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I’ve handled the review of > 1000 papers at @nature. Over time, you notice aspects of presentation on which reviewers tend to comment. In the interests of minimizing hassles during review, I offer the following suggestions (a bit targeted to climate papers).

For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help. I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).

Andrew Pollard nails it again: The UK's NHS has transformed healthcare by training clinical research leaders, but they must have protected time to deliver. This cannot be achieved while doctors and nurses are drowning in a chronically understaffed system. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thank you, Amit Varma for speaking to me so deeply and empathetically about my work. This message made my day, and I am so grateful to have had a small part to play in this beautiful moment of discovery and humanity. Thank you.

Another heartbreaking media article about a disabled child unable to enjoy their savings. Another parent who can’t face the cost and effort of going to court. Please Alex Chalk KC Ministry of Justice, if you care about our children, take bold action now. 🙏🏻 news.sky.com/story/child-tr…

Fantastic work behind the scenes by The Royal College of Radiologists team over many months to get such brilliant publicity for our workforce census today. Now need to make it a catalyst for real change.

BJA "we should learn from aviation" opinion piece. Computerized checklists and "sterile cockpit" (challenged empirically by Wadhera & colleagues in 2010). It's like the last 20 years in patient safety science didn't happen. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

One recurring element in trials that doesn’t seem to go away is #Dichotomisation. This is the arbitrary splitting of continuous data like weight, blood pressure etc into good/bad, high/low etc 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #64

Join us on 27 November to find out why oncology is the best job in the world! We’re hosting a free webinar, led by senior consultants and registrars, about applying for clinical oncology training. Book your place: rcr.ac.uk/choose-oncolog…

Catastrophic health spending is consistently concentrated in the poorest fifth of the population and is largely driven by out-of-pocket payments for outpatient medicines, medical products, and dental care—all forms of treatment that should be an essential part of primary care.

Save the date: 3D Printing for Radiotherapy is open for abstracts and Case Studies of Experience for the event taking place NPL on 21 May ipem.ac.uk/what-s-on/ipem…

Quick thread on inheritance tax: Something that is massively under-discussed in this debate is how the “it’s unfair” argument is completely flipped on its head when you consider it from the perspective of the next generation instead of the person passing on the inheritance.

Today is my 365th mostly 20+hr shift of the year as unpaid carer to my adult son who has Down's syndrome w profound LD. I don't want a medal 😉; I want investment, in the broadest sense and by everyone, to create a new, innovative Social Care system that allows us to thrive.

On Holocaust Memorial Day I also remember the (at least) 250,000 disabled people murdered by the Nazis for, apparently, leading “lives unworthy of life”.

The Right to Healthcare, Universal Health Coverage and Primary Health Care: The Necessary Relationship rthresources.in/conversations-…

Goodhart's Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” A famous historical example is the "cobra effect": in India during British rule, the government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially,

The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting : Some Critical Reflections on the 4th Anniversary of the Covid 19 Pandemic rthresources.in/conversations-…

Petitions raised by Friends and Family of Bradstow School and East Thanet MP in bid to halt closure - theisleofthanetnews.com/2024/12/12/pet…

I spoke about the planned closure of Bradstow at council last week. Such a cruel decision for a cohort who have nowhere else to go. It’s a very special school for pupils with severe autism and fragile X. National Autistic Society National Autism Association autismsociety .