We are 1week into @rcpsych.bsky.social #registrar elections c 6 excellent candidates-please do make time 2vote! #rcpsych @mivpsych.bsky.social @drjongoldin.bsky.social @wendyburn.bsky.social @shahidlatif.bsky.social @derektracy.bsky.social @sameihuda.bsky.social @samueljtromans.bsky.social

📢 Our Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Spring Conference is going to be at The Royal College of Psychiatrists on 25th April 2025! We have a fantastic line up of speakers, + hope that many of you will be able to join us! 😁 Booking link: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...

Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Spring Conference 2025

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We are looking for adults with a #LearningDisability to take part in our research about #EasyRead information! If you or somebody you know would like to take part, please direct message or email me 📧💬 #LDresearch @silvanamengoni.bsky.social @regalexa.bsky.social

Proud to have contributed to this paper in @thelancetph.bsky.social , which reports that of 16 European countries, England had the largest decline in life expectancy improvement (a fall in average annual improvement from 0.25 from 1990-2011 to 0.07 from 2011-2019 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

The countries that best maintained improvements in life expectancy after 2011 (Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden) did so through better maintenance of reductions in mortality from cardiova...

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Please consider taking part in our PhD students research study!

Eva Krockow@evakrockow.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you routinely prescribe and deprescribe antidepressants and have experience prescribing during the pandemic in UK Primary Care, please consider sharing your thoughts and experiences in our study on decision making for prescribing antidepressants!

If you routinely prescribe and deprescribe antidepressants and have experience prescribing during the pandemic in UK Primary Care, please consider sharing your thoughts and experiences in our study on decision making for prescribing antidepressants!

📢NEW PAPER (OPEN ACCESS)📢 An assessment of the impact of Blue Light meetings for people with learning disability and autistic people. Link: doi.org/10.1177/0020...

with VISION consortium (vision.city.ac.uk) support - Iran-based NGO Mehre Shams Afarid, IKWRO, a team of Iranian animators, Ladan Hashemi and many others produced these short films on domestic violence, including on recognising tech abuse: youtu.be/wtflT6uWlUw

Tech abuse-Another form of violence against women

YouTube video by Women Research Hub (شبکه پژوهش زنان)

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Our new paper (OPEN ACCESS) critiques the important, emotive, + relevant issue of long-term segregation + seclusion for people w/ intellectual disability + autistic people. Ideologically understandable need for elimination but evidence/practice needs resolving first. Link: doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

Our new paper (OPEN ACCESS) critiques the important, emotive, + relevant issue of long-term segregation + seclusion for people w/ intellectual disability + autistic people. Ideologically understandable need for elimination but evidence/practice needs resolving first. Link: doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

Do you regularly take or order bloods for acute hospital patients? We want to hear about your experiences and views in a short online survey! #sepsis #AntimicrobialResistance redcap.lcbru.le.ac.uk/surveys/?s=F...

Hi every1 introducing myself on Bluesky. I'm a researcher @ University of Leicester, my work relates to learning disability, autism, + psychiatric epidemiology, + a Consultant LD Psychiatrist @ Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Further details re my research are here: le.ac.uk/people/sam-t...

Samuel Tromans | University of Leicester

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🗞️🗞️NEW PAPER🗞️🗞️ "medical education will fundamentally fail in its mission to support neurodivergent learners unless we undergo a significant transformation" Read free: asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #MedEd @autisticdoctor.bsky.social @asmeofficial.bsky.social

I love this review of our recent paper looking at the experiences of autistic psychiatrists. “Plot twist” 😎 studyfinds.org/psychiatrist...

Psychiatrists are discovering they're autistic - and it's making them better doctors

Researchers have discovered that some of the very psychiatrists who diagnose autism in others are themselves autistic. Here's what it means for their jobs.

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Why is research so vital to improving lives of people with learning disabilities? www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/topic/resear...

Why is research so vital to improving lives of people with learning disabilities?

We spoke with Emily Farran, Professor of Cognitive Development at the University of Surrey, about a new research project which aims to alter the research landscape to better suit the needs of people w...

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Daniel Sugarman@danielsugarman.bsky.social · 2y ago

“I’ve noticed I’m not in your starter pack. Any particular reason for that?”

Lessons from England’s National Health Service. Tldr: the UK NHS is in principle a great model but is now precarious, undermined by austerity and redisorganisation. Primary care is critical to the whole thing but is facing huge risks. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Lessons from England’s National Health Service | NEJM

The NHS in England has historically delivered high quality at low cost, but recently, its performance has declined. The challenges facing the NHS hold potential lessons for the United States.

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Adults with learning disability at increased risk of mental & physical health conditions & have reduced life expectancy. We used the GP Patient Survey to show they have less confidence in their healthcare and were less likely to feel their needs were met. Led by Sam Tromans bjgp.org/content/earl...

Adults with learning disability are at increased risk of mental and physical health conditions, and have reduced life expectancy compared to the general population doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...