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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 23h

Wes Streeting's neighbourhood health and primary care lead is stepping down, after less than a year in the role and having recently launched an implementation programme.

www.hsj.co.uk

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social · 1d

‚This isn’t about money: it’s about how we can provide the best and safest service while struggling with too few doctors and growing demand. No matter how many times we reiterate that tinkering with access doesn’t increase capacity, it seems that no one at NHS England is listening.‘

#GP

Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 1d

According to Wes Streeting, GPs are less convenient than hairdressers.
My latest on why goodwill has drained away as we try to provide a safe & equitable service in the teeth of a gale of nonsense from NHS England & the govt.
bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Helen Salisbury: GPs versus hairdressers? Streeting has no idea

The row about online access to GP services continues.1 In April it was agreed that GPs would keep online portals open in their core hours, but a six month delay was put in place. This was so that NHS ...

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 1d

According to Wes Streeting, GPs are less convenient than hairdressers.
My latest on why goodwill has drained away as we try to provide a safe & equitable service in the teeth of a gale of nonsense from NHS England & the govt.
bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Helen Salisbury: GPs versus hairdressers? Streeting has no idea

The row about online access to GP services continues.1 In April it was agreed that GPs would keep online portals open in their core hours, but a six month delay was put in place. This was so that NHS ...

bmj.com

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 1d

Busy day in pratice yesterday and it was great. My patients were <9 to >90. Every system covered (respiratory, cardiology, endocrine, gastro, psychiatry, neuro, ENT, gynae....)
I know many parts of the NHS are struggling but yesterday my bit worked.
GPs moan a lot but it can be a very satisfying job

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 1d

I attended Reading Meeting throughout my childhood, which has a very lovely cemetery in the same style. My nephew called it the grave garden, a name which has stuck.

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Irene Tsherit @irenetsherit.bsky.social · 1d

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

archive.ph/vQ7Tn

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"the IDF say they attack hospitals because Hamas use them as areas to fight from..."

NHS surgeon Nick Maynard: "Its disappointing to hear that this is still being raised by the media in our country... there has been no credible evidence to support those claims"

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 1d

BBC Radio 4 Today takes the political temperature in Manchester by interviewing a cross section of the population … in a golf club
Next, a representative survey of US public opinion in Mar a Lago?

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Kate Moore @oscarwoofs.bsky.social · 2d

Feargal Sharkey in the other place makes a great point...

"It is difficult, if not impossible to combine the citizens' rights and interests and the private enterprise's interests, because the private enterprise aims at its natural and justified objective, the biggest possible profit."

#water

I was recently reminded that the New River Company, supplier of London's drinking water from 1619, along with a host of other water companies were all nationalised in 1902 simply because, as the former President of the Board of Trade Joseph Chamberlain put it:

"It is difficult, if not impossible to combine the citizens' rights and interests and the private enterprise's interests, because the private enterprise aims at its natural and justified objective, the biggest possible profit."

What changed?

With pic of Chamberlain

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday's actions were all about trying - and failing - and trying - and failing to deploy the National Guard to Portland and Oregon. It's really confusing, so I break it down in this video...

youtu.be/v4ZP_DJKkvE

Trump's authoritarian actions Sunday 5th October 2025 - all about the National Guard

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel

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Sana Bég @sana.msf.ca · 6d

💔 This is Omar Hayek. He was a kind man, the sole provider for his family, & one who brought the highest level of professionalism to his work as an occupational therapist for @msf.ca.

This morning, Omar became our 14th colleague killed in an #Israeli attack.

Omar Hayek, MSF occupational therapist, smiles and gives a thumbs up as he supports a patient.

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 2d

I hadn't come across the ReFuk abbreviation - is it because their main players caused major damage through Brexit and want to inflict more?

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 2d

I hadn't come across the ReFuk abbreviation - is it because their main players caused major damage through Brexit and want to inflict more?

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 3d

My review of the third autism-Tylenol study RFK Jr mentioned is out now.

If you weighed in on "what proportion of kids have neurodevelopmental disorders" yesterday, this paper is why I asked the question. Most of you will be very surprised by their answer!

open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

RFK Jr's third Tylenol-autism study is just run-of-the-mill bad research

I’m reading through RFK Jr’s supposed evidence that Tylenol causes autism and it’s not looking good for his conclusions.

open.substack.com

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 2d

I loved this - can't say I share his taste in music but what a thoroughly decent, kind and interesting man he is.

David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 2d

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Michael Sheen, actor

Michael Sheen, actor, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 3d

🔥🔥🔥 be sure to listen past the stuff about the horrible people

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 3d

Virtual wards, virtual hospitals

Real waiting, real people, real needs

The choice is whether as a society we should fund it properly

We must!

Cartoon He’s waiting to see a doctor online. I put him in the corridor for the full hospital experience.

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 3d

Many indigenous people of South America don't have much facial hair either - hence they got the name too.
I also don't buy from the breastless company - there are alternatives.

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 3d

I learnt recently that amazon means 'without breast'. The story I was told is: the Scythians did have beards so the Greeks thought they must be women. But they were great archers, so they must have lopped off a breast. (Why they concluded 'breastless women' rather than 'beardless men' is a mystery.)

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