Award winner webinar alert! 🌟🏆 On 13th Feb 1-2pm, we welcome our SILVER award winner South East London ICS to present on 'Embedding inhaler recycling into the NHS'. Find out more and register here: https://ow.ly/ARYs50Y3Efc #PrescQIPP2025 King's College NHS

An excellent letter from @tomdolphin.bsky.social at BMA about why the NHS should stop end contracts with Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...

what is driving hospital activity growth – gizmos and “innovation” not “ageing” and demographics. short, slightly ranty, post gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/w...

The real story about statin safety from >122,000 RCT participants with individual level data. They can cause new-onset diabetes and muscle pain/weakness, but other than that they are remarkably safe for 62 outcomes. Rare liver function test abnormalities thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We’ve launched a new Digital Skills and Capability Resource which brings together trusted national frameworks, guidance and training opportunities to help pharmacy teams across GB develop the digital confidence needed for modern practice. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3ZaPxpz

Ambient voice technology in health care: what’s the evidence so far?

Testing menstrual blood for human papillomavirus (HPV) could be a “robust alternative or replacement” for current cervical cancer screening by a clinician, finds a BMJ study from China www.bmj.com/content/392/...

“Statins have been used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide over the last three decades and are proven to reduce heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular deaths” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

An excellent article followed by one of the dumbest things I've seen on #MedSky. Proper "I can't give LA for ABGs because I'm saving lives. Fast." vibes. Anyway, to paraphrase Good Strategy Bad Strategy, everything you do in medicine is an educated guess.

Have you just qualified as a prescriber? Our checklist covers everything you need before you start prescribing. Find out about indemnity, prescriber codes and more. To tick off your admin and feel confident in your practice, check out the guide: https://ow.ly/zxOj50Y8TGg

Look at this @medcrisis.bsky.social 🫀 www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2166...

We’ve confirmed the candidates standing for the inaugural National Pharmacy Advisory Council elections across England, Scotland and Wales. These Councils will help shape pharmacy policy and practice within the future Royal College of Pharmacy. Find out who they are: https://bit.ly/3Zj1OZ3

50% of adults say that in their last clinical encounter they were given information/advice that was not useful or actionable. No wonder. I’ve just trained 100 nurses in a variety of commskills. Not one had previously been taught chunk and check, ask tell ask or teach back. Basic adult ed skills.

The first lecture from my series "Beyond The Hype: Thinking Critically about AI in Healthcare" is now up on YouTube for anyone who wasn't able to make it to the live webinar www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bJ... Slides are here: www.canva.com/design/DAG_u... Next week: "Challenging the Empowerment Myth"

Second lecture in my Thinking Critically About AI Lecture Recording: youtu.be/6cIirLgH_rw Slides: www.canva.com/design/DAHAY... Outline: This week talking about why individual empowerment is the wrong mechanism of change to attach to AI.

"The greatest flaw in clinical medicine might be our desire to banish uncertainty." In this Editor's Choice, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social reflects on the tyranny of clinical fear www.bmj.com/content/392/...

In our #TalkingMeds #podcast launching tomorrow 🎧Jonathan Underhill#TalkingMeds#podcastxplores non-medicine treatments for #insomnia with Dr Dimitri Gavriloff. Join us on your usual podcast platform! #SleepHealth

Modern parenting is just chaos isn't it? Just an endless torrent of potential cock ups

Extensive quantitative information of the side effects of various treatment options also available at side-effects.breast.predict.cam based on work a by @alexandrafreeman.bsky.social and colleagues.

This was a huge effort from the Winton team: several years of reviewing all the side effects information available, and working with patients on how best to display it. Thank you to everyone who helped put it all together. It’s so nice to know that patients have this info now and can better prepare

This is very good. Always enjoy listening to Ian Hislop’s take on the shitshow. Interesting comparison towards the end of UK vs US (where no Epstein listers really seem to be facing any consequences), it’s a small positive to take but at least the UK still has some shame! youtu.be/7CyDNxPnvhw?...

Register for our Parkinson's webinar on 12th February 1-2pm! The forth session covers: 💊New developments in the management of Parkinson's and signposting 💊The New Medicines Service 💊Educational courses and resources 💊Family/carer impact and support Find out more: https://ow.ly/abnv50Y3F8y

Glad to be able to share Continuity of Care report I was asked to create with colleagues from across Scottish NHS. realisticmedicine.scot/wp-content/u...

My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.

Excellent commentary as per usual from @drstevetaylor.bsky.social and Dr Zoe Norris here, and a hopeful message from the minister. For community based medicine to succeed, sufficient funding must follow. www.gponline.com/gps-lost-nhs...

Join #CWTalks on February 12 at 12 p.m. ET to discuss the role of #AI in addressing overuse in health care. Explore the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI into health systems, including how common algorithms communicate risk and influence clinical decision-making: https://loom.ly/uGbC2Eg

Trying to get AI to improve my productivity sure is eating into my productivity

When I do promotional events for my book, John Candy: A Life In Comedy, people often ask me to identify, out of the hundreds of interviews I did for the book, who were the most significant. Without hesitation, I tell them, Catherine O’Hara.

I’m excited to share "Anatomy of a Decision," a new resource that uses the "Narrative Laboratory" of Grey’s Anatomy to teach rigorous Medical Ethics. 🩺📖 Bioethics doesn't have to be sterile. We’re taking the drama of Grey Sloan Memorial and putting it under the philosophical microscope to explore:

Looks a good resource #medethics

Currently reading a great book on the evidence for cholesterol's harms, what convinced the skeptics, and how the scientific consensus formed.

Had a chat to @medscape.com UK about the explosion in direct-to-consumer healthcare tests like the full body MRI scans celebrities are so keen to recommend…and to link back to today’s other big news, Peter Attia is an outspoken advocate for Prenuvo’s MRI moneyspinner www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Fucking QUEEN, fuck this noise

"Reduction of the overuse of PPIs should be based on lack of indication for long-term use or lack of indication for one in the first place". Our PPI deprescribing guidelines and algorithm can help identify if a valid indication exists for a PPI. Find those resources and more here: buff.ly/9H1hLqw

Great editorial in @bmj.com written by our deprescribing.org Co-Director Wade Thompson, along with Anton Pottegård! buff.ly/DfygbLS While PPI use without an indication is a recognized problem, we should also avoid using low-quality evidence to justify #deprescribing decisions.

Clinical Review: Evaluation and management of chest pain from cardiovascular causes in female patients www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Some PCSK9 inhibitor news and we have a new class of medication - The Cibeps. @nationallipid.bsky.social @aspcardio.bsky.social @familyheartfdn.bsky.social @escardio.bsky.social

It’s the last Friday of the month and so time for our latest episode! In an era where “there’s an app for that” is increasingly the answer, we are joined by Rahul Singal and turn our attention to what digital transformation really means for medicines. www.theauralapothecary.com/85-theres-an...

Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art. She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S

“If fabricated studies make their way into the evidence base, they can mislead real scientists and ultimately slow progress for patients." Published in The BMJ, a new AI tool developed by @aidybarnett.bsky.social and colleagues has exposed the scale of fake studies flooding cancer research.

Discovery of an entirely new potential approach to atherosclerotic heart disease: targeted immunotherapy! Studies in human coronary arteries to reduce plaque and the mouse experimental model. Another win for spatial multiomics @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🆕 #UKHSAVirusWatch: The latest flu, COVID-19 and RSV data from our weekly winter surveillance report. 🟢 Flu activity decreased and is circulating at low levels

🆕📰 The latest data from our HPV vaccination programme shows 1 in 4 school‑leavers are unvaccinated against HPV. This leaves young women at risk of cervical cancer and both sexes vulnerable to other HPV‑related cancers.

Read my latest piece for @doctors-net-uk.bsky.social on why GPs are demanding reform of ADHD Right to Choose care. The current system is failing patients they warn. www.doctors.net.uk/news/right-t...

"Presenting data alone will not shift these beliefs—in the absence of trust, evidence has nowhere to land." Public health must bridge the divide with groups who mistrust science, writes @lucindahiam.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This site has been an incredible supportive tool. It's planning to close in May. I can't imagine the huge number of people it's supported to understand and review #anticholinergic burden. What a legacy

🆕 UBC TI #Deprescribing webinar (May 6th) 🆕 "Optimizing Medications for Patients with Major Polypharmacy and Multiple Morbidities: Evidence and How to Apply It" Speaker: Dr. Anne Holbrook 👉 REGISTER NOW: ti.ubc.ca/deprescribin... #MedEd #CME #polypharmacy #BetterPrescribing

📢 ACMICS study is now open! We’re excited to begin this important @nihr.bsky.social funded project. ACMICS aims to support safer prescribing for older adults in hospital—particularly those at risk of delirium and falls due to anticholinergic medicines. 🔗 ageingstrokeresearch.org/research-pro...