Wes Streeting is pinning his hopes on new technology to keep us healthy. But attention to inequalities and a focus on the social determinants of health are likely to achieve more for a greater number of people—and at a lower cost, says @HelenRSalisbury bmj.com/content/387/bm…

Despite the recent government rhetoric about the importance of NHS primary care, the bulk of NHS investments announced in the budget were for specialist and diagnostic services. General practices may end up worse off because of this and the increase in employer NI contributions.

Conversations at diagnosis hugely impacts a patient’s lifelong approach to T2DM. People with T2DM aren’t receiving the care they need. ⁦Jamie Ross⁩ ⁦David Blane⁩ ⁦OxPrimaryCareSci⁩ ⁦Diabetes UK⁩ bjgp.org/content/74/748…

As part of our MSc in Translational Health Sciences, behavioural economist Dr Scott Clarke will be delivering a free talk: 'Reimagining Humanity in the Age of Technology' Wed 20 November, 5:30 - 7:00pm, Rewley House, Oxford, and online. More details here: bit.ly/3YugwLS

ME/CFS Patient: I’ve been fainting or nearly fainting for 10 years. Me: has anyone stood you up and done pulse/BP readings. Patient: no 🤷🏻‍♀️ ➡️Lay patient down- pulse 65bpm BP 120/80- nice. Stood up-9 mins in Patient: ‘I feel faint& sick’ Pulse 140bpm BP 70/50 🤢🤢🤢🫀🫀🫀

Hot off the press. The prevalence of obesity in reception aged children has INCREASED from 9.2% to 9.6%, 2022/23 to 2023/24 - WAKE UP Govt please, & take action to enable babies to eat well from the start of life digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor… Obesity Health Alliance - Account Inactive Children's Food Campaign (no longer posting here) Wes Streeting

In case you missed in among all the news on the tobacco and vapes bill, NHS England Transformation have today released the 2023/24 National Child Measurement Programme data. Tl,dr: #obesity rates trending downwards in year 6 but rising again in reception, with inequalities as wide as ever. 🧵

Largest ever UK study reveals stark ethnic and social inequalities in lung cancer diagnosis Highest rates in Bangladeshi men Julia Hippisley-Cox OxPrimaryCareSci Nuffield Trust phc.ox.ac.uk/news/largest-u…

If you are aged 18-65, living with diabetes while navigating peri/menopause and would like to take part in one of our focus groups please DM me or email on [email protected] #diabetes #research #menopause

Well, that went as well as we could have hoped Scottish Parliament 😅 Big thanks to all the study team, our funders The Health Foundation, and everyone who came along to discuss tackling the #inversecarelaw in Scottish GP

Incredible report - Five companies are responsible for over 80% of TV ads for snacks and confectionary aired before the watershed - despite claiming not to advertise to children. >4 million people working in the food sector earn below the Real Living Wage. Do read and share.

Conflicts of interest: moving towards zero tolerance - My editorial in the BMJ with Rebecca Coombes Nigel Rollins from World Health Organization (WHO). Multiple industries pay doctors, academics, charities, and policy makers to distort science and harm public health. 🧵 bmj.com/content/387/bm…

Social media interventions as a public health strategy face important limitations. Diet and exercise-based social media interventions should be used with awareness of the potential negative impact on psychological health, body image and disordered eating. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

The Taliban has just banned Afghan women from attending nursing school. Imagine: you cannot pursue any education, even healthcare, because of the sole reason that you are a woman. We are witnessing the erasure of women in real-time. It is beyond horror.

This morning, Sarah Woolnough was on #R4Today talking about the government’s focus on the 18-week wait, outlined yesterday in the Prime Minister’s speech. Listen and watch back ⬇️

I had a conversation today about the difference between "kindness" & "niceness" in leadership so I decided to post about it. The article & graphic explain why, as leaders, we should choose kindness over niceness. Kindness is about caring enough to push people toward greatness,

Implementing the NHS 10 year plan requires a social movement for improvement not top down targets and delivery Penny Pereira @ConfedMatthew Thea Stein Bob Klaber Sarah Woolnough david fillingham Helen Bevan hsj.co.uk/policy-and-reg…

"Healthcare leaders and clinicians should remember the lessons of the computer revolution of medicine and maintain realistic expectations about what technology can realise." Raj Mehta and Michael E Johansen look at the use of AI in healthcare bmj.com/content/388/bm…

When discussing health inequalities, please use terms such as “under-represented” or “under-served” rather than “hard to reach” when referring to communities most at risk of poor health outcomes. These groups do want to be reached and access good quality NHS care easily.

🔔NEW PAPER, GP WORKFORCE STRESS, DIGITALISATION 🔔 "Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice" from the RBD2 study / my DPhil OxPrimaryCareSci bjgp.org/content/early/…