Haven’t posted here for a long time but such a relief after The Other Place .

If hospital to community & virtual wards & stuff going to work you have to have enough “decision makers” ( and non medical prescribers) and you need experienced embedded people to hold the ring, while joining up the various patient record and IT systems takes place - which can be painfully slow

I was looking at some Scottish cause of death data yesterday and the extent to which transport accident deaths in young men have all but disappeared is pretty remarkable. Nice to find a good news story in this data for a change.

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

Please know that NHS doctors & nurses like me would never urge you to do something that could endanger your child. Really reliable NHS info on vaccines can be found here. Please read, it’s excellent. (2/3) nhs.uk/vaccinations/

There's a lot that England's social care sector can learn from Covid-19, both from the experience here and from that of other countries. Read the blog from @natashacurry.bsky.social for the four key building blocks of a resilient social care system, based on our research findings. buff.ly/5H8bmXp

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

Welcome to my world. #academicsky

More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

Loving this live webcam of puffins from the Farne Islands @nationaltrust.org.uk Via @oohgpwales.bsky.social www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...

If hospital to community & virtual wards & stuff going to work you have to have enough “decision makers” ( and non medical prescribers) and you need experienced embedded people to hold the ring, while joining up the various patient record and IT systems takes place - which can be painfully slow

Totally agree

EORTC effectively captures tyrosine kinase inhibitor side effects, outperforming other patient-reported outcome libraries in non-small-cell lung cancer assessments. by Paton EL, Cetnar JP (...) King-Kallimanis BL et 2 al. in J Natl Cancer Inst #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article:

Unplanned acute illness and cancer should often be the trigger for new conversations - #seeitsayitshareit

As palliative &EOL care becomes increasingly community based is it time to reconsider a route into the specialty palliative medicine via general practice? Community based palliative medicine training without such a long acute medicine commitment ? @johnlauner.bsky.social @danmunday.bsky.social

As #generalpractice takes an increasingly 'digital first' approach, it's important to know how practices are facilitating access to these services - I talk to Helen Atherton here on the @bjgp.bsky.social podcast about the impact on practices and patients bjgplife.com/episode-198-...

Now, this is a really important session. Continuing Healthcare is relatively unknown, complex, and yet has a massive impact on individuals. Juliet Bouverie, Chair of the Richmond Group warns us that we're going to get cross. #NTSummit

“Advancements in cancer treatment have led to a growing population of cancer survivors worldwide, who often experience premature onset of age-related conditions” #LivingWithAndBeyondCancer

Yes, I was asking this question a few days ago, hoping that he’s getting relevant support from a geriatrician or similar physician, not just people tasked with keeping him alive at all costs. (Good palliative care can as we know actually prolong life rather than shorten it…)

Here's what #PopeFrancis has said about palliative care. international.la-croix.com/ethics/palli...

Great piece in The BMJ @bmj.com about our OpenSAFELY platform granting unprecedented secure, transparent, efficient access to whole population GP data for analysts in collaboration with NHS England @england.nhs.uk www.bmj.com/content/388/...

RIP Roberta Flack - songs of youth #killingmesoftly

Does anyone know if the pope has a palliative care physician overseeing supportive care in addition to the specialist doctors continuing to give acute illness care ? #popefrancis #palliative

84% turn out in German elections. There is hope for democracy. #germanelection

Being pro migrant, pro public sector, willing to borrow to spend, prioritising looking after people, and basically being socialist, has helped Spain’s economy soar. Why don’t we hear more about it? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

RFK jr confirmed

Golly - great work as always @mariecurie @jameslindalliance but that’s a lot of priorities …

Boom! We’ve revealed the next season theme for our events programme over April/May will be Folklore Reimagined. Features lore of the land, history of the witch, and a rare performance by Simon Armitage www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/seasons/folk...

Am trying to stay sane through the untrammelled techno optimism so far experienced at the Paris AI Summit by reading Colette

www.radchat.co.uk a really brilliant resource about everything you need to know about radiation therapy but didn’t ask

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Oh this is very good. I'd just add that 'other hospital departments' includes functions such as pathology and pharmacy, which are critical to effective flow, not just wards. But it's still very good.

Oh absolutely! But that labour, time and skill in cleaning up and knowing what you can and can’t say from the analysis seems to get missed out in narratives where you can just plug and play with it for instant reward.

Nice resource here... 🛟 medsky 😷 sociology idsky 🧭 🧪 science communication health policy

Thought-provoking piece on Cochrane's cancelled update of #ME/CFS review. Sad, troubling, powerful - from @hildabast.bsky.social

Depressing reading from US in terms of demand for higher education - our demographic dip in the UK is due in a few years' time.... n.pr/409W3Nt

The spread of health misinformation and disinformation poses a serious threat to public health. How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health? Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25

Mandatory "prevention" is swallowing up skilled time and imposing an impossible load on those trying to help ill people, i.e. GPs. So thrilled to be on the authorship of this plea for a restoration of balance and due roles: www.bmj.com/content/388/...

After AI made the diagnosis, did it counsel the pt? Did it ask about the pts thoughts and fears and concerns about the diagnosis? Did AI understand the atavistic worry about the future that pts with a new diagnosis often have? Did AI help stem the pts tears? I’m with the Prof on this

Old courtyard, 2011 By Anna Zamurueva, painter from Moldova #WomensArt

So we have a lot of barriers to overcome here... a low level of public visibility & understanding, a frame about cost/burden rather than value, a tendency to tinker at the edges, an increasingly unstable system. #HospitalToHome

Talking social care reform: - Govts rarely get more powerful over time - Social care reform may burn political capital (costs a lot and ~50% of public think it’s funded already) - But it needs to happen & we know what to do So…waiting=frustrating #HospitaltoHome @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social

Now we are considering how social care reform can (if only!) happen and succeed. @natashacurry.bsky.social shows us the covers of 14 government reviews of social care, and is very clear about why social care is central to any plans for #HospitalToHome, and for much wider care and support.

@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social A clear message- if no money and no people , need to think clearly about changing how social care is seen in the U.K and use Casey investigation as a platform to develop political and public consensus using what we already know #hospitaltohomr

Can we ever get a proper debate about the funding needed, asks @leonoramerry.bsky.social? Does the assisted dying debate open it up? Yes, to an extent, thinks Isabel Hardman. But the government has the most political capital it will have now, should be using it. #HospitalToHome

At our #HospitalToHome event, @sjanereed.bsky.social warns that for all its talk the UK's money is going into inpatient services compared to countries which manage to move patients along faster through limited numbers of beds @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social