BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd... NHS 'came close to collapse' during Covid and patients were failed, inquiry finds - BBC News

A stimulating and clarion call for all UK-based researchers to improve enrolment of cancer patients into clinical trials @btog.bsky.social @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @cruk-mi.bsky.social #BTOG2026

Focussing on UK priorities for improving lung cancer survival outcomes @btog.bsky.social from Robert Rintoul Chair of the UKLCC Steering Group

Great fun conducting my local orchestra this evening!

Good morning!

Happy Birthday Christy Turlington.

Such a wonderful evening of fascinating facts, gloriously presented by the one and only @fryrsquared.bsky.social @royalsociety.org I wished more young people were there..so inspiring!

Why vaccinate? The ups and downs of the pertussis story in UK

Home-based FENO measurements- may be difficult to justify in clinical practice? #btswinter2025

Aspirational, but still more work needed to address inequalities of access to diagnostics

An autumn visitor #uk #foraging

I am desperately saddened by the news of what happened in Manchester today. Deep down, however, I believe there is more that binds us together than separates us as a society. #love #manchester #uk

30th Hintze Lecture: Professor Janna Levin & Professor Sir Roger Penrose www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/30th-...

I don't understand why there aren't more musicians on Bluesky? Where have they been?

Why read it? The trial provides clear evidence for the benefits of Azithromycin in patients with #asthma on LABA/ICS who continue to exacerbate. There is also a nice forest plot for fans of clear data communication! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #RespEd #pulmsky #medsky #lungsky

Summer's offering (allium sphaerocephalon)

Two days of excellent workshops hosted by AstraZeneca. New insights into treating asthma and COPD. #NRLF25 #asthma #lunghealth

The last of this season's tulips. Such a happy flower

Worth pondering

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Just amazing

More awful public health news. “The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century”

5 years ago today, lockdown became legally enforceable in the UK. Today, the nation is still paying the price of not locking down earlier.. #covid #hindsight

Took me a long time to realise that just being is good enough

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It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

In this global game of mirrors, let us never forget who the true aggressor is

JAMA we salute you! Bibbins-Domingo K, Bonow RO, Bressler NM, et al. Reaffirming the JAMA Network Commitment to the Health of Patients and the Public. JAMA. Published online February 20, 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.2405

The epitomisation of a dog's life. Happy Valentine's!

🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️ www.bmj.com/content/388/...

This is a word of warning to all of us. Left, right, or anything else. Constantly reevaluating and learning.

The privilege of teaching medical undergraduates..a vocation not to be underrated, or even undermined. #unikent

On this day Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756; as was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll in Cheshire, England in 1832. Quite a thing to be remembered centuries later!

Mankind's testimony to cruelty, which, to this day, should remain a lesson to us all

Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

Never more poignant, and just as relevant, then as it is today

First run of the year

New Year pancake, or was that pudding?

Christmas tree with a pesto twist. #Xmas #festive

The gift of life, a wonderfully uplifting story

Pianists get such a bad deal. So many notes, and never your own instrument to play on!

Oh my ...god. Mishal has gone 🥹 ##bbcr4

Yo-Yo Ma performs at the re-opening of Notre-Dame de Paris youtu.be/h_wYRNoGLkU?...

Feel the need to boogie #Xmas #loveactually

In 10 words, tell me the best book you've read this year and why

Today @gmcuk.bsky.social starts regulating non-doctors as it opens voluntary registration of AAs and PAs. It does so without any national agreement in place to confirm scope of practice for these roles, and so puts patient safety at risk. Read our full statement: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

Great news, but who is giving it?

Finally, SABA-only is out. Breathe AIR instead! #asthma #primarycare #AIR

Anyone out there doing qualitative research on digital technologies to support #asthmacare? Keen to learn and collaborate! 🙂