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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14d

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come along to our first event 31st october or add yourself to our mailing list for a streamed section of the day. it's going to be excellent. no sponsorship, independent, and amazing people are coming medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...

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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · 29d

UK sociologist of health? Next call for @fshi.bsky.social awards closes 30th october www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/

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THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · 16d

THIS Space 2025 programme is now live! Join us virtually on 25 November. The event is free to attend, but booking is essential and space is limited. View the full programme and register here: ths.im/4nGd5wJ

#THISspace2025

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Mary Guy @maryjguy.bsky.social · 24d

An important and insightful, if thoroughly depressing, read about UK higher education.

wonkhe.com/blogs/roll-u...

Roll up roll up for the great higher education fire sale

From covert mergers to regulatory complacency, Jim Dickinson reveals how market logic is reshaping UK higher education – and why the fate of Buckingham could set a troubling precedent From covert merg...

wonkhe.com

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Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · Aug 28

There are just three days left to apply to our Senior Fellow role... 🔍

If you can lead on projects at the forefront of research into health and social care, we'd love to hear from you.

Take a look at our vacancy and apply by Sunday 31 August. #researchjobs

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/job/senior-f...

Senior Fellow (SF05/25)

We are looking to recruit a Senior Fellow to lead on projects across a range of topics within health and care.

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk

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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Aug 26

We are recruiting! Are you an early or mid-career health services researcher with an interest in improving the quality of UK healthcare? This Research Associate or Assistant Research Professor role could be the one for you. Deadline 7 September. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Research Associate/Assistant Research Professor (Fixed Term)

Funded by the Health Foundation, THIS Institute has a remit to advance research into how to improve the quality and safety of patient care. The institute hosts around 60 staff, consisting of

www.cam.ac.uk

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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Jul 31

Exciting research fellow role at the University of Edinburgh working with Martyn Pickersgill and colleagues on a timely and fascinating-sounding project on how health (mis)information is regulated across countries: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh

Apply for the Research Fellow role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Beatriz Goulão @beatrizgoulao.bsky.social · Jul 29

Another great post fr @chrischirp.bsky.social focusing on @nihr.bsky.social HSDR funding to improve patient's and staff's experiences. Very proud to be involved, & to have the opportunity to work w and learn fr fab colleagues including @instagraham.bsky.social @katiejsheehan.bsky.social

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Jul 29

The NHS & Social Care are struggling.

Behind the scenes, researchers are working on practical ways to make care better.

From ambulance handovers to teen mental health, I've written about the quiet research funded by @nihr.bsky.social HSDR.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-resear...

The research trying to improve health and social care services

How UK health research funding is tackling the front-line problems we face — from GP access to mental health and care homes

christinapagel.substack.com

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THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · Jul 21

Penny Dash’s recent review calls for major reforms in patient safety – but while change is needed, the review also raises some important questions. @instagraham.bsky.social and @janekohara.bsky.social comment on the review and its potential impact on patient safety. Read the editorial ths.im/4m8XFQX

Hope over experience? Patient and staff voice in the NHS after the Dash review

Penny Dash’s review of patient safety in England has recommended major changes to the organisational landscape.1 National bodies will be abolished or merged, and strategic planning and coordination is...

www.bmj.com

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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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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Jul 18

This isn't new but I'll feel better for bleeting it.

Publisher: Congrats, we are pleased to accept your paper!
<Months pass>
Author: Please could I have an update?
Publisher:
<Months pass>
Publisher: Check your proofs by TOMORROW (Saturday) or we'll publish an error-strewn version in your name.

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THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · Jun 30

What can AI really do for healthcare improvement – and what’s still missing?

In THIS Institute and Homerton College’s 2025 annual lecture, Niels Peek (@nielspeek.bsky.social) cuts through the AI hype.

🎥 Watch ‘Evidence-based healthcare innovation in the age of AI’ ths.im/4nl8uRh

Professor Niels Peek delivers a lecture at the Great Hall, Homerton College, while the audience listens attentively.

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Cristian Montenegro @crismontenegro.bsky.social · Jul 14

New article in Social Theory & Health, co-authored with
@judegreen.bsky.social, open access.

In a nutshell we argue that that lived-experience research is not the same as qualitative sociology in health research. The difference exists and matters.

Read here: rdcu.be/evZ7F

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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Jul 14

Job opportunity - deputy director of the Geller Institute for Ageing and Memory at the University of West London, working with Katie Featherstone and colleagues: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT550/d...

Deputy Director of the Geller Institute for Aging and Memory at University of West London

Apply for the Deputy Director of the Geller Institute for Aging and Memory role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social · Jul 11

Wes Streeting has laid out bold plans for English maternity services - but will they work?

Our @bmj.com opinion has now been published, exploring some ways that they might be enhanced.

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Written with the fabulous @marydixonwoods.bsky.social @instagraham.bsky.social

www.bmj.com

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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Jul 7

Great piece, but I feel that The Conversation is really trying to kill my mood.

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Professor Judith Smith @profjudithsmith.bsky.social · Jul 7

In case you missed it: my article for @uk.theconversation.com on theTen Year Health Plan for England. So many ideas (and some good ones at that) but precious little about how to implement them. #NHSPlan #FitForTheFuture #NHS #healthpolicy

theconversation.com/nhs-ten-year...

NHS ten-year plan for England: what’s in it and what’s needed to make it work

Ten-year NHS transformation hinges on funding and staff support.

theconversation.com

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THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · Jul 3

We welcome publication of the new 10-year health plan. We're here to build evidence in line with the plan through projects like:
• Evaluating ambient voice technology and launching a new online community
• Supporting design and planning of large-scale change programmes
Find out more: ths.im/4laMCq3

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Karolina Kuberska @kkuberska.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢New publication📢

Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
doi.org/10.1080/1541...

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A diagram of clinicians’ considerations around offering rescue packs to patients discharged following COPD exacerbation
There are three nested ovals depicting different levels of considerations, with text inside.
The largest oval has the heading “Macro-level considerations” and includes three text boxes: antibiotic stewardship; preventing hospital admissions; and pressures in the NHS.
The middle oval has the heading “Meso-level considerations” and includes three text boxes: following national guidance and audit requirements; hospital clinicians’ access to patients’ primary care records; and local access to primary care.
The smallest oval has the heading “Micro-level considerations” and includes two text-boxes: patient’s self-management skills and empowering patients.

Screenshot of the paper's pdf.
Title: Respiratory Clinicians’ Views on Offering “Rescue Packs” to Patients Discharged After COPD Exacerbation: Qualitative Interview Study
Authors: Karolina Kuberska, Graham Martin, John R. Hurst, Mona Bafadhel
Abstract
“Rescue packs” for COPD exacerbations, consisting of a course of antibiotics and steroids, have become part of self-management strategies for many patients living with COPD. Currently, in the UK, rescue packs are guideline-recommended but not routinely offered on hospital discharge. They are, however, commonly prescribed by primary care teams. This study examined hospital-based respiratory clinicians’ views on offering patients rescue packs following hospitalisation for COPD exacerbations. We conducted 24 individual and joint semi-structured interviews via telephone or videocall with 30 clinicians (respiratory consultants, respiratory registrars and specialist nurses) in 20 UK hospitals to understand variation in practice around, and views on, offering rescue packs to discharged COPD patients. Interview data were analysed using the constant comparative method. Clinicians’ views on offering rescue packs were a mixture of concerns and recognition of potential benefits. Concerns included antimicrobial resistance, individual overuse of antibiotics, and potential side effects of steroids, especially in patients with poorer understanding of their own condition, with lower self-management skills, or who found it difficult to access primary care. Recognised benefits included the potential to prevent future exacerbations, empowering patients by supporting COPD self-management, and circumventing the difficulties of securing an urgent primary care appointment. There was a consensus that supporting patients in self-management of COPD was key to effective care. Given the increasing role of self-management for patients living with COPD, it is vital to ensure that patients are able to appropriately use rescue packs.

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Dr Jay Watts (they/she) @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎯 68% of PIP appeals are overturned in favor of disabled people - proving the system already wrongly denies support. Now they want to make it even harder to qualify. This isn't reform, it's institutionalized discrimination. #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip

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THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · Jun 10

We’re heading to #NHSConfedExpo 📦 📦 📦 Come find us at stand F80 near the Innovation Theatre & Speaker Studio to catch up on all things healthcare improvement, and grab a free copy from our series, Elements of Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare.

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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Jun 4

Really looking forward to @janekohara.bsky.social's interview with Charles Vincent in Episode 2. (6/6) psrc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/latest/podca...

Stories of Safety Podcast

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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Jun 4

And my favourite bit of all, the human-interest story: how he didn’t want to be a health journalist because he was interested in the sexy stuff, like crime and politics – but it turns out that healthcare is full of crime and full of politics. (5/6)

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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Jun 4

His reflections on how to approach investigative journalism in a respectful and compassionate way (some great tips here for researchers, too, as we try to marry respect for people with the quest for knowledge); (4/6)

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Graham Martin @instagraham.bsky.social · Jun 4

The continued reliance of the system on patients and families to hold the NHS to account when things go wrong, and the importance of inquiries in ‘nudging’ the healthcare system in the right direction; (3/6)

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