My Brother is somewhere in Africa, not sure where or what he is doing- but he is writing about it here africaobjective.com and it’s quite good

Our 1st #COVID19 care home visitation paper has been accepted in Age_and_Ageing!! Watch this space for how vaccination & increased testing have affected safe care home visitation across the UK!
Dr Kerry Hanna Stephen Mason Lewy Body Society Iain Buchan Ben Barr Rights For Residents

Reading this again - it's great explanation of effects of #localgov funding on life expectancy. Read it!
Thanks to Ben Barr Professor Clare Bambra and team #inequalities #buildbackfairer thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

On the far point of the Pembrokeshire headland you can see here, someone had left a purple plastic bag of dog-shit.
Why wd you both be drawn to walk to that place...& content to leave that behind?
I carried it away, wished I hadn't had to.
How best to solve the shit-bag problem?

'G-dropping' is not, in fact, a dropping of anything. There is no 'g'. The 'g' is a lie.

The -ing ending is pronounced (in most Anglophone accents) by combining two sounds: an 'i' and a 'ng'. The phonetic symbols for these are /ɪ/ and /ŋ/.

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PEG - Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, a group of women who formed a group for stitching and swearing #WomensArt

And a good, concrete set of recommendations for reducing child poverty here:

It’s not lost on me that everyone in my immediate circle - both blood and chosen family - have eventually decided to be vaccinated. To be honest, there were some *very* hard “no’s” in the beginning, but with time and many conversations, they felt empowered to make their decision.

Read our new research paper out now! Prof Ruth Patrick Aniela Wenham :

Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour cup.org/3zoAVUx

Sick pay has been a big weakness in the safety net in the pandemic. It has been linked to low compliance with self-isolation and test and trace and, during the first wave of Covid-19, care homes paying sick pay were less likely to have seen Covid-19 cases among residents (2/4)

Yep
Sadly a well trod path

'in recognition of unique impact of pandemic' on staff. I do hope DsPH, their teams, local govt, academics and PHE staff are recognised too. The wider health and social care family who have worked so hard deserves similar recognition #NHSpay

Sometimes when you think to yourself “this person has no idea what they’re talking about”, it’s a good idea to pause and ask yourself whether YOU have any idea what they’re talking about.

So many comments claim to be corrections but are actually reading miscomprehension.

A team from Division of Health Research, Lancaster University linked to @arc_nw has created an online resource for public sector professionals and community activists to reduce health inequalities Neighbourhood Resilience The King's Fund The Health Foundation Local Government Association (LGA) Local Trust Faculty of Public Health People's Health Trust
lancaster.ac.uk/news/reducing-…

‘’It is a multi-variate model, so various combinations of risk factors need to exist to generate fraud or claims that are in error.” So holding the other factors constant, what effect does age have on predicted risk? This really isn’t difficult.

todayfortomorrow.org.uk Place Alliance Wellbeing in Place The Bartlett School of Planning

Honest tweet now. This account is run by frontline NHS staff. There’s just 3 of us. We have tried our best to get out what is happening on the ground. But we are completely exhausted. If you support what we are doing pls will you follow & RT this to your followers? Thank you 🙏🏻

Good news: Mr Johnson has discovered health inequalities
Bad news: decades of work by Sir Michael Marmot Ben Barr Professor Clare Bambra Fran Baum , ourselves and others explaining them have passed him by

'My dad was an academic. We travelled a lot so I was always between education systems. I thought that was why I struggled with writing and spelling.

Read Wes' story about how he's using his #Dyslexia as a superpower today: bit.ly/3isqMB0

#Dyslexic #Dyslexia Awareness

#localgov funding and life expectancy:
'findings indicate that cuts in funding for local government might in part explain adverse trends in life expectancy. Given that more deprived areas showed greater reductions in funding, our analysis suggests that inequalities have widened'