Find out what our Chief Executive has to say about the Liberal Democrat A&E policies announced today. 👇 There's a welcome focus on social care, but some questions remain about how improvements could be funded and delivered. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nu...

doi.org/10.1136/bmjh... Uk rich in routine data, & the potential to harness this existing information to achieve public benefit is vast..just because data exist does not mean that repurposing is simple or rapid ." We linked 700+ care home residents' data with their NHS records. Here's the learning!

Best ever thread. Enjoy. Thanks for sharing Tom.

We are so proud of our fantastic Deputy Director of Policy Natasha Curry who has been awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours for services to social care policy. Congratulations Natasha! www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/na...

Enjoyed isn't the right word but it's a good paper that made me think (again) about how we address inequalities in our research. doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Zak Bond, Campaign Manager at Clean Cities: “[This] proves that bold action on dirty air delivers real results. This is a crucial milestone towards reaching WHO guidelines as soon as possible." "London has leapfrogged other UK cities which still have illegal levels of air pollution."

How do we keep GPs in the job? New research from Sophie Park. www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/gp-work...

When data is more than admin.. "evidence of circumstances supporting culture shift to one where resident data informs day-to-day care. A systematic approach to collecting data on residents’ characteristics and QoL could increase staff awareness and directly inform care planning and delivery. "

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Indeed !! EPRs illustrate.. the increasing atomisation of ..labour.... this seems to be a largely unstoppable force. ...EPRs helping coordinate some aspects of care does not obscure the fact that the new technology has inevitably created new problems.' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/9JJZDH...

New GOLTC recording! Catch up with this #multidisciplinary workshop on progress towards #deinstitutionalization for people with #disabilities and older people with care needs, exploring tools to map #communitybased care and #supportservices. @adelinacohe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIh6...

Continuity defined: "Being there, available most days for your patients, is one of the key elements in building relationships, and strong, rooted relationships don’t just help the patients. They also help the doctor"

There are gaps in the general practice record of unpaid carers when compared with census data: 🔍 Almost a million unpaid carers are missing from GP records 🔍 Where a carer lives, and their ethnicity, affects the likelihood that they will be identified by general practice Read the full analysis 👇

Gaza is now officially in IPC Phase 5, the final stage of hunger. Designated as 'catastrophe'. A further 67 of the starving were killed by IDF soldiers yesterday trying to access food. Witnesses say the victims had their hands held in the air. One day, everyone will have always been against this.

Today I heard an MP, on @LBC, say #water nationalisation doesn't work as Scotland has worse water pollution than England. This is a complete lie. See figure below, 2024. Some of the cleanest water in Europe (ref provided). Disgraceful. England, fight for nationalisation.

We ask so much of residential care workers, and they rise to that challenge every day, yet they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty as the average UK worker. Poverty, pay and the case for change in social care | www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

"among people with dementia eligible for publicly funded social care, take up of direct payments or individual service funds remains very low compared to other groups, with most care and support arranged directly by local councils".

🆕 Q&A: With the new 10 Year Plan for the #NHS featuring a central role for neighbourhood health teams, we spoke to @theasrstein.bsky.social about what they are and what needs to happen for them to be successful. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/ne...

Just finishing Suzanne O’Sullivan’s The Age of Diagnosis & struck by this para about the value of medical generalists

"..A plan would tell us: when particular hospital services could be expected to be delivered in the community; how much extra it would cost in the short term to keep those hospital services running & to pay for the development of the community services before the latter were operational.." Quite!!

1/10 On this day 20 years ago, I was with @chriscocking.bsky.social and Steve Reicher at the Royal Society summer exhibition in London, presenting our work on how people behave in emergency evacuations. As I tried to travel to the exhibition venue, I was part of a crowd of

Who could argue against a neighbourhood health service? But #socialcare reform is on an entirely different trajectory - a missed opportunity? NHC won’t work properly without it.

If enacted this will see the State finding new £ & staff to help people kill themselves whilst hospice care in many places is being reduced. Is that the outcome legislators intend? If not what are they going to do about the latter?

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

I am delighted to announce that my new paper with @darrenmacey.bsky.social is now published, entitled 'All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education' bsrlm.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Worth a read and wider discussion. ...."senior scientists spend around 45% of their time on administrative activities relating to the acquisition and management of funding," describes alternative approaches to funding good science. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

NEW COUNTRY PROFILE: #England 🌍 In this system profile, @blimeysimon.bsky.social (@thekingsfund.bsky.social) and @natashacurry.bsky.social (@nuffieldtrust.org.uk) unpack the country's long-term care system. 🔍 Read now: goltc.org/system-profi...

On responding to far right parties … from Angela Merkel’s autobiography. It should be read by U.K. political leaders but I’d be surprised if it was.

Welcome to the official Research page for University of Hertfordshire! 🎉 We’re solving global challenges through research & enterprise. Stay tuned for our Research Impact Symposium this Tuesday! Follow us for updates on people and projects shaping our world. #HertsResearch

Mandate+evidence=👍

One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot told a Royal College of Physicians conference. Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010 www.bmj.com/content/389/...

In 2023/24, tooth extractions were the number one reason for hospital admissions among children aged five to nine in England. Inequalities in child dental health are also prevalent. @stutibagri.bsky.social‬ looks at regional variations in dental decay and tooth extraction 👇 buff.ly/cn1HDP2

'We're all failing each other' Sir Andrew Dilnot says that although we should be celebrating reaching older ages, our social care system is failing us. Explore our updated key trends in adult social care in our latest 360-degree review. buff.ly/oHnSpV5

YES! "Session Zero would be the part at the very beginning of the project, where everyone involved shared their hopes and aspirations for the study, as well as discussing things they might prefer not to discuss, or boundaries they want to set" @elspethma.bsky.social @louca-mai.bsky.social

NEW: In our chart of the week, @billypalmer.bsky.social‬ explores the concerning decline of district nurses in England - at a time of increasing population need - and finds that over a quarter are paid at a lower band than could be expected. See the chart 👇 buff.ly/cM67plU

Do you work with older people living in care homes using technology? Do you have ideas of how technology could help you deliver care? Complete our NIHR Healthtech Research Centre survey to help us work out what technologies to evaluate in this setting: forms.office.com/e/4tnrpKhLgy

This episode of BBC Radio 4's #MoralMaze, recorded at our Summit, makes for a fascinating listen. Should the #NHS prioritise care for the most disadvantaged patients? Or would doing so be addressing a symptom and not the cause of deeper intersecting inequalities? Catch up here 👇

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

*** BEGGING MESSAGE *** please email me if you know any named people at NHS England (ex NHS digital)? We are massively struggling to even get a case officer for our data app (after THREE months) knowing that getting to any data is *at least* 6 mnths once a case officer assigned [email protected]

"ICB digital leadership will be effective if technology budgets are protected and digital implementation prioritised, otherwise funding will be used for other priorities and transformation will be slow or absent altogether"

Interested in engaging with global experts in #health + #SocialCare?🌍 In April + May, we're hosting a series of exciting webinars - there's something for everyone, from ethics of #caretech, to #workforce retention, #continence care + more! MORE DETAILS:👉 goltc.org/news/ @adelinacohe.bsky.social

ANOTHER WEBINAR: Estimating Costs of Informal #Care w/ a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control 💰 Join @adelinacohe.bsky.social, Javiera Cartagena-Farias (@cpeclse.bsky.social), @mariapetrillo.bsky.social (Sheffield) + Megan Doheny (@ki.se) on 27 May:👉 lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

UPCOMING WEBINAR on #Ageing out of Place: Rethinking Aging, Place + Policy in Times of Change 🏡 JOIN an exciting panel on 19 May from #Australia, #Japan, #HongKong + #Sweden for a webinar on how older adults feel place-based disconnection + much more. 🗨️ REGISTER NOW:👉 lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

👏 Evidence for including these three QoL measures in any future MDS for care home residents. rdcu.be/egx50

According to the link below took data from 147 of my papers here's where to look, caveat might not be fully accurate. look www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"You might think you know better than the person who is across the desk or lying in a hospital bed, but possibly you don’t." Quite, especially if the person has dementia and other health conditions !!

"System changes that understand the capacity of the dyad to self-manage and engage .. as well as consideration of the presence of other conditions could improve ...outcomes of care" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hiring Now: Senior Project Manager, Dementia Programme. Salary: £40,799 gross per annum Hours: Full Time (37 hours per week over 5 days) Contract: 1 Year from July 2026 (may be subject to extension based on funding and project opportunities) Closing Date: Midday 28th April 2025

Big piece on how the UK is not getting the data it needs and how this is affecting policymaking. A key issue seems to be that the shift from surveys to admin data has not worked well as govt departments have not allowed the ONS access to the data it needs on.ft.com/3WSCN6h

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