We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection. It is available as a free e-book and in paperback: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.

Will they never learn? Reorganisation of NHS structures and management rarely delivers expected benefits or savings, but instead caused ‘redisorganisation’, as @kieranwalshe.bsky.social David Hunter I wrote about for @bmj.com in 2001…. www.bmj.com/content/323/...

This is such a feel good thing. There is NOTHING that's negative about this. Let's just make the most of this feeling. The lionesses are an absolute force.

It’s come home. Again.

Go #Lionesses! So proud of the team, and to win on penalties. Love Chloe Kelly's pride, and confidence too. A win for England and for women!

More perspective from @samfr.bsky.social - Britain Isn't Broken '72% thought the sentences for those convicted of rioting last year were either fair or not harsh enough... 87% said the people who cleaned up after the riots represent “the real Britain” ' open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

New opinion piece in @bmj.com by me and @janekohara.bsky.social: whither patient and staff voice in the NHS post-Dash? Decluttering the safety landscape is necessary but will NHS organisations listen to patients and staff without independent advocacy? www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score). “Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.

The new maternity task force and the investigation will be co-produced with families, says Wes Streeting in response to a question from @shaunlintern.bsky.social see our BMJ piece here www.bmj.com/content/390/... #insighttoimpactmatneo

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A child has died after contracting measles in Liverpool, where public health officials fear a growing outbreak of the disease. Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/bb28...

Wes Streeting has laid out bold plans for English maternity services - but will they work? Our @bmj.com opinion has now been published, exploring some ways that they might be enhanced. www.bmj.com/content/390/... Written with the fabulous @marydixonwoods.bsky.social @instagraham.bsky.social

A lot of really good sense here - regulation won't make the difference without all the stuff you need to support good management, which the NHS desperately needs.

An incredible tech story about a potential revolutionary new model of car ownership that could accelerate EV takeup while saving consumers a substantial amount of money...

"The next decade could be a golden one for NHS technology. But only if we stop confusing policy aspiration with operational reality." www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...

Really enjoyed the first episode of this new podcast series, Stories of Safety, hosted by @janekohara.bsky.social, featuring an interview with @shaunlintern.bsky.social. A few selected highlights (1/6): psrc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/latest/podca...

Here it is! The newly published 4th edition of our Healthcare Management textbook from OUP McGraw Hill, with an expanded editorial team of @simon76moralee.bsky.social @mannisidhu.bsky.social @kieranwalshe.bsky.social and me. #evidencebased #healthmanagement uk.bookshop.org/p/books/heal...

After years of denial, it's really striking that a UK government press release has just come out and said that Brexit was, you know, really bad for trade.

This was a great discussion! Have a listen if you're interested in why it is so hard to do less in healthcare 👇

There's too much emphasis on initiatives in healthcare, while our basic foundations ever more stretched. Initiatives arrive with much fanfare, & fade away (replaced by the next intiative), & we wonder why they've not had the impact we hoped for. It'd be better to properly invest in our foundations.

I think about this comic at least once a week

Sending strength and solidarity to all parents of children starting their #GCSE exams today. My daughter left the house feeling very nervous, and I have spent much of the last two hours feeling like an expectant parent!

Spending the morning spring cleaning the house whilst listening to this brilliant podcast with @shaunlintern.bsky.social hosted by @janekohara.bsky.social 😊 #patientsafety open.spotify.com/episode/4q1j...

First in an exciting new series of podcasts about all things patient safety with the brilliant @janekohara.bsky.social

Super excited about this new podcast, brought to you by @yhpsrc.bsky.social, where I'll be talking to people who've shaped healthcare safety in the UK & beyond. The first episode is a corker - I sit down with @shaunlintern.bsky.social to talk about journalism, harm, and Staffordshire oatcakes... 👇

Thoughts? @nielspeek.bsky.social

Detecting and Preventing Imposter Participants: Methods and Recommendations for Qualitative Researchers Kristina Medero, Hamdi Abdi, CeRon Ford, and Sarah Gollust journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Bannon the latest in the “Britain doesn’t manufacture anything” brigade. It’s a lazy trope you hear repeated in the media a lot. In fact the UK remains the 8th or 9th biggest manufacturer in the world. 10% of our GDP with some of the most advanced manufacturing anywhere.

Read this today (for the first time), in two sittings. Can't believe I have not read any Deborah Levy before. My goodness, Hot Milk is an exquisite novel.

Saltburn in North Yorkshire this evening

This is Pippa. She’s been on many scenic hikes and has seen many beautiful views. But she has also napped through her fair share of those views, and we don’t blame her one bit. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

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The UK is a low tax economy It has been for decades and has therefore invested less in public services like health The result is poorer services & less access, a higher debt burden & an unhappy population Choice is poor services low tax or better services higher tax www.ft.com/content/01f5...

SIGNED BOOK NEWS. You can pre-order a copy of The Long Shoe, the new novel by the very ace Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social , from us! It's published on October 9th, but you can pre-order signed copies HERE! (blurb in ALT text) biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie... (please repost, ta!)

Might be a good time to resurrect our historical review of previous NHS organisational structures.... researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/46... Short version: however you organise it, you always need a number of layers to effectively manage something as complicated as the NHS

This is a really insightful analysis of some of the issues sitting behind yesterday's shock announcement about the abolition of NHS England by Siva Anandaciva from @thekingsfund.bsky.social. Thanks Charlotte for sharing!

🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫 An editor's perspective: –Ever increasing number of manuscripts submitted for publication –Authors want quick editorial decisions + fast peer review –Reviewers are "too busy" to review –Everyone wants to submit papers but no one wants to review 1/2

The great @nigelslater.bsky.social once described me – not that I wish to boast – as The Queen of the Frozen Pea, and it’s in this capacity that I give a special #CookbookCorner shout-out for The Frozen Peas Cookbook by Samuel Goldsmith!

Right. Streeting has just told the Commons that while much of this can be done without legislation, a bill is needed. And that the whole process of merging DHSC and NHSE is likely to take 2 years. Even if it’s the right long term decision this will be hugely disruptive in the short term

News | @englishheritage.bsky.social believes it may have found the only lifetime portrait of Lady Jane Grey museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

It's research 🐟 time again... #ifyouknowyouknow Sending strength, fellow academics!

Slightly late to this but, if you want to see how good social science research can contextualise & rebut a dubious headline, then check out this excellent report and thread from the Kings Policy institute, showing contra Channel 4's alarmist headlines that, no, young ppl don't want a dictatorship

Note the layout - an echo of Oval Office - with warmth rather than venom

Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

Hard to think of a more dangerous moment for European security since the height of the Cold War. It’s brutally clear US is now indifferent if not actively hostile to Ukraine in the war. It’s not clear if the US would aid Europe if Russia were to expand that war...

BMA agrees new GP deal with Govt to see an extra £889m go into GP practices along with red tape and targets cut to free up GPs to see more patients. It also includes chabges to rules that the BMA says will allow GP practices to decide which roles to hire, rather than having this dictated.

One of my brilliant Norwegian colleagues said to me recently (when offering me a lift) "oh sorry in advance, I have a non-PC car..." It was, I discovered, a #Tesla