Philip Kelly
@philipkelly.bsky.social
Staffside LNC Chair for King’s College Hospital.
Chair of the London Regional Transfusion Committee.
Physician, endocrinologist, aspirant polymath.
Chair of the London Regional Transfusion Committee.
Physician, endocrinologist, aspirant polymath.
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‘Improve the NHS fast or people will fall for the charlatans’ – so says a departing trust head. We’d do well to listen | Polly Toynbee
‘Improve the NHS fast or people will fall for the charlatans’ – so says a departing trust head. We’d do well to listen | Polly Toynbee
In his 46 years of service, Nick Hulme has seen the best and the worst of the NHS. He issues a stark warning about its future, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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December 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
‘Improve the NHS fast or people will fall for the charlatans’ – so says a departing trust head. We’d do well to listen | Polly Toynbee
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“Mr Streeting holds all the cards to both postponing the strike and ending the dispute once and for all, but he seems more interested in political grandstanding and exploiting public fears.”
Read our response in full.
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Read our response in full.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
December 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“Mr Streeting holds all the cards to both postponing the strike and ending the dispute once and for all, but he seems more interested in political grandstanding and exploiting public fears.”
Read our response in full.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
Read our response in full.
www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
A soul from our home has gone. Very sad.
NB Spike Island, to (I think) many of us who were there, was not calamitous, it was our moment, it was Mani and the boys moment. To be there was to be alive.
A soul from our home has gone. Very sad.
NB Spike Island, to (I think) many of us who were there, was not calamitous, it was our moment, it was Mani and the boys moment. To be there was to be alive.
Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, the Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist, dies aged 63
Ian Brown and Tim Burgess were among those to pay tribute to Mani, whose death was announced by his brother and nephew
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November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A soul from our home has gone. Very sad.
NB Spike Island, to (I think) many of us who were there, was not calamitous, it was our moment, it was Mani and the boys moment. To be there was to be alive.
A soul from our home has gone. Very sad.
NB Spike Island, to (I think) many of us who were there, was not calamitous, it was our moment, it was Mani and the boys moment. To be there was to be alive.
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"Over a period of six months, researchers estimate that COVID-19 infections led to 2.24 extra cases of myocarditis or pericarditis per 100,000 children, while vaccinations led to 0.85 extra cases per 100,000."
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Study compares heart risks of COVID-19 infection and vaccination, and the results may surprise you
The risk of children developing rare but serious heart complications is higher after a COVID-19 infection than after vaccination, according to a new study.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"Over a period of six months, researchers estimate that COVID-19 infections led to 2.24 extra cases of myocarditis or pericarditis per 100,000 children, while vaccinations led to 0.85 extra cases per 100,000."
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It’s sad to have to say so, but it’s probably Labour, Lib Dem and Greens who will protect the foundations of the NHS. Streeting clearly wants bigger things in his career but as Health Secretary he must understand the magnificence & fragility of our brilliant GP practices.
It’s sad to have to say so, but it’s probably Labour, Lib Dem and Greens who will protect the foundations of the NHS. Streeting clearly wants bigger things in his career but as Health Secretary he must understand the magnificence & fragility of our brilliant GP practices.
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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October 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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It’s sad to have to say so, but it’s probably Labour, Lib Dem and Greens who will protect the foundations of the NHS. Streeting clearly wants bigger things in his career but as Health Secretary he must understand the magnificence & fragility of our brilliant GP practices.
It’s sad to have to say so, but it’s probably Labour, Lib Dem and Greens who will protect the foundations of the NHS. Streeting clearly wants bigger things in his career but as Health Secretary he must understand the magnificence & fragility of our brilliant GP practices.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... if you work in the NHS you see this every day. We have to look at ourselves and ask, why - if we are in this together - are you and I treated differently? We see it clearly in contract outsourcing, it’s seductive, but it eats away at what binds us.
NHS hospital group’s facilities staff vote to strike over £30m pay discrimination claim
Union accuses St George’s, Epsom and St Helier of ‘institutional racism’ as cleaners, caterers and porters get lower pay than colleagues
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October 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... if you work in the NHS you see this every day. We have to look at ourselves and ask, why - if we are in this together - are you and I treated differently? We see it clearly in contract outsourcing, it’s seductive, but it eats away at what binds us.
I want to say she’s an icon, but she chooses who she is, ‘an ordinary woman who waived her right to anonymity’. For her (to have) to ask the convicted rapist ‘when did I ever give you consent?’ is testament to her strength.
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I want to say she’s an icon, but she chooses who she is, ‘an ordinary woman who waived her right to anonymity’. For her (to have) to ask the convicted rapist ‘when did I ever give you consent?’ is testament to her strength.
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Gisèle Pelicot tells appeal trial she never gave consent to man convicted of rape
Gisèle Pelicot tells appeal trial she never gave consent to man convicted of rape
Woman says at retrial of Husamettin Dogan that ‘no victim should feel shame’ as court shown video evidence
Gisèle Pelicot, who survived almost a decade of rape by dozens of men after she was drugged by her ex-husband, has told a French court that she never gave consent for anyone to abuse her while she was in a comatose state and that no victim should ever feel shame.
Addressing the appeal trial on Wednesday of an unemployed builder who has contested his conviction for raping her, she said: “For me, the harm has been done – I will need to rebuild from these ruins and I think I’m on the right road – but what I want to say to others is that I never regretted my decisions, from filing a legal complaint until today. I want to say to victims to never be ashamed of what was imposed on them, because they’re never responsible.” Continue reading...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Gisèle Pelicot tells appeal trial she never gave consent to man convicted of rape
There is no excuse for murder. Really dreadful attack in a Manchester, on our fellow citizens on a holy day.
October 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
There is no excuse for murder. Really dreadful attack in a Manchester, on our fellow citizens on a holy day.
@drlaurajane.bsky.social hearing about Trixeo, is it as ecologically sound as it’s put to us? A reasonable choice in SEL?
July 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@drlaurajane.bsky.social hearing about Trixeo, is it as ecologically sound as it’s put to us? A reasonable choice in SEL?
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A clear mandate from the resident doctors. Well done to the @bma.org.uk Progress on pay restoration needs to be faster.
A clear mandate from the resident doctors. Well done to the @bma.org.uk Progress on pay restoration needs to be faster.
Resident doctors in England vote to strike over pay
Vote comes after BMA criticised ‘woefully inadequate’ 5.4% award for medics formerly known as junior doctors
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July 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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A clear mandate from the resident doctors. Well done to the @bma.org.uk Progress on pay restoration needs to be faster.
A clear mandate from the resident doctors. Well done to the @bma.org.uk Progress on pay restoration needs to be faster.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j... A really beautiful piece of journalism, the love of Alexis for music, songwriting, art and Brian comes across in this really wonderful piece.
Whether wistful or euphoric, Brian Wilson made pop’s most overwhelmingly beautiful music
He was the Beach Boys’ resident genius, seeping melancholy into even peppy teenybopper hits. Beyond all the myths about his life, that brilliance is still intoxicating
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June 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j... A really beautiful piece of journalism, the love of Alexis for music, songwriting, art and Brian comes across in this really wonderful piece.
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🌍🦋 Climate change is collapsing animal populations
A new global analysis shows 1 in 4 assessed wild animal species face extinction – and climate change is an escalating threat.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios...
#ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #SciComm 🧪
A new global analysis shows 1 in 4 assessed wild animal species face extinction – and climate change is an escalating threat.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios...
#ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #SciComm 🧪
Climate change threats to Earth's wild animals
We are entering an existential crisis for the world's wild animals. To date, the primary cause of biodiversity loss has not been climate change but, rather
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🌍🦋 Climate change is collapsing animal populations
A new global analysis shows 1 in 4 assessed wild animal species face extinction – and climate change is an escalating threat.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios...
#ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #SciComm 🧪
A new global analysis shows 1 in 4 assessed wild animal species face extinction – and climate change is an escalating threat.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios...
#ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #SciComm 🧪
Absolutely love your posts. You explain things beautifully. Thanks for taking the time and for posting here!
1/Just because it’s called SMALL vessel disease doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a BIG impact!
Small vessel disease (SVD) is a BIG contributor to vascular dementia, along w/large vessel cortical infarcts
Do YOU know all the faces of small vessel disease?
Open the thread for what you need to know!
Small vessel disease (SVD) is a BIG contributor to vascular dementia, along w/large vessel cortical infarcts
Do YOU know all the faces of small vessel disease?
Open the thread for what you need to know!
May 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Absolutely love your posts. You explain things beautifully. Thanks for taking the time and for posting here!
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... big news, probably a win for true representative democracy. The politicisation of the judiciary isn’t working out well anywhere, warnings from across the pond.
Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate
Liberal judge says victory is against ‘unprecedented attack on our democracy’ after defeating Brad Schimel in the most expensive judicial election in US history
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April 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... big news, probably a win for true representative democracy. The politicisation of the judiciary isn’t working out well anywhere, warnings from across the pond.
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Eliminating the CDC’s tobacco prevention office won’t streamline government or “make America healthy again”—it would pour gasoline on a smoldering epidemic. More kids addicted. More lives lost. More profits for Big Tobacco.
April 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Eliminating the CDC’s tobacco prevention office won’t streamline government or “make America healthy again”—it would pour gasoline on a smoldering epidemic. More kids addicted. More lives lost. More profits for Big Tobacco.
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The CDC has literally been gutted today.
There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.
Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.
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There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.
Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.
1/
April 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The CDC has literally been gutted today.
There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.
Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.
1/
There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.
Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.
1/
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What's the opposite of The Enlightenment?
Because this is probably it.
Because this is probably it.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
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April 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
What's the opposite of The Enlightenment?
Because this is probably it.
Because this is probably it.
Tiny climate relevant report to give you from gaff sometime.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Tiny climate relevant report to give you from gaff sometime.
Nice advice.
Ladies… this advice, written on marriage in a pamphlet by a suffragette in
1918 is still relevant today 🤣
It is currently on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales.
1918 is still relevant today 🤣
It is currently on display at the Pontypridd Museum in Wales.
February 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Nice advice.
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Corporations want control over your digital books, ending the concept of ownership
www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
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February 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Corporations want control over your digital books, ending the concept of ownership
www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
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Lovely infographic as we now often see from the @bmj.com thanks.
Endometriosis is a chronic condition where endometrium-like tissue grows outside the uterus.
This article summarises recently updated recommendations from NICE, specifically focusing on factors associated with time to diagnosis
Includes an infographic
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
This article summarises recently updated recommendations from NICE, specifically focusing on factors associated with time to diagnosis
Includes an infographic
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
February 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Lovely infographic as we now often see from the @bmj.com thanks.