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Helen Parretti

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Associate clinical professor in primary care and GP, interested in obesity clinical research and patient and public involvement, NICE guidelines committee member, increasingly a rugby fan, also a mum, wife and cat owner. Views own. Not medical advice.

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Making do in the absence of specialist support: Exploring healthcare professionals' views, experiences and behaviours around long‐term post‐bariatric surgery follow‐up care in the United Kingdom Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for obesity, but long-term can lead to health-related issues. Guidelines highlight the importance of long-term post-bariatric surgery follow-up. However, i...

Delighted that this paper on long term follow up care after #bariatric surgery is now published! Thank you again to all who took part in the interviews.
#medsky #academicsky #obesity

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01.05.2025 17:35 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you are a GP with a PhD/MD - there’s an exciting opportunity below 👇
Come and join us and discover the opportunities to be involved in great research at @UEAResearch!

14.01.2025 23:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I vaguely remember something like that as well. The free record with a pair of kids shoes I remember more, but it seems a slightly odd marketing tactic to me! 😂

24.11.2024 22:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does anyone else who was a child in the 70s/80s remember getting a free single with a pair of shoes? Think it was Startrite and single I got was “I’m still standing”, but it has crossed my mind that maybe my memory is playing tricks on me…. #medsky #academicsky

24.11.2024 20:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sorry can’t agree about panettone! We splash out on Carluccios ones, has a nice crunchy top, (literally just ordered this years), v yummy either with or without marmalade (our Anglo-Italian twist!)

24.11.2024 00:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🎉 Hi!! Have you found any patient organisations for obesity here?

21.11.2024 23:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks will give that a go as well, starting to get there and finding some new people along the way 🙂

20.11.2024 08:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@drsdeg.bsky.social Found you 🙂

20.11.2024 08:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you - found some starter packs and some more people, so getting there bit by bit. Loving the help here for us newbies 🙂.

19.11.2024 23:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just to say thanks again - really helpful guide and I also found a starter pack on obesity research via the directory link in the article 🙂. Thanks @jackmbirch.bsky.social for doing that starter pack!

19.11.2024 23:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, will do, hope to gradually find my way - at the moment it is pretty much luck and guesswork 😂

19.11.2024 23:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you! 🙂

19.11.2024 23:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hi, just in process of moving over from X. Pleased to have managed to find some people I recognise, but struggling to find fellow obesity clinical researchers. Can anyone help? Also does anyone have an idiot’s guide to using Bluesky? #medsky #academicsky

19.11.2024 22:30 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0