🫁 🧵Do you want to help shape research to improve #pulmonaryrehabilitation for South Asian people living with #COPD ?

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☎️ For more information contact Emma Shiel ([email protected])

Still time to sign up to hear from Ceinwen Giles, CEO of Shine Charity who offer support to younger people living with cancer. Tuesday 16 April 2024 6-30 – 7.30pm. Email [email protected] to register.

Prostate cancer cases are projected to double to 2.9 million per year by 2040.

🆕 A Lancet Commission outlines evidence-based interventions, such as improved early detection & education programmes, to help save lives & prevent related ill health. hubs.li/Q02snzFs0

Are you having #Cancer treatment currently, that has been, or is being delayed. What impact is this having? A national news broadcaster, would like to hear from you. Please contact me initially, asap.

Harvard University Amy Edmondson Amy is now discussing her concept of 'intelligent failure'

This is not only the bread and butter of scientists, it's for all of us, in all of our activities.

We need to find new and better ways to succeed, and for this we need intelligent failure.

#Quality2024

Register free for Oncology Professional Care rfg.circdata.com/publish/OPC24/… Read this blog on why its the go to conference for healthcare professionals macmillan.org.uk/healthcare-pro…

Here’s a snapshot of just 20 letters rec’d this afternoon from hospital & other NHS colleagues

Half need us to do something eg refer, order investigations, send info back

It’s not just GP time, but admin & secretarial too - when 95% staff are in hospitals

This from NEF with Ayeisha Thomas-Smith, Kate Raworth and Michael Jacobs on growth/degrowth is very good.

It confirms my view that degrowth is a terrible label for an important debate about production and consumption, inequality and the benefits of adding value neweconomics.org/2024/04/new-ec…

“I’ve been a physician for over 40 years. I don’t ever remember the tobacco industry sponsoring . . . certified physician education. My God!” Exclusive: Outcry as Philip Morris International funds courses on Medscape The BMJ Hristio Boytchev bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Yes my inaugural lecture was recorded! Here is the link:

echo360.org.uk/media/226449c8…

Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis

Thinking of approaching funders for a new #HealthJusticePartnership but unsure where to start?

Health Justice Australia's handy advocacy tool outlines four key considerations to include when securing funding for partnership work:
healthjustice.org.au/resource/toolk…

I’ve been looking in more detail at the 2023 suicide figures from ONS, published this week.

They showed a 6% rise, giving us the highest national rate since 1999.

In fact, the detailed picture - by age, sex & where people live - is not simple.

Short 🧵 & TW

Prostate MRI is a more accurate, non-invasive test that is acceptable to patients for the diagnosis of #ProstateCancer doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2… Dr Sam Merriel 💙💛  Fiona Walter william hamilton Alice Forman Dr. Steph Archer Hashim U. Ahmed David Eldred-Evans Manchester Cancer Research Centre UoM Primary Care Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK

Compared with no invitation for routine PSA testing, a single invitation for a PSA screening test reduced prostate cancer mortality at a median follow-up of 15 years, but the absolute mortality benefit was small.

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#EAU24

⏰The countdown is on! 3 months until #Unheard : The Medical Practice of Silencing is published by @trapeze_books!
It’s available to pre-order now & out on 4th July.
Thanks for all the support so far 💜 I’m excited, nervous & several emotions in between!

hachette.co.uk/titles/rageshr…

I don't think people outside of academia understand how much time we actually spend finding citations for things like 'happiness is good for you' and 'racism is bad.'

Enhanced acceptance and commitment therapy for patients living with or beyond cancer

Read the @SURECANStudy protocol in #TrialsJournal General Medicine and Medical Evidence @ BMC

#ISRCTN : isrctn.com/ISRCTN67900293

trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Until 50 years ago, CO₂ emissions developed in lockstep with economic growth in France.

Since the early 1970s, the opposite has been true: emissions declined as people in France got richer.

Never feel like you're asking a 'stupid' question. If you don't know something, the smartest thing you can do is find out.

Part of our work in the CHILD study is to understand the experiences of children and their #caregivers in accessing social care. Our goal is to map local resources and co-design an intervention to improve health and social services. upstreamlab.org/project/child-…