After months of engaging with our stroke community to understand what mattered, we’ve developed a practical, but ambitious plan to grow research capacity, embed lived experience, and accelerate the journey from discovery to delivery. read it here: www.stroke.org.uk/research/our...

As always, excellent work - these stats are always incredibly helpful in a myriad of conversations! Many thanks to you and your team!

📢Today, ASH launches our new 2025–2030 strategy to end the harm caused by tobacco.
Our goals:
❤️No one starts
🚭Everyone stops
📉No profit in tobacco

Find out more: ash.org.uk/about/who-we...

💬 Salary: £60k, but we’re open to negotiation for outstanding candidates.

This is your chance to help make stroke research deliver — not in decades, but now.

📅 Apply by 7 July 2025:
www.stroke.org.uk/working-with...

Reposts greatly appreciated! 🙏

We’re looking for someone with:
📍 Significant research leadership experience
📍 A track record of turning research into policy or practice
📍 Credibility across clinical, academic & system settings

This isn’t a standard charity research role.
You’ll help bring to life a new era for stroke research by:

✅ Finalising & implementing our new research strategy
✅ Building a Stroke Research Academy
✅ Championing real-world impact
✅ Support stroke research advocacy

Are you ready to help shape the future of stroke research in the UK?

@TheStrokeAssoc is entering a major new phase — redefining how we drive research, quality improvement, and system change.

And we need a bold, strategic thinker to help lead it.

🚨 We’re hiring: Senior Research Advisor
🕐 12-month FTC
📍 Home-based (UK, occasional travel)
💷 £60,000 + benefits
📅 Deadline: 7 July 2025
🔗 Apply: www.stroke.org.uk/working-with...

Why this is a rare opportunity 👇🧵

We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time

Maps where you’d rather not be the red country- WHO data shows the UK has high premature mortality, especially in CVD. Hanne Christensen flags that where countries spend more money on stroke care, they have better outcomes - and that advocacy for stroke is key. #ESOC2025

New data show that the class divide in Britain may not be so wide They make the country look better than America

I had a sneak peek at some data which is being published by Meta today, showing that Britain is less divided by class than you might expect: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Trying to divine the govt's overal delivery philsophy for health seems rather tough at the moment. Is it a) command and control, b) neighbourhood health, c) ICS-devo, d) 10yr plan, e) wider health mission, f) etc. Anyone actually know and how this coherntly ties together?

DHSC set to launch voluntary-exit scheme as PM abolishes NHS England Acting perm sec Whitty outlines plans to cut staff as Starmer says NHS management will be brought 'back into democratic control'

Adding a few other links that i think are helpful: 1. www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/... - good summary of a potential period for job cuts - looking to be between April - October; 2. How was the news communicated and what could be driving it: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The Reshaping Of NHS National Bodies Has Only Just Started. How Will It Finish? | The King's Fund Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.

As we're all trying to read the tea leaves of health policy in the month ahead, an EXCELLENT analysis from Siva Andaciva at King's Fund to help- well worth the read: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

The complexity of the health system requires collaboration, strong relationships and so much goodwill to overcome some huge barriers that exist to better patient outcomes. How this announcement has unfolded will not have helped. 3/3

Their portrayal as ‘bureaucratic, ineffective paper pushers’ is unjust. Putting aside the wisdom of the decision to abolish NHSE - there are many points still to debate and there is so much detail to work through - today’s comms has been horrific. 2/

Brilliant statement by @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social, starting with recognizing the human cost associated with abolishing NHSE. I know so many brilliant and dedicated NHSE staff who work tirelessly for patient safety and improved outcomes
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It's a busy day for #NHS news! We've been responding. 👇

The Prime Minister announced that #NHSE is to be abolished. The government should be careful that this doesn’t lead to even more top-down micro-management of local services from Whitehall.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...

Panel on the patient perspective on encouraging diversity in clinical trials, chaired by Jacob Lant of National Voices, with Rebecca West of Ipsos UK, Ailsa Bosworth of the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, and Natasha Gordon-Douglas of the Sickle Cell Society

Fantastic session from our diversity in clinical trials event. Keywords for chair Jacob Lant are co-production, authenticity, trust.

They help more diverse communities take part in clinical trials. @amrc-uk.bsky.social @nationalvoices.bsky.social @nras-uk.bsky.social @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social

The populist right is damaging US science.

Here's what I think we should be doing to ensure that the UK does not suffer the same fate.

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The populist right is damaging US science. The UK could be next. What we should be doing now to insulate UK science against the populist anti-science agenda

The populist right is damaging US science. The UK could be next. New from @kityates.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/kityates...

Wes Streeting hits out at health charities over NHS targets After a backlash against his NHS priorities, the health secretary has said he wants to ‘break the culture of the voluntary sector’

For Wes Streeting to say “I’m trying to break the culture of the voluntary sector and the way that it lobbies government...” is a gross insult to those who work tirelessly to support people and campaign for change, against growing need and diminishing resources.

www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Do you have a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging & are looking for a post-doc?

Do you want to join a friendly lab?

Do you want to live in Norwich (UK) - gorgeous city close to the beach? You can surf, meet seals, do wonderful walks, eat gelato & enjoy gorgeous sunsets!

Find out more here, including how you can get involved - this is definitely the time for the stroke community to speak up for the future of the NHS in England: www.stroke.org.uk/get-involved... 7/7

We can't keep accepting this as the norm - which is why we're working hard to get changes in the 10YHP that will enable the great stroke clinical community to have the resources they need to help people affected by stroke - and to ensure stroke patients and survivors get the support they need. 6/

Winters are always hard (this one is no exception) because we see too many people experiencing a stroke getting to hospital too late - because of unsustainable pressures on ambulances and hospitals - to get many of the treatments that would reduce or eliminate disability. 5/

which helps prevent people from returning into hospital in the first place. Whether elective waiting lists or faster ambulance responses or decreased GP waiting times, we need a whole pathway approach. @thestrokeassoc.bsky.social is hoping the 10 year health plan delivers that change 4/

More people able to return to what brings joy and satisfaction in their lives. But for those affected by stroke, there won't be immediate returns - it *may* translate into less pressure in emergency care eventually but not right away. It won't address the urgent need for community rehabilitation 3/

These are small but positive steps in the right direction for the general patient population. If delivered, they WILL help - moving more people through elective care means less people with long term conditions decompensating and needing emergency care. More people living a better quality of life. 2/

Government unveils plan to reduce NHS waiting list backlog The government pledged to cut the list of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment in England by nearly half a million over the next year.

All eyes on NHSE and PM this morning - a new plan comes out to cut waiting lists. What does it mean, especially for people affected by stroke? Increased appts in community diagnostic centers, more choice through NHS app, more surgical hubs created. 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...