Offering self-sampling kits to test for HPV during a routine GP appointment could prevent cervical cancer in an extra 1000 women a year, new research from @kingslsm.bsky.social, @qmulfmd.bsky.social, @cancerresearchuk.org finds. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/self-sa...

New gambling act needed for starters

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The health dividend of cash transfer programmes Brazil's Bolsa Família Program, which provides an average of US$139 per month to over 20 million households in poverty Study = www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New paper klaxon - out now in the Journal of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social We used detailed alcohol purchasing data from the 12 months prior to the recent alcohol tax reforms to estimate how different consumer groups might be affected by the changes to alcohol duties. doi.org/10.1093/pubm...

Lis Grey and @bekilangford.bsky.social received a @bristoluni.bsky.social Knowledge Mobilisation Catalyst Award to talk to secondary school teachers about their work on weight-related bullying. Read their blog to find out what they discovered. arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/what-do-scho...

New paper from myself and Matt Gaskell (Northern Gambling Clinics) out today. Commentary on excellent article from Phil Newall. Perhaps of interest if you like your commercial determinants of health applied to addiction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Read more about all the work of Policy Modelling for Health at www.phiuk.org/policy-model...

We published our Annual Review yesterday 👇 So today, a short thread on the work of Healthy Urban Places...

We’re grateful to all who gave feedback at conferences, seminars and in private. Special thanks to The Economic Journal editor, @essobecker.bsky.social, and anonymous reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments. 📄 Read the paper here: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a... #EconTwitter 6/6

Weight-loss apps and online therapists to be prescribed on the NHS www.thetimes.com/article/1bef...

Councils hit with soaring cost of travel for special needs pupils www.thetimes.com/article/9790...

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

📚 Find out more about this new book co-authored by SARG's @jholmessheff.bsky.social and @soc-researcher.bsky.social which explores the complex social, cultural and economic factors driving the significant decline in youth drinking observed in high-income countries since the early 2000s #PublicHealth

Great taxonomy of simple vs. complex (complicated?) decision-analytic model features. drugrepocentral.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

SARG's @victimofmaths.bsky.social contributes to this @nature.com article exploring the reasons why the USA has lower life expectancy than other wealthy nations.

Has a lack of data effected the development of effective policies to treat #ADHD? New research argues that there are "significant gaps" in the evidence base which has resulted in an unclear picture of ADHD prevalence. Click the link to learn more👇 #IoPPNNews www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gaps-in...

New event alert! *Mental health in context: work and welfare transitions over time* with Dr.Annie Irvine @annieirvine.bsky.social 📅 25 June 2025 16:00 - 17:00 Sharing findings from a UK study exploring factors around work & welfare benefits Info and sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/esrcc...

#EIE2025 is co-hosted by the European Implementation Collaborative, the UK Implementation Society, @arc-southlondon.bsky.social and King's College London. Unit Director @annetteboaz.bsky.social spoke this morning about the WHO Global Research Agenda. Abstract ▶️ implementation.eu/wp-content/u...

Researchers! Our Parent and Carer Research Network is open to you! We are looking for researchers whose work seeks to champion the voices of children, young people & their families #mentalhealth #mentalhealthresearch parentcarerresearchnetwork.org.uk/researchers

Early HTA is ".. a health technology assessment conducted to inform decisions about subsequent development, research and/or investment by explicitly evaluating the potential value of a conceptual or actual health technology” @ijtahc.bsky.social @htaiorg.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On Mon 2 June 11.00-12.00 (UK time) I will be taking part in this online discussion about the future of universal school mental health interventions It's free and open to all, and there are lots of experts with varied viewpoints so should be good - sign up info below www.acamh.org/event/debate...

A bold digital future for health and care is possible – but only with clear vision, sustained investment, and the humility to learn lessons from past failures, writes Tom Hardie. www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...

What happens when health care professionals tell you your parents are no longer well enough to look after themselves at home? The Voiceless Isolation Exhibition, hosted by IoPPN on 28 May, explores this question, with poetry readings by Anne Murphy. #Carers #Health

We're very pleased to announce that PHI UK and the UKPRP Prevention Research Network will be hosting Prevention Research 2026 in Birmingham, 4-5 March. Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity. Register your interest at preventionresearch26.co.uk #preventionresearch26

The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.

If alcohol retailers are to gain £550m a year from MUP - if introduced in England - shouldn't some of that go back into the healthcare services? @smfthinktank.bsky.social's new report explores options to recover this windfall & how it could be earmarked for healthcare www.smf.co.uk/publications...

Join us on 5 June for Professor Gemma Modinos' inaugural lecture as professor: "Where the wild thoughts grow: from brain scans to mechanisms in #psychosis" Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/profe... #AcademicSky #MedSky

NEW JOURNAL ARTICLE: Reforming the funding of long-term care for older people 💰 CPEC researchers Bo Hu, Ruth Hancock, Raphael Wittenberg, Derek King and @mmorciano.bsky.social examine projected costs and impacts of England's planned 2025 LTC reforms. READ NOW:👉 doi.org/10.1017/S174...

🚨 New Published Paper - Understanding barriers and facilitators to delivering peer support effectively: a qualitative interview study Proud to share our latest research, led by academic and lived experience researchers. 🔗 Read in full: bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #PeerSupport

NHS trusts back £30m venture fund to aid medical tech firms www.thetimes.com/article/df9e...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says Labour will restrict the number of care workers from abroad. Going forward employers should recruit locally. One thing we learned from Brexit: Brits will not fill all those jobs that immigrants currently do.

A groundbreaking AI model, Foresight, is being trained on secure, de-identified NHS patient data from 57 million people and could transform patient care. It is led by researchers @kingsioppn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and supported by our @nihr.bsky.social Maudsley BRC. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/ai-to-p...

Interested in learning more about how we can use #AI to transform children's mental health treatment? Prof Gustavo Sudre speaks at the @aiatkings.bsky.social's Festival of AI on 22 May. Register now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/revol...

Drop-in to the Maudsley Hospital to find out how you can get involved in research, and help improve #mentalhealth treatments and care. 🗓️Tuesday 20 May, 10:00 - 14:00 📌Maudsley Hospital, Outpatients Waiting room ➡️https://kcl.ac.uk/events/international-clinical-trials-day #BePartofResearch

Loneliness needs to be treated as a societal issue, not just one that required psychological interventions, argues IoPPN's @kathrynbates.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com #IoPPNInTheNews #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek theconversation.com/why-loneline...

Addiction science has long been stuck between two flawed ideas: 🧠 It’s a brain disease 🙄 It’s just bad choices @fieldmatt.bsky.social makes the case for a better way forward: not blame or pathology, but reshaping environments so healthier choices actually exist theconversation.com/addiction-is...

The Institute of Cancer Policy at King's has been appointed by the World Bank to lead a major strategic review of financing for global cancer that will inform its global and national operations. @kingslsm.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/news/institu...