I was honoured to receive the Junior Investigator Research Prize last year. I used the prize money to travel to EAPC Congress 2026 and you can read my reflections here: sapc.ac.uk/blog/2026/sa... @eapcvzw.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social @samurray3.bsky.social

As always when it's my birthday, I like to offer you all something, a few words, to say thanks for all the kindness and care over the years. My best to you all. D x 🙏🏿 #SundayThoughts #birthdayvibes

Social determinants of health are associated with end-of-life decision making recorded in EPaCCS. This matters because understanding how social determinants shape recorded decisions is essential to ensure equitable, person-centred end-of-life care. Great work @sophielaw-clucas.bsky.social #EAPC2026

My poster up at #EAPC2026 today!

Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On the same theme, if you want to see your patient in 3months but know it will be at least 6months before they get the appointment, be honest and tell them that, so they know that if things are rubbish they shouldn’t just wait another week or two for that appointment

Sarah M@sarah-owl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you say you will come back with blood results, do. If they aren’t back, tell the patient. Seems obvious, but so often not done. If we don’t do what we say, how can patients trust us? Much of the distress around healthcare I hear is of feeling abandoned- wee things make a big difference

The libby app is truly one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I implore EVERY one to get a library card and get the app! So many books at your fingertips!!

“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

Delighted to be at #EAPC2026 in Prague today! Fantastic to hear from Prof Scot Murray and so many other wonderful presenters. I have a poster presentation tomorrow - come say hi if you're around! @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social @eapcvzw.bsky.social

What a breath of fresh air! Bravo @clarefuller.bsky.social @sonyabushell.bsky.social Here's the helpful 'all parts of life' diagram discussed in this conversation. ACP as a life conversation instead of a death conversation. What a difference that would make.

Clare Fuller@clarefuller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Could we start planning ahead earlier? This question is asked by @sonyabushell.bsky.social Listen to ✔️learn about Sonya’s research ✔️shift from a medical to a societal model ✔️identify opportunities 🎧 speakforme.co.uk/podcast-epis... @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social #AdvanceCarePlanning

Great conversation and I so agree about the need for earlier planning. I encourage people to 'plan for the future' and avoid 'advance care planning' because it is so closely aligned to end-of-life. Do have a look at the My Future Care Handbook, now on its 4th edition: myfuturecare.org

My Future Care - Mycarematters 2020 CIC

My Future Care Handbook, 4th edition Interactive workbook with the information and forms you need to help you plan your later life. Over 70 A4 pages packed with information in order to make, record an...

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Hopefully of interest - @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social @drlindadykes.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social

Sonya Bushell@sonyabushell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wonderful to share my research about earlier advance care planning in this podcast - speakforme.co.uk/podcast-epis... Thanks for the conversation @clarefuller.bsky.social

Wonderful to share my research about earlier advance care planning in this podcast - speakforme.co.uk/podcast-epis... Thanks for the conversation @clarefuller.bsky.social

Podcast Episode 161 — Speak For Me LPA

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Could we start planning ahead earlier? This question is asked by @sonyabushell.bsky.social Listen to ✔️learn about Sonya’s research ✔️shift from a medical to a societal model ✔️identify opportunities 🎧 speakforme.co.uk/podcast-epis... @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social #AdvanceCarePlanning

Oh, how frustrating! You're right, that link is lost. Try this one... northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk/deciding-rig...

Deciding Right - Northern Cancer Alliance

A North-East initiative for making care decisions in advance. Looking for Deciding right resources? All resources can be found here. All care decisions must come from a shared partnership between the ...

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So many truths in this blog. Have a read. Here’s the link again: scottishcare.org/news/social-... One for #MedSky and #PublicHealthSky folks too. #PublicHealth #Prevention

Social Care as Prevention: the quiet revolution hiding in plain sight - Scottish Care

There is a habit in Scotland, born of compassion, yes, but also of institutional muscle-memory, to treat social care as what happens after life has gone wrong. We reach for […]

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Making care completely transactional misses so many opportunities to improve not only people’s lives, but also to avoid their unnecessary decline and suffering. #MedSky #SocialCare

Trisha Elliott@trishaelliott.bsky.social · 4mo ago

• Preventing avoidable admissions is often about continuity: someone who knows you, sees the early signs, coordinates quickly, and steadies the situation before it becomes an emergency.

Winter might be over, but the A&E crisis isn't. According to NHS England, 93.6% of beds in hospitals are occupied. A safe occupancy level would be 85%. When wards are full, EDs become overcrowded. We call on the government to tackle this problem – which is hurting patients.

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship

A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

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However good palliative care must be available to everyone. And advance decision making to avoid unnecessary hospital transfers is vital. And listening and respecting concerns of patients and families. Too often these are absent.

"The ICU nurses played recordings of my voice for my dad. My actual voice. Telling him who I was, where he was, that we loved him. They said it calmed him when nothing else worked." - Daughter #delirium

On Mothers Day, I often think about all the trainees, young doctors and medical & nursing students that I’ve known over the years. I’m not their biological mother, but that doesn’t stop me from being very proud of what they’ve achieved. Supporting the next generation is about much more than genes.

a woman in a yellow jacket with the words you guys are amazing

ALT: a woman in a yellow jacket with the words you guys are amazing

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'Dr Higginson added: “This is what happens when hospitals are being encouraged to chase targets for the sake of optics, rather than clinical care. The messaging from the centre has been all about concentrating on the least sick patients, whilst the sickest continue to wait for beds. '

His name appears on the triage list again. A feeling of failing this man on some level comes over me. The contracts push me in a direction that goes against the family GP I want to be. There is no tick box for continuity of care. 1/n

My personal blogpost about the Baroness Casey's talk this week at the Nuffield Trust on her commission of adult social care. www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-agre...

I agree. A much needed renewal and reckoning is needed over frailty and dementia care.

In her speech this week (5 March) at the Nuffield Trust Summit, Baroness Casey said social care has never had its own “creation moment” and called for a national reckoning equivalent to Beveridge’s re...

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I’ve written something that’s been sitting heavily with me. “If even a fraction of people choose death because they feel expensive, inconvenient, or unloved, that is not autonomy. That is abandonment dressed as choice.” open.substack.com/pub/drfarbod...

The Quiet Grief Beneath the Assisted Dying Debate

Something in me is grieving.

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I volunteered in Dunkirk providing healthcare to people living in tents who were frequently evicted and faced death at sea. So sad to know that people are still experiencing such difficulties. Don't know what the solution is but current situation is inhumane www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘One in, one out’: what has happened to asylum seekers forced to return to France?

In rare interviews, some of those sent back across the Channel after arriving in the UK on small boats describe what happened next – and the risks of a system organised to get rid of them

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🚨New podcast alert CPR: when does it save a life & when does it spoil a death? Listen in to hear Dani & I share commonly held myths & misconceptions & share valuable resource. 🎧https://speakforme.co.uk/podcast-episode-153 @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social #DNACPR #AdvanceCarePlanning #PEoLC #EoLC

44% of elderly HIU were on palliative care registers. We know that these are likely to miss many of those with non-malignant conditions, so probably a higher proportion with palliative care needs. Community palliative care and hospice care need more investment to keep people out of acute hospitals

Professor Azeem Majeed@azeem-majeed.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How should services for high-intensity users be organised? A scoping review of published literature with recommendations for future research and delivery of care. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thank you for sharing. It's sad that systems see hospital (with all that that entails) as the 'safest' option for people with dementia. Advance care planning has the potential to reduce distress and I hope we can continue to improve how it is done. Wishing you and your dad all the best

Emma Vardy@emmavardy2.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A personal blog @gerisoc.bsky.social on my dad's journey with dementia with some professional insights. Prompted by the recent @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social @hsjinformation.bsky.social report. www.bgs.org.uk/country-musi...