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Care City @carecityuk.bsky.social · Apr 14

We’re delighted to welcome Helen England as our new Chair! CEO of Brandon Trust & experienced Trustee, Vice-Chair & Chair across health & care charities, Helen brings deep insight & passion for inclusive, community-led innovation.

Meet Helen 👉 www.carecity.org/team/helen-e...

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Apr 12

Fundraiser for a brilliant homeless health charity. Includes a fan prize for one lucky donater.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pathway-tour

Win a VIP Tour of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

💛 Support Pathway 💛 Every ticket helps Pathway improve healthcare for people experiencing homelessness & other forms of social exclusion.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Association of Mental Health Providers @assocmhp.bsky.social · Mar 31

The 2010 Marmot Review is vital to informing our understanding of the social and economic costs of #Health inequalities.

This @local.gov.uk #Report highlights the work of councils and partners who embraced Marmot principles and turned them into meaningful actions 👇 www.local.gov.uk/publications...

Building fairer towns, cities and regions: Insights from Marmot Places

This report highlights the innovative and collaborative work of councils and their partners, who have embraced the Marmot principles and turned them into meaningful action.

www.local.gov.uk

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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · Mar 30

We are looking for a Senior Fellow to join our team.

You'll design and deliver a range of research and influencing activities on public health and prevention, supporting our work on improving health and reducing inequalities.

Find out more and apply by 23.59 on 14 April ⬇️

buff.ly/oDOTthv

Senior Fellow - Prevention
(Public Health Consultant)

Permanent part-time contract
Salary: £79,484 pro rata, plus a pro rata premium to reflect the public health consultant pay scale
Application deadline: 14 April 2025, 23.59

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Mar 1

Me ❤️🙌

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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · Feb 26

Back in January, Siva Anandaciva sat down with the Bishop of London to explore her career journey from Chief Nursing Officer to Bishop, and the role that faith groups can play in tackling health inequalities.

New podcast episode out now: https://buff.ly/3EUUkEK

From nursing to the ministry: the Bishop of London on faith, hope and health inequalities | The King's Fund

Is there untapped potential in the faith sector to support people’s health and wellbeing? Siva Anandaciva sits down with the Bishop of London to find out more.

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Feb 13

@patientsafetylearning.org did you know this?

Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Feb 13

Wow! Doctors can advertise as specialist consultants without being on a specialist register with the GMC if they are working in a private healthcare capacity. Shouldn’t private healthcare operate by the same rules as the NHS on qualification? Transparency for pt safety @patientsassoc.bsky.social

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Feb 4

A country without democracy is just an idiotocracy.

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Feb 4

“clearly, more women appointed to leadership positions could drive transformative change in these biased systems.”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 4

BMJ study calls for maximisation of women’s potential in healthcare

Female health leaders are good for wellbeing, research finds - but while women make up 70% of workforce, they hold only 25% of leadership roles Female health leaders are good for a nation’s wellbeing, wealth, innovation and ethics, but remain an…

www.theguardian.com

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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · Jan 30

📣 New publication: Designing inclusive & trusted digital health services with people

Why:
-Darzi report:dire state of NHS partly due to not listening to patients
-people excluded from digital health because of poor design
-greater opportunity to better know patients & improve services with digital

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Feb 2

For anyone who would find it helpful to understand the Global impact of Trump’s UNAID changes, especially on the African continent, here is a statement from Sudan.

mailchi.mp/8f035c3b8406...

Statement on the Impact of the U.S. Government’s Decision to Freeze USAID Funding on Emergency Room Operations in Sudan

FikraSD stands in unwavering solidarity with the Sudanese people and all organizations working tirelessly to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis. We call upon the global community to prioritize th...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Feb 1

AMAZING! A GROUNDBREAKING sickle cell disease treatment has been APPROVED for NHS use. Exagamglogene (exa-cel) SUCCESSFULLY edits the faulty gene in a patient’s OWN stem cells. Researchers concluded there was a functional cure in 97% of trial participants that received it! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Feb 1

Congratulations and wishing you a great year of cultural events #Bradford2025

Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture @bradford2025.co.uk · Jan 9

It’s our time! Hello Bluesky!

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Feb 1

Hello Bradford! I’ll back in my hometown soon to share in this year of its appreciation ❤️

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Feb 1

We can still see it here in the UK. The page has moved and you get this at first…

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Beanedict Cumbfurbatch @beanedictc.dftba.social · Jan 25

Friendly reminder that tuberculosis isn’t an “1800s disease” and is in fact THE infectious disease that kills the most people in the 21st century. It is preventable, treatable, and curable, and yet it still kills over 1.2 million people a year because we don’t put the resources where the disease is.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jan 25

“An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States”

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history

Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

www.cjonline.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jan 23

Health research is one of those functions that if you stop it, people will not notice the impact tomorrow, or next month. This makes it hard to communicate its value, unlike, closed national parks during a shutdown. But it generates big public goods. Once that community is eroded, hard to recover.

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Jan 23

A science attack begins.

The US funds health research and global public health work outside the US too. From WHO to UNAIDS to wider research grants. Research that has supported global progress on communicable diseases such as HIV.

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · Jan 22

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Jan 19

NHS workforce statistics lay bare the extent of the movement towards hospital based care. And we wonder why the hospitals are stacking up.

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Jan 19

Brilliantly simple to implement and warrants taking the small amount of time

Helen Bevan @helenbevan.bsky.social · Jan 19

"Team rituals" are regular activities/practices, eg huddles, team lunches, check-ins, celebrations. New research shows teams with more rituals have more engagement, psychological safety, knowledge & job satisfaction, leading to higher productivity/performance: lnkd.in/eXNNvP-G Art: lnkd.in/e_XmBeg9

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Jan 15

😂😂😂 thread 🙌🏻

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Mary Dixon-Woods @marydixonwoods.bsky.social · Jan 13

Looking for a great overview of the evidence on scale-up and sustainability of innovation and improvement in healthcare? Here you go - part of the open access @thisinstitute.bsky.social series and authored by the mighty @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social and team. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Approaches to Spread, Scale-Up, and Sustainability

Cambridge Core - Medicine: General Interest - Approaches to Spread, Scale-Up, and Sustainability

www.cambridge.org

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Jan 11

Agree with the commenter. Whilst this is all unsettling, at least it’s more crystal clear than ever which corporations and people humanity is up against.

Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · Jan 11

🇺🇸 Corporate America bows to #Trump: #Meta #Amazon, #Walmart and #McDonald's cut #diversity initiatives citing "shifting legal and policy landscape".

#JPMorgan, #Chase and #BlackRock also pulled out of groups focused on risks from #climatechange this week.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Meta and Amazon axe DEI programmes joining corporate rollback

The companies are among the latest major corporations to alter their diversity programmes since Trump's re-election.

www.bbc.com

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Jemma Gilbert OBE FRSA @jemg.bsky.social · Jan 10

🙂 ok 👍