I wrote this column on monday attempting to explain to NHS people the evidence that good management practice matters a lot, even in hospitals: hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/… ...

Our Canadian ambassador Jordan Grace has been doing very well in 5th grade at school. She is also enjoying swimming and piano lessons along with gymnastics, and is very much looking forward to the winter because she loves to ski! #LovingLife #DownSyndrome #WouldntChangeAThing

Couldn’t be prouder of my wonderful daughter Charlotte xx

At #SNUG with my wonderful colleagues Cegedim Healthcare Solutions Let’s talk EPRs, Patient Data and Population Health Management …and most of all….care model redesign for better health and care for Citizens, Cohorts and Communities! Spencer Dr Helen Davies

Superb talk by Chris Weatherburn Fun and humour and human insights important companion to the critical messages of reform

How many years of progress have we lost by taking an almost exclusive professional perspective on healthcare reform? Time for a patient and carer first view of the world I believe

It’s so hard to push back against the “early diagnosis must always be better” narrative we’ve been fed since we were young Screening is just a logical extension of that thinking Maybe we need to be open and honest about why the former isn’t always true first ? Ash Paul

Vincent J Gnanapragasam Alexandra Freeman Ash Paul Steven Laitner @hstovring Kari Tikkinen René Wittmer Hashim U. Ahmed This tool calculates my risk (predicted incidence) of prostate cancer. It tells me nothing about: a) the prognosis of the cancer (effect on life expectancy) b) the likely change QALY gain with treatment c) how QALY gain is influenced by my personal valuations of health states

Vincent J Gnanapragasam Alexandra Freeman Ash Paul Steven Laitner @hstovring Kari Tikkinen René Wittmer Hashim U. Ahmed PREDICT PROSTATE I've 12% risk of prostate cancer. To decide if it's worth looking for it. I need to know: 1) likely characteristics of the hypothetical prostate cancer 2) probabilities of different outcomes with & without treatment 3) to apply my own health state valuations to the probabilities

Aide is now registered as a UK Class I Medical Device. This means the platform is trusted, clinically validated, and more capable than ever of supporting long-term condition management. Read more about our impact here aide.health/case-studies/s…

5 books with critical ideas that should improve how the NHS is managed: hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/… (but are mostly ignored).

Not convinced that continuing loads of research that increasing single dietary factor x leads to a reduction in disease y is that useful for overall public health (Today - calcium & bowel cancer; morning (not afternoon) coffee and heart disease) Holistic approaches more useful?

Steven Laitner Agree. Seems quite a reductionist approach. Feeds the supplements industry and gives folk an easy win.

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Using AI to “take” a good “history” from a patient and present it to a clinician in a summary single paragraph of important clinical information would be a game changer Dr Murray Ellender

I had hoped the Polypill was by now an ex-parrot, ceased to be…

Stereotypes are there to be broken See the person, not the disability Could not be prouder of my wonderful daughter Charlotte Down's Syndrome Association DSWorkFit #WorldDownSyndromeDay

Steven Laitner DSWorkFit What a lovely photo of Charlotte - Happy World Down Syndrome Day to you both from everyone at the DSA. #WorldDownSyndromeDay #LotsOfSocks #ImproveOurSupportSystems #WDSD2025

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