Pathetic performative cruelty - like with narrowing family reunion eligibility, we are closing down safe and legal options

@stellacreasy.bsky.social

Gross failings at Frimley Park Hospital led to woman's death, coroner says A coroner says Irene Dzifa King Arthur death at Frimley Park Hospital had been preventable.

another tragic sickle cell case with too familiar themes including of not being listened to and lack of clinical curiosity from staff www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... clear need for improved accountability and assurance mechanisms www.bmj.com/content/385/...

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions.

It does not.

It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed.

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NHS - Race and Health Observatory

Baroness Amos’s interim report is shocking but not surprising.

Change is urgent and we now need to see real leadership, accountability and investment to tackle racial inequalities in maternity care.

Read our full response from @DrHNaqvi today: nhsrho.org/news/stateme...

Starmer is wrong to use this as an attack line

Harms of substance use are - in large part - a result of us taking a criminal justice rather than a public health approach

Starmer's son can access heroin now, should he wish, but only in a harmful way (violence, infections, overdoses, incarceration)

A group of people are smiling and interacting - a laptop shows computer code

A woman looks over at a laptop screen of her colleague

Two women are talking to each other and smiling

A woman is talking expressively as she presents whilst a man smiles in the background

A group of volunteers have been running @nhshackday.com since 2012. In a crazy world, it is all about coming together with common purpose to solve problems in our health service. Please reshare this post about #30 in Cardiff Mar 21/22. We would love to have you join us. ti.to/nhshackday/3...

Every time people express concerns about the level of immigration, they should be asked what their plan is regards the UK's ageing population

If you don't want working age people to move to the UK, do you want higher taxes, lower quality public services, or to be working well into your 70s?

That and the complete scientific illiteracy of rejecting the idea that saturated fat is bad for you

CIIG seminar with George Davey Smith on 26 January 2026 3pm GMT

If you are interested in the past, present, and future of Mendelian Randomisation, join us later this month for a Causal Inference Interest Group seminar on MR with none other than @mendelrandom.bsky.social

Zoom registration link: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

NEW PREPRINT!

We systematically reviewed molecular epidemiology studies looking at strain discordance in pairs of people with TB disease and history of household contact

We found 30 studies from 18 countries. Excluding 4 studies at high risk of bias, we had data on 1544 household case pairs

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The student and members of his team wearing formal academic gowns as he is awarded his PhD.

Super proud of my student Philippe Ndzomo awarded PhD today at University of Yaounde.

His work focused on the emergence of Hameophilus ducreyi as a cause of cutaneous ulcers in Cameroon & Globally
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40338972/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39961439/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38150487/

Worth taking Zosia 🦮 out into the garden on this cold December night. Saw this beautiful lunar halo (22° halo) caused by moonlight refracting through ice crystals high in the atmosphere

Well done, good work team

OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.

I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

Homerton Lung Cancer CNS job is out (closes 4/12/25). Don't miss out! Come work with our friendly, patient-focused team delivering high-quality lung cancer care findajob.dwp.gov.uk/details/1740... cc @homertonhealthcare.bsky.social @NewcombLibrary.bsky.social
@drlaurajane.bsky.social

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979

First week 'critical' to avoid children missing school later, parents told Data suggests more than half of children who miss a day at the start of term become persistently absent.

A fantastic teaching example of a predictor being misinterpreted as having a causal effect.

#CausalSky #EpiSky

The Wikipedia page on Simpson's paradox contains a really nice visualisation of it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson...

One day to go until @nhshackday.com #29 in Belfast! #nhshd29

We’re incredibly grateful to have partnered with Kainos Software who are hosting us at their Belfast HQ this weekend!

We’d also like to thank for RCPCH and Okko Health for their support with this event!

The NHS opt-out inpatient tobacco dependency service provides treatment on an equitable basis across deprivation quintiles. Greatest proportion of patients making a supported quit attempt in the most deprived quintile. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... @whofctc.bsky.social @ashorguk.bsky.social

NHS to lose out on new drugs, pharma firm Novartis warns The claims from pharmaceutical giant Novartis comes amid a row over drug pricing deals.

Whenever I see stories like the below. I am reminded of the excellent paper @felly500.bsky.social shared from @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Showed that mostly expensive new drugs generate less impact than investing the same amount into other areas of health.

Last month I attended the incredible Donald Rodney exhibition @whitechapelgallery.bsky.social and panel discussion. His powerful work, shaped by his lived experience of sickle cell, explored important themes of chronic illness and Britain's colonial past

Our work examining disparities in investment care for sickle cell compared with cystic fibrosis and haemophilia is highlighted here.

Yesterday we launched our report with the @nhs-rho.bsky.social and @sicklecelluk.bsky.social highlighting disparities in funding and support for sickle cell yesterday in the House of Lords on #WorldSickleCellDay. Read our report and key recommendations here nhsrho.org/research/sic...

Our work highlights the need for greater investment into #sicklecell and better data to increase clinical trials, research publications and drug approvals #sicklecellawarenessmonth @nhs-rho.bsky.social

Indicators of inequity in research and funding for sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis and haemophilia: a descriptive comparative study Sickle cell disease, one of the most common genetic conditions in the UK, is often considered a neglected disorder, but rigorous quantitative evidence…

🔔 Our new article published in @thelancethaem.bsky.social showed that #sicklecell had the lowest research funding per person compared to cystic fibrosis and haemophilia and despite sickle cell being more prevalent it had the lowest proportion of clinical trials and drug approvals bit.ly/4gusj5H

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