🏆Proud to share that I have won @nihr.bsky.social (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Rising #ResearchLeader prize, one of five Doctoral level researchers recognised nationally as showing outstanding research leadership #NIHR20 🌟 #PalliativeCare #Research

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Congratulations @donnawakefield.bsky.social We are delighted to announce that Donna Wakefield has been recognised as one of the doctoral winners for the Rising Research Leaders Prize winners for NIHR20 www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr20/resea...

🌒 Partial solar eclipse on the Tyne - with appropriate #eclipse glasses this time 😎 In 2015, I was at work & viewed the partial eclipse through an X-ray 🩻🏥 In 1999, I was a teenager & viewed the eclipse through a sheet of paper 📄 #EclipseOnTheTyne #UK

In today’s issue of @thelancet.com I reflect on the importance of context in #inequalities #research, where nuanced understanding demands more than just a sound bite 💬 or stock photograph 📸 which potentially stigmatises those from disadvantaged communities www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

You might be waiting for computers and AI to take over 🤖 I would just be happy if I could send a single day not fighting computers Todays saga- laptop is plugged in (which it confesses to), yet it keeps turning itself off due to low battery 🪫 Lets go back to pen, paper Overhead projector etc

Atlantic puffins taking a break after returning from fishing, beaks filled with sand eels, Before returning to their underground burrows to feed their pufflings ♥️ #Bird #Nature #Photography 📸 Be more #puffin #FarneIslands #UK @nationaltrust.org.uk

🏆🏳️‍🌈 #LGBT Alliance Award winners! 🥰 Extremely proud to be part of this award winning initiative to improve #trans inclusive #hospice care 🏳️‍⚧️ Well done to the team at the wonderful @alicehousehospice.bsky.social #Hartlepool 👏 👏 👏 Read more via the link 🔗⬇️ alicehousehospice.co.uk/news/hospice...

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👏 We had a brilliant, engaging day at @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social Research Centre Conference “Meeting the challenges in #PalliativeCare #Research: Data, Delivery & Diversity at @hyms.ac.uk Grateful to have the opportunity to present my #PhD work on #Inequalities in #lung disease 🫁📊

🔴 #Red4Research -Wearing red today to show appreciation to everyone who makes #research possible- from patients, support staff to researchers 👏 👏 👏 👏🫁 Extremely grateful to have an @nihr.bsky.social Fellowship to follow my dreams of doing a #PhD -on #inequalities in #lung disease 👩🏼‍⚕️

Explaining to my child how we measure length 🐜 very small things in millimetres 📏 small things in centimetres 🛣️ big things in kilometres 🧍‍♀️Try using my height as an example, automatically say 5 foot 7 inches 🚙 And then we get in the car to school, the Satnav tells us it is 4 miles away 😂😂😂

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🫁📚 Great talks and discussions, including tackling #inequalities in care for people with #ILD at todays Northern ILD Education day in Newcastle 🙌 Also further appreciation of the brilliant goal-orientated care provided by OTs, physios & pharmacists 👏 #PulmonaryFibrosis #PalliPulm

When I am up to my neck in a quagmire of stress and disappointment - #photography always helps, especially when its the chance spotting of this beautiful little #bird outside my office window 📸 #Nature #NeverGiveUp

“Socio-economic inequalities shape end-of-life outcomes in advanced lung disease. People in the most deprived areas are more likely to die in hospital. This is seen across the social gradient but is most influenced by cause of death.” Great work by @donnawakefield.bsky.social at #EAPC2026

Our third trip to beautiful Japan 🇯🇵♥️ and we don’t want to leave….

Genuinely so excited to see our paper exploring “ #PalliativeMedicine in 2050: How will people live the last part of life” 📖 Thank you @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to this special themed edition of @rcphysicians.bsky.social @futurehealthj.bsky.social 📚

Dr Kathryn Mannix@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@donnawakefield.bsky.social @libbysallnow.bsky.social & colleagues envision Pall Medicine 2050: rapidly growing demand will continue, & new ways of working, in collaboration with communities, will be vital to meet the need. See their synthesis & ideas at sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In another first for FHJ,here's their first video article, a conversation/reflection about the Australian experience of legalising Assisted Dying. Thoughtful, courteous, curious, balanced. Thanks to @katherinesleeman.bsky.social Dr Tom Osborne & Lucy Easthope sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 8/

This edition is full of great ideas, wonderfully expressed. @pallyscot.bsky.social paired up with Monica Lalanda to produce the @futurehealthj.bsky.social 's first ever comic. This image is their abstract. Follow sciencedirect.com/science/arti... to see the rest of this fabulous article. 4/

Buckle up, folks, I have big news. I was invited to guest edit this month's @futurehealthj.bsky.social from @rcphysicians.bsky.social * Yes, a dedicated #PallCall & #EoLCare issue! It's open access, so here's the full contents with links. This may require more than a single pot of tea. 1/

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Thanks so much for inviting me to share our #SystematicReview on #Inequalities in #PalliativeCare in #Lung disease today - #LungCancer, #Mesothelioma #COPD #ILD 🫁 🫁 🫁 🫁 Great to hear about all the other inspiring #PalliativeCare #Research @peolcsw.bsky.social 🙌 @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

Bristol Palliative and End of Life Care Research@peolcsw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Coming up next week on Tuesday 3 March 10am-12pm PEOLC Research Network Meeting. We have a great line-up of speakers. Book your place here forms.office.com/pages/respon... @lucyselman.bsky.social @barnyhole.bsky.social @drpoco.bsky.social @capcbristol.bsky.social

There’s always more work to do It feels impossible to take a break This weekend includes appraisal paperwork that there’s zero time to do in work time Really appreciate having someone *make* me take a break from it Today it was really mindful to take a calligraphy lesson ♥️ to keep #Burnout at bay

Congratulations to NIHR Doctoral Fellow @donnawakefield.bsky.social, who has won the Lancet Wakley essay prize. Her entry focussed on how growing up in the North shaped her medical practice and research. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The 2025 Wakley Prize: finding a home in medicine

In the call for submissions for the Wakley Prize earlier this year, we quoted Søren Kierkegaard's notion that life “must be understood backwards; but…it must be lived forwards” and encouraged people t...

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Line up of beautiful #birds in my garden today 📷 🌳 #Bluetit #Robin #Coaltit #GardenWatch #Bird #Photography

Absolutely love my birthday gift 🎁 A solar ☀️ powered camera bird feeder- live link to the bird visitors to my garden 📸 🪏🌳 First #robin visitor for breakfast ♥️ #BirdWatch #Bird #Photography #Birds #Nature #Birdfy @birdfybynetvue.bsky.social

Incredibly busy week 🎂🎂 Birthday cakes x2 🗞️ 📰 In the local news x2 📝 ✍️ Paper revisions x2 👩🏼‍💻😑 NHS ethics/IRAS 🤒👧🏼 Sick child off school 🏥🏃‍♀️Many stairs climbed Not enough time for my new “Publish or Perish” board game ♟️😭 Very tired 😴☕️🪫

My #SystematicReview was a real labour of love- fuelled by hundreds of mugs of coffee- and now it’s on its own MUG! ☕️🥰 Featuring the #MetaAnalysis forest plots 🌳 - produced in Stata 💻 one of my favourite new skills 🌟 Absolutely love the mug thank you @profbambra.bsky.social ☕️🎁 🙌 #MugMotivation 😆

Snow + frost for the 1st #Monday commute of the year ❄️🥶

Reflecting on what a phenomenal year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ has been! 🎂40th birthday trip to Easter Island🗿🇨🇱 📖✍️Making meaningful connections & co-authoring 11 publications (5 first author)+ book chapters 🏆Winning the Lancet Wakley prize 👩🏻‍🎓Reaching the HALF WAY point of my PhD- 2 years to go 🏋🏻‍♀️ My fitness journey

Happy #NewYear! 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🍾🥂

🎄Belatedly celebrating Christmas Day today and its finally time for festive Colin the caterpillar 🍰🥳 #MerryChristmas 🎅🏻 🎁

🏆 Its been the biggest honour of my life to win The Lancet 2025 Wakley Prize and have my essay published in the final @thelancet.com of the year 📖 🤩 It was the perfect #Christmas present to receive the paper edition, as a surprise delivery yesterday 🚚 📦 @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

The Lancet@thelancet.com · 9mo ago

In the 2025 Lancet #WakleyPrize winning essay, @donnawakefield.bsky.social explores how personal experiences and understanding of the social determinants of health can transform patient care and foster a more inclusive healthcare system. Read now 👉 spkl.io/63329AcBBV

🎄Got to take a festive pause on that #PhD in Medical Science to dedicate my time to building Marie Curie’s lab 👩🏼‍🔬🧪 ….and some DNA 🧬🔬🤓 #WomenInSTEM #LEGO #MerryChristmas 🥰