Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 15/07/2025At @thekingsfund.bsky.social annual digital health and care conference 💻 #KFdigital 030
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 30/05/2025okay, but can I listen to reputation now?!? 030
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I wonder how Nick feels about PirateBay or Anna's Archive www.theverge.com/news/674366/...theverge.com 020
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Is there something about being 30+ where you have an impulse to wear a jacket with every outfit? 230
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I heard Gordon Brown speak last night. He spoke for over an hour without notes with pure conviction, vision and overwhelming passion for ending child poverty here and around the world. Not to be cheesy but it is inspiring stuff to hear people speak like this. 140
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Is it NIMBY to agree with this? The loss of public spaces isn't reversing any time soon and cash strapped councils probably wouldn't do this if they had healthy balance sheets. 010
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 19/05/2025At @thefabians.bsky.social's Health and Care Mission summit this morning to hear from Stephen Kinnock MP and @soniaadesara.bsky.social keynote 010
Reposted by Dr Chris Smith-BrownRussell 🏳️🌈 @medicrussell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025if she doesn’t show up #Eurovision 09214
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Malta, Sweden or Albania please #eurovision 020
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 17/05/2025I don't get the Switzerland entry, sorry #eurovision 000
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 17/05/2025She's going to be finding sand for weeks #eurovision 130
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 17/05/2025What do Denmark and GenAI have in common? Hallucinations #eurovision 020
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 17/05/2025I love Portugal just because they are from Madeira #eurovision 220
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I had my 1:1 with my director outside in the sun and we found a nice quiet park in Marylebone. Turns out it was private and we got locked in. Spent 15 mins trying to find someone who could let us out again. 130
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Interested in #PROMs? Check out our first report on PROMs for private patients across the UK. PHIN publishes PROMS for hip, knee, cataracts, liposuction, rhinoplasty and breast augmentation. This is our first public PowerBI report so feedback welcome 📋 www.phin.org.uk/data/patient...phin.org.uk Access data on patient outcomes following treatment | PHIN View a report which shows results of patient surveys before and after treatment to see how the operation has impacted their lives. 010
Reposted by Dr Chris Smith-BrownChristopher Zorn @prisonrodeo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Just imagine if a much younger, less hidebound, more agile institution — say, the Senate, or the U.S. Supreme Court — adopted such a hoary old rule. We’d all be so much better off. 2418
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Great to see robotic surgery get the green light from NICE to help inform the Early Value Assessment process. The growth of robotics in the independent sector has been huge and only right that NHS patients can also get access thanks to this decision. www.nice.org.uk/news/article...nice.org.ukCutting-edge robotic surgery gets green light as 11 systems are recommendedCutting-edge robotic surgery gets green light as 11 systems are recommended by NICE 020
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 30/03/2025I saw this piece at a gallery earlier this week and can't stop thinking about it 010
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 30/03/2025"we don't need the silvertown tunnel" okay, 50 mins to go 10 miles is totally fine 000
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2025She'd already won the room over but Dr Charlotte Refsum from @tonyblairinstitute.bsky.social made a great case for the Digital Health Record #REWIRED25 institute.global/insights/pub...institute.globalPreparing the NHS for the AI Era: A Digital Health Record for Every CitizenPreparing the NHS for the AI Era: A Digital Health Record for Every Citizen 133
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2025LLM generated patient summaries that vary depending on the user accessing the record (e.g. surgeon, nurse etc.) equivalent to doctor written summaries presented by Prof Schuit from UMCG at #REWIRED25 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comCompleteness, Correctness and Conciseness of Physician-Written Versus Large Language Model Generated Patient Summaries Integrated in Electronic Health RecordsBackground: The development of large language models (LLMs) has resulted in many applications, including their implementation in electronic health records (EHRs 000
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2025on my way to @dhrewired.bsky.social and first time seeing the 'ad free' Euston boards 111
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 14/03/2025City University has merged with St George's so I'm collecting london medical schools like Pokémon cards 020
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 13/03/2025NHS England to be scrapped! Explains why all the c-suite left www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...bbc.co.ukKeir Starmer scraps NHS England to bring health service back under 'democratic control' - live updatesThe PM says abolishing 000
Reposted by Dr Chris Smith-Brown@HSJnews @hsj.co.uk · 11/03/2025A single trust accounted for nearly a fifth of the reduction in the national waiting list last year – and a director says the improvement was in part driven by paying staff higher overtime rates. www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-...hsj.co.ukPaying consultants more ‘helped trust cut waiting lists by nearly 20%’A single trust accounted for nearly a fifth of the reduction in the national waiting list last year - and a director says the improvement was in part driven by paying staff higher overtime rates. 044
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 09/03/2025As someone who supports London Lions this would do wonders for the sport, but they do struggle to fill the copper box (6,000 capacity) on.ft.com/4bAbSSFon.ft.comSadiq Khan backs plan for new basketball stadium for London LionsTeam plans 10,000 capacity arena in central area under new Lithuanian owner 000
Reposted by Dr Chris Smith-BrownJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 25/02/2025Labour is doing this to, once again, avoid a tough conversation with the electorate on tax. Dodging that conversation is coming at a very high price in this instance. And the sums may well not add up in any case. 8437
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Radical idea, but we could raise taxes instead? 020
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Debbie Douglas, a patient and who tirelessly campaigns for all Paterson's victims, is absolutely right to highlight that Paterson is due for parole in 2027 so could walk free before the recommendations from the Paterson inquiry are enacted. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...mirror.co.ukButcher surgeon victims warn 'patients still at risk' five years after inquiryA scathing public inquiry report made 15 recommendations to ministers, NHS and private healthcare bosses to protect patients from rogue docs – but five years on only six have been fully implemented 000
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 16/02/2025No BAFTA for Cynthia or Ariana for Wicked? 000
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 14/02/2025any london theatre that sells popcorn, in this day and age of terrible theatre etiquette, hates it's audience 220
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Gail's is coming to Roman Road in East London 🥐🥐🥐 120
Reposted by Dr Chris Smith-BrownJack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I’m getting confirmation that #NIH grants that focused on improving health for #LGBT people are being defunded and ordered to stop immediately. 94828
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Well that was short lived. What next? Using capital funds to support UEC www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...hsj.co.ukElective funding ring-fence to be axedThe ringfence around elective funding will be axed in 2025-26, officials have revealed. 000
Reposted by Dr Chris Smith-BrownRussell 🏳️🌈 @medicrussell.bsky.social · 21/01/2025L-Fa-bA factor -ve but under surveillance 011
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I had a blood test this morning at 9am at a satellite site and by 12:30 it's already in the NHS app 100
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Brilliant day at NAP8's first steering group to help improve the independent sector's contribution to understanding complications of regional anaesthesia #NAP8 010
Reposted by Dr Chris Smith-BrownTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Making animated movies into live action: tiresome, unnecessary, lame Re-making every classic film into a muppet movie with a single human actor: sophisticated, erudite, revolutionary 17585891073
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 18/01/2025catching up on traitors and how is Joe consistently rude/wrong. I can't imagine the memes his students are making 040
Reposted by Dr Chris Smith-BrownSTITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today · 17/01/2025A tiny fraction of misinformation can drastically impair medical language models, endangering patient safety despite their seemingly robust performance. by Alber DA, Yang Z (...) Oermann EK et 30 al. in Nat Med #MedSky 📖 read the article: nature.comMedical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks - Nature MedicineLarge language models can be manipulated to generate misinformation by poisoning of a very small percentage of the data on which they are trained, but a harm mitigation strategy using biomedical knowledge graphs can offer a method for addressing this vulnerability. 0258
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Thank god. Hopefully this decline in flu admissions continues 📉 000
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Feels like everyone has a substack these days I already pay for the guardian plus streaming. I want to support organisations like London Centric and smaller journalists but where does this end? 130
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 11/01/2025"The loveliest spot that man hath found" - William Wordsworth (and me) 070
Reposted by Dr Chris Smith-BrownD O M @dominick96.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Kasim gone but never forgotten. Iconic behaviour. #thetraitors 529610
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I should have waited till the end of the episode to tweet 120
Dr Chris Smith-Brown @chrissmithbrown.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Catching up with the traitors. Since Armani lectured Minah on how to be a traitor, it feels inevitable Armani has sealed her fate. 020
