Dear Canada: tomorrow is Election Day. This is Mark Carney. Hint, hint.

There are many causes of loneliness in the UK. In rural areas 1.8 metre+ fences put up by wealthy people moving into small farming villages is 1 reason. Talk to your neighbours? Can't, they are behind a tall fence. City and rural planners have a key role in combating loneliness. #peoplecentreddesign

I like pebbly faces katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/04/08/p...

Please Radio4, bring back A Point of View. It was a sermon for atheists and I always made sure to listen. Not because I agreed with all of them, but because they made me think.

Sue is really good at creating a clear pathway through government documents, unlike the government themselves. Well worth a read.

Is anyone else having trouble accessing @bmj.com contact through their institution? I keep getting 'Safari can't open this page' messages and similar problems in Chrome.

Crowded A&E are the biggest problem in the NHS, and kill many patients. But you have to know the cause of the problem to fix it and the cause isn't demand: www.linkedin.com/pulse/queues...

Realist reviewers, here's a banger of a new paper by a South African group whose work I've only just become aware of. Good bit of philosophy to chew on if you've time. But also seeking to make RR more practical. Enjoy! #healthpolicy academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...

Tom’s Light Waves @ootlier.bsky.social katedaviesdesigns.com/2025/02/19/l...

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... If only NHS had paid attention to our @thekingsfund.bsky.social publication on information disorganisation at the frontline in 2017. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/n3et3... @JKMVidimo @wesstreeting

Exactly what patients have been saying for years. Shame no one listened to us.

A new approach to academic publishing: just pour right-wing money into your own vanity journal. “Peer reviewers” paid $500 per review but are not allowed to advise against publishing the article. Wonder who’s on the editorial board… www.importantcontext.news/p/a-new-acad...

Perfectly captured.

Vive le Canada!

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Thread on need to fight for evidence-based policy - a response to Trump's cabinet picks. Based on new @bmj.com article by me, @martinmckee.bsky.social & @kentbuse.bsky.social TLDR: Now is the time to stand up for science, not appease those in power attacking it www.bmj.com/content/387/... 1/14

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

I always appreciate the 'is there anything else you want to tell us' free text entry so that I can tell people what they got wrong with their survey design. Will the AI listened to that though? Probably not.

And the idea this law may expand to non-terminal by courts is vanishingly unlikely. I was in courtroom 10 years ago when Supreme Court declared this a matter for Parliament; Strasbourg agrees. Even if it didn’t, a legal argument to extend from terminal to incurable is almost unimaginable.

For patients, carers and all those that work in primary care and the ICBs: please have a watch of this video, because I think the time is finally right to adopt Nuka care here in the UK.

Good breakdown of the actual impact of the inheritance tax changes on farms. The £1m is ON TOP of standard exemptions. So it's £1.3m tax-free if includes a residence. £2.6m if the spouse inherits. £3m if kids get some too. And the tax is on surplus, not the total. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hello World. In honour of the shifting of the depressing high pressure system that hovered over us for the last two weeks, I decided to investigate the blue sky that has recently appeared.

Incentives for academics have grown increasingly perverse over the last 50 years #AcademicSky www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...