Flashback Friday! We know it’s only been two weeks, but hey, Cambridgeshire County Day was a great day for the Cambridge Children’s project team, our Press Pack and the public! Here’s a montage of our highlights. Enjoy!

In 20/07/74, Turkey invaded Cyprus. As many as 200,000 Cypriots, including my mother and grandparents, were forcefully driven away from their homes and became refugees in their own homeland as Turkey split the island in two. The northern part of Cyprus is still occupied.

🙋‍♂️👩‍👧Are you a young person, or a parent/carer of a young person, with lived experience of an eating disorder? 🗣️If so, we want to hear your views on guided self-help treatments for children and young people with eating disorders ➡️Please email [email protected] for more info!

Improved clarity and consistency in the definition of long-term health conditions is needed to underpin policy and commissioning of services.

Research opportunity - please share! 🙂 🙋‍♀️👨‍👦We are looking for young people, and parents/carers of young people, with lived experience of an eating disorder to take part in a focus group about guided self-help treatments 📩Please email [email protected] for more info

In summary, the determinants of disease are mainly economical and social and therefore its remedies must also be economic and social. Medicine and politics should not be kept apart. #EPAPsyEpi2022

Brilliant piece from ⁦@edbullmore⁩ on dropping the distinction between mental and physical health. 🧠 theguardian.com/books/2022/sep…

Always remember, when you compliment weight loss, you could be complimenting: -an eating disorder - grief - depression - chronic illnesses - cancer Instead simply ask..... How are you doing? Please do not comment on the body.

Happening now!

The vision of Cambridge Children’s Hospital to treat mental & physical health together is so important. Consultant Paediatrician Nancy Bostock says it’s time to think differently to ensure the best possible outcomes for all👇 youtube.com/watch?v=-ENzYw… #WorldMentalHealthDay2022

Working on latent class trajectory analysis while listening to Celine Dion's playlist just made my day.

After a year of maternity leave, finally back to my passion 💚 #research #data #graphs

⬇️ New paper is now out Mental health of CYP in the pandemic: A longitudinal analysis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38266043/ 🙏 This work would not have been completed without the support of Simon White #FBPE Snehal Pinto Pereira 🇮🇳🇹🇹🇵🇹 in 🇬🇧 Manjula D Nugawela Roz Professor Tamsin Ford 💙 et al.

We are building the first specialist children's hospital for the East of England. Cambridge Children's Hospital will be unique in treating mental health and physical health together under one roof, alongside world-leading research. Visit our website for more info > cambridgechildrens.org.uk