#ImpSci colleagues and friends, please save the dates. The European Implementation Event 2027 will take place in Limerick, Ireland from June 14-16. More details to follow soon!

Well done on this new paper by a team of researchers in our Division of Primary Care! 🎉 They compared combined email and paper vs. email-only feedback in promoting safer asthma prescribing at practices. Read here 👉https://bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/13/1/e003601

Sarah Alderson@imp-sci-saraha.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Led by Dr Owen Thomas, we answered a simple question on whether the ICB should continue posting paper feedback in addition to sending feedback by email on achievement in asthma guideline care and greener inhaler prescriptions 🫁 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social

Very happy to see our first very efficient CLEAR-AIR RCT in our evolving @wy-icb-research.bsky.social Learning Health System published 👇 #LearningHealthSystem #ImpSci #ImplementationScience #AuditandFeedback #greeneroractice bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/13/1...

5 hrs 37m 29s and I can call myself a marathon finisher! Thank you for all the support, it’s been amazing. I even enjoyed most of it! I think my smile as I crossed the finish line says it all 😀

A final little run yesterday to collect my bib and spend money at the run expo! A few souvenirs may have been bought since this might* be my only attempt at a marathon. *tbd!

🏃‍➡️ My first Marathon is T-27! 🏃 On the 12th of April 😱 I will be taking on the Paris 🇫🇷marathon and raising money for the @samaritanscharity 💚. It’s such an important cause and I’m hoping to make a difference for those who need someone to reach out to at their lowest point.

Fantastic opening address from Dr Judith Safford on day 2 of @impact-swiss.bsky.social conference on why we should all ‘go wild’ and listen to patients for meaningful & impactful implementation science. #IMPACT2026

Dr Giulia Loffreda from @who.int calling for closer integration between policy, implementation and research in addressing non-communicative diseases (NCDs). Recommends extending embedded implementation research (IR) in health systems. #IMPACT2026 #ImpSci

Very happy to be in Zurich discussing new developments in implementation science. I will be sharing our ongoing work on the Impact of an Intervention on Inequalities in Overprescribing - the 3i-o study tomorrow. #IMPACT2026 #ImpSci @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social

Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care (IfIS) UZH@uzh-ifisuzhch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚀 We’re officially underway! The 4th Swiss Implementation Science Conference «True IMPACT – Delivering Innovation for Patients and the Public» has just opened at the @uzh-ch.bsky.social. We’re excited to kick off two days of exchange, learning and collaboration. #IMPACT2026 @rahelnaef.bsky.social

My longest, toughest run to date - the Craggrunner Moors the Merrier 2025 21 miles (35km - or 7 Parkruns), 1298m height gained (& lost), lots of mud & bogs, fabulous company, wonderful volunteers & organisers, Striders support and a thoroughly enjoyable day yomping across the moors in a Santa 🧑‍🎄 hat!

Fantastic work by Zoe Edwards & colleagues on the barriers & facilitators to primary care involvement in research. My thoughts on their helpful recommendations as both a primary care academic & practice research lead👇:

Zoe Edwards@zoeed1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thrilled that our survey on Barriers and Facilitators to primary care staff conducting research has been published. The largest facilitator was clear patient benefit and the largest barrier was the inability to fit in extra work in. See paper for recommendations journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

New paper! 📣 Inappropriate prescribing is common in older adults which puts them at greater risk of adverse effects. However, strategies to address are limited, particularly the lack of agreement on how to measure kidney function in this group! Read here 👇 qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...

Widespread inappropriate prescribing for older people with reduced kidney function: what are the harms and how do we tackle them? A scoping review for primary care

Background Increasing age is associated with reductions in kidney function and increasing polypharmacy. Most medicines are eliminated through the kidney, meaning older patients are at risk of medicati...

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New paper alert! 🚨 Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme (YCRBCIP) conducted a rigorous consensus process with clinicians and patients to develop quality indicators to support opioid stewardship for patients undergoing bowel cancer surgery 👇 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...

📣 New paper published❗️ 🫘We know kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm of many medicines 💊 📉 We showed that providing feedback to primary care on prescribing in reduced kidney function is both feasible and acceptable 😀… [1/2] 📖 Read more here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/famp...

Creatinine clearance, reduced kidney function, and optimizing prescribing safety through practice feedback: a mixed methods study

AbstractBackground. Kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm from raised blood levels of many medicines. Prescribing is often inappropria

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Lovely weather and a great day at the @heights_ultra_trail festival with the @slaithwaitestriders gang! My longest run yet - the Heights 27km Wessenden trail (28.5km on Garmin) 💪

Chelmsford Central #ParkRun no. 16 🏃 I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is! 🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!) Official time - 37m 24s #loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity

🙋 New paper alert! 📣 🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System? We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social

A great research snapshot by Dr Qandeel Shah on how she obtained rich and informative data using rapid ethnography in her PhD within a limited timeframe 👇 #ImpSci #ResearchMethods youtu.be/RczeobLmntE?...

Improvement Science Snapshot- Rapid Ethnography

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Proud supervisor moment! 🤩 So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏

Park Run no. 15 for me & a very hot but lovely one! This is a nice route and there is a fair bit of shade on the way round too. I got to meet one of my lovely online running friends in person for the first time. We nattered all the way round & nattered over brunch afterwards. 😀 #ParkRunLove #ParkRun

Stunning Buck Moon rising tonight 🌝

This is a lovely event! Hoping the smoking dragons will be there again 😄 #IMC2025

University of Leeds@universityofleeds.bsky.social · last yr.

The International Medieval Congress is back next week from 7 to 10 July ⚔️    ‪ @imc-leeds.bsky.social, Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies, will draw medievalists from over 60 countries, and we expect to welcome thousands of attendees 👇  www.imc.leeds.ac.uk   #IMC2025

Congratulations to Noah and Robbie on this recent publication on using audit to identify where improvement is needed and providing feedback to healthcare professionals. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change

Cambridge Core - Medicine: General Interest - Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change

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That was a hot ParkRun number 14! Far too hot for this (now) northern lass 🥵 Lovely route though and I was so grateful for the few bits of shade 😎 #ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist

The University has placed in the top 100 universities in the world for the 8th year in a row, moving up to 13th position among the 90 UK institutions on the list 🙌 The QS World University Rankings were released today, and Leeds is ranked 86th in the world.

Fern Harvey’s fab poster presentation of her systematic review on process evaluations for complex intervention trials. Better reporting of context, mechanisms of action and fidelity would enable greater learning about successful interventions #ImpSci #EIE2025 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social

On the train to Newcastle for #EIE2025 😀 Looking forward to catching up with colleagues old & new

Absolutely stunning! I enjoy crocheting but definitely do not have the patience for something as fine as this.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · last yr.

Brittany, France early 20thc, skilled women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt

Apparently it’s #NationalBiscuitDay so I’m sharing my greatest culinary creation: An anatomically correct* biscuit person *artistic interpretation

Don’t you just love it when a system update decides it’s more important than the work meeting you are in and decides to install and update mid meeting and doesn’t let you delay for just 15 mins? 🤯🤬😬 #NeedMoreCaffeine #JustBreathe🧘

a cartoon character with a very angry face and the words `` frustrating !!! ''

ALT: a cartoon character with a very angry face and the words `` frustrating !!! ''

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