Which is, of course, excellent

A real challenge is the much higher lower end pricing. How does the cheapest ev compare to cheapest petrol? And I'm guessing this average is the mean. How do the median prices compare?

At macro level (national): 1. Use incentives carefully: Incentives can drive change but may have unintended consequences. Involve people managing, delivering, and using services in developing incentive systems. 2. Consider practical and emotional burdens: Make sure the right resources (people, capacity, time) are in place to deal with the practical and emotional burdens associated with improvement efforts. At meso level (systems and organisations): 3. Prioritise quality and safety: This should be a central priority for boards. Include them on agendas, use data to support understanding of quality and safety, and dedicate resources to building expertise in these areas. 4. Build a case for quality: Leaders should use both hard data (such as performance metrics) and soft data (such as patient stories) to make a compelling case for improving quality and building an improvement culture. 5. Learn from others: Boards should be open to building networks with and learning from external organisations to improve their own approaches to quality and safety. 6. Combine approaches: Making large-scale improvements requires combining both top-down leadership (from the board) and bottom-up approaches (from frontline staff). At micro level (clinical teams): 7. Use person-centred leadership: Leaders should focus on individuals’ needs and aspirations. Constructive feedback enhances team skills, sense of value, and encourages ownership of team priorities. 8. Use task-centred leadership: Establish shared objectives, responsibilities, and ownership for quality within teams. This promotes a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, and innovation.

Healthcare improvement needs strong governance and effective leadership – but what does this look like in practice?

Find out more in our latest Explain THIS resource, part of our microlearning series of quick guides to healthcare improvement approaches.

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Avocado trees changed Kelil Beshah’s farm and income in Oromia, Ethiopia.

Two national strategies on agroecology and agroforestry now aim to scale similar benefits across the country, strengthening food systems & restoring ecosystems.

Read:🔗 https://bit.ly/4vyLO3W

#TreesPeoplePlanet #aeTPP

Excited to have our workshop accepted for #ASME2026, Supporting Neurodivergent Learners across HPE continuum. @asmeofficial.bsky.social

The @nationaltrust.org.uk only rarely ask their members to take political action, but when they do, it’s seismic.

Please take the NT’s action, email your MP demanding the Government protect 30% of the UK for nature by 2030: campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/186395/...

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🌳 Unlock the Power of Forest Therapy 🌿
Our recent study demonstrates how forest environments can significantly reduce stress in college students. 🤝🌲
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#ForestTherapy #StressRelief #FeNO #NatureScience #Psychophysiology
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Miriam Margolyes urges fellow Jews "to shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire" in Gaza YouTube video by The New Arab

"To Me - H*tler Has Won."

Liste to Miriam Margolyes, Anti-Zionist Holocaust Survivour 👇

Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.

I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/

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Same here - excellent offer holders from Cameroon and Myanmar unable to join our next cohort.

This is one result of the 7-year-long, £10 million Chilcot Inquiry: a comprehensive, detailed & crucial guide to avoiding another disastrous war like Iraq. You can understand why Tony Blair ignores its lessons, but every other warmonger in the UK?
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You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.

We have three great researcher jobs advertised, each for 12m, contributing to our work on generating evidence to inform food system transition. Please share widely.

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British woman who got detained by ICE declared "....that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that”."

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Clearly, it's not safe to travel to the US.

Another Forgotten Desirable Difficulty: Contextual Interference - kirschner-ED If the goal of teaching and education is for students to use what they learn beyond the classroom, that discomfort is the price we must pay. Contextual interference forces learners to determine what r...

If the goal of education is for students to use what they learn beyond the classroom, discomfort is the price we must pay. Contextual interference forces learners to determine what remains when everything else changes. #EduSky
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Peartridge in a pa tree

Retention of foster carers is a huge challenge. Every little will help.

Campaigning for council tax exemptions for foster carers

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Picketty talking good sense, as usual

The Forgotten Desirable Difficulty – Reduced Feedback Reduced feedback, and especially feedback that’s deliberately faded from specific to general, is a quiet but powerful way to shift responsibility from the teacher’s correction to the learner’s cognition. And that’s exactly what education is supposed to do.

Reduced feedback, and especially feedback that’s deliberately faded from specific to general, is a quiet but powerful way to shift responsibility from the teacher’s correction to the learner’s cognition. And that’s exactly what education is supposed to do.

This Is Sly & Robbie

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Just brilliant! Slow down - and watch :) 👇

What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out | Aditya Chakrabortty It’s not just Tunbridge Wells – a country famous around the world for its rain is in danger of self-imposed drought, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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A reminder of the fundamental importance of the basics to modern society.

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

This makes no sense…

An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…

No thanks

If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote

Sign the petition & help make that law.

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Is relying on AI cognitive “offloading” or “outsourcing”? The terminology we use makes a difference.

Is relying on AI cognitive “offloading” or “outsourcing”?
What an honour to be so positively cited by Natalie Wexler open.substack.com/pub/nataliew...

Exemplary misuse of 'only'.

Yes, clear and obvious. If it isn't obvious from one replay, then on field decision should stand.

Indeed. How do we persuade our institutions to extricate themselves from Microsoft?

Execution of anyone without trial, regardless of whether or not they may have committed a crime, is murder.