Retweet/like if you think we should start a petition to get Paula Vennells CBE removed?

If there's enough interest I think we should, least we can do for those that have suffered

#MrBatesVsThePostOffice

Thanks for all the lovely comments & wishes for 2024 - which we've just surfaced to discover! And 🙏 to those who've kindly chipped into our fundraiser for British Red Cross 🧡 for conflict victims in Gaza/Israel. Justgiving & song here for those interested:
👉t.ly/Q2pxy

Amazing gingerbread house built by our granddaughter for Christmas

Today marks 5 years since the prostatectomy op that meant Grandad (Sir John Burn) was cancer free. We know how lucky we were, & we know that precious extra time depended on getting checked.
So here's a reprise of our song two years ago with Prostate Cancer UK ❤️
🗣️Have that chat
🩺Get checked

Here's our tribute to legend Shane MacGowan, a parody we've called 'Fairytale of New Born' - which draws on The Pogues iconic track #fairytaleofnewyork (🤞 for 🎄#1) to tell story of the #Christmas #Nativity in a new 🎶 way...🎅

If you like, please 👉orcd.co/ifthatday

It’s been an honour and a pleasure to work ⁦Newcastle Hospitals⁩ alongside CEO Dame Jackie Daniel. We wish her well in the next phase of her career

A quick heads-up to let you know a Christmassy video is up for #IfThatDayComesRound 's B side (raising money for British Red Cross 🧡: orcd.co/ifthatday).

The B side, called 'Raise a Smile', is about pulling together when someone's feeling low ❤️👇🎄🎶
youtu.be/sWUahpgPlKg

lostinthemanor.co.uk/blog/if-that-d….

A beautiful review of a beautiful heartfelt song by MarshFamilySongs hoping for a miracle in Gaza. Raising funds for the international Red Cross

Today in the The Lancet, we UK geneticists argue: 'Population screening requires robust evidence—genomics is no exception'
Anneke Lucassen, Helen Firth, Bill Newman, Caroline Wright, Margaret McCartney, @wilkie_lab, Robin Lachmann,TomlinsonGroup,Lucy Raymond authors.elsevier.com/a/1iD4W_3CjG8W…

I never knew this, interesting. Sir John Burn Elders Council of Newcastle #AgeProudNewcastle Newcastle Hospitals Charity Sir Bobby Robson Foundation

Delighted to join the Cancer Prevention team to celebrate with Peter Sowter after he successfully defended his PhD thesis. Thanks for the drum kit cufflinks Peter. Very thoughtful. We all wish you success as a science teacher and share your joy that Anna said”yes”!

Further to today's announcement regarding use of #anastrozole for breast cancer #chemoprevention in postmenopausal women at higher risk, you may find it helpful to review our UPDATED patient information leaflets ukcgg.org/information-ed… AGNC
RCGP NHS England

To start the same eleven players in 3 games within 7 days and beat Chelsea & Manchester Utd with a draw at PSG in between is nothing short of remarkable. Eddie Howe & #NUFC continue to defy all the odds this season and continue to make the city proud of this team.

A snow ball modelled by Tilly

I joined my dear friend and colleague Professor Naeem Soomro on Freeman Ward 1 ⁦Newcastle Hospitals⁩ for cake to mark his retirement from clinical work. Like me he will continue clinical research ⁦Newcastle University⁩. 5 yrs ago Naeem removed my prostate - PSA still zero😊

A very special thank you to our corporate sponsors:

🕸️ Medical Architecture

🕸️ Robertson

🕸️ Geoffrey Robinson Limited

Special thank you:

🕸️ Newcastle Hospitals colleagues
🕸️ Professor Sir John Burn (@CaPP3)
🕸️ jill halfpenny, voice of Geordie Hospital
🕸️ Cragside Primary School children's choir
🕸️ North East Legion UK for arranging the Star Wars characters
🕸️ Plus our fancy-dress Elsa and Spiderman

Great to see our WCRF International project findings published in BMC Medicine today📄 We found that greater adherence to the WCRF/AICR Cancer Prevention Recommendations was associated with lower risk of all cancers combined and of 7 individual cancers
Solange Parra-Soto Carlos Celis-Morales Fred Ho

An Irishman had the last laugh at his funeral with a gag from beyond the grave that had mourners in tears of laughter. Shay Bradley organized the recording that was done in one take, over a year before the funeral to be played after his coffin was lowered to the ground

⁦Newcastle Hospitals⁩ Freeman Hospital Festive lights are ON. Thanks to Cragside Choir, the children from Ward 23, the Star Wars team, Elsa and Spider-Man and the lovely Jill Halfpenny, voice of Geordie Hospital, here with Jill Baker, chair of Newcastle Hospitals Charity