Hot off the press - Viral Debt: The Production and Reproduction of Economic Vulnerability This book shows how debt – like a contagion – works systematically across economic and social structures and geographies This is a free, Open Access, book: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Thanks to the @theguardian.com for publishing this about my Granny who died in April. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Lovely words from @rethinkcharity.bsky.social about my Granny, Eve Thompson. www.rethink.org/news-and-sto...

The announcement re NHSE and DHSC feels very influenced by Alan Milburn. Two relevant quotes from his interview in www.health.org.uk/reports-and-... The second is regarding the Lansley Reforms.

2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.🧵

“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW ANALYSIS: #NHS trusts reported a £1.2bn overspend last year. 💷 Trusts in areas of greatest deprivation saw the steepest declines in their finances in the year ending March 2024, with the North West and Midlands recording the deepest overspends. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...

Argh!!! GP admin why are you so frustrating! I message about something via the online portal this AM. Tell them it’s not urgent + I can’t take a call today anyway. They send me a text for more info. Great, happy to do that when I get home this PM. Open my messages to find another text saying …

Can anyone give me the reason why, in England, the onus is not on the seller of a home to get a building survey. That way they and all potential buyers know any issues at time of sale and avoids multiple surveys being carried. Is there a big surveyor lobby I don't know about?

given that the USAID website has just gone offline, I feel it is profoundly misguided for public health experts to be giving this administration any credit whatsoever

“It’s kind of ridiculous that you buy a bottle of orange juice with all this nutritional information and ingredients on it, but a bottle of wine is exempt from that.” - Jem Roberts, IAS. Alcohol labels should include nutritional information and health warnings. www.thetimes.com/article/17e8...

Any chance of Casey accelerating the social care timetable has surely just gone up in smoke

That grinding sound you hear is Sir Andrew Dilnot sharpening his stiletto for next Wednesday committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...

There will be no National Care Service..another report concluding in 2028 is too close to the next election for any ‘consensus’. In this potentially historic policy area the government- stifled by Treasury orthodoxy and fear of making a case-has wasted its landslide majority.

The Wallace & Gromit is an absolute treat and the last twenty minutes are RIDICULOUSLY GOOD.

Good morning

Lots of great academics/organisations in this starter pack that look at commercial determinants of health regarding alcohol, tobacco, junk food, fossil fuels etc.: go.bsky.app/6nKKEeh

Gambling giant deliberately hid identities of high risk customers, financial crime watchdog alleges in unique court case - @henrybelot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

www.bmj.com/content/387/... Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them Doability Benefits and harms Won't make platforms safer Detracts from wider (and larger) harms

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula... Most areas across Great Britain have experienced a fall in life exp.

In an awards submission for Heineken 0.0, the company noted that: “success of the Heineken 0.0 campaign has compounded growth for the brand overall in a shrinking market.” Read Alcohol Action Ireland's blog on how the alcohol industry circumvents marketing ban. alcoholireland.ie/all-publicit...

CDoH Essentials use to galvanize more effective public health action to tackle the CDoH HT @ph-anna.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... Also www.adph.org.uk/2024/04/cdoh...

Lots of new additions. Worth a look for those interested in #CDOH #Commercialdeterminantsofhealth Thanks all for the recommendations to date.

Here’s my take on the government’s rhetoric & the reality of their plans on work, disability & benefits: 🧵 1. This kind of rhetoric is damaging, even though the reality is rather different. The benefit system is a source of fear & shame for many…1/6 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

This is the 1st article in what is my most difficult project: started during the covid19 pandemic, then I raised a baby (and his older brother), changed cities twice, and jobs, etc. The article, of utmost importance, discusses the intimidations we face in our field academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

We @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social think the combination of national insurance + wage rises announced in #budget2024 will add ~£2.8bn cost to #socialcare providers next year. That's simply not manageable - and the impact will be felt by people who need care. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

We are delighted to launch our Special Issue on the Commercial Determinants of Health @healthpromint.bsky.social Our Editorial reflects on the values that unify the CDoH, the challenges that we face and how we overcome these. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Not washing hands, not wearing a seatbelt... Individually the risks on paper might seem 'small', but these risks are multiplicative not linear. So the chance of *at least* one of these no-benefit risky behaviours producing a downside ends up actually quite high... 3/

So what is (a) 'tweet' called on blue-sky? Noun and Verb options. "I'll (tweet it) it" "I've (tweeted)" "Did you see her (tweet)"

Lots of new additions. Worth a look for those interested in #CDOH #Commercialdeterminantsofhealth Thanks all for the recommendations to date.

Sobering new @trusselluk.bsky.social stats out today. In just 1st 6 months of this year, food banks in the Trussell community provided 1.42 million emergency food parcels. 508,000 were for children. Close to record levels of need, 69% higher than 5 years ago. 1/7🧵 www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

"There is an inherent contradiction between the interests of alcohol producers & public health." @spidermaani.bsky.social, Mark Petticrew & @maizie333.bsky.social discuss the involvement & influence of alcohol trade body The Portman Group in a public health campaign. www.ias.org.uk/2024/10/29/f...

My four year old daughter skipping off to nursery in absolute delight at the snow with her Dad, who was miserable about it as he coordinates severe weather emergency planning, was quite something to behold this morning.

I'll start on BlueSky with a thread of some recent research from our team: @sarg-scharr.bsky.social First, we found strong social patterning in how the type of drinking occasion people varies by sex, age and household income doi.org/10.1111/dar.....

Trapped behind the wheel How England's new builds lock us into car dependency neweconomics.org/2024/11/trap... More helpful stuff on motonormativity. And what we can do on that There ARE things we can do just as we intervene on Tobacco harm so we should on car harm

I couldn't find one so thought I'd get a commercial determinants of health starter pack going. Please suggest people to add or ask to be added! go.bsky.app/6nKKEeh

“There are 7 key tactics that industry uses to hold back public health progress” - Prof Mark Petticrew of LSHTM @lshtm.bsky.social

#CDOH #Commercialdeterminantsofhealth

I couldn't find one so thought I'd get a commercial determinants of health starter pack going. Please suggest people to add or ask to be added! go.bsky.app/6nKKEeh

💯 this. I had completely lost my passion for scicomms, figured maybe it was post-pandemic fatigue but I think it was lack of vibe/engagement on Twitter/X past 2 years. Now I’m back enjoying my feed. I’m thinking of new post ideas. I’m chatting under posts. It makes me happy 😊

Fascinating detail here for those of us in social care

Successive governments have looked at this. Main policy options already well known. A(nother) review *might* help build consensus, but will do nothing to fund changes. And if alternative to existing Care Act suggested then needs new legislation needed = more delay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fabulous opportunity if you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career, making a difference for local communities. Public Health Specialty Training recruitment 2025. 60 x places. Closes 21/11/2024 #localauthority #publichealth #makingadifference www.oriel.nhs.uk/Web/PermaLin...

New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85 ifs.org.uk/publications...

Hello 👋 A bit about me 14 years ago I did this www.graduates.nhs.uk/scheme/gener..., 9 years ago I joined @healthfoundation.bsky.social where amongst other things I wrote this www.health.org.uk/publications... And 6 years ago I became a public health registrar - due to complete in October 2025.

Now seems a good time to collate a list of reputable, trustworthy public health voices. UK Public Health Starter Pack ⤵️ (Work in progress - will add suggestions!) go.bsky.app/Tuf8yqX

Seems like it is a day to reissue the @britishacademy.bsky.social report from 2012 on the efficacy of league tables in the public sector and especially to flag this point: often the level of statistical uncertainty involved renders them meaningless www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

Wisdom from @theasrstein.bsky.social “Ministers have long warned the NHS against the naive belief in the magic money tree. But they themselves are at risk of falling for the appealing notion of a magic productivity tree which will make the NHS more efficient just by shaking the magic tree harder”