A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards. Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer” www.bmj.com/content/391/...

‘Why children's books matter’ – the keynote speech at the Booker Prize 2025 ceremony was given by Penelope Lively, the only author to have won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for children's writing. youtu.be/a8SdOg94uiQ

Liz Orton introduces FLEXI study about implementation of FAME - physical activity programme for #olderpeople @gerisoc #bgsconf @arc-em

1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. 🧵1/8

📢 Calling all UK Hospital at Home Society members! 📨 Our National Benchmarking Survey has just been launched – please check your inbox and respond to help us deliver the most comprehensive look yet at Hospital at Home services across the UK. #HospitalAtHome

Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...

all the posters from @gerisoc #bgsconf www.bgs.org.uk/posters

@emmavardy2.bsky.social your name mentioned! We all need a shared care record like that used in Greater Manchester!

@graceinvaders.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social @clairedow1.bsky.social

Whoohoo! Calling #Bristol and surrounding areas 🥳🥳 I’ll be @cliftonlitfest at 10.30 on Sunday 16th Nov talking useful happy sad important things worth knowing about #GettingOlder - pleased come, bring mum, grandad, best friend, son ❤️❤️🐘🐘❤️❤️

Very exciting! I’m interviewing Prof @MasudHusain TOMORROW evening Monday 30th October @wellslitfest about his terrific book Our Brains Our Selves. Please come along! It’s a fascinating read ❤️📖🧠

Hello bluesky!! Whoop whoop I love this! #TheGoldenRule published in China as #EnlightenOurTwilight with a beautiful foreword by geriatrician Dr Xinyu Chen. Beyond global politics more still unites us than divides us. Thank you @PenguinUKBooks @MichaelJBooks @Taffyagent 🥳🥳🥳

Loved every minute of this. Super turn out and great questions - pills, AI, looking after someone at the end, loving life - and kisses! Really special thank you for inviting me xx

Applications for the Emerging Women Leaders Programme close on Tuesday 1 July. Don’t miss this chance to enhance your leadership skills. Apply today: ow.ly/mp9K50WaFjz

This man is a cryptid and I both love him and am about a decade off from becoming him.

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

The responses to this are an utter joy and a suitably British mix of the serious, the mildly sarky and the just plain bizarre (prog rock??). All is definitely not lost.

Toilets became free (and are still clean) in a lot of major railway stations a few years ago Police remain relatively untooled up after a lot of pushback a couple of decades ago (though other problems remain) Pharmacists are low key heroes in my experience

Allotments. Public parks. Car boot sales. Thousands of small, local charities.

Hugely looking forward to tomorrow Tuesday evening in Chorleywood (#BestBookshopEver) chilternbookshops.co.uk/events/categ... where we’ll talk happy sad funny helpful stuff 🥳❤️

We had such a happy time recording this. And wow @juliasamuelmbe.blueskysocial is a wise and funny woman and I wish I’d listened more and talked less! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Up early but I have tea and the best of company. Looking forward to spending the next few days with @lucygobag.bsky.social this feels like a very timely book - @doctoroxford.com @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social @bedsidereading.bsky.social @drrageshri.bsky.social

Reform UK’s plans to obstruct green energy projects in Lincolnshire put at risk almost £1bn in local investment and more than 12,000 jobs, How many people analysed policies before voting for Reform, the party that also voted against worker rights.

Two interesting and inspiring inaugural lectures @qmul-wiph.bsky.social yesterday and an absolute tonic to catch up with research colleagues @qmulresilience.bsky.social

A great moment for the Centre as we enjoy the inaugural lectures of both Prof Jennifer Lau and Prof Claudia Cooper, illustrating a range from youth mental health to dementia @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

One very cheery geriatrician!! Paperback coming soon and it has fab reviews. I’m so happy! www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Rule-...

Fantastic workshop on #Ageing Education hosted by @graceinvaders.bsky.social with guest speaker @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social readings about #GettingOlder and #Geriatric medicine. Excited for further innovation & collaboration via @stmonicatrust.bsky.social & @impactalliance.bsky.social !

One of the best bookshops ever. I’m honoured to be invited!

And launched tonight we have @acha020.bsky.social too! (COI on my way home from the celebration event!)

@gerisoc.bsky.social @age-and-ageing.bsky.social have bagged handles but no posts as yet.

I’m very excited about this - next Friday 9th at 10 am in Stratford upon avon - and I have 2 free tickets so please DM if you’d like them 🥳🥳https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/dr-lucy-pollock

doi.org/10.1136/ejhp... Super article - drug errors cause so much harm but this is an optimistic article identifying ways to help - systems, tech, support for fallible humans 👏👏👏👏

And 🥳 I’m very excited about this one - we’ll be looking at happy sad important stuff about #GettingOlder and what we can change right now. Plan A: stay young forever Plan B: come along to this one! www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/dr-lu...

This is very exciting! We’re going to have a happy afternoon thinking about funny sad or important stuff - sometimes all 3 at once - about #GettingOlder and hearing from people who know what it’s all about 🥳❤️🐘❤️

Recognising the problem and calling it delirium is key. Helps GP triage. Stockport implementation of community pathway reduced transfer to ED. From 100% transferred to ED to 88% safely cared for at home. Utilising existing community teams.

Thx Lucy, yes lots of work in this field being delivered through #POPS services around the country & more such services set up. Do get in touch if interested in hearing more. @gerisoc.bsky.social @cpoc.bsky.social V happy to share resources & published work

We’re going to have a happy time - sharing information, shifting power. What does the next generation of professionals working with older people need to know? Come and tell them! ❤️🐘❤️🌱❤️📚

Lots to think about . I hope we shall cast some light on implications of #AssistedDying Bill for patients families lawyers doctors and all of us as citizens

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... here’s an 18 min chat w Jonathan about statins in older people. Maybe you know someone like Mrs Evans …

Whoohoo hope people like this one! It’s such a common subject and I hope we’ve done a bit of demystifying …

@emmavardy2.bsky.social you’re so kind! talking about falls w fab Morning Live team from around 25 mins in 😁 ❤️🐘❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

How did the @DACHA_Study develop a prototype minimum dataset for use in UK care homes? Read more on the @profrecordsb.bsky.social website: theprsb.org/dacha-report/ @hdemcop.bsky.social

Wow and thankyou! I hope you like it 👏😁

Here’s some things I love about #HospitalAtHome for people with frailty and acute illness: 1. Patients love it. 2. Patients love it. 3. Patients love it. For the right person with the right support, treatment at home works. It’s not right for everyone. But for many, it’s great.

Today is the start of #HealthInformationWeek #HIW2025 We will be posting links to information which is accessible and reliable for our patients & the local population, on a range of health topics. Checkout the page on our Health Information LibGuide: somersetft-nhs.libguides.com/c.php?g=6936...

100% agree , it is about informed choice considering the 2 sides of the "Medicines Coin " Harm AND Triumph . I know @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app and I agree that NICE and clinicians should go further and adopt @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social 's approach below 👏

⭐️Is it mandatory to apply NICE guidelines?⭐️ See what NICE say at the beginning of each guideline ⬇️ They are a GUIDE They offer evidence based information. Patients are free to decide. Clinicians can offer options & advice, and are not accountable for patients' decisions Agree?

Loved making this episode. Jonathan hardly gets a word in sideways 😔but when he does it’s mint: guidelines not tramlines..and what’s the name of the dog ..😂👏❤️

Terrific!!! Getting the message out there. Medicines both help and harm. Let’s get them right 👏👏😁