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Donna Wakefield

@donnawakefield.bsky.social

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Palliative Medicine Consultant 🩺 in North East England, NIHR Doctoral Fellow, PhD on #Inequalities in lung disease, #Mesothelioma #LungCancer #COPD #ILD🫁 🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTQ 💪🏻 #WomenInMedicine Book/coffee/travel/photography enthusiast ☕️📚📷 🌊⛰️

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · May 29

Happy to see so many people interested in #lung disease and #Inequalities - thanks for all the feedback and discussion #EAPC2025 🫁

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 1d

I love the colourful autumn sky 🍂
Current view from the window 🪟📸
as I work on my #Qualitative study protocol 👩🏼‍💻 - in #Newcastle

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 7d

📣New paper - Remote & rural communities face #inequalities in receiving specialist #PalliativeCare. Patients & staff found video-consultation to be a beneficial option (& preferable than a phone call ☎️ )

🌟 #OpenAccess in “PalliativeCare & Social Practice”📔

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 11d

A beautiful #heron, looking for fish 🐟

#Bird #Photography 📸
#BirdPhotography
#Nature 🌳

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 12d

Happy #EuropeanDayOfLanguages!
Enjoyed practicing languages for my daughter’s homework and on theme wearing my Europe map top! 🗺️
My dream is to visit every country in Europe & pick up more languages on the way 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

#EuropeAddict #MapAddict

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 14d

Not yet…..

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 14d

(Because I am a new to it, PhD student and need to remember. If it was my full time job then I might not do that!)

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 14d

In my stata do-file I comment on all of the code as I go. There is more explanation than actual code happening 😆

Reposted by Donna Wakefield

Clare Gardiner @claregardiner.bsky.social · 14d

⭐We have just published our new book 'Understanding Mesothelioma' ⭐

Highlighting the lived experience of meso, and underpinned by robust research, this book helps us understand what good care for meso looks like.

www.routledge.com/Understandin...

Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences and Care Needs of People with Mesothelioma and their Families

This practical text highlights the lived experience of mesothelioma. Following the patient journey and underpinned by the evidence, it explores what good care for mesothelioma looks like. Mesothelioma...

www.routledge.com

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 14d

Great day presenting & learning at the North of England #Mesothelioma 🫁 Educational update at the beautiful Beamish Hall Hotel, #Durham

And delighted to be welcomed as the only #PalliativeCare member of the North of England Thoracic society (yet!)
Very impressed with the badge! 🥰

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 15d

Available now as a physical book or ebook:
www.routledge.com/Understandin...

Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences and Care Needs of People with Mesothelioma and their Families

www.routledge.com

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 15d

📣New textbook - out TODAY! 📕
“Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences & Care Needs of People with #Mesothelioma & their Families” 🫁
Really grateful to have the opportunity to contribute this essential resource 📚 @claregardiner.bsky.social
@mesouk.bsky.social @vsherbo.bsky.social

Link below

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 15d

Really exciting to see 1️⃣6️⃣8️⃣ like-minded people logging in for the launch 🚀 of the
🆕 #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator

So many potential opportunities to connect with others, as working in a small field, spread geographically can sometimes feel isolating.

@pri-uk.bsky.social

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 17d

We celebrated my nanna turning 90 years young! 🎂🍰💐🎁

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 24d

Sunday #bird #photography
#Newcastle #Nature 📸 🌳

Snowy Egret, Heron, Snipe, Robin

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 25d

(I think its called TJ Maxx in other countries maybe 🤔)

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 25d

Me too! All stationery is from rummaging around in the reduced section of TKmaxx

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 25d

If you’re going to do stats on a Saturday, at least liven it up with some sushi stationery (perfect post-it notes 🍣🗒️😄)

#Stata #Saturday #Data 📊👩🏼‍💻
#PhD -20 months down, 28 months to go

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · Aug 30

The #Kingfisher is a shy, elusive bird.
Small & extremely fast, making photographing it challenging.
It has been on my bucket list for FIVE YEARS….
Then today I saw him!
Majestic in blue and orange, perched on a reed.
It was a magical moment for me ♥️

#Nature #Bird #Photography #Newcastle 📷

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · Aug 25

I was dissatisfied that I missed a budgie and horse visiting the hospice last week!

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · Aug 25

Having a long walk through a field of bright yellow sunflowers is quite the mood booster 🌻🌻🌻🌻 🐝

#Nature #Photography #Durham 📸

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · Aug 10

Beautiful #Wildflowers 💐

If I ask my daughter if she’d like to help in our own garden…..its as if I’ve suggested child labour 🪏🪴

Yet she was super excited to rent an old jam jar & pair of scissors to trim a field of wild flowers ✂️🫙🌱😆

#Northumberland

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · Aug 10

Diet Pepsi is far superior
Yet I find myself having to tolerate Diet Coke because its sold more widely (where I live anyway) 😑

a woman holding a can of pepsi and a glass of wine

ALT: a woman holding a can of pepsi and a glass of wine

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · Aug 9

Everyone gets a good laugh at my drawings

P is for pizza is good
We sometimes play Machi Koro but it takes 5 minutes to set up and thats longer than my child’s patience

At the minute the house is littered with half made lego sets and jigsaws as the attention span couldn’t last any longer

Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · Aug 9

Six second scribble is good because thats the exact attention span that my 9 year old has 😆

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · Aug 9

Thanks for the list!

We play “Sushi Go” a lot
And also argue over “goat, cat, cheese, pizza” (or whatever the order is 😂)
We love “Six second scribble” and
“Herd Mentality”

We regularly play “Organ Attack”, which can end in tears over who stole each others organs 🤪

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