🚨1 in 3 children living in deep poverty are migrant children. This is not a coincidence. Hostile immigration policies drive migrant families into poverty. Tell this Government to protect EVERY child from poverty. Take action: act.praxis.org.uk/email-minist...

Spending marginally more NHS £ in secondary care will likely worsen inequalities www.york.ac.uk/media/che/do...

UK billionaires’ wealth increased by £35m/day to £182bn The UK is a wealthy country. Yet 1 in 5 people & 30% of children are living in poverty with an increasing reliance on food banks. Bold action is needed to redistribute the wealth to those who need it most. www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-...

@thetimes.com (1853) Every civilised people on the face of the earth must be fully aware that this country is the asylum of nations…it will defend the asylum to the last ounce of its treasure & the last drop of its blood. There is no point whatsoever on which we are prouder or more resolute.

This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl... Tax works Sugar consumption edition Helpful reminder To remind for almost any non communicable disease where "lifestyle" (term used advisedly) is at play the real answers are in 1. regulating industries that produce harm, and products ....

I know this is a dumb question and is obviously being addressed by people more "in the know" than I am: What's being done to protect/back up available scientific data that those in power might find inconvenient? 🧪💾💿

No matter what happens after today, going forward, remember: There's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. Keep hoping. Keep fighting.

I watched Trump’s inaugural address and regret it To avoid despair, I’ve turned to some wisdom from Albert Einstein for a dose of transcendant hope #inauguration #hope

Trump says he will declare a "national emergency at our southern border." How many media organizatons will remind low-info American voters that the number of border crossings has been in decline for a while is now LOWER than when Trump last left office in November 2020?

📣New Paper:19 months after the UK soft drinks industry levy (SDIL; sugar tax) was enforced we find a 7.5g weekly household sugar reduction from soft drinks. Weekly sugar reductions were highest in houses with lowest incomes(70g/week) / with children(56g/week). 📄: nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...

National Hospital Service?

Grimston’s Oak. A 350-year old ‘Monarch of the Forest’ in Epping on today’s wintry dog walk. #treesky

GP practices in deprived areas should be prioritised for resource, in order to allow them to provide effective care to some of the most unwell and vulnerable patients in society. New study by Dr Marianne McCallum, Prof Sara Macdonald and @francesmair.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

“We must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.” — Wendell Berry

A remarkably powerful and hopeful sermon from a Palestinian reverend in Gaza at Christmas. Worth a listen, only 20 minutes long: youtu.be/PUYzd2Z1NyE?...

Arguably one of Jimmy Carter's greatest achievement is bringing the world to the brink of eradicating the Guinea Worm. From 3.5m cases a year in the 80s to less than 15 the last few years. It's an astounding public health achievement.

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

Fact: Covid vaccines saved millions of lives Also a fact: With equitable access to vaccines, millions more could have been saved

Struck by this insight by Maslow. Reminds me of Austin O’Carroll’s polemic critique of ‘personality disorder’ bjgp.org/content/72/7... A hermeneutic injustice of those marginalised & traumatised. The brilliant Louise Younie refers to this in a recent interview: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Deep End workforce planning: ‘…for proper team based care, NOT task substitution’ Starfield’s : cost-effective primary care requires the 4 CS of 1st Contact +Continuity +Co-ordinated+ Comprehensive team care ( with Family Practitioner/ GP allocation matched to need/per capita). #GPandPrimaryCare

It's here! My Churchill Fellowship report on my visit to Deep End GPs is published! You can download it from here www.churchilltrust.c... Of course you should read it - it's not dull - but if you want a quick spoiler, here are my recommendations - a brief thread...

Our Primary Care Clinicians #PhD programme is open for applications. Applicable to #PrimaryCare #cliniciansincl. GPs, nurses, health visitors, dentists, pharmacists & optometrists: bit.ly/SPCR-PHDPCC 🗓️Closing Date: 11.59pm 12 Dec 2024

@gppact.bsky.social ‘s Hidden Workload study led by Stephen Woolford is doing brilliant and necessary work to understand the realities and nuances of GP workload. This is essential for the future sustainability of general practice (and therefore the NHS!) www.gponline.com/doctor-lifts... #gpsky

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” — Rabindranath Tagore, “Stray Birds”

As the Christmas consumerism frenzy ramps up, a beautiful clear blue winter sky reminds me of this poem. That joy and meaning are better found in Nature than some online bought tat. The World Is Too Much With Us - William Wordsworth

If NHS is serious about ‘left shift’ out of hospitals & into community, it will need researchers to innovate & evaluate for evidence-based change. Yet clinical academics comprise just 0.4% of primary care workforce. @sapc-uk.bsky.social @rcgp.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social #primarycaresky

The Reith Lectures have returned! It is a highlight of the podcast year. For me it is @bbcradio4.bsky.social at it’s best. Every year they get brilliant, thoughtful and thought-provoking speakers. Just listened to Episode 1: Is Violence Normal? Recommend it! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

No target being met here; no incentive for seeing more. This is just GPs and their teams working desperately hard, in very challenging times.

McWhinney dropping serious wisdom on healing in ‘Being a general practitioner: what it means’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3...

For those interested in all the unseen work done by GP practices, I recommend keeping an eye out for The Hidden Workload Study who are looking at this…. www.gppact.org/the-hidden-w...

“The Nuffield Trust calculates the cost to England’s 18,000 care providers of changes to NIC and national living wage rises will more than wipe out the extra £600m allocated to care in last month’s budget.” Another £1bn needed to just keep the market afloat www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Just got a text from NHS Blood and Transplant that the blood I donated a few weeks ago has just been issued to a patient! I love this communication from them, it makes the impact feel so real and personal. Got that warm feeling 😊 Every donation counts.

Bluesky at night, What a delight. Bluesky in the morning, Ok I’ve really got to go to work now!

I'm really proud to share that my paper has been published online in the British Journal of Cancer! Comparing cancer stage at diagnosis between migrants and non-migrants: a meta-analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm really proud to share that my paper has been published online in the British Journal of Cancer! Comparing cancer stage at diagnosis between migrants and non-migrants: a meta-analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41...