Emma Vardy
@emmavardy2.bsky.social
Physician. Honorary Professor of Geriatric Medicine. Delirium. Dementia. Quality improvement. Book lover. Northerner. Mum to daughter with PKU.
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Yes, we talked to a geologist who curls about the very special geology of curling's stones, please enjoy
Why curling rocks come from just two spots on Earth
The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so special?
www.scientificamerican.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Yes, we talked to a geologist who curls about the very special geology of curling's stones, please enjoy
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Keynote address from Prof @emmavardy2.bsky.social on her amazing work within the NHS focused on turning dementia audit data into improved practice and better outcomes for patients.
Particular focus on the symptom of delirium and the importance of catching this as soon as posssible.
#NOCA2026
Particular focus on the symptom of delirium and the importance of catching this as soon as posssible.
#NOCA2026
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Keynote address from Prof @emmavardy2.bsky.social on her amazing work within the NHS focused on turning dementia audit data into improved practice and better outcomes for patients.
Particular focus on the symptom of delirium and the importance of catching this as soon as posssible.
#NOCA2026
Particular focus on the symptom of delirium and the importance of catching this as soon as posssible.
#NOCA2026
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With my dad it was severe leg cramps that were the first indicator of heart disease. A heart attack followed, then surgery. Then a few years later, a massive heart attack that killed him. After he died, Mum found packets of Rennies in his jacket pocket 🙁
February 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
With my dad it was severe leg cramps that were the first indicator of heart disease. A heart attack followed, then surgery. Then a few years later, a massive heart attack that killed him. After he died, Mum found packets of Rennies in his jacket pocket 🙁
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A powerful reminder of the people behind audit: Paula Connor shares her heart attack story at 44, after paddleboarding and mistaking her notably subtle symptoms for dehydration.
Her message is clear: Recognise all symptoms, dont delay and take action by ringing 999.
Every Minute Matters
#NOCA2026
Her message is clear: Recognise all symptoms, dont delay and take action by ringing 999.
Every Minute Matters
#NOCA2026
February 10, 2026 at 10:52 AM
A powerful reminder of the people behind audit: Paula Connor shares her heart attack story at 44, after paddleboarding and mistaking her notably subtle symptoms for dehydration.
Her message is clear: Recognise all symptoms, dont delay and take action by ringing 999.
Every Minute Matters
#NOCA2026
Her message is clear: Recognise all symptoms, dont delay and take action by ringing 999.
Every Minute Matters
#NOCA2026
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Panel discussion with NOCA leaders, clinicians and patient representatives exploring the impact of audit and the priorities in heart attack care.
There was a call for a Public Health Campaign to highlight the risks, recognise subtle symptoms and encourage immediate action by calling 999 #NOCA2026
There was a call for a Public Health Campaign to highlight the risks, recognise subtle symptoms and encourage immediate action by calling 999 #NOCA2026
February 10, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Panel discussion with NOCA leaders, clinicians and patient representatives exploring the impact of audit and the priorities in heart attack care.
There was a call for a Public Health Campaign to highlight the risks, recognise subtle symptoms and encourage immediate action by calling 999 #NOCA2026
There was a call for a Public Health Campaign to highlight the risks, recognise subtle symptoms and encourage immediate action by calling 999 #NOCA2026
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Seems it's top priority in Ireland in terms of public awareness and healthcare professional knowledge. A really excellent PPI video here:
vimeo.com/1162092346?t...
vimeo.com/1162092346?t...
Paula's Story: A patient's story of heart attack and recovery
At 44 years of age, Paula suffered a heart attack while paddleboarding, initially mistaking her symptoms – faintness, sweating and arm pressure – for…
vimeo.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Seems it's top priority in Ireland in terms of public awareness and healthcare professional knowledge. A really excellent PPI video here:
vimeo.com/1162092346?t...
vimeo.com/1162092346?t...
This wonderfully articulate lady is called Paula!
So good hearing from multiple people who have been patients already this morning at @noca-irl.bsky.social #NOCA2026
Hearing from a lady whose presenting symptoms for MI included feeling faint, pressure in arms and sweaty. Please do add her name NOCA team!
Hearing from a lady whose presenting symptoms for MI included feeling faint, pressure in arms and sweaty. Please do add her name NOCA team!
February 10, 2026 at 10:41 AM
This wonderfully articulate lady is called Paula!
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“Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed”
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Government bodies need to get off X, now
Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed, writes Clare O'Donoghue Velikic
www.irishexaminer.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:36 AM
“Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed”
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
So good hearing from multiple people who have been patients already this morning at @noca-irl.bsky.social #NOCA2026
Hearing from a lady whose presenting symptoms for MI included feeling faint, pressure in arms and sweaty. Please do add her name NOCA team!
Hearing from a lady whose presenting symptoms for MI included feeling faint, pressure in arms and sweaty. Please do add her name NOCA team!
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 AM
So good hearing from multiple people who have been patients already this morning at @noca-irl.bsky.social #NOCA2026
Hearing from a lady whose presenting symptoms for MI included feeling faint, pressure in arms and sweaty. Please do add her name NOCA team!
Hearing from a lady whose presenting symptoms for MI included feeling faint, pressure in arms and sweaty. Please do add her name NOCA team!
Really interesting hearing results of @noca-irl.bsky.social heart attack audit. Chest pain mentioned a number of times.I do wonder how those presenting but with symptoms other than chest pain, more common in women,are recognised/managed.?connected to poorer outcomes in mortality in women? #NOCA2026
February 10, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Really interesting hearing results of @noca-irl.bsky.social heart attack audit. Chest pain mentioned a number of times.I do wonder how those presenting but with symptoms other than chest pain, more common in women,are recognised/managed.?connected to poorer outcomes in mortality in women? #NOCA2026
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Opening Address from Jennifer Murnane O’Connor TD, Minister of State for Public Health, highlighting the role of clinical audit, wellbeing and national strategies in improving healthcare.
"You are never a burden on the HSE, if you feel like there is something wrong, you can rely on us."
#NOCA2026
"You are never a burden on the HSE, if you feel like there is something wrong, you can rely on us."
#NOCA2026
February 10, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Opening Address from Jennifer Murnane O’Connor TD, Minister of State for Public Health, highlighting the role of clinical audit, wellbeing and national strategies in improving healthcare.
"You are never a burden on the HSE, if you feel like there is something wrong, you can rely on us."
#NOCA2026
"You are never a burden on the HSE, if you feel like there is something wrong, you can rely on us."
#NOCA2026
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Louise Brent, NOCA Head of Audit Management, and Michael Madigan, PPI Representative, present the NOCA Impact Report 2026, showing how audit drives measurable improvements in patient care.
"At NOCA, PPI is not just a checkbox, its a way of putting patients at the centre of their work"
#NOCA2026
"At NOCA, PPI is not just a checkbox, its a way of putting patients at the centre of their work"
#NOCA2026
February 10, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Louise Brent, NOCA Head of Audit Management, and Michael Madigan, PPI Representative, present the NOCA Impact Report 2026, showing how audit drives measurable improvements in patient care.
"At NOCA, PPI is not just a checkbox, its a way of putting patients at the centre of their work"
#NOCA2026
"At NOCA, PPI is not just a checkbox, its a way of putting patients at the centre of their work"
#NOCA2026
Real privilege to be at @noca-irl.bsky.social conference. National Audit important but only if data used to improve standards of care for patients. Opening statement from Minister of State at DoH Jennifer Murnane O'Connor. Political support vital. As is the grounding effect of PPI #NOCA2026
February 10, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Real privilege to be at @noca-irl.bsky.social conference. National Audit important but only if data used to improve standards of care for patients. Opening statement from Minister of State at DoH Jennifer Murnane O'Connor. Political support vital. As is the grounding effect of PPI #NOCA2026
While in Dublin....
February 9, 2026 at 11:09 PM
While in Dublin....
Such an important point from Dr Meinir Jones...illustrating how biases based on gender play out in AI generated characatures.
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Such an important point from Dr Meinir Jones...illustrating how biases based on gender play out in AI generated characatures.
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OMG: “The healthy baby boy was born through natural birth early Monday at 1:38 a.m., standing at birth at 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 139 pounds… While it was a natural birth, zoo staffers were on hand and created a soft-landing area to cushion the calf’s 6-foot drop during delivery.”
February 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
OMG: “The healthy baby boy was born through natural birth early Monday at 1:38 a.m., standing at birth at 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 139 pounds… While it was a natural birth, zoo staffers were on hand and created a soft-landing area to cushion the calf’s 6-foot drop during delivery.”
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Publication Day! 🕯️ Livi Michael’s #ElizabethAndRuth is out now.
1849 Manchester: Elizabeth Gaskell & Charles Dickens unite to save a girl from the cycle of New Bailey prison.
"A gripping social-realist horror tale." — Xan Brooks
Get it: www.saltpublishing.com/products/eli... 📚✨ #Booksky
1849 Manchester: Elizabeth Gaskell & Charles Dickens unite to save a girl from the cycle of New Bailey prison.
"A gripping social-realist horror tale." — Xan Brooks
Get it: www.saltpublishing.com/products/eli... 📚✨ #Booksky
February 9, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Publication Day! 🕯️ Livi Michael’s #ElizabethAndRuth is out now.
1849 Manchester: Elizabeth Gaskell & Charles Dickens unite to save a girl from the cycle of New Bailey prison.
"A gripping social-realist horror tale." — Xan Brooks
Get it: www.saltpublishing.com/products/eli... 📚✨ #Booksky
1849 Manchester: Elizabeth Gaskell & Charles Dickens unite to save a girl from the cycle of New Bailey prison.
"A gripping social-realist horror tale." — Xan Brooks
Get it: www.saltpublishing.com/products/eli... 📚✨ #Booksky
Love the new observer feature 'what's on my mind' . Today with author Rose Tremain who is 82 years old. Taking up 14% is 'doing the dying'. Really pertinent at the moment in my family. And really helping to talk about the fears and the practical aspects.
February 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Love the new observer feature 'what's on my mind' . Today with author Rose Tremain who is 82 years old. Taking up 14% is 'doing the dying'. Really pertinent at the moment in my family. And really helping to talk about the fears and the practical aspects.
Balm for the soul...
February 8, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Balm for the soul...
Watching ski jumping on winter Olympics. Oh my life!
February 7, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Watching ski jumping on winter Olympics. Oh my life!
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Saturday, and in the Fleming household that means it is pizza night.
Hope you're all having a good weekend, folks.
Hope you're all having a good weekend, folks.
February 7, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Saturday, and in the Fleming household that means it is pizza night.
Hope you're all having a good weekend, folks.
Hope you're all having a good weekend, folks.
Some great second hand finds including a first edition David Sedaris. Tucked away on shelf at back of shop along side Nora Ephron.
February 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Some great second hand finds including a first edition David Sedaris. Tucked away on shelf at back of shop along side Nora Ephron.
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I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia.
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
Get Involved — Bookbanks
www.bookbanks.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 11:10 AM
I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia.
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
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Really worth reading this. There is so much more to come out about the billionaires, politicians & techbros who consorted with Epstein - but at its centre is the sickening belief that girls can be bought and sold for fun. Not just on that island, but pervading our whole world.
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Really worth reading this. There is so much more to come out about the billionaires, politicians & techbros who consorted with Epstein - but at its centre is the sickening belief that girls can be bought and sold for fun. Not just on that island, but pervading our whole world.