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Jane O'Hara

@janekohara.bsky.social

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Professor. THIS Institute, University of Cambridge. Patient safety geek. Also health services and policy researcher. Opinions: own. #academicsky #safetysky #hfesky #gardening 🌱 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5551-9975

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Nov 12

I'm trying to follow folk who work in the research or practice of safety, patient safety, or human factors.

So I created a small starter pack. Please let me know who I have missed!

#safetysky
#hfesky

go.bsky.app/Ukaym74

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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · Jun 18

We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection.

It is available as a free e-book and in paperback:

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

A copy of the book 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' edited by Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler. The front cover of the book depicts a person out at night, lit by the light from a lamppost and looking at posters pasted onto a brick wall that are in the style of the 'WANTED' posters famously associated with the Wild West era of American history. The word 'UNWANTED' has replaced the word 'WANTED'.

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · 24d

Love this! Looking forward to hearing about it in October 😊

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · Aug 13

The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.

Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · Aug 13

3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.

Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 13

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

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Professor Judith Smith @profjudithsmith.bsky.social · Aug 10

Will they never learn? Reorganisation of NHS structures and management rarely delivers expected benefits or savings, but instead caused ‘redisorganisation’, as @kieranwalshe.bsky.social David Hunter I wrote about for @bmj.com in 2001…. www.bmj.com/content/323/...

Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · Aug 10

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...

Starmer’s NHS reforms thrown into chaos by ‘£1bn layoff bill’

Patients could be put at risk as the one-off cost of redundancies, estimated at between £600 million and £1 billion, puts staff and services in limbo

www.thetimes.com

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Aug 3

I often stay right by there, when I'm in Cambridge! Love Mill Road.

Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 27

And isn't it glorious? ❤️

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 27

This is England. They don't hate. They don't rage. They don't riot. They stick together. This is England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 27

Yup - just wall to wall brilliant stuff!

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Jul 27

This is such a feel good thing.

There is NOTHING that's negative about this.

Let's just make the most of this feeling.

The lionesses are an absolute force.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Jul 27

It’s come home. Again.

England football team European Champions. All the players

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 27

She's SO brilliant. And so brilliantly confident. She's an inspiration for girls and women everywhere!

Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 27

Go #Lionesses! So proud of the team, and to win on penalties. Love Chloe Kelly's pride, and confidence too. A win for England and for women!

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Jul 27

More perspective from @samfr.bsky.social - Britain Isn't Broken

'72% thought the sentences for those convicted of rioting last year were either fair or not harsh enough... 87% said the people who cleaned up after the riots represent “the real Britain” '

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

Britain isn't broken

We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand

open.substack.com

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 20

Yep. I'm married to a clinical neuropschologist, so we regularly have the discussion about this issue!

Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 20

I just skimmed it again now. 12 years later, it's still brilliant!

Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 20

It's here: qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/1... See Table 1!

The science of human factors: separating fact from fiction

Background Interest in human factors has increased across healthcare communities and institutions as the value of human centred design in healthcare becomes increasingly clear. However, as human facto...

qualitysafety.bmj.com

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 20

As a human factors technique, it only really works if knowledge was the problem to begin with. Otherwise, it's pretty useless. There was a great paper on this about a decade ago. I'll try to dig it out...

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 20

Beautiful! Mine are all outside, and are cropping well, but not ripe yet...

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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Jul 19

New opinion piece in @bmj.com
by me and @janekohara.bsky.social: whither patient and staff voice in the NHS post-Dash? Decluttering the safety landscape is necessary but will NHS organisations listen to patients and staff without independent advocacy? www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 17

I once could not submit a research funding bid because of some glitch between sites that I needed to link ahead of submission, due to the apostrophe. That was a stressful hour of my life (I only had about three hours ahead of the deadline!)

Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 17

From a fellow apostrophe owner...solidarity 👊

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · Jul 17

Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score).

“Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 17

OH MY DAYS!

Such drama!

Well done #Lionesses #Euros2025

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 17

TBF it's not something I'd enjoy.

Go Bronze!

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is excruciating to watch 🫣

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