@mgtmccartney.bsky.social launching the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare @uniofstandrews.bsky.social - I’m expecting mighty oaks to grow from these acorns 🤞

On a recent visit to Poland @robinireland.bsky.social recorded a conversation on the impact of sport on public health, and the challenges that the commercialisation and commodification of sport present. 🎧 youtu.be/qGAYdmNW2cI?... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

The unhealthy side of sport - conversation with Dr Robin Ireland

YouTube video by Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny

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🎧 New season of Spotlight kicks off with a deep dive into Scotland’s health future. With the Chief Medical Officer on prevention, Realistic Medicine & the long-term challenges facing the NHS. Alongside UofG experts @pmeierprof.bsky.social & @dnblane.bsky.social 🔗 Tune in: www.uofgspotlight.com

On my way to Edinburgh for a meeting to discuss recommendations from this report, as well as other recent work on new models of primary care by Stewart Mercer and team. Great to have @kathcheckland.bsky.social, John Ford and Mogens Vestergaard joining us.

"The future doctor may be less the sole expert and more a kind of relational anchor... open to ideas from patient, family, colleague, or algorithm. We bring discernment, perspective, humanity. We’re invested." @deependgp.bsky.social bjgplife.com/still-in-the...

Still in the room: When AI Knows the answers, what will we bring?

The future doctor may be less the sole expert and more a kind of relational anchor—someone grounded in science but unshaken by challenge, open to ideas from patient, family, colleague, or algorithm.

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🚨 Big news! The EFPC has been granted special consultative status with @UN_ECOSOC 🎉 🔗 Learn more: euprimarycare.org/2025/08/22/e...

EFPC Gains Special Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC

The UN Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development decided to grant special consultative status to the EFPC for the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Consulta...

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www.healthandcare.scot/stories/4235...

Doctors to shape medical workforce reforms

Doctors are being invited to help shape NHS staffing reforms, as the Scottish government commits to two months of engagement as part of its Future Medical Workforce project. Scotland’s resident doctor...

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Latest Deep End International Bulletin (no. 13), expertly curated by Prof Graham Watt, now online - www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

How do we 'create health'?💡 Dr @dnblane.bsky.social leads this afternoon's first panel w/ Dr Carey Lunan of @deependgp.bsky.social, @tejeshm.bsky.social of @vhscotland.bsky.social, and Leanne McBride of Chance 2 Change on the role of primary care and voluntary sector in healthy communities 💬

Read Dr @dnblane.bsky.social's Quick Insight on the Programme for Government📝 Dr Blane, @deependgp.bsky.social, looks at the FM's health pledges, focusing on new GP appointment plans and growing concerns around access and investment in general practice. 🔗 Read more: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Proud to have supported this letter to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social The UK (& Ireland) need a conflict of interest disclosure system detailing the payments that pharmaceutical & medical device companies make to healthcare professionals, healthcare organisations and patient organisations

9/ The full paper can be read here: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Dispute over sentencing guidelines is warning for England’s public health community

Faced with a row over guidance to improve consistency on sentencing by the courts, the British government chose a populist narrative. This sends a worrying message to public health professionals promo...

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#HealthCare Bridges — Pathways toward #Trust in Gaza and Beyond www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... -positive piece in grim times. "..findings suggest that cross-national #health care programs can overcome formal & informal segregation, establish connections, & help build trust between groups in conflict."

Health Care Bridges — Pathways toward Trust in Gaza and Beyond | NEJM

Even as hospitals in Gaza were turned into battlefields, some Palestinian–Israeli health care programs bridged the deep divides and continued to build trust between the populations in conflict.

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Austerity kills. “For society’s sake, we need to reverse these cuts, not add more. We need to use the power within our communities – our collective voice – to demand that austerity policies are reversed.” @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social @deependgp.bsky.social www.chex.org.uk/latest/artic...

The outrage of austerity — CHEX

In this blog, David Walsh and Gerry McCartney discuss the disastrous effects that austerity policies have had on life expectancy - exacerbating health inequalities and causing many people in our most ...

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Special thanks to @dnblane.bsky.social, @dremekadumbili.bsky.social and @maizie333.bsky.social with episodes ranging from Deep End GPs in the south side of Glasgow, to alcohol marketing in Nigeria, to industry-sponsored gambling, alcohol fossil fuel and firearm education materials in schools.

This is why @kityates.bsky.social post is so relevant today kityates.substack.com/p/science-is... and why my dystopian piece is perfectly plausible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-dystopia...

A dystopian but possible future: the Fall of British Science 2028-2033

In which I think about how a UK populist government could undermine science as a way of prompting discussions about how to protect it.

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Paul Nightingale@paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is a very clear articulation of the National Conservative position on universities. If you work in one, you really do need to watch it all the way through. It builds out from Nixon's line - "the professors are the enemy" youtu.be/0FR65Cifnhw

People help people. A hero has passed.

NPR@npr.org · 2y ago

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

🧐 Curious about the #ClimateResearchNet? Our interactive network map is here! 🔍 See which research themes connect our different projects! 🌐 Start exploring now: bit.ly/climaterese... Thanks to @eerie-project.bsky.social for this cool map!

Sharing this short (10mins) survey by colleagues working to improve care for people with liver disease. 📢 Clinicians (doctors and nurses) in primary and secondary care, in the UK. 🏅Prize draw to win one of five £75 High Street shopping vouchers. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/adi...

My partner is a community link worker, they do absolutely brilliant work for people 👍🏻

David Blane @dnblane.bsky.social · 2y ago

Something positive to share... short video accounts from GPs, patients, and community links workers... vhscotland.org.uk/cabinet-secr... @deependgp.bsky.social

Something positive to share... short video accounts from GPs, patients, and community links workers... vhscotland.org.uk/cabinet-secr... @deependgp.bsky.social

Exciting times, calling all third sector, policy, public affairs and academic bods interested in child poverty 👇

Aberlour Children's Charity@aberlourcharity.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢ANNOUNCEMENT 📢due to incredible demand, we've expanded our capacity for our #DebtAwarenessWeek2025 Child Poverty and Public Debt: National Conference! Our conference is held in partnership with @uofgpolicy.bsky.social. Book now to avoid disappointment: www.aberlour.org.uk/about-us/pol...

Exemplars of innovative medical education in Scotland at #NADEGS2025 - Community engagement in ScotGEM - Outcomes of Post-CCT GP Fellowships - Communications Masterclass - Graphic Medicine (e.g. figshare.arts.ac.uk/articles/pre...)

Highly recommend Gwen Adshead’s Reith Lectures from the end of last year on “Four Questions about Violence” “Violence is contextual and relational” - these lectures build empathy and understanding of complex behaviours www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Reith Lectures - Gwen Adshead - Four Questions about Violence - Is Violence Normal? - BBC Sounds

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if violence is normal.

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Two key papers from @euanlawson.social (BJGP editor) keynote talk at #NADGES2025: 1) Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility - www.nature.com/articles/d41... 2) Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility

Dorothy Bishop describes how threats to reproducibility, recognized but unaddressed for decades, might finally be brought under control.

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What an incredible, brave woman.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

it's almost as though apps for fertility/contraception should be treated like a medical intervention capable of side effects/ineffectiveness/harm and women should have really high quality information on that srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

Self-reported contraceptive method use at conception among patients presenting for abortion in England: a cross-sectional analysis comparing 2018 and 2023

Background Recent media attention has been given to an apparent shift away from hormonal methods of contraception. While an increase in fertility awareness-based or ‘natural’ family planning methods i...

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Great start yesterday to the “Future of Evaluation in Health & Social Care” conference at Northumbria University. - fantastic plenary talks by Kathryn Skivington, Laurence Moore, Ray Pawson and Dave Byrne. Excited for Day 2… www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

The Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care

We are delighted to announce our upcoming Symposium on the Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care, hosted by Northumbia University.

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bjgp.org/content/75/7... For a lover of both words and General Practice (still holding hope for a transformed future) this was a seriously good read. Thanks @euanlawson.social - and @oohgpwales.bsky.social for the fabulous research

The enshittification of general practice

It was Cory Doctorow, the author, who coined the term ‘enshittification’ when he used it to describe the evolution and, critically, the deterioration of tech platforms. In 2023 the American Dialect So...

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“By 2048, NHS Scotland’s premises have become models of environmental sustainability and community integration.” A vision for the future of the NHS in Scotland, by Deep End GP Dr Peter Cawston www.reformscotland.com/nhs2048/the-...

The Future of the NHS in Scotland: A Vision for 2048 - Peter Cawston - Reform Scotland

As we approach the centenary of the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland in 2048, it is crucial to envision its transformation into a system that

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