Just a cheeky plug for Cathy Catherine Young and Eimear's podcast #operabluffs making me laugh out loud on the tube this week. Utterly vital opera trivia with frequent detours into true crime, politics and feminism. If only we were all this talented.

Nice to see family popping up on my twitter feed this morning Edwin Armitage

s.surveyplanet.com/LdDaXNWhN FAO healthcare professionals, add your name to an open letter to have the "Right to food" written into the law. Vital issue in view of child poverty and food insecurity. #BuildBackFairer

Not sure that non medical people quite understand the immense skill of intensive care nurses. Imagine the attention to detail & concentration required to make up all of these infusions, set to correct rate, ensure each is titrated appropriately to vital signs, know when finishing

Research evidence strongly suggests that giving low income families more money improves children’s outcomes. Here’s our systematic review. It’s not exactly a shock result but it seems to need saying. And saying again and again and again and again link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Come and join our fantastic team at UCLH! Exciting jobs out now - applications close 4th March 😀😀 General Paediatrics SHO uclh.healthjobsuk.com/vacancy/2970283 General Paediatrics SpR uclh.healthjobsuk.com/vacancy/2970672 Paediatric Oncology SHO uclh.healthjobsuk.com/vacancy/2970720

Summary of our pre-print papers describing risks of death and intensive care admission due to COVID-19 in children and young people in nature. Clare Smith Rachel Harwood Lorna Fraser Karen Luyt💙 UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Russell Viner Liz Whittaker Wyld and others nature.com/articles/d4158…

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Our letter today ADC on a survey about mental health admissions to paediatric wards. It isn’t open access so here’s a thread of what we found Damian Roland Simon Chapman Gabrielle Mathews Dasha Nicholls RCPCH Russell Viner adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

Remember the story of Matt Hancock and Alex Bourne, the publican turned medical equipmemt supplier, a photo of whose pub Mr Hancock kept on his office wall?

📢 Hot off the press - Variation in initial health assessment of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children: a cross-sectional survey across England BMJ Paediatrics Open summary 🧵 Alice Armitage Bhanu Williams bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/6/1/e0… #childmigrant #childrefugee #migration #migranthealth (1/)

Tonight the government succeeded in forcing through the Nationality & Borders Bill. Everyone working in the refugee sector has been united in pushing back but we failed. This isn't the end though - kindness and decency WILL ultimately prevail 🧡 we are absolutely sure of it x

Our analysis IPPR of the immigration stats released today reveals that: 👉🏽Most arriving by small boat win asylum when their cases are considered 👉🏽 Cases awaiting asylum have doubled in the past 2 years 👉🏽 Resettlement numbers outside Afghan and Ukraine schemes remain very low

Incredibly important work on Group A Strep Edwin Armitage MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM. Rheumatic heart disease is devastating and kills children across Africa; morally unacceptable that this has become a disease of the poor and gets so little funding and attention.

Calling budding Gen Paeds academics! Paeds Local ACF UCLH advertising soon... Projects incl. #asylumseeker/ #inclusionhealth w RESPOND; obesity; sickle cell + more. Links to UCL PaedsChildHealth London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ST4+, Sept 2023. No OOP req; training approved. DMs open. London Paediatrics Jonathan Round

local ACF advertised now; ST4+ Paeds UCLH. Projects available in migrant/global health, sickle, safeguarding and more. DM for info London Paediatrics BPAIIG International Child Health Group Jonathan Round Hannah Jacob Yasmin Baki Terry Segal The HTD RCPCH bit.ly/44BEF5H

Talking all things child health this #refugee week! 👇 Video content based on advice from the RCPCH #RefugeesWelcome #RefugeeWeek2023 #childhealth #paediatrics #medicalstudents #healthequity

BREAKING: Sunak is reneging on many of the UK’s net zero commitments. The worst decision of any Prime Minister in my lifetime. A betrayal of our children, of our international responsibilities, and scientifically illiterate.

🎉Our new study published today in The Lancet Microbe: SpyCATS longitudinal household cohort study of #StrepA carriage and infection and transmission in The Gambia! thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… [1/7]