We’re delighted to welcome Helen England as our new Chair! CEO of Brandon Trust & experienced Trustee, Vice-Chair & Chair across health & care charities, Helen brings deep insight & passion for inclusive, community-led innovation. Meet Helen 👉 www.carecity.org/team/helen-e...

Fundraiser for a brilliant homeless health charity. Includes a fan prize for one lucky donater. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pathway-tour

The 2010 Marmot Review is vital to informing our understanding of the social and economic costs of #Health inequalities. This @local.gov.uk #Report highlights the work of councils and partners who embraced Marmot principles and turned them into meaningful actions 👇 www.local.gov.uk/publications...

We are looking for a Senior Fellow to join our team. You'll design and deliver a range of research and influencing activities on public health and prevention, supporting our work on improving health and reducing inequalities. Find out more and apply by 23.59 on 14 April ⬇️ buff.ly/oDOTthv

Back in January, Siva Anandaciva sat down with the Bishop of London to explore her career journey from Chief Nursing Officer to Bishop, and the role that faith groups can play in tackling health inequalities. New podcast episode out now: https://buff.ly/3EUUkEK

Wow! Doctors can advertise as specialist consultants without being on a specialist register with the GMC if they are working in a private healthcare capacity. Shouldn’t private healthcare operate by the same rules as the NHS on qualification? Transparency for pt safety @patientsassoc.bsky.social

A country without democracy is just an idiotocracy.

“clearly, more women appointed to leadership positions could drive transformative change in these biased systems.”

📣 New publication: Designing inclusive & trusted digital health services with people Why: -Darzi report:dire state of NHS partly due to not listening to patients -people excluded from digital health because of poor design -greater opportunity to better know patients & improve services with digital

For anyone who would find it helpful to understand the Global impact of Trump’s UNAID changes, especially on the African continent, here is a statement from Sudan. mailchi.mp/8f035c3b8406...

AMAZING! A GROUNDBREAKING sickle cell disease treatment has been APPROVED for NHS use. Exagamglogene (exa-cel) SUCCESSFULLY edits the faulty gene in a patient’s OWN stem cells. Researchers concluded there was a functional cure in 97% of trial participants that received it! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

Congratulations and wishing you a great year of cultural events #Bradford2025

Friendly reminder that tuberculosis isn’t an “1800s disease” and is in fact THE infectious disease that kills the most people in the 21st century. It is preventable, treatable, and curable, and yet it still kills over 1.2 million people a year because we don’t put the resources where the disease is.

Health research is one of those functions that if you stop it, people will not notice the impact tomorrow, or next month. This makes it hard to communicate its value, unlike, closed national parks during a shutdown. But it generates big public goods. Once that community is eroded, hard to recover.

A science attack begins. The US funds health research and global public health work outside the US too. From WHO to UNAIDS to wider research grants. Research that has supported global progress on communicable diseases such as HIV. @wellcometrust.bsky.social

NHS workforce statistics lay bare the extent of the movement towards hospital based care. And we wonder why the hospitals are stacking up.

Brilliantly simple to implement and warrants taking the small amount of time

Looking for a great overview of the evidence on scale-up and sustainability of innovation and improvement in healthcare? Here you go - part of the open access @thisinstitute.bsky.social series and authored by the mighty @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social and team. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Agree with the commenter. Whilst this is all unsettling, at least it’s more crystal clear than ever which corporations and people humanity is up against.

Not a zeitgeist for the next big digital shifts. Captures what’s needed for high quality primary care in a digital age. Its call to base financial incentives on holistic integrated care should be amplified & would best enable digital universal care plans. @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

Useful principles from which to design impactful interventions. So much of healthcare and public health stops at the point of screening and harvesting data. Health improvement requires applied behaviour change thinking …designing-in the methods that support individuals to take action.

I’ve seen lived experience transform services, shape decisions for the better and reprioritise what needs to change. Great work here by Paul Jones to go further into the different methods and applications.

1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵

Funding gap for women’s centres will mean more prison sentences, experts warn About 50 centres for women in crisis in England and Wales face deficit of £5.1m after funding ends in March www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Catching up with US research on patient feedback. This paper from Yale is encouraging... pxjournal.org/journal/vol1...

Back for 2025 with a call out for artists interested in health and care: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Here I discuss (ramble about) all things remote consultation. From the need to provide equitable & quality services to research, service planning & the potential of large data in improving care; especially reducing inequalities. Hope it's useful. open.spotify.com/episode/5wRQ...

Its not just whats added like sugar ad fat its also what happens during the processing. Obesity levels have tripled since the 60s - here’s why: www.economist.com/science-and-...

"Next Government must devolve more powers to London, think tank warns" Published in @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy https://buff.ly/4iO5H0F

A global slow-down in women’s leadership in politics in 2024. I’m wondering what major shifts took place in 2010, 2017 and 2024. Backlash to the #metoo movement of 2006? The equality act 2010? The #WomensMarch2017? Rise of the MAGA #tradwife trend 2024? Or simply key election dates?

Turns out that photo in a cardboard box thing works well. The young ones and the senior ones… #awkwardfamilyphotos

Also, I thoroughly recommend starter packs for finding interesting NHS / health / social justice people. Here's an example of one... go.bsky.app/GZJeMY5

Big uplift for GP spend in 25/26 …so needed and welcome…

Lots of room for improvement. London’s Million Hearts & Minds Pioneers scheme will be working with employers in 2025/26 so this is well timed analysis! @profkevinfenton.bsky.social

Absolutely right. The question is what is being spent on rough sleeping? and what proportion would be better spent upstream on prevention? We’re a long way from tipping that balance.

“I won’t be posting my spotify wrapped this year. Can I offer you something less intimate like high res pics of my colon?” How I’ll be responding to any requests for my 2024 #Spotify #Spotifywrapped #spotify2024

Absolutely genius!!! AI Granny Daisy has made my night. Brilliant use of AI to tackle a real societal problem. 😂😂😂 so funny and so brilliant. youtube.com/shorts/JUJq1...

Fascinating read on the predicted growth of AI from a futurist. Currently AI is disabled on my NHS issue PC. @wesstreeting.bsky.social gift us some timesaving AI magic for Christmas. www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

Loving the 2024 closing issue of the #RSAJournal - I think I’ve found my muse & future alter ego #girlcrush #VNCCII #RayKurzweil 💅

Why maintaining step down services for the homeless matters, why it’s cost effective and why NHS leaders challenged by deep cuts need to protect the fragile capacity there is. www.channel4.com/news/reveale...

Great to participate in this alongside my brilliant @thekingsfund.bsky.social co-conspirator Dan, to enthuse about all things British Social Attitudes and our joint NHS and social care module. Thanks @natcen.bsky.social for having us on

Yesterday we announced the winners of the 2024 Health & Wellbeing Awards. 🌟 It has never been more important to recognise public health. Thank you to everyone who came together at the ceremony to celebrate the finalists and winners! Find out who won: ow.ly/heKn50UfGVU

Found you @positivelyuk.bsky.social

Enjoyed attended my first World AIDS Day 2024 cabaret event ⭐️ hosted by Daisy Puller. All money raised went to #PositivelyUK. Can’t tag them yet but here’s their website: positivelyuk.org

Finding shared thought leadership on social media again is wonderful. #Bluesky has been a spark of inspiration to ignite purpose. Lots of new learning to elevate progress. That and the cute pet posts have been a tonic! The antithesis of X. Grateful ⭐️

I’ve gained a lot from being part of this improvement community. Highly recommend it. Sessions are recorded so if you can’t make it you can still add it to your month. Follow @kindnesshealthcare.bsky.social for more details.

Ahead of the #TenYearPlan this is a useful contribution to plans for integrated neighbourhood teams.

#healthtech is a productivity driver, but unveils unmet demand too. It captures data and enables us to better evidence gaps & priorities for investment. It’s a chicken and egg moment though if investment in tech relies on the service investment happening in parallel! #digitalhealth #healthAI

Have added some more folk to this lung health starter pack: #LungSky go.bsky.app/UAR96WC Let me know if I've missed you out. #COPD #Asthma #Emphysema #Breathless #Cough #Wheeze #FCTC #TobaccoControl #StarterPack

Interested to see how this study goes. £000m’s expenditure on street homelessness isn’t working, we definitely need to move to more upstream prevention.