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 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 ...

💻🌍 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

'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! 😊

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!

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...

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

"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...

😳😱😫

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

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....

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

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...

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/...

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…

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...

🚨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) ➡️

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...

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.

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

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...

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

I wish I was postdoc again so I could apply into this! Great opportunity, research and Lab…

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...

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…

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-...

🔸 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

@sonjacambs.bsky.social

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

Shared decision making - a joint CPOC/RCoA podcast Podcast Episode · Anaesthesia on Air · 06/03/2025 · 31m

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

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.

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...

For anyone keen to explore Hope and Humility….

Here is the 3rd and final lecture in the series….

www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Key headlines from @debbiehopkins.bsky.social

We all need Hope in creating a future that we want to share and address climate

There isn’t one route forward, this is complexity writ large

Education is key, not just our children but lifelong learning, and focused on sustainability education

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