The day the Home Office tried to deport me www.thetimes.com/article/ffe3...

Wish the UK government had read our advice (ahem). Free to read.

New from @sheencr.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sheenacr...

Again, with the essential use of sibling controls, in a nationwide prospective study in Sweden of ~2.5 million children, no increased risk even with higher dose exposure jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Let's talk about "gold standard science"

I confess I sometimes wonder whether Unherd should really be called Unhinged. But just occasionally, especially when it does reportage rather than rage-baiting, it comes up with real gems. This IMHO is one of them. unherd.com/2025/09/the-...

NIHR ARC Wessex withdraws from X/Twitter @nihrarcs.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/post/nihr-ar...

CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION! Disappointingly poor reporting from @theguardian.com. Of course we want more girls to play sport, but this study is what is technically termed "a load of nonsense". www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

There's a new social care 'think tank' that has appeared from nowhere. @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social has some questions... open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.

I don't have a religious faith, but I think if I did, I'd want to join the Quakers. This is such a thoughtful, careful and compassionate statement on trans-inclusive facilities. Common sense and kindness and true Christian values.

The kind of pushback I’d love to see more of www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our research on locum doctors found it is still possible for problem doctors to move from place to place and evade scrutiny. Some frank and revealing interviews - full paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's easy to blame the locum doctor when something goes wrong. Some eye-opening qualitative data in our new paper on liminality, locums and concerns about performance. Full paper (OA) at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"What seems to be the problem? Locum doctors, liminality and concerns about performance". Really great paper led by Gemma Stringer on liminality and locum doctors just out in Social Science and Medicine. Open access at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Increasingly I feel that what once was considered the political mainstream in the U.K. has completely lost its moral compass. When did the question about concentration camps and mass deportations become one of practical feasibility?

‘Between 2015 - 2020, 84% of new drugs recommended by NICE were less cost effective than existing services’ ‘The life science plan to introduce “ innovators passports” will allow a single NHS organisation’s evaluation of a new technology to trigger system wide adoption’ www.bmj.com/content/390/...

A must-read on the underlying problems of a life sciences strategy based on selling more (and more expensive) stuff to the NHS, and an NHS plan which envisages saving £££ through efficiencies and prevention. It doesn't add up.

New article in Social Theory & Health, co-authored with @judegreen.bsky.social, open access. In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters. Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F

Our paper (@davefev.bsky.social + others) out today shows London LTNs have led to est. 613 fewer road injuries (-100 Killed or Seriously Injured). No significant impact (with benefits for cyclists/motorcyclists) on boundary roads. injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl... (Open access soon!)

New comment piece by me & colleagues in @bmj.com on the using health data for research in UK Processes are so complex and so slow now that less research is happening and we are wasting the enormous potential of the NHS to drive innovation www.bmj.com/content/390/...

I went last week to the funeral of Penny Mullen who died in May aged 81. She was an academic at the Health Services Management Centre in Birmingham for many years, supervised my PhD, and was later a colleague. Uncompromising, irascible but absolutely dedicated to her students and her work. RIP.

Really interesting and challenging paper about the evolution of UK health economics, role of women academics and the early dominance by a male cadre of senior profs. Well worth reading. Full paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/p... Polygenic risk scoring and precision prevention Cynics view

Our social meet up and run this morning! The best way to start the the second day of the conference ☀️ Thank you to those who joined us and @kieranwalshe.bsky.social for leading and finalising the route! #HSRUK25

Q. What's the difference between a neighbourhood health hub and a Darzi polyclinic? A: About 16 years! More at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycli...

It is a bit frustrating that we have endless news coverage this morning of the government's 10 year plan for the NHS, but the document is nowhere to be seen on the DHSC website. So it's all spin and no substance yet.

The Devereux Review of the performance and culture of the ONS is out. Makes for tough reading including criticism of the Board ('With hindsight, stronger intervention earlier might have resulted in the welcome change of direction now evident at ONS.') uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/...

Everyone involved in university governance should read the SFC review of Dundee University's financial crisis. It pulls no punches in its criticism of senior leaders. Full report at www.sfc.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

‘We need to optimise R&D for our actual economy, rather than the one we imagine we have. The UK is an 80 per cent services economy with strengths in finance, law, and a creative economy which accounts for around 6% of the UK’s goods and services.’ My bit in CityAM www.cityam.com/dont-forget-...

'Healthcare Management' (Moralee et al) - 4th edition contains 23 chapters and 500+ pages of the latest, expert-written healthcare management insight and analysis. You can get a copy via: lnkd.in/eEH5an8W and there's currently a 20% discount using the code OPENUP20.

Watch this short video These are 3 of the bravest people on earth—they know that folks like Jay Bhattacharya & his partner RFK Jr could retaliate & fire them But they say: “You can get another job but you cannot get another soul”

Extremely powerful and courageous.

This is a quite extraordinary deep dive into what's going on inside ChatGPT when you ask it something - spoiler alert, it simply cannot be trusted and it lies readily. Wow.

A huge congratulations to our four UK Harkness Fellows: Chukwuebuka Anyaegbuna, Rocco Friebel, Lucinda Hiam and William Roberts who are joining the @commonwealthfund.org 2025–26 Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice. Read our announcement ⬇️

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

Great to see the 4th edition of our textbook on Healthcare Management just out - with new editorial team and loads of new and updated content.

Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order. with @cdelawalla.bsky.social @vambros.bsky.social Carol Greider @michaelemann.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

Not sure if this is hilarious or horrifying - perhaps both. Not surprising though that the anti-science MAGA advocates now running HHS, NIH, CDC etc don't bother much with proper scientific methods.

Very sorry to hear of the death of Penny Mullen - a longtime stalwart on the staff of the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham. Penny was irascible but kind, and much loved especially by students because they saw how hard she worked for them and how much she cared.

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...

Cracking statement from Sandi Toksvig who is standing for Chancellor of the University of Cambridge! www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country. Right now it's not worth the risk. Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

🚨 Dr Toli Onon, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, and currently chief medic at Manchester University NHS Trust, will be England's new chief inspector of hospitals for the @carequalitycomm.bsky.social

GB News : "Brexit is a good thing?" Brexit Fisherman : "It's been a disaster" "But exports?" "Red tape is 100 fold, our main market is the EU" "But EU fisherman?" "They didn't come here" "But charge more?" "They can buy in the EU" "How would you vote?" "I'd vote for Remain in a heart beat"

I've pitched versions of this idea to a number of NIH scientists, as well as university researchers over the last six weeks or so. So I decided to put it together into a post.

In 2013 New Zealand enacted new legislation to reform its approach to public inquiries. So how did the Inquiries Act 2013 modernise inquiries – and what can the UK learn from New Zealand? @rebeccamckee.bsky.social @jackpannell.bsky.social explain www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/pu...

'Since students make up 40% of total “immigrant” numbers, why not remove from the statistics all except those who eventually stay' Seems like a no brainer to me. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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