David Watkin
@daitweeds.bsky.social
Public Health registrar in NE Scotland. MBChB, MPH, MFPH, that sort of thing. BMA PHMC. Cymro, Munro-botherer, rugby-obsessive (🐯/🏴/🔴🌑), chess-amateur, football guy (🐺), gŵr a tad, Scandi-fancier.
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🧵1/ Flu is surging again, & patterns look uncomfortably familiar. The lesson from covid remains unchanged: individual responsibility isn’t enough. We need systemic measures that make protective behaviours easy. @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Stephen Reicher & I offer some thoughts @bmj.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🧵1/ Flu is surging again, & patterns look uncomfortably familiar. The lesson from covid remains unchanged: individual responsibility isn’t enough. We need systemic measures that make protective behaviours easy. @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Stephen Reicher & I offer some thoughts @bmj.com
First trip to A+E with the little one this week, and couldn't have been more grateful to @nhsgrampian.bsky.social RACH and Scottish Ambulance Service. You're all diamonds.
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
First trip to A+E with the little one this week, and couldn't have been more grateful to @nhsgrampian.bsky.social RACH and Scottish Ambulance Service. You're all diamonds.
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The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric.
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric.
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
NHS ‘needs more generalist doctors to end patient gridlock’
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I mean, this is just adult paediatrics, right?
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I mean, this is just adult paediatrics, right?
NHS ‘needs more generalist doctors to end patient gridlock’ — The Times and The Sunday Times
The NHS should train more doctors as generalists instead of requiring them to pick a medical specialism early in their career, a think tank has said. At present junior doctors must select a specialism...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NHS ‘needs more generalist doctors to end patient gridlock’
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I mean, this is just adult paediatrics, right?
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I mean, this is just adult paediatrics, right?
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We're pleased to welcome Dr David Watkin (@daitweeds.bsky.social) to to our Epidemiology group for a 12-month attachment! 👋
Find out more about David and his journey to Aberdeen at: www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/academi...
Find out more about David and his journey to Aberdeen at: www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/academi...
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We're pleased to welcome Dr David Watkin (@daitweeds.bsky.social) to to our Epidemiology group for a 12-month attachment! 👋
Find out more about David and his journey to Aberdeen at: www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/academi...
Find out more about David and his journey to Aberdeen at: www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/academi...
My 19-month-old toddler is currently attempting to say “singularity”. What days.
October 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
My 19-month-old toddler is currently attempting to say “singularity”. What days.
Every child in Scotland to be offered chickenpox vaccine apple.news/Ah96_O9RlQyK...
Really pleased to be involved with this. Good news for everyone.
Really pleased to be involved with this. Good news for everyone.
Every child in Scotland to be offered chickenpox vaccine — The Times and The Sunday Times
Every child in Scotland will be offered a vaccine against chickenpox from next year which experts say will eradicate the disease “in the near future”. A new jab will be combined with the existing meas...
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August 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Every child in Scotland to be offered chickenpox vaccine apple.news/Ah96_O9RlQyK...
Really pleased to be involved with this. Good news for everyone.
Really pleased to be involved with this. Good news for everyone.
Chris Woakes, man. Chris. Woakes.
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Chris Woakes, man. Chris. Woakes.
On the plus side, no members of the Spanish FA have sexually-assaulted any of the players this time. Progress.
July 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
On the plus side, no members of the Spanish FA have sexually-assaulted any of the players this time. Progress.
If Diane Abbott was actually trying to get kicked out of the Labour Party, what would she do any differently?
July 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
If Diane Abbott was actually trying to get kicked out of the Labour Party, what would she do any differently?
That was the best worst shoot-out I’ve ever seen. Onward! #Lionesses
July 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
That was the best worst shoot-out I’ve ever seen. Onward! #Lionesses
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Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.
But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.
@chloehadj.bsky.social
Read more:
But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.
@chloehadj.bsky.social
Read more:
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
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July 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.
But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.
@chloehadj.bsky.social
Read more:
But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.
@chloehadj.bsky.social
Read more:
Really loving the People’s Front of Judea energy.
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Texts show Team Corbyn opposed new party minutes after launch — The Times and The Sunday Times
At 8.11pm on Thursday, Zarah Sultana, the Corbynite MP for Coventry South, took to social media to unveil the news the left had long been waiting for. Almost two years since October 7, and a day short...
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July 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Really loving the People’s Front of Judea energy.
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Awful news. RIP.
Premier League footballer Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva, a professional player for Portuguese side Penafiel, have died after being involved in a car accident in Spain.
July 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Awful news. RIP.
Yes please.
July 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Yes please.
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Today we've published a new report into vaccination in the UK.
It outlines the barriers families face in getting children vaccinated and sets out how improving access, data systems and public communications can boost vaccination uptake.
👉 www.rcpch.ac.uk/vaccination-uptake
It outlines the barriers families face in getting children vaccinated and sets out how improving access, data systems and public communications can boost vaccination uptake.
👉 www.rcpch.ac.uk/vaccination-uptake
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Today we've published a new report into vaccination in the UK.
It outlines the barriers families face in getting children vaccinated and sets out how improving access, data systems and public communications can boost vaccination uptake.
👉 www.rcpch.ac.uk/vaccination-uptake
It outlines the barriers families face in getting children vaccinated and sets out how improving access, data systems and public communications can boost vaccination uptake.
👉 www.rcpch.ac.uk/vaccination-uptake
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Public health keeps people healthy and protects them from health threats, but the system is in crisis, and the nation is sicker than ever.
Our new report sets out the urgent steps UK governments must take so the system can recover. www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
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Our new report sets out the urgent steps UK governments must take so the system can recover. www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
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June 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Public health keeps people healthy and protects them from health threats, but the system is in crisis, and the nation is sicker than ever.
Our new report sets out the urgent steps UK governments must take so the system can recover. www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
THREAD 🧵 (1/4)
Our new report sets out the urgent steps UK governments must take so the system can recover. www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
THREAD 🧵 (1/4)
This would be huge. Great for dads, great for mums, great for babies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say
A report says dads should be paid 80% of earnings and allowed six weeks off work when they have a child.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This would be huge. Great for dads, great for mums, great for babies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The current state of the nation in terms of vaccination north of the border. Plenty to celebrate, plenty to improve.
The current state of the nation in terms of vaccination north of the border. Plenty to celebrate, plenty to improve.
PHS publishes Annual Vaccination and Immunisation report for 2024 - News - Public Health Scotland
Public Health Scotland (PHS) has today published its second Annual Vaccination and Immunisation report. It reviews the activities of Scotland’s vaccination and immunisation programme in 2024 and offer...
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June 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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The current state of the nation in terms of vaccination north of the border. Plenty to celebrate, plenty to improve.
The current state of the nation in terms of vaccination north of the border. Plenty to celebrate, plenty to improve.
So that all just happened. #Eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
So that all just happened. #Eurovision
Turns out that the local election results tell us exactly what we believed before.
May 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Turns out that the local election results tell us exactly what we believed before.
The speed with which the FA (and others) have changed policy to exclude trans women suggests to me that they wanted to do it all along, and were just waiting for cover.
May 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The speed with which the FA (and others) have changed policy to exclude trans women suggests to me that they wanted to do it all along, and were just waiting for cover.
Lengthy, but worth the time.
The Supreme Court judgement may well be legally correct, but this is likely to be the start rather than the end, and our elected representatives need to be the people to sort this out.
The Supreme Court judgement may well be legally correct, but this is likely to be the start rather than the end, and our elected representatives need to be the people to sort this out.
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case
What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Lengthy, but worth the time.
The Supreme Court judgement may well be legally correct, but this is likely to be the start rather than the end, and our elected representatives need to be the people to sort this out.
The Supreme Court judgement may well be legally correct, but this is likely to be the start rather than the end, and our elected representatives need to be the people to sort this out.