Music to my comms ears at #rapidevaluation - the ability to condense and explain work truthfully and clearly is vitally important, says Thea Stein . And Prof Judith Smith cites this great and prescient paper by Professor Chris Whitty from 2015 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

🌟Exciting News! With pieces on tobacco control, necropolitics and health, rethinking global health precarious employment during COVID-19 and a call for safeguarding critique in public health, our innaugural issue is now live:
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IF we want to assign blame for the current state of the NHS to something, which thing matters most?

1. the size of the budget?
2. the original ideas in the 2010 Lansley bill?
3. the final 2012 clusterfuck of the highly amended bill?
4. the very different 2022 bill?
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5/ The #WillyWonka Ticket: teaching values in elite education
👨: Simon Woolley
📷: Former CEO of Operation Black Vote, Member of the House of Lords, & Principal of Homerton College, discusses with Helen Mountfield the purpose & value of elite higher education.
🗓️: Fri 31 May, 5:30pm

Glad to report we now have a twitter account for our NIHR Research Policy Research Unit: NIHR PRUHSSC
We research the impact of policy & system changes in the NHS. Generally known as PRUComm, we will be posting links to our research outputs, blogs and events. Please follow us!

Great piece by Helen Buckingham on the role of politically non-aligned think tanks as honest brokers in the space between research, policy and politics. nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/what…

Passionate about patient safety? Want to join a great team? Got some great research ideas? Look no further:

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Please share Dr Charlotte Overton RN Natalie Armstrong Laura Sheard Graham Martin Jane Ferguson Jane O'Hara Chris Burton Carl Macrae Patrick Waterson

People who passionately believe they are doing good can do grave harm.

What matters is evidence.

#CassReview

First up, Weds 10th 1330-1630

M9: Workshop exploring the concept of system resilience, work-as-done and the utility of workarounds.

I'm just introducing this, the good stuff is being delivered by the brilliant
debbie clark Siri Wiig and others.

#Quality2024

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We’re pleased to announce that Becks Fisher has been appointed as our new Director of Research and Policy. She’ll take up the post from this summer, heading up our team of expert researchers in health and social care policy. nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nuff…

If only there was some way for Twitter to automatically identify and block spam bots.

A very thoughtful and important article
Charity cases: Why UK universities are really going broke timeshighereducation.com/depth/charity-… via Times Higher Education

Any black woman with a public profile understands the armour of steel you have to wrap around yourself to simply do your job. The threats and abuse go hand in hand with turning up to work. So, it’s a problem when what is clearly racism & abuse is defended 1/

Last week I laid out how delaying disease so we spend less time in ill health in older age is possible, good for all and essential for a sustainable NHS.

Most people prioritise quality of life over quantity, and medical practice should reflect that.

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I almost felt sorry for the government minister who drew the short straw and was wheeled out to defend the indefensible. But this is next-level bare-faced duplicity. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…