Remote monitoring promises to transform NHS care. So why do so many initiatives struggle to scale and sustain in practice? 🤔 Our latest blog from @decidecentre.bsky.social argues that the challenge isn't just proving what works, it's generating evidence that supports real-world adoption decisions.

Adopting technology-enabled remote monitoring in the NHS: generating evidence that is fit for purpose

As the NHS expands technology-enabled remote monitoring, decision-makers need evidence that reflects real-world implementation. This blog from the DECIDE project team examines how rapid evaluation app...

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How do we move from digital innovation to better care?💡 Discussion at the @decidecentre.bsky.social Impact Forum made clear we're not short of innovation, rather the conditions needed to scale it. People, equity, infrastructure & evidence are just as important as the technology itself. Read more 👇

Turning evidence on technology-enabled care into action: themes from the DECIDE Impact Forum

What does it take to turn digital innovation into better care? Insights from the DECIDE Impact Forum explore how technology-enabled care can be implemented, scaled and sustained through a stronger foc...

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New paper 📣https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.70184

Remote Access to Primary Care: Theorising ‘Care Navigation’

The use of digital technology to facilitate remote access to care can increase inequalities, especially for people with complex health and social care needs. Care navigation, human input to support a....

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This #Qualitative study explored how people with prediabetes interpret their diagnosis and navigate health-related practices doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @eleanorbarry.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @sarashaw.bsky.social @harryrutter.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social #PrimaryCare #Diabetes

Anyone interested in the future of low carbon health and care? If you’re free on Wednesday, 24 Sept, pls do join us for networking, discussion and debate Details and booking via this link: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/low-ca...

💻🌍 Digital health is often seen as green - but the full picture is more complex. In our latest blog, @sarashaw.bsky.social & John Powell explore four key climate challenges for digital health policy, from infrastructure to justice. #ClimateHealth #DigitalHealth #Sustainability

Digital health and the climate emergency: four challenges for health policy

Digital health is now a key feature of health systems globally, but we rarely make the connection between health technology and the climate emergency. Here, Sara Shaw and John Powell discuss four key ...

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'Days of Innocence' painting by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter who uses the technique of pointillism #WomensArt

OUR NEW PAPER: the 'final findings' paper from the Remote by Default 2 study: "After the disruptive innovation: How remote and digital services were embedded, blended and abandoned in UK general practice" (will do thread on this soon) www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/publish... #academicsky 🧪

Reposting this event, on greening the pharmaceutical industry Thursday 12 June, 6pm, central Oxford….. networking, nibbles and drinks before for those who can make it! 😊

Sara Shaw@sarashaw.bsky.social · last yr.

Greening the pharmaceutical sector - rhetoric or reality? Pls join us on 12 June for a much needed panel discussion and debate. Details and registration via the link below👇 www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/... @greentempleton.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @sarahbriggs.bsky.social

If you're interested in #sustainablehealthcare and responsible pharmaceuticals, and in Oxford on 12 June, this will be a really interesting discussion. Hopefully see you there @sarashaw.bsky.social, thanks for the heads up!

Sara Shaw@sarashaw.bsky.social · last yr.

Greening the pharmaceutical sector - rhetoric or reality? Pls join us on 12 June for a much needed panel discussion and debate. Details and registration via the link below👇 www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/... @greentempleton.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @sarahbriggs.bsky.social

Greening the pharmaceutical sector - rhetoric or reality? Pls join us on 12 June for a much needed panel discussion and debate. Details and registration via the link below👇 www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/... @greentempleton.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @sarahbriggs.bsky.social

Greening the pharmaceutical sector: rhetoric or reality?

Panel Discussion with representatives from across the pharmaceutical sector The pharmaceutical sector is under increasing pressure to decarbonise supply chains, to mitigate the impacts of medicines o...

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"International postdocs have lower salaries, fewer benefits, less mentoring, and are less involved in collaboration, grants and teaching [despite having higher average research productivity]. These differences are greater for those with foreign degrees." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last yr.

Because they felt that air pollution isn't killing enough Americans, the Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule that limits toxic air pollutants emitted by industrial facilities, marking the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.

The DECIDE team have contributed to a newly published Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) report on "Virtual Wards and Hospital at Home". Full details are available on our website www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/dec....

News and Publications

Our multidisciplinary, cross-department initiative to develop patient-level applications and diagnostics and to curate and analyse routine clinical data.

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Newly out from our work on (remote) group clinics 🩺 Drawing on qual data from 3 studies, we examine the idea of ‘peer support’ in mainstream clinical care, and show how peer-based models of care bring about new roles and responsibilities for patients

Sara Shaw@sarashaw.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper from our team on group clinics 👇 Showing that ‘peer support’ is not a given or unequivocal ‘good’ in group-based care @jackievdael.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @elsevierconnect.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited to see that the 2025 @ukri.org Policy Fellowships applications are open. Fellows will spend 18 months helping provide research and expert advice on UK policy priority areas & support wider knowledge exchange between policy & academia. Closing date 15 July www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

UKRI policy fellowships 2025

Spend 18 months as a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) core policy fellow, Natural Hazards and Resilience policy fellow or What Works Innovation fellow to inform policy to address pressing national an...

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New paper from our team on group clinics 👇 Showing that ‘peer support’ is not a given or unequivocal ‘good’ in group-based care @jackievdael.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @elsevierconnect.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Experiential caring and the mobilisation of peerhood in group clinics

The concept of ‘peer support’ has generated much interest in mainstream health services. In policy discourse, peer-based initiatives are often describ…

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🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone. Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise. Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last yr.

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

Glad to see @creativecommons.bsky.social working to address the deep challenges that have arisen at the intersection of the open commons and corporate AI.

Reciprocity in the Age of AI - Creative Commons

Reciprocal Roof (Shed) by Ziggy Liloia is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 A lot has changed in the past few years, and it is high time for Creative Commons (CC) to be louder about our values. Underpinning...

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The panel will explore the current policy landscape underpinning the digital shift in care services, as well as current digital initiatives and their evaluation. @greentempleton.bsky.social

Sara Shaw@sarashaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Digital technologies: enhancers or disrupters of good social care? Join us for a panel discussion, Thursday 5th June, 4pm @greentempleton.bsky.social GTC College, Oxford talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d68... @sonjacambs.bsky.social @decidecentre.bsky.social

Digital technologies: enhancers or disrupters of good social care? Join us for a panel discussion, Thursday 5th June, 4pm @greentempleton.bsky.social GTC College, Oxford talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d68... @sonjacambs.bsky.social @decidecentre.bsky.social

Digital technologies: Enhancers or disrupters of good social care?

This session has been organised in collaboration with DECIDE (Digitally Enabled Care in Diverse Environments), an NIHR-funded centre for rapid evaluation of technology-enabled remote monitoring in hea...

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Call for papers 👇👇 Focusing on health and care workforce Highly topical call and decent journal for anyone working in this space www.sciencedirect.com/journal/heal...

CFP for #AusSTS2025 on 'Signals and Noises' closing this week! Feat. a stellar lineup of plenary speakers: Warwick Anderson Kari Lancaster Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh Fabian Offert Dang Nguyen Kate Mannel Chris O'Neill Elizabeth Stephens Jaya Keaney Deadline Fri 14 March aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference

The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is open until 14 March. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sess…

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🔸 Unpaid work limits women's careers 🔸 Gender gaps in time use narrowed in 1980s-2000s but have now stalled 🔸 Men still do little unpaid work & change is too slow To close these gaps, we need paid parental leave, flexible work & cultural shifts. #InternationalWomensDay

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 2y ago

For #IWD2025, we spoke to Man-Yee Kan & Grace Chang about their research on gender inequality in time use 👩⌛️ The GenTime project tracks how men & women spend time ⏲️ The findings are clear - women still do far more unpaid work than men. Read more ⬇️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/gend...

Really looking froward to chairing a session on "Technology enabled remote monitoring at scale" at #Rewired2025 this year. Do join and be part of this important conversation! digitalhealthrewired.com/class/buildi... #TERM #remotemonitoring @sarashaw.bsky.social @alkaahuja.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... I had some very interesting conversations about shared decision making recently, based on our work on the OSIRIS programme. Listen in here

Shared decision making - a joint CPOC/RCoA podcast

Podcast Episode · Anaesthesia on Air · 06/03/2025 · 31m

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Substantial investment in general practice in first agreed (in principle) rather than imposed contract in years. Need to look at the detail but seems to indicate reduction in bureaucracy as well www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breakin...

GP contract deal to see almost £800m invested into global sum

The BMA has agreed a deal 'in principle' for the 2025/26 GP contract that will see almost £800m invested into the global sum.

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Sustainability Education @greentempleton.bsky.social The focus today (the 2nd of 3 lectures) is on Power and Politics…. Very fitting in the world we currently find ourselves in @chrisskidmore.bsky.social @debbiehopkins.bsky.social

A few strategies to overcome writer's block: www.raulpacheco.org/2022/06/a-fe... I get writer's block. All. The. Time. This block post describes a few strategies I've put into practice to help me break through the block. #RPVSky #WritingSky

Protect what has been given for free Our waters, skies, wildlife and trees For once they're gone, don't you say Consider yourself warned of that fatal day From “Warned” by Sylvia Stults www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/warned

Poem About Environmental Preservation, Warned

Our world only has so many resources. They are limited, yet men abuse them....soon there will be nothing left to abuse...then what?

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