Read this short thread if you're still sneaking back to the bird site.

Jeremy Bowen really is an outstanding broadcaster. He's a reminder that public service broadcasting can be objective and impartial without needing to be balanced - indeed that balance makes objectivity impossible. I imagine they'll get rid of him soon.

Physicians in the Trump administration are aligning themselves with anti-public health interests and policies. High profile physicians should be resisting Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Zelensky on Venezuela: “About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you” Omg I love it.

In other news…a month ago… www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

About 1 in 7 individuals in the US has hearing loss, yet many #medstudents have limited exposure to Deaf culture, accessibility practices, & health disparities faced by these patients. This educational session with simulated scenarios fills the gap. www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766...

Your GP, here for you: support our campaign to bring back the family doctor dauk.org/news-your-gp...

STRENGTHEN PRIMARY CARE. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

mededpublish.org/articles/15-... The impact of physician assistants on resident training: rapid mixed methods review 👇

What causes inefficiency in the NHS? It’s lack of retention of experience, expertise & knowledge. High staff turnover means that many things are repeated, the systems slow Higher numbers of lower paid, lesser trained staff lead to safety issues with higher demand It’s simple🤷🏻‍♂️

About 1 in 7 individuals in the US has hearing loss, yet many #medstudents have limited exposure to Deaf culture, accessibility practices, & health disparities faced by these patients. This educational session with simulated scenarios fills the gap. www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766...

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation: www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...

@drlkvaughan.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Published today! We submitted this as evidence to the Medical Training Review, which will review the impact of PAs and advanced practice providers on resident training in stage 2. mededpublish.org/articles/15-...

"As we invent the future of healthcare, we must assert that patients are not data clouds, care is not computation, and that to care is human." A call to abolish the business logic of surveillance capitalism taking over healthcare #BMJChristmas www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Excellent thread 👇

First ever research publication! Ever been bored to tears by walls of slide text? Then this is for you. I have no shame - please share widely. (Thanks to @profnicolacooper.bsky.social for her support as co-author.) #MedSky #MedEd #EdSky asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force news.sky.com/story/us-pla...

Chris Whitty, CMO, says they’ll address the issue of PAs and adv practice providers’ impact on resident training in part 2 of the Medical Training Review #DEMEC25

The rise of ultra-processed foods is damaging public health, fuelling chronic diseases worldwide, and deepening health inequalities. Urgent, coordinated global action is needed to address the UPF challenge. Find out more in an Editorial ➡️ spkl.io/63327AgUC1

🧵 1/ NHS England’s Fit for the Future 10-Year Plan is set to transform postgraduate medical education. Flexibility, digital platforms & modular learning sound great, but what’s at stake? @drlkvaughan.bsky.social & I ask some important questions in a new paper in J Roy Soc Med

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Our much-requested Leading interview is here. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and Rory are joined by @zackpolanski.bsky.social discussing Israel-Gaza, the definition of populism, and the Green Party's economic policy. Link in the replies 👇

Everyone in Greater Manchester lives within 15mins of a local hospital But better 5mins of a local GP practice Wes is opening some Neighbourhood Centres to bring hospital closer to home🤔 Want some services outside hospital? Why not just invest in GP practices?

BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏 LET’S KEEP GOING! If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”

So much of the UK’s steady decline post war can be explained by how easy it is for some people to fail upwards. Some spectacular examples with COVID and Brexit - often the same people in both. And easily identifiable by the frequency of their appearance on BBC Radio 4 Today programme

1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness

GPs up & down the country warned Wes Streeting, Department of Health and Social Care 6w ago that forcing the implementation of online forms without safeguards was a fools errand & raise false expectations Have now decided not to talk to @BMA_GP @doctor_katie @DavidGWrigley So here we are 🤷🏻‍♂️

If, like me, you lost a loved one in the UK’s deadly second COVID wave, this WhatsApp chat will confirm that the then government has blood on its hands.

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly— I hope midterms are a referendum

Can you see the problem 🤷🏻‍♂️ Wes Streeting can’t 🤦🏻‍♂️ 31million/month consult GP practices with similar number having haircuts 102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons 38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries On average people spend £400pa on hair GPs receive £169pa per patient

Wes Streeting accused of taking “chaotic and incoherent approach” to reforming NHS which makes it unlikely Govt will hit targets, according to damning @instituteforgovernment.org.uk Reforms are chaotic, poorly handled, risk worsening GP & social care pressures www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Warnings rise for U.S. as a severe flu strain causes outbreaks. A flu strain that emerged over the summer is causing unprecedented outbreaks in Japan, as well as in Canada and the U.K. The CDC hasn't provided insights on flu in the U.S. in nearly 2 months. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Finally!

On this day we remember them. We will never forget. #RemembranceSunday

This report was published 20 October 2022 This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cm...

GPs - ‘Lazy, laggards’ 1.3million appts take place in General Practice each day 20 x more than A&E 3.5 x more than hospital out-patients 5million more appts each month than 2019 Wes Streeting has decided he doesn’t need GPs Let’s see if people agree www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

‘Professional protectionism’ = patient protection It’s really important people understand why knowledge is needed in patient care Protecting a role eg Nurse/Dr is about protecting patients from harm You don’t know what you don’t know or understand what you have never been taught

You might have seen me using the #OneHealth hashtag often: this is why... A World Health Organization poster for today, November 3, One Health Day

GP Crisis is due to Top-Down management ~20% cuts in £/patient funding in 10yr ~Partnership future undermined ~NI hikes ~£ moved to Primary Care Networks ~GP roles cut from practices using ARRS More costly services being promoted by Govt/NHSE at the cost of patient care

Physican Assistant - Associate - Assistant Started as a good idea but was soon a very bad idea for patients when pushed by those who had no idea about safe medicine It’s time to make sure the Leng Review recommendations are implemented substack.com/@drstevetayl...

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour www.theguardian.com/society/2025...