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Paul Southall

@pjsouthall.bsky.social
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Doctor. Consultant Anaesthetist. Rugby. Football. Cricket. Milk, no sugar. RCoA Environmental Advisor and Council Member. Sustainability in Healthcare

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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I’m very proud to have co-ordinated and co-chaired the group that produced this guidance, rationalising the use of sterile gowns in spinal anaesthesia Hopefully this provides international clarity and helps improve the sustainability of our practice doi.org/10.1111/anae...
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Use of sterile gowns for single‐shot spinal anaesthesia: consensus guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists, Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association, Regional Anae...
Introduction International guideline recommendations vary on the use of sterile gowns during spinal anaesthesia. There is limited evidence of benefit for their routine use and debate about environme.....
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I’ve just filled in my car finance complaint. I’ve had 6 separate agreements, so presumably I’ll be able to purchase a modestly sized South Pacific island by the end of this year
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This work is extremely important to help shape the future of how we convey information on medications to patients, and also how information on drugs is provided to - and accessed by - us as professionals. Please fill it in if you possibly can
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It must be literally impossible for any news organisations to run April Fools Day stories this year
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Good to see the UK fighting the weather stereotypes today by having rain, snow, hail, a gale, cloud and now beautiful sunshine in the space of seven hours
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Edinburgh and Glasgow will be nice and quiet tonight after the two results, then…
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This year’s Six Nations is nuts
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Well, there we are. It’s the hope that kills you, as every Welsh fan who’s ever lived will confirm #WalvSco
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I have no idea how anyone keeps any career after a post like that, let alone someone in high office But we all know he will
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Other than the excellent anaesthetic lists that @sethina.bsky.social put together (which somehow managed to get onto), is there an easy way of finding the old medtwitter crowd on here?
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This is honestly now starting to feel a little bit like the modern day American equivalent of The Madness of King George
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Every couple of months I’ll have a look at that other social media site, and somehow every time it keeps on getting worse
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I’ve decided to attempt to distract myself from all the craziness in the world at the moment by doubling down on gym work in an attempt to make myself hench again
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I’m sure every generation worries about the state of the world and what may happen next, but I’ve never been worried about the world that my children may inherit quite like I’m worried now
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Still a long way to go, but I’m hoping that if everything comes to fruition, 2026 is going to be a good year for sustainability in healthcare
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Genuinely, how long are we thinking before Greenland is ‘liberated’ (translation - ‘invaded’)?
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Far be it from me to question FIFA, but that Peace Prize has properly gone to his head
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
4 points out of the last possible 6?! WE ARE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE #Wolves
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Well, this aged well… bsky.app/profile/pjso...
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Here’s hoping that 2026 is as geopolitically boring as 2025 was 😳
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
It’s not even half 8 yet, and I’m seriously contemplating going to bed. Genuinely, potentially the best New Year’s Eve ever
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
If anyone had any doubt that it’s Christmas, by 8am this morning I’d eaten an entire Terry’s Chocolate Orange, and no one had batted an eyelid
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Lovely stuff from Young Joe Root #Ashes
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Not much happening today in Perth then… #Ashes
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
bsky.app/profile/than... I miss it too. It’s just not really the same here or anywhere else to be honest, and I find that sad
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Supporting Wolves and Wales really are the joint gifts that keep on giving
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I’ve not used social media for quite a while now, and now when I think about posting something I realise I don’t have much interesting to say, confirming what anyone who knows me has probably thought for many years
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I’ve not been on social media for a while, but it’s good to see that the world has calmed down and is in a healthy state whilst I’ve been away, isn’t it?
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I’d somehow managed to bury in the depths of my psyche how much the Wattbike hurts
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Test cricket. Bloody hell
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I’m incredibly proud to have played a small part in identifying our new home @rcoanews.bsky.social Sustainability was a central theme, and this fits the bill nicely, with room for even more improvements in the future rcoa.ac.uk/about-us/str...
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A new home for the College
In July 2025 we secured a new home for the College, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and the Faculty of Pain Medicine.
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Hopefully it’s just the camera angle, but it looks like every single Aussie line out so far hasn’t been straight #AusvLions
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The air time that Gibson-Park gets on his box kicks is insane #lions
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
There was only ever one choice for the name on the back of mine and my lad’s shirts this season… #wolves
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The news about Diogo Jota is absolutely heartbreaking. One of the best players Wolves have ever had, and clearly a thoroughly nice guy to boot
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It does truly currently feel like Don’t Look Up was a documentary using a meteorite instead of climate change
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The new Wolves shirt is an absolute work of art, and hopefully not the only thing I’m proud of next season
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
If the weather ruins this chase I’m going to be a tiny bit miffed #EngvInd
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Turns out that whatever toys you buy your dog, all of them will play second fiddle to laundry socks or pebbles from the garden
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Another quiet news day today again, I see…
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Turns out you can get a quite nasty partial thickness burn on your leg from a silicone dog lead. Who’d have thought it?
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Why is it that when you’re just at the point where you’ve nearly saved up for something that you want, the roof of the house needs work doing on it and swallows all of the money in one go? 😡
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
For those doubting the importance of sustainability in healthcare - since our nitrous oxide consensus statement came out last year, we’ve used 9.8 million fewer litres of manifold nitrous, equivalent to nearly 6 million kg of CO2 (Or a trip to the moon and back 60 times, if you prefer…)
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The most surprising thing that I’ve noticed about your personality as you age is that you suddenly realise that you no longer give a stuff what anyone else thinks about you
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Talk about a slow news day: - VE Day - A US trade deal - A new Pope - David Attenborough turns 99 Not much at all to talk about…
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Another week started, another big healthcare sustainability research project in the offing I’d be annoyed at how much work there is to do if I didn’t enjoy trying to make a positive difference so much
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It appears - to the surprise of nobody - that the independent DDRB aren’t releasing their independent report (that they’ve come to independently) but giving it to the government Did I mention that they’re completely independent? #MedSky
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
- Microplastics - Rationalisation of aseptic techniques - Pharmapollution - Nitrous Oxide mitigation - PFAS I feel like all of these together are the collective work of several people’s careers on their own. But I’m going to try my best to play my own small part in fixing things
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Does anyone have any experience of either the kindle scribe or remarkable? I’m looking for something to make note taking easier and digitised (although I can’t really afford either of them) Are either of them any good, or more bother than they’re worth? #MedSky
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Paul Southall @pjsouthall.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’m finding at the moment that the more projects I’ve got going, the less I’m managing to get done Funny that - almost like it makes perfect sense…
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