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Shivan Sivakumar

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This week I am celebrating being at Birmingham for a year! Amazing progress as we have launched two trials first in Europe! My main aim for the 2nd year is to get patients with pancreas and biliary cancer from their CT to first cycle of treatment having a pathway of 6 weeks!!
Shivan Sivakumar @shivansivakumar Aug 1, 2023
Delighted to be starting as an associate professor today @unibirmingham and honorary consultant in HPB medical oncology @uhbtrust @UHBCancer. Continuing to build an exciting translational programme in pancreatic cancer and translational immuno-oncology
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Shivan Sivakumar @shivansivakumar
100% true
Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond Jul 11, 2025
The bottom line with all NHS staff, not just doctors, is that unless you make the NHS a decent place to work, with a decent enough salary to be able to pay off your debts and afford to buy a house near where you work, or at least know where you’re going to be working in the next six months, then people will either leave the NHS or pursue a portfolio career. I combined medicine, journalism, broadcasting, teaching and comedy for 35 years. I think I paid back the debt for my training, but I never felt obliged to work full-time in the NHS.
Resident doctors have every reason to be angry, with the growth of non-doctors taking over their work, with a significant risk to patient safety, and the lack of specialty training places for them to pursue in the NHS. And there are many newly qualified GPs who can’t get work. This is all far more complicated than just restoring pay. And medical leaders are as much to blame as successive governments. The medical professional also has to sort its own shit out.
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