"It's patently clear that some of the people who're involved in current politics…are borrowing some of the tactics of the 1920s and 1930s." Yale History professor Timothy Snyder says some of today's politicians have learned propaganda techniques from twentieth century fascists.

Our new work led by Magdalena Nowakowska & Evan Kontopantelis examining the association betn age & opioid use by socioeconomic factors bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/3/e… NIHR School for Primary Care Research @PSTRC_GM Li-Chia Chen Prof Ashcroft

#diabetes prevention programme in England Risk 20% lower in people referred to the programme journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a… led by Evan Kontopantelis et al

State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation’s first anti-red flag law. He thinks these bills protect the Second Amendment – and that they make us safer. We think it's probably one or the other. Watch it on @AppleTVPlus.

Matt Hancock’s lawyer just performed the most spectacular self-own since, well, Matt Hancock. This is a masterpiece.

VACANCY!! Pre-doc researcher in #healtheconomics to work with me, Luke Munford, Matt Sutton and paul wilson on evaluating social prescribing schemes HOPE at UoM jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…

Our latest study focuses on the policy intervention withdrawing the QOF national pay-for-performance system for primary care in Scotland vs England and impact on care, published in The BMJ 👇

🚨MPs FOR HIRE: a Led By Donkeys undercover investigation🚨 Watch the trailer…

PAPER New work by Alex Hodkinson Maria Panagioti Σalwa Zghebi Evan Kontopantelis Medication Safety ProfessorCarolynCG published today in The British Journal of General Practice "The association of strong #opioids and #antibiotics prescribing with general practitioner #burnout" doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2… Tony Avery Tony Jamieson

GP burnout linked to higher opioid and antibiotic prescribing in England manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…

UK folks, super important. Photo ID will be required to vote for the next election, but University IDs won't work, risking the silencing of young voices. Students can now get a suitable photo ID for FREE from NUS UK 👇Please RT nus.org.uk/photo-id

Closures of general practices result in increased list size, changes in workforce composition, and a reduction of patient satisfaction for surviving practices doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2… Joseph Hutchinson KathCheckland Matt Sutton Jon Gibson Evan Kontopantelis HOPE at UoM #PrimaryCare

Our new paper on the use of locum doctors in NHS Trusts is published today BMJ_Open. Locum use was stable and low at 4% of total medical staffing but there were large variations across different trusts and areas. full paper @ bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/6/e… National Institute for Health and Care Research

📰New Report 📰 We're pleased to share our new report evaluating the impact of 42nd Street online #mentalhealth and #wellbeing service for young people. 🔗More information: bit.ly/45NAMLl 🔗Full report: bit.ly/43liOOT #mentalhealthawareness

Closure of general practices leads to reduced patient satisfaction; with surviving practices having more patients, proportionally fewer GPs, and less funding. doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2… Joseph Hutchinson KathCheckland Matt Sutton Jon Gibson Evan Kontopantelis HOPE at UoM Watch the 1-min video

I’ve just read Boris Johnson’s resignation so you don’t have to. Here’s a summary:

The NHS at 60 - Memories of a better time The average waiting time for inpatient care had fallen from 13.2 weeks in March 1997 to 4 weeks in March 2009 The average wait for outpatient care has fallen from 4.8 weeks in March 2005 to 2.4 weeks in March 2009 It was done before

Completely locked out of all university systems now, I'm not ignoring you. Waiting for UoM IT Services to get back to me.

New #OpenAccess paper: A latent class analysis to define #comorbidity phenogroups in people admitted with #cvAMI journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Mamas A. Mamas Evan Kontopantelis Martin K Rutter Louise Sun Waqas Ullah Dr M Rashid, PhD doug steinke Stephen Weng PLOS ONE UoM Biology, Medicine and Health #multimorbidity

Our analysis led by Σalwa Zghebi ➡️ journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… of 400,000 AMI pts using latent class analysis reveals 5 different phenogroups characterised by different clusters of comobidities with different trajectories/ clinical outcomes. Our findings demonstrate the predictive