Feeling inspired and connected and ready for action after this weekend's national gathering. Healthcare is a right for all, not a privilege for some. Until that is realised.... the fight continues. #PatientsNotPassports

Really looking forward to this weekend's #PatientsNotPassports national gathering. Preparing my talk for tomorrow - a history of the campaign - and feeling inspired and hopeful for a better future having seen how far we have come.

NHS peeps - whose Trust has banned chatgpt? Why? Our IT is already in the dark ages... restricting access to open AI seems madness. What about search engines?

We also heard from Kinz Ul Eman (The Dopasi Foundation), Dr Kundai Chinyenze (IAVI) and @drjesspotter.bsky.social (UKAPTB). Thank you to all our wonderful speakers for highlighting political will and investment are key to ending TB. #WorldTBDay #EndTB

This is THE STORY THAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ to know the devastating impact of the US fund freeze on the ground. Kenya is just one example of what is happening in many other high TB burden countries dependent on US funding. #TBSky Thanks @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

ATTN #EndTB advocates! Pls read & help to amplify this new #TB FOCUSED piece by @stephanienolen.bsky.social of the @nytimes.com Big thanks to Stephanie, @shaillygupta.bsky.social Evaline, Agnes & more from the community who made this happen! #FundingCutsCostLives www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

Why increasing rates of tuberculosis in the UK and US should concern everyone. theconversation.com/why-increasi... Ending TB is possible. We have the tools. The investment case is solid. But with UK cutting overseas investment and the USA halting funds to USAID - political will is lacking.

Really enjoyed the little expression of love from our resident doctors this year - comedy certificates of achievement for all the respiratory consultants. Wonder if I can cash in the 300 cpd points for my appraisal next year?!

Stigma a key driver of #tuberculosis transmission & has a profound effect on people living with TB - not just around diagnosis but for many years. The first lady of Nigeria Senator Oluremi Tinubu spoke passionately this morning about a staff member dying because they hid their TB

Many excellent people @StopTB board but Professor @AnuragBhargava a highlight - author, along with his wife @dr_madhavib - of The Lancet Rations trial. They evidenced the huge impact of nutritional interventions in malnourished people affected by TB & their families www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Long day with the rest of the amazing experienced, diverse and knowledgable innovations constituency delegates @StopTB board meeting in Abuja. Very privileged to play a small part in helping to shape these conversations about how to #EndTB

Loving this new paper on complexity in medicine, using pediatrics as the worked example. Too many medical authors (and the MRC) run fast and loose with the terms 'complexity' and 'complex interventions'. They should read this paper. #medsky #academicsky #philsci 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It was a privilige to be invited by UNITE4TB and European Respiratory Society to talk about tuberculosis and migration. You can watch it here: channel.ersnet.org/media-108495...

I feel very similar to this. Conflicted, but concerned. I would vote against #AssistedDyingBill www.thetimes.com/article/5050...

Just writing a slide for the TB Special Advisory Group meeting at the British Thoracic Society Winter Conference this Friday on what our grassroots network UK Academics and Professionals have achieved this year:

Never acceptable but yet continues to happen. Need to challenge when we see it and work on changing the culture.

Still time to register for this ERS & UNITE4TB webinar I am giving next Thursday on TB in migrant populations. We will cover the need for health systems that work for people on the move and the tension between states' (bio)security agenda and patient-centred care. www.ersnet.org/events/panel...

#MedTwitter Who is using AI for their outpatient vetting? What platform? How does it integrate with your IT? I feel this is a key area where AI would save my time, be me efficient, more effective and more equitable with little risk.

Justice for Omisha and Patients Not Passports are holding two East London Community Meetings, Weds 27 & Sat 30 Nov! Migrants impacted by NHS charges, health workers and community allies are invited to discuss how we can fight for a just health system. patientsnotpassports.co.uk/events/east-...

Important reminder that optimising / minimising antibiotic use is not the only tool we have against rise of #AMR #WAAW #IDSky #vaccines www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Reporting guidelines for qualitative research (these seem quite good): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks to @researchandv.bsky.social for the spot!

Tomorrow we will be showing a documentary called NHS borderlands and discussing the impact of the hostile environment in health. This also happens to be black history month - the relevance clearly revealed in this recent publication gov.uk/government/pub…#PatientsNotPassportsts

First insulin injection in 1922 -> "A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells. She is the first person with the disease to be treated using cells that were extracted from her own body."🧪⚕️

I enjoyed writing this and learned a lot from my coauthors incl @drjesspotter.bsky.social and the others (not yet not on BlueSky) Thoughts welcome! #IDsky [15/15]

Another great 'meet the athletes' on Channel 4. 2 days until #Paralympics24 Can't wait.

@onelungamy.bsky.social we need to create a starter pack for #tuberculosis people!

Now we need drug companies to lower their prices. And ensure drugs are protected against resistance in the future. See here our article on bedaquiline www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... & more/ better trials as we wrote about here www.who.int/publications...

New, shorter, less toxic regimens for drug resistant tuberculosis now approved by WHO New shorter DR-TB regimens approved by WHO www.who.int/publications...

@hr-stagg.bsky.social oh good - all the best people are here!

Valuable update on long COVID in the Lancet this month. Something I personally have not felt knowledgeable about and sadly something that has not had the response it deserves due to the strain on the NHS. Good to see clear benefit of vaccination and curious that possible benefit of Paxlovid 🩺