Wow - after such a challenging a year or so, it’s so wonderful to receive this news today: Principle Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 😅 thanks so much to everyone who has #supported me on this journey! @BSMSMedSchool 1/n For those of us in academia that are curriculum, rather than research, focused - this is quite a big deal. I often feel (even joke out loud) that I’m not a ‘proper academic’… I think there’s imposter syndrome throughout every sector and industry, so it’s nice…2/n

I can’t remember how many ‘extras’ (when we run out of appointments - patients who feel their matter is urgent are put on an ‘extras’ list) I saw yesterday. It all blurs into 1 with eStuff etc. But one patient said they called 104 times to get through …I hate this for them… But genuinely: what more can we do? We already squeeze in concerns about other matters, address issues for family members, do SO much digitally. We already start earlier, finish later and forgo practice meetings so that time can be spent sorting out extras.