A huge honour to present my research on people living w/obesity in community EASO Best Thesis award y’day Huge thanks to Prof Emilie Combet @emiliecombet.bsky.social David Blane Juliet MacArthur Laurie Eyles RD AudreyMc-RD Helen Parretti Martin Williamson Jenni Burton 💙💚 EASOECN for all their support

Our economy isn't working for people or planet.

Let's redesign it with different goals at its heart 🎯

RT if you want to see a #WellbeingEconomy

#ChallengePoverty #ClimateCrisis

...and the ministerial positions have now had #CommunityWealthBuilding removed too. Very disappointing given the positive evidence emerging of its impacts on health doi.org/10.1016/S2468-…

Hugely disappointing to see that John Swinney has removed #WellbeingEconomy from cabinet portfolios. If ever there was a time when such an approach was needed it is now... gov.scot/news/new-scott…

Tackling the inverse care law in RCGP Scotland general practice: A report by David Blane et al funded by The Health Foundation and produced by University of Glasgow and The University of Edinburgh health.org.uk/publications/t…

Great work Cass! 🙌

Excited to share WoS IHIG have announced their first CPD evening of 2024: 'Missingness' with the fantastic Prof Andrea E Williamson.

🗓️ Thursday 30th May, 7-9pm

ℹ️ Full details on poster

🎟️ Tickets here: rcgp.my.site.com/s/lt-event?id=…

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“During 14 years in government, the Conservatives have eroded the welfare safety net, sabotaged the quality of public services through underfunding and neglect, and imposed a huge economic hit in the form of a hard Brexit.”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The idea “every aspect of the support for disabled people” must “help people get into work” is deeply grim from Labour. Benefits and the NHS don’t exist to turn disabled people into economic productively units. They are to help us live well. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Since 1947 politicians and tabloids have always suspected that GPs are too kind to their patients and hand out sick notes too easily bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

New The Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity UCL analysis confirms since 2010 central government spending cuts to local authorities were highest in areas with lower life expectancy and more health inequalities, further harming health in these places @MichaeMarmot @UCL bit.ly/LEGAP

“In the larger body of pain research and approaches to pain care, identity, self, and shame, are almost never brought up.”

Latest post from Joletta Belton out now:
open.substack.com/pub/mycuppajo/…

Thank u for sharing this Darren🙏

I’m feeling partly responsible for the lecture theatre of GPs 🫣, but I can assure u your message was well received by all Deep End GP Scotland conference - we have a long way to go in understanding trauma, and advocating for change - see u at Fringe!

Good thread and article. Teaching wise, I thought it was me moving discipline from soc sci to public health making me so much more exposed to SRs as a masters project style, but with rising student numbers coupled with increased contraction of staff time seems a perfect storm

Thank you Andrew - I continue to be inspired by you and colleagues Upstream Lab 🙏

Justice Sotomayor: 'I am having a hard time thinking that creating false documents, that submitting false documents, that ordering the assassination of a rival, that accepting a bribe and countless other laws that could be broken for personal gain, that anyone would say that it

We know that navigating payments for public involvement can be complicated, so with The Health Research Authority & Health and Care Research Wales, we’ve developed new guidance for public contributors on receiving payment, specifically looking at tax and employment status.

Read it here:
nihr.ac.uk/documents/paym…

At UofG School of Health & Wellbeing Research, Teaching & Clinical Away Day and reminded of the devastating impact of austerity - David Walsh (formerly of Glasgow Centre for Population Health) presents the evidence of increasing mortality (unprecedented in recent times) among the most socioeconomically disadvantaged quintile…

I don’t gamble so I’ve no skin in this game. But watching football on TV there and the gambling advertising is absolutely EVERYWHERE. I think one day we’ll look back at this the way we look back at tobacco advertising in sport. Dreadful to see so many ex-pros involved too IMHO

a team GPPC photo in the sunshine at the UofG School of Health & Wellbeing RTC away day ☀️