ICE releases N.J. mayor after dramatic arrest at immigrant detention facility protest He was arrested by ICE Friday afternoon

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has been released - but his arrest shows the absolute lawlessness of the Trump regime.

He was arrested by Homeland Security officers for "federal trespassing" *outside* a private jail housing ICE detainees - which the city says is operating without permits.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

World report on social determinants of health equity by the
@who.int

their conclusion "Equity is a political choice"

⬇️ (reposting with a different link)

This is a timely impressive report in both its breadth & depth 👏

www.who.int/teams/social...

Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP) finder Patient Safety Learning is compiling PSIRPs from all NHS trusts in England in our PSIRP finder

We have recently updated our central directory of Patient Safety Incident Response Plans from NHS trusts in England, to allow organisations to compare ways of working and highlight variation in how trusts are approaching PSIRF implementation⬇️
www.pslhub.org/learn/invest... #patientsafety

Patient safety implications of the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex: A blog from Laura Evans Laura Evans discusses the impact the recent UK Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 may have on access to health and care services for transgender people

🆕In a new opinion piece on the hub today, Laura Evans discusses the impact the recent UK Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 may have on access to health and care services for transgender people. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety

That’s a biiig number.

Thanks for sharing this!

Love seeing this.

One in ten patient safety incidents in hospitals due to poor communication – new study Hospital miscommunication is a leading cause of preventable harm, a new review finds.

📰 BREAKING NEWS: A new article by our Centre Director
Jeremy Howick about poor #communication leading to #patientsafety incidents has been published in @uk.theconversation.com

🔗 Read more here: theconversation.com/one-in-ten-p...

NHS 'to test trans young people for autism and ADHD' Trans young people will allegedly be 'screened' for autism and ADHD according to planned NHS guidance on youth gender clinics.

Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?

Thanks for sharing this. I will soon be starting a PhD looking at how daily check-ins with (every) inpatients are put into practice. This research shows why this is so important. Will definitely be referring back to it.

‘Detecting deterioration’: the new Martha’s Rule branding, which we hope will be used in all the 143 hospital sites involved in the implementation.

NHS England funding will grow by just 1.0% per person per year after adjusting for ageing.

A good reminder that, as pressure on services grows and funding struggles to keep up, it is even more important to make sure patient safety stays fair and accessible for everyone.

Great news for a podcast lover like me. Thanks for creating this @yhpsrc.bsky.social

This is well worth a read for anyone tracking international policy trends

Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.

Someone's modelled the impact of a precipitous decline in vaccination uptake in the USA. TL:DR: millions of avoidable disease cases; hundreds of thousands of deaths over the next decades.
HT @duncanrobertson.bsky.social

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Safety Talks Podcast: Human Factors in Healthcare - Culture, Communication, and Change (28 March 2025) Safety Talks podcast exploring how better understanding of Human Factors can improve staff and patient safety,

🎙️Safety Talks podcast episode added to the hub - Human Factors in Healthcare: Culture, Communication, and Change www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #humanfactors #patientsafety

I would love to be added. I am 10 minutes old on Bluesky, and a qual researcher at UCL building some BigQual research experience.