🤔 What if the key to a stronger #NHS isn't a new technology but human connection? In our latest blog, @jtaylor001.bsky.social explores how a lasting relationship between patients & GPs: ✅ improves patient health 👛 lowers system-wide costs 😀 makes the GP job more satisfying #ContinuityOfCare

How do we keep GPs in the job? New research from Sophie Park. www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/gp-work...

Delighted that the Final Delivery Plan is finally available 👇🏽 Now to read the detail… 🤔 Thanks to all those who have been an encouragement on our long journey. www.gov.uk/government/p...

To support #CareHomeOpenWeek, 3 new FREE resources are now available: • Quick-start guide • Step-by-step toolkit • Poster with top tips Designed with input from 100+ professionals and residents’ family and friends. Download here 👉 tinyurl.com/5n6zy64z #CareHomeOpenWeek

We can’t treat people as collections of conditions. Care must acknowledge complexity and provide professionals with: ✔️ Clear roles ✔️ Shared systems ✔️ Joined-up thinking Check out @thekingsfund.bsky.social's new long read 👇 🔗 www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-... #MLTC #HealthcareDesign

Hard to describe how much this means to me - and to James - to see the entire @libdems.org.uk parliamentary party united in solidarity with #PwME The biggest thanks to @tessamunt.bsky.social & everyone who helped make this happen (not least, those 72 MPs!) 👏👏👏

So delighted that all 72 LibDem MPs signed this letter to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social asking the govt to back the ME/CFS Delivery Plan with the resources it deserves. May this be a huge encouragement to the ME community and the start of meaningful change. #WorldMEDay

Ethnic minorities, deprived areas, and vulnerable communities at greater risk of hospitalisation arising from infectious diseases. It's unjust and it's avoidable. #HealthJustice @rsph.bsky.social @fphuk.bsky.social @healthequitynorth.bsky.social @healthequityintl.bsky.social on.ft.com/3ESEuuz

By Karen Mathison Schmidt (American, born 1957) "A quiet Morning in Spring", 2012. Acrylic on Cradled Gessoboard. Private Collection. #ArtSky #Art #Painting

It's all blue skies ahead 💙! To celebrate Lendwithcare joining #Bluesky, we're offering every new lender joining through the platform £15 free credit to get started. Use the code XODUS when signing up on www.lendwithcare.org to change a life with a loan today. Please share this post far and wide!

Looking forward to attending this afternoon's @bsgcarehomes.bsky.social online #symposium on #music in #carehomes!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... Has the US really sent Ukraine $350 billion for its war? In less than 5 minutes @timharford.ft.com calmly demolishes Trump’s big lie

The US has paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine, the White House National Security Adviser has said today, adding that the administration was reviewing all aspects of its intelligence relationship with the country Absolutely appalling www.bbc.com/news/article...

Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters: 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Favourable: 64% Unfavourable: 16% NET: +48% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump Favourable: 22% Unfavourable: 73% NET: -51% 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin Favourable: 4% Unfavourable: 89% NET: -85% Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.

Today's newsletter: it is, in fact, very bad that the leader of the opposition doesn't appear to do the reading and instead goes on a strange combination of 'her personal experience', 'her instinctive prejudices' and 'potentially things that crossed her Twitter feed that day':

We've created the first free library showing positive and realistic images of over 50s. The photos show a more realistic depiction of ageing – to help challenge stereotypes of older people. Browse and download here: https://www.agewithoutlimits.org/image-library #PositiveAgeing #PositivePhotos

Great to see @medsci.ox.ac.uk have joined BlueSky, looking forward to reading more about their research and connecting in the comings weeks and months

Happy New Keir! My SKETCH of a prime minister slinging a bit of mud back. thecritic.co.uk/happ...

This bit of the MI5 chief's annual threat summary has been living in my head rent-free since October, now it can be in all your heads, too.

Alastair Campbell roasting a rattled Nigel Farage.🔥 “You are somebody who will exploit any problem going for your own political ends. Brexit was a fundamentally damaging thing to this country. That is your one legacy and you now don’t even want to talk about it.” #bbcqt

Discrimination and violence against Sami people is an ongoing problem in Sweden. #settlercolonialism ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

Please join me in signing Dr Clarissa Giebel's petition to develop, publish, and implement a new National #Dementia Strategy: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?

Starmer cannot survive this

NEW: Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration as Trump’s Attorney General saying he’d become “a distraction.”

Most people outside of research are still unaware of how much the cyberattack on @britishlibrary.bsky.social is still affecting the research community one year on. Good piece covering that + need to invest in libraries www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-br... @timeshighered.bsky.social

I've got a chapter forthcoming in this, on the future of the Conservative party. Other authors include @anandmenon.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social @annpettifor.bsky.social Mariana Mazzucato, Helena Kennedy, Aditya Chakraborrty, Adam Tooze, @alanlester.bsky.social & many more! t.co/fR0ea6Ucd8

TRUMP: There are no empty seats! CAMERAPERSON: *fact check* (video via @AntiquarianMuse, Twitter) youtu.be/HwUUZ8aDDMY

I'm taking my first tentative steps into a bluer sky... So here's a long read on the crisis of Conservatism, the dilemmas facing its new leader, and why the party needs "An End to Fantasies". With a special guest appearance by Winnie the Pooh. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2024/11/an-e...

From 2016

98% of the adult cares homes closed to protect people from harm were run by for profit companies. And 90% of children's homes. Time to end this absurdity. Core public services should not be cash cows for private equity. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

What a fantastic resource!

From our new @ukandeu.bsky.social report. Your regular reminder that that the xenophobic ethnonationalism of Robert Jenrick/Matt Goodwin/Douglas Murray etc is not shared by the vast majority of Brits, whatever their background. ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/mino...

I will buy a decent bottle of wine for the first counsel or Lord or Lady Justice of Appeal who turns to the Court of Appeal YouTube streaming camera and says “Don’t forget to click on like and subscribe and let us know what you’d argue in the comments”.

🎉 Huge congratulations to @oohgpwales.bsky.social, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social and the whole team for winning the #RCGPAC Health Services Research Paper of the Year for their work on patient safety during remote primary care encounters!

Got to be reposted after the VP debate.

Badenoch alleges that Young Tories are deliberately marked down. The only way I’d know that an essay was by a ‘Young Tory’ was if they wrote that in the essay. And if they did I wouldn’t know what to do.

The case is here: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2024/2428.html

These numbers are wild: According to Transport for London, in 2023 cargo bike use jumped 73% in inner London and 63% citywide. In a single year! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“It is truly Dickensian that small children are having to be in hospital, having a general anaesthetic, to have a tooth removed. And if you are living in a poorer area of our country that’s two and a half times more likely.” - @theasrstein.bsky.social at Labour conf www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Which MP is the highest earner? Who receives the highest donations? Who takes the most foreign trips? We've just launched an interactive map that lets you explore all this and more.

Really fascinating & moving letters in response to my recent piece on Nick Cave, Christianity & the hunger for existential meaning www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...

The have been so many stories about the challenges of the special needs education system. The latest in the BBC highlights yet again the judgement and battles.parents face. bbc.co.uk/news/article... Our animation below was developed with parents on how this feels. youtu.be/hqghf7auazM

Great news: The FDA has approved a nasal spray influenza vaccine that can be self administered. It is the first influenza vaccine does not need to be administered by a health care provider. More accessible options like this are much needed to improve vaccination rates. www.fda.gov/news-events/...

With regards to civil service / ministerial salaries, let's take a look at Singapore, shall we? www.psd.gov.sg/faq/#:~:text.... Ministerial starting salary *in 2012* of SGD 935,000. Or half a million pounds.