Lucy Pollock
@lucypgeridoc.bsky.social
Geriatrician who gets to write stories. Celebrating longevity, tackling delicate questions. She/her. https://linktr.ee/lucypollock #TheGoldenRule #TheBookAboutGettingOlder Proud patron @AgeUKSomerset
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A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards.
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards.
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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‘Why children's books matter’ – the keynote speech at the Booker Prize 2025 ceremony was given by Penelope Lively, the only author to have won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for children's writing.
youtu.be/a8SdOg94uiQ
youtu.be/a8SdOg94uiQ
Penelope Lively on why children's books matter | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
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November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
‘Why children's books matter’ – the keynote speech at the Booker Prize 2025 ceremony was given by Penelope Lively, the only author to have won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for children's writing.
youtu.be/a8SdOg94uiQ
youtu.be/a8SdOg94uiQ
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Liz Orton introduces FLEXI study about implementation of FAME - physical activity programme for #olderpeople @gerisoc #bgsconf @arc-em
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Liz Orton introduces FLEXI study about implementation of FAME - physical activity programme for #olderpeople @gerisoc #bgsconf @arc-em
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1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
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On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
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📢 Calling all UK Hospital at Home Society members!
📨 Our National Benchmarking Survey has just been launched – please check your inbox and respond to help us deliver the most comprehensive look yet at Hospital at Home services across the UK.
#HospitalAtHome
📨 Our National Benchmarking Survey has just been launched – please check your inbox and respond to help us deliver the most comprehensive look yet at Hospital at Home services across the UK.
#HospitalAtHome
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📢 Calling all UK Hospital at Home Society members!
📨 Our National Benchmarking Survey has just been launched – please check your inbox and respond to help us deliver the most comprehensive look yet at Hospital at Home services across the UK.
#HospitalAtHome
📨 Our National Benchmarking Survey has just been launched – please check your inbox and respond to help us deliver the most comprehensive look yet at Hospital at Home services across the UK.
#HospitalAtHome
Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...
www.bgs.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...
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@emmavardy2.bsky.social your name mentioned! We all need a shared care record like that used in Greater Manchester!
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
@emmavardy2.bsky.social your name mentioned! We all need a shared care record like that used in Greater Manchester!
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Delighted to share details of @nihr.bsky.social James Lind Alliance research priority setting survey for delirium. For completion by UK health/social professionals and those with personal experience of delirium.
Complete the survey and have your say. More details 👇
www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
Complete the survey and have your say. More details 👇
www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
A Delirium (UK) James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership - Wolfson Institute of Population Health
www.qmul.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Whoohoo! Calling #Bristol and surrounding areas 🥳🥳 I’ll be @cliftonlitfest at 10.30 on Sunday 16th Nov talking useful happy sad important things worth knowing about #GettingOlder - pleased come, bring mum, grandad, best friend, son ❤️❤️🐘🐘❤️❤️
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Whoohoo! Calling #Bristol and surrounding areas 🥳🥳 I’ll be @cliftonlitfest at 10.30 on Sunday 16th Nov talking useful happy sad important things worth knowing about #GettingOlder - pleased come, bring mum, grandad, best friend, son ❤️❤️🐘🐘❤️❤️
Very exciting! I’m
interviewing Prof @MasudHusain TOMORROW evening Monday 30th October @wellslitfest about his terrific book Our Brains Our Selves. Please come along! It’s a fascinating read ❤️📖🧠
interviewing Prof @MasudHusain TOMORROW evening Monday 30th October @wellslitfest about his terrific book Our Brains Our Selves. Please come along! It’s a fascinating read ❤️📖🧠
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Very exciting! I’m
interviewing Prof @MasudHusain TOMORROW evening Monday 30th October @wellslitfest about his terrific book Our Brains Our Selves. Please come along! It’s a fascinating read ❤️📖🧠
interviewing Prof @MasudHusain TOMORROW evening Monday 30th October @wellslitfest about his terrific book Our Brains Our Selves. Please come along! It’s a fascinating read ❤️📖🧠
Hello bluesky!! Whoop whoop I love this! #TheGoldenRule published in China as #EnlightenOurTwilight with a beautiful foreword by geriatrician Dr Xinyu Chen. Beyond global politics more still unites us than divides us. Thank you @PenguinUKBooks @MichaelJBooks @Taffyagent 🥳🥳🥳
October 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Hello bluesky!! Whoop whoop I love this! #TheGoldenRule published in China as #EnlightenOurTwilight with a beautiful foreword by geriatrician Dr Xinyu Chen. Beyond global politics more still unites us than divides us. Thank you @PenguinUKBooks @MichaelJBooks @Taffyagent 🥳🥳🥳
Loved every minute of this. Super turn out and great questions - pills, AI, looking after someone at the end, loving life - and kisses! Really special thank you for inviting me xx
Thanks also to @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social for helping us to host such an interesting event - and to everyone who came along, we really appreciate it!
#IndieBookshopWeek #BookSky 💙📚 #TheGoldenRule #Ageing #Health #ChooseBookshops #Books @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social
#IndieBookshopWeek #BookSky 💙📚 #TheGoldenRule #Ageing #Health #ChooseBookshops #Books @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Loved every minute of this. Super turn out and great questions - pills, AI, looking after someone at the end, loving life - and kisses! Really special thank you for inviting me xx
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Applications for the Emerging Women Leaders Programme close on Tuesday 1 July.
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your leadership skills. Apply today: ow.ly/mp9K50WaFjz
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your leadership skills. Apply today: ow.ly/mp9K50WaFjz
June 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Applications for the Emerging Women Leaders Programme close on Tuesday 1 July.
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your leadership skills. Apply today: ow.ly/mp9K50WaFjz
Don’t miss this chance to enhance your leadership skills. Apply today: ow.ly/mp9K50WaFjz
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This man is a cryptid and I both love him and am about a decade off from becoming him.
My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
June 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This man is a cryptid and I both love him and am about a decade off from becoming him.
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My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
June 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
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The responses to this are an utter joy and a suitably British mix of the serious, the mildly sarky and the just plain bizarre (prog rock??).
All is definitely not lost.
All is definitely not lost.
So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.
June 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The responses to this are an utter joy and a suitably British mix of the serious, the mildly sarky and the just plain bizarre (prog rock??).
All is definitely not lost.
All is definitely not lost.
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Toilets became free (and are still clean) in a lot of major railway stations a few years ago
Police remain relatively untooled up after a lot of pushback a couple of decades ago (though other problems remain)
Pharmacists are low key heroes in my experience
Police remain relatively untooled up after a lot of pushback a couple of decades ago (though other problems remain)
Pharmacists are low key heroes in my experience
June 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Toilets became free (and are still clean) in a lot of major railway stations a few years ago
Police remain relatively untooled up after a lot of pushback a couple of decades ago (though other problems remain)
Pharmacists are low key heroes in my experience
Police remain relatively untooled up after a lot of pushback a couple of decades ago (though other problems remain)
Pharmacists are low key heroes in my experience
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Allotments. Public parks. Car boot sales. Thousands of small, local charities.
June 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Allotments. Public parks. Car boot sales. Thousands of small, local charities.
Hugely looking forward to tomorrow Tuesday evening in Chorleywood (#BestBookshopEver) chilternbookshops.co.uk/events/categ... where we’ll talk happy sad funny helpful stuff 🥳❤️
Events from 16 June, 2025 – 17 September, 2019 › Author Events › – Chiltern Bookshops
chilternbookshops.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Hugely looking forward to tomorrow Tuesday evening in Chorleywood (#BestBookshopEver) chilternbookshops.co.uk/events/categ... where we’ll talk happy sad funny helpful stuff 🥳❤️
We had such a happy time recording this. And wow @juliasamuelmbe.blueskysocial is a wise and funny woman and I wish I’d listened more and talked less! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Expert Episode: How to Age Well with Dr. Lucy Pollock
Podcast Episode · Therapy Works · 04/06/2025 · 1h 2m
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June 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We had such a happy time recording this. And wow @juliasamuelmbe.blueskysocial is a wise and funny woman and I wish I’d listened more and talked less! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Up early but I have tea and the best of company.
Looking forward to spending the next few days with @lucygobag.bsky.social this feels like a very timely book - @doctoroxford.com @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social @bedsidereading.bsky.social @drrageshri.bsky.social
Looking forward to spending the next few days with @lucygobag.bsky.social this feels like a very timely book - @doctoroxford.com @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social @bedsidereading.bsky.social @drrageshri.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Up early but I have tea and the best of company.
Looking forward to spending the next few days with @lucygobag.bsky.social this feels like a very timely book - @doctoroxford.com @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social @bedsidereading.bsky.social @drrageshri.bsky.social
Looking forward to spending the next few days with @lucygobag.bsky.social this feels like a very timely book - @doctoroxford.com @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social @bedsidereading.bsky.social @drrageshri.bsky.social
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Reform UK’s plans to obstruct green energy projects in Lincolnshire put at risk almost £1bn in local investment and more than 12,000 jobs,
How many people analysed policies before voting for Reform, the party that also voted against worker rights.
How many people analysed policies before voting for Reform, the party that also voted against worker rights.
Reform’s green energy assault in Lincolnshire ‘puts 12,200 jobs at risk’
Party intends to block projects despite net zero industries contributing nearly £1bn to local economy, analysis shows
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Reform UK’s plans to obstruct green energy projects in Lincolnshire put at risk almost £1bn in local investment and more than 12,000 jobs,
How many people analysed policies before voting for Reform, the party that also voted against worker rights.
How many people analysed policies before voting for Reform, the party that also voted against worker rights.
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Two interesting and inspiring inaugural lectures @qmul-wiph.bsky.social yesterday and an absolute tonic to catch up with research colleagues @qmulresilience.bsky.social
A great moment for the Centre as we enjoy the inaugural lectures of both Prof Jennifer Lau and Prof Claudia Cooper, illustrating a range from youth mental health to dementia @qmul-wiph.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Two interesting and inspiring inaugural lectures @qmul-wiph.bsky.social yesterday and an absolute tonic to catch up with research colleagues @qmulresilience.bsky.social