Get your words' worth! Apply by 1 September to join Strictly Come Writing, the Sociological Review Foundation's annual funded writing retreat for early career researchers. Join us in beautiful rural Wales for the time, space & facilitation you need to get that chapter/paper done. buff.ly/HGegMPZ

As NHS.uk closes its feedback service, Care Opinion continues to offer a space for openness, learning and patient voice. Read the latest @careopinion.org.uk blog from our @jamesfm55.bsky.social ✨ #NHS #transparency #onlinefeedback

Great to have a chapter on stigma and male infertility in this new collection! Its available open access and contains a whole host of exciting new work so run dont walk to download it!

🔍 How can we better support amputation patients—psychologically—before surgery? @dresmee.bsky.social shares findings from a 4-year study in our new Surgery for All section—created for anyone interested in surgery. 📖 Watch the video + read: buff.ly/qZxUZzW #Surgery #MedSky #SurgSky

New blog post by me on our recently completed study on improving preparation of patients for amputation available here: www.bjsacademy.com/bjs-academy/... @bjsacademy.bsky.social

Calling all UK-based healthcare professionals who have undertaken a quality improvement project! Share your experiences with us and help us to develop new approaches. Certificates of participation offered. Find out more and fill out the short survey ths.im/3SUUwHG

The PreAmp study has been working to understand how we can prepare patients for having an amputation and to develop resources to help support these patients. We also have a lovely findings video on our website, preamp.dmu.ac.uk/findings/ where the free resources can also be found!

Very pleased to have a chapter with @crrdmu.bsky.social colleagues Nicky Hudson and Caroline Law about stigma and male infertility in this exciting new edited collection on stigma. The book will be available open access which is truly fantastic news!

Well worth a read

#ICYMI: “Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?” Parenthood, identity and culture during #genocide. Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread. https://buff.ly/3VlVH3S

The reality of diabetes and the need for amputations, including the impact on patients. So important we prepare patients for their lives as amputees as best we can: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reposting with a link that works 🤦🏼‍♂️

As I come to the end of four years on a fellowship project, I have some thoughts! 1. The conflation of fellowships with research grants is never ending. People continually miss the difference between them- particularly important when applying for a fellowship.The project is the vehicle in the f/ship

'The implementation of current Health Research Authority approval processes for low risk staff research has the potential to use more NHS organisational resources than the research study itself.' The governance burdens of research highlighted. bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Introducing Vascularsky! Add #vascular to appear in the feed. Hoping to help rapidly build the Vascular Surgery community over here. It’s my first feed so apologies if it’s a bit clunky - I’ll try to amend as needed. Please share widely!!! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Come and join the NPT Family, its an implementation theory that sort of works. Also, lovely people.

Might as well start on this new site with self-promotion (so people can find out more about what I do obviously!) We recently published two papers from our study into the preparation of patients who are having amputations, journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....