Caroline Mitchell
@dclovesgp.bsky.social
#GPSky GP & Research Professor Keele University. She/Her Health Equity & Research Equity; CBPR: community based participatory research #inclusiveresearchSky Deep End Research Alliance co-founder: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/dera/ho
Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2w agoSure, some men are jerks. Like the ‘influencer’ who carried a bath to the top of Snowdon for a selfie and dumped it there. But other men are heroes, like the teenage rugby team who carried it down. Well done lads. We see you. Show your sons. www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3mo agoUKRI are recruiting for a new Exec Chair for Research England (£160k-£170k). It is a crucial role including QR funding and the REF. I hope they get a great field. But I worry a bit. It's hard to find on their website (see link below) fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Fantastic video about drowning and self-rescue. Really worth the extra couple of minutes if you've gotten this far. bsky.app/profile/hydr...
HydrologyNL@hydrology.nl · 2mo agoAmazingly it is hard to find short and instructive videos about this. There are some videos with good titles, but then they don't show the signs but only people talking; useless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDdC... www.youtube.com/watch?v=beNh... Clear examples: youtu.be/TDdCBqxbCAw?...
Message from son who is an ED doctor in Australia: “What do you know about diphtheria?”. Sorry son, I qualified in 1983 and I’ve never seen a case. Looks like you might though. Another vaccine-preventable disease on the rise. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
NT Health confirms only one possible diphtheria-related death amid outbreak
The Northern Territory health department is refuting an earlier report that a second person has died with diphtheria in the NT, amid Australia's largest outbreak of the disease since records began.
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Wild swimming is fun but can be dangerous. If you’re going alone, tell someone and message them before and after. Wear a wetsuit (for flotation + warmth). Use a dry bag (put your stuff in, blow it up - is a flotation device). Stay near the shore unless with a guide. Check tides & local warnings. 🏊🏽♂️🏊
Reading the news of the number of people drowning in the hot weather - tragic for families & friends … reposting below originally seen from @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Perry Barber@umpireplb.bsky.social · 2mo agoSome thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/
Two more drownings today in UK. One in my home city of Oxford. Both youngsters. Slate have (I'm told) kindly removed the paywall on this article.
Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
bjgp.org/content/76/7... I agree with every word of this and Euan Lawson’s editorial briefing. I agree that the ‘NHS is in an existential crisis’. Anyone only has to be on the other side of fragmented, silo-specialty Primary and Secondary care with one’s loved ones to see the house of cards.
Consultant GP-led team-based continuity: a vision for sustainable primary care
It is often said that the NHS can deliver only two of the following: access; continuity of care; and low cost. Given that most UK citizens support the founding NHS principle of ‘free at the point of d...
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bjgp.org/content/76/7... I agree with every word of this and Alastair Hay’s editorial … @bjgp.org
What partnership costs
What does partnership cost? In October 2025, I suggested in these pages that defending a model that paid GPs less for working in more deprived parts of the country was verging on delusional. The evide...
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SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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Looks like we need to remind ourselves of this graph. Few cases doesn’t mean nothing to worry about. I’m not saying there’s a pandemic round the corner, I’m saying we need to think smart and act fast, just in case.
RFK Jr—a grotesque liar—says: “It’s very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person. We see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles & people who don’t have good nutrition or who don’t have a good exercise regime” If your kid dies of measles, he thinks it’s the kid’s fault!
Sid@siddster.bsky.social · last yr."The underlying message of Kennedy’s campaign is that measles deaths are expected and admissible, because the people who don’t survive the disease were flawed anyway, says Laura Appleman, a professor of law at Willamette University in Oregon. "
Some people have asked me what I think about Hantavirus - and the answer is that there are far better people than me to get that info from! I've made a short starter pack for some great accounts to follow in case useful ! (NB it includes me by default) #Hantavirus go.bsky.app/UEkjsT
A study shows that when medical chatbots are required to interact with real people they arrive at the right diagnosis in only 35% of cases - and the study authors ask 'why humans fail when interacting with LLM based tools?' Is it really the humans that are failing? www.bmj.com/content/393/...
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Proud to work through the #DERA Deep End Research Alliance with Johanna White #NIHR Senior Nurse Research leader -and David Bussue and Sheila Daley (SACMHA) & Qizhi Huang, over a several projects to address inequalities in #ProstateCancer screening, diagnosis and care including the #YCR #IMPROVE
In the UK , despite universal healthcare, Cardiovascular disease still drives over one‑fifth of the life‑expectancy gap between rich and poor—but much of this harm is preventable. #NIHR funded researchers driving collaborative research for change #BJGP bjgp.org/content/76/7...
Missing by omission: the hidden heart of cardiovascular inequity in the UK
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading cause of premature mortality in the UK contributing to a quarter of all deaths.1 It is one of the largest drivers of health inequalities nationally, acco...
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Island kids in Fiji can’t get to school because boat fuel prices have skyrocketed. They have a message for world leaders.
Is osteoarthritis care built on evidence‑biased medicine? An SR of 241 RCTs; 22,443 participants-trials informing knee osteoarthritis guidelines overwhelmingly include White, highly educated women, with minimal reporting of equity‑relevant characteristics. authors.elsevier.com/c/1n0Oy3npMr...
Shining a light on blind spots in osteoarthritis research
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Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 5mo agoLiz Kendall calls on all PhD funders to give paid maternity leave. Science secretary pushes research funders and institutes to commit to better working conditions for women. #PhDsky #Academicsky www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Agnus Dei in memory of Sarah Everard, composed by Elisabet Dijkstra. Performed in Christ Church Cathedral recently. Just beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Agnus Dei for Sarah
YouTube video by Elisabet Dijkstra
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In other news, Nigel Farage accepted £200k donation plus a trip to Davos from Iranian oligarchs who used a churchwarden as strawman to conceal their ownership of companies in UK as well as in Iran. But sure, let's talk about national security, Nigel.
The SPCR recently hosted a masterclass titled “Engaging people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in research.” Webinar slides and link to the recording are now available for viewing: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/spcr-ma... #SPCR #PPIE #PrimaryCare #Research
A great conference- thanks to the organisers, great keynote speakers and wonderful to meet so many talented early career researchers passionate about generating evidence to transform primary healthcare. The workshop on research storytelling and messaging was outstanding!
BJGP@bjgp.org · 4mo agoHighlights from the BJGP's Research & Publishing Conference with @nadakhan.bsky.social Visit bjgp.org/conference #BJGPRC #PrimaryCareResearch #ResearchImpact #HealthcareInnovation #BJGP #PrimaryCare #research #GeneralPractice
Highlights from the BJGP's Research & Publishing Conference with @nadakhan.bsky.social Visit bjgp.org/conference #BJGPRC #PrimaryCareResearch #ResearchImpact #HealthcareInnovation #BJGP #PrimaryCare #research #GeneralPractice
In patients with chronic kidney disease, the probability of death is often greater than renal replacement therapy, with, on average, 11% of patients eligible for referral to nephrology services using the kidney failure risk equation doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice
Use of the kidney failure risk equation: a regional retrospective primary care cohort study in England | British Journal of General Practice
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#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare Delighted to be attend my first RDF26 conference. I’ll deliver a keynote about inclusive NIHR research from design to delivery and Deep End modelling powerful patient/public- practitioner-researcher collaborations to coproduce useful relevant primary care research
