family - parents and three offspring. Can you see them all? Read more about rare breeding birds in 2023 at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-...
📸 Carl Baggott
📸 Carl Baggott
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“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work”
Incredibly bleak situation in Sudan.
Incredibly bleak situation in Sudan.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work”
Incredibly bleak situation in Sudan.
Incredibly bleak situation in Sudan.
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Mould, mice and rooms with strangers: The reality inside migrant hotels
Mould, mice and rooms with strangers: The reality inside migrant hotels
Mould, mice and rooms with strangers: The reality inside migrant hotels
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Mould, mice and rooms with strangers: The reality inside migrant hotels
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📢 Coming Soon: National Survey on Malnutrition Risk & Nutritional Care Interventions.
🗓️ The UK-wide survey will open on 17th November - stay tuned for details on how to take part to help build a comprehensive picture of malnutrition prevalence in the UK.
Learn more: bit.ly/3LrKZY0
🗓️ The UK-wide survey will open on 17th November - stay tuned for details on how to take part to help build a comprehensive picture of malnutrition prevalence in the UK.
Learn more: bit.ly/3LrKZY0
October 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
📢 Coming Soon: National Survey on Malnutrition Risk & Nutritional Care Interventions.
🗓️ The UK-wide survey will open on 17th November - stay tuned for details on how to take part to help build a comprehensive picture of malnutrition prevalence in the UK.
Learn more: bit.ly/3LrKZY0
🗓️ The UK-wide survey will open on 17th November - stay tuned for details on how to take part to help build a comprehensive picture of malnutrition prevalence in the UK.
Learn more: bit.ly/3LrKZY0
Bit of colour in a very cloudy autumnal Leicestershire 😀
October 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Bit of colour in a very cloudy autumnal Leicestershire 😀
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Corridor care is now a year-round reality. Almost 3 in 5 physicians reported delivering care in a temporary space over the summer, according to our latest snapshot survey.
We’re calling on the #NHS & governments to address & prevent this practice for good.
🔗 ow.ly/g4aj50XeLFL
We’re calling on the #NHS & governments to address & prevent this practice for good.
🔗 ow.ly/g4aj50XeLFL
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Corridor care is now a year-round reality. Almost 3 in 5 physicians reported delivering care in a temporary space over the summer, according to our latest snapshot survey.
We’re calling on the #NHS & governments to address & prevent this practice for good.
🔗 ow.ly/g4aj50XeLFL
We’re calling on the #NHS & governments to address & prevent this practice for good.
🔗 ow.ly/g4aj50XeLFL
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See our infographic/inffograffeg on how to improve the care for patients with abnormal blood sodium levels …
www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs/A%20B...
www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs/A%20B...
@HQIP @RCPhysicians @Soc_Endo @RCollEM @theRCN @RCNWales @ICS_updates
www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs/A%20B...
www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs/A%20B...
@HQIP @RCPhysicians @Soc_Endo @RCollEM @theRCN @RCNWales @ICS_updates
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
See our infographic/inffograffeg on how to improve the care for patients with abnormal blood sodium levels …
www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs/A%20B...
www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs/A%20B...
@HQIP @RCPhysicians @Soc_Endo @RCollEM @theRCN @RCNWales @ICS_updates
www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs/A%20B...
www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs/A%20B...
@HQIP @RCPhysicians @Soc_Endo @RCollEM @theRCN @RCNWales @ICS_updates
🧐
Conclusion:
Approximately one in five people with Rome IV IBS used opioids on a regular basis. Compared with non-users, opioid users had worse QoL, greater psychological impairment, and higher direct healthcare costs.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Conclusion:
Approximately one in five people with Rome IV IBS used opioids on a regular basis. Compared with non-users, opioid users had worse QoL, greater psychological impairment, and higher direct healthcare costs.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Prevalence of Opioid Use and Associated Healthcare Outcomes in Rome IV Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the United Kingdom
One in five people with Rome IV irritable bowel syndrome use opioids on a regular basis. Compared with non-users, opioid users had worse quality of life, greater psychological impairment, and higher ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🧐
Conclusion:
Approximately one in five people with Rome IV IBS used opioids on a regular basis. Compared with non-users, opioid users had worse QoL, greater psychological impairment, and higher direct healthcare costs.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Conclusion:
Approximately one in five people with Rome IV IBS used opioids on a regular basis. Compared with non-users, opioid users had worse QoL, greater psychological impairment, and higher direct healthcare costs.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thanks Jacqui Young and @bmj.com for discussing this important subject with myself and @dralig.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn
Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...
www.bmj.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Thanks Jacqui Young and @bmj.com for discussing this important subject with myself and @dralig.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Sneak peak of our nearly finished Leicester Endoscopy unit today and how we are generating our own green electricity 😀 #Endoscopy #Gastroenterology #GreenEndoscopy
October 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Sneak peak of our nearly finished Leicester Endoscopy unit today and how we are generating our own green electricity 😀 #Endoscopy #Gastroenterology #GreenEndoscopy
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We have a new report out, looking at hypo and hypernatraemia www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs.html @HQIP @RCPhysicians @Soc_Endo @RCollEM @theRCN @FICMNews @acutemedicine @UKKidney #bloodsodium
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
We have a new report out, looking at hypo and hypernatraemia www.ncepod.org.uk/2025bs.html @HQIP @RCPhysicians @Soc_Endo @RCollEM @theRCN @FICMNews @acutemedicine @UKKidney #bloodsodium
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Join us for the 2nd annual Edgbaston Course in May 2026.
Start thinking about the multidisciplinary team you want to bring and keep an eye on the BAPEN website for information on registering to come soon.
Start thinking about the multidisciplinary team you want to bring and keep an eye on the BAPEN website for information on registering to come soon.
October 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Join us for the 2nd annual Edgbaston Course in May 2026.
Start thinking about the multidisciplinary team you want to bring and keep an eye on the BAPEN website for information on registering to come soon.
Start thinking about the multidisciplinary team you want to bring and keep an eye on the BAPEN website for information on registering to come soon.
After a productive summer fruiting our blueberries are giving us a real show for autumn @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
After a productive summer fruiting our blueberries are giving us a real show for autumn @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social
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Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic Festival. bit.ly/46a5DUE
September 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic Festival. bit.ly/46a5DUE
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I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
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Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law.
These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.
These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.
September 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law.
These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.
These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.
Rainbows in Leicestershire
September 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Rainbows in Leicestershire
The swallows and house martins are hanging on in South Leicestershire; summer isn’t over just yet 🤞 @rspb.bsky.social @lrosbirds.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The swallows and house martins are hanging on in South Leicestershire; summer isn’t over just yet 🤞 @rspb.bsky.social @lrosbirds.bsky.social
Watching @britsocgastro.bsky.social conference on catch up and nutrition, and the importance of having access to specialist dietitians, is being mentioned in every session on IBD 😀
August 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Watching @britsocgastro.bsky.social conference on catch up and nutrition, and the importance of having access to specialist dietitians, is being mentioned in every session on IBD 😀
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⏰ Final call – applications for BAPEN President Elect close tomorrow!
Don’t miss this last chance work alongside Dr Nick Thompson and play an exciting role in guiding BAPEN through national developments.
Apply today: bit.ly/4mAf05W
Don’t miss this last chance work alongside Dr Nick Thompson and play an exciting role in guiding BAPEN through national developments.
Apply today: bit.ly/4mAf05W
August 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
⏰ Final call – applications for BAPEN President Elect close tomorrow!
Don’t miss this last chance work alongside Dr Nick Thompson and play an exciting role in guiding BAPEN through national developments.
Apply today: bit.ly/4mAf05W
Don’t miss this last chance work alongside Dr Nick Thompson and play an exciting role in guiding BAPEN through national developments.
Apply today: bit.ly/4mAf05W
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🏆 Nominations are open for the PENG Excellence in Nutrition Support Award 2025! Showcase a service or project that demonstrates excellence.
✅ Nominate yourself, a colleague, or a team. The winner will present at the PENG Study Day.
Apply here: bit.ly/4lKpC0A
✅ Nominate yourself, a colleague, or a team. The winner will present at the PENG Study Day.
Apply here: bit.ly/4lKpC0A
August 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🏆 Nominations are open for the PENG Excellence in Nutrition Support Award 2025! Showcase a service or project that demonstrates excellence.
✅ Nominate yourself, a colleague, or a team. The winner will present at the PENG Study Day.
Apply here: bit.ly/4lKpC0A
✅ Nominate yourself, a colleague, or a team. The winner will present at the PENG Study Day.
Apply here: bit.ly/4lKpC0A