A green circular badge with white text that reads “Mayor of London – Happy St. David’s Day.” Below and to the right of the circle is a waving illustration of the Welsh flag, showing a red dragon on a white and green background. The overall background is light green.
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Happy St. David’s Day to London’s Welsh community 🏴
Resource: helping families when there’s a mental health crisis
Included: links to other resources eg the guilt and grief after a suicide.
Developed in partnership with dr Rachel Gibbons, a medical psychotherapist
Please share.
MFC is a nonprofit.
www.makingfamiliescount.org.uk/life-beyond-...
Happy birthday!
Observations about AI - how it is hyped and why it requires guardrails.
real-psychiatry.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
Fascinating thread on an aspect of a previous US civil war I knew little about
Woman looking at accounts on phone and laptop worried about losing followers. Says I've worked so hard for this. 50K followers.
Leaving X quandary?
Follower count can feel like proof your voice matters
But your influence isn’t a number owned by X. It's you!
It’s the trust & relationships you’ve built with your followers & those move with you
Leaving doesn’t erase your impact, you can reclaim it on your own terms here.
We need to know more about how best to communicate genetic risk for #AlzheimersDisease and #ApoE. Please circulate this survey that is on the #POPPED website so we can get as many opinions as possible...
popped.org.uk/apoe4/
Excerpt from Chloe Deakin’s 1981 letter: “I have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation’s future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these leaders are enlightened and compassionate.”
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
![The UK's health and social care services are increasingly strained by rising demands and widening health
inequalities. The government has decided to cut welfare benefits for people with disability,' with the minister for intergovernmental relations defending the cuts by saying you can't "tax and borrow your way out of the need to reform (the] state." This is in the world's sixth largest economy, where private fortunes continue to grow. Could taxing wealth be a viable approach to address these critical challenges and promote equity across the population?
In simple terms a wealth tax is a tax on a person's or a business's assets, such as their cash and bank holdings, land, and other real estate. There are many ways to tax wealth, including one-off windfall taxes (for example, on a bank or fossil fuel profits) and annual taxes on assets."
Proponents argue that wealth taxes are more equitable and reduce inequality, and are therefore justifiable in terms of social justice alone, that they are a counterweight to unfair economic advantages and excessive influence of the wealthy in politics.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e5jo2wxiyxyjcgwbjtjdblzo/bafkreiex5wkx73h5a2q3abqi7o6mxghu2ha2aa35vbtieapqitzlgbevwy)
The UK's health and social care services are increasingly strained by rising demands and widening health inequalities. The government has decided to cut welfare benefits for people with disability,' with the minister for intergovernmental relations defending the cuts by saying you can't "tax and borrow your way out of the need to reform (the] state." This is in the world's sixth largest economy, where private fortunes continue to grow. Could taxing wealth be a viable approach to address these critical challenges and promote equity across the population? In simple terms a wealth tax is a tax on a person's or a business's assets, such as their cash and bank holdings, land, and other real estate. There are many ways to tax wealth, including one-off windfall taxes (for example, on a bank or fossil fuel profits) and annual taxes on assets." Proponents argue that wealth taxes are more equitable and reduce inequality, and are therefore justifiable in terms of social justice alone, that they are a counterweight to unfair economic advantages and excessive influence of the wealthy in politics.
Another editorial from this week’s @bmj.com.
By Kate Pickett and David Taylor Robinson.
A wealth tax in the UK could raise £60bn a year to tackle widening inequalities.
Perhaps we can no longer afford NOT to do it?
Link here:
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#MedSky
#Inequalities
#SDOH
#WealthTax
Having a brother with a disability undoubtedly influenced my approach to working as a doctor.
Here’s my @bmj.com piece on scary hospitals, who aren’t good at looking after people with this sort of issue.
#NationalSiblingsDay
#DuchenneMuscularDystrophy
#MedSky
blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/03/...
Breast cancer overdiagnosis disproportionately affects more affluent groups in our society who are more likely to respond to invitations for screening and testing. 10 11 In focusing particularly on the "overdiagnosis" of people who rely on the welfare state because they live in a state of significant distress, we risk stigmatising some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the UK
And here’s another big question, posed by @helensalisbury.bsky.social & @elspethdavies.bsky.social
Overdiagnosis of physical vs mental health issues affect different sectors of the population disproportionately.
Are we stigmatising some of our most disadvantaged citizens here?
#SocialInequalities
Excellent, measured discussion via @helensalisbury.bsky.social “it’s notable that there’s been little public conversation about overdiagnosis of physical health conditions”
This, I’m afraid, is what “we’re going to be tougher on asylum seekers than the other lot” leads to
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Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum
“With the US retreating from its historical leadership in global science and public health, Europe has an opportunity and a responsibility to fill the void”
💯 @standupforscience.bsky.social
Improving care coordination, communication and training for healthcare professionals, alongside reducing systemic delays, are essential steps toward providing more effective care for people in Europe living with dementia. Our review in BMC Geriatrics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thankyou ❤️ so pleased you have signed up. I’m sure any contribution you’d make would be so valuable. I would love for us (me, my team, my service, my colleagues) to do better Xx
Useful consensus guidelines in #MCI from #VerónicaCabreira and colleagues including @profrobhoward.bsky.social and @suvankarpal.bsky.social
neurologyopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/...
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
For any women out there who experienced/are experiencing (sending 💜) severe nausea/vomiting in pregnancy pls consider filling in this anonymised survey for a research project led by Dr Melanie Nana. She is the clinical academic making real change re. HG here in the uk forms.gle/u6GNNAhX5WqS...
Great thread from @walaszek.medsky.social 👇🏽
You are absolutely correct @trishaelliott.bsky.social - @bmj.com has a large array of open access articles and is committed to increasing access
bmjgroup.com/bmj-increase...
In this age where access to good quality research is declining it’s worth knowing this!!
Likewise! I’m a member of the BMA so can read this @BMJ.com article easily, but sometimes it’s harder to access useful/relevant articles if you are not a member/lack institutional access
Great article by @helensalisbury.bsky.social - thanks for sharing and making more accessible @trishaelliott.bsky.social
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What does this mean for UK data when Palantir technologies has secured NHS contracts??
With water and other bills rising, and the Welsh population ageing, assistance for older people is needed now more than ever. Here are three sources of support | Age Cymru
@bylines.cymru
Here’s to sustained improvement 🎉
So interesting to learn that Deepseek achieved very similar outcomes to Open Ai and other generative AIs using a different (and much cheaper) strategy.
