Chorley villagers have rallied round to ensure their popular GP has the best chance of succeeding in the bidding process that will determine the future of the surgery she has run for more than a decade. lep.co.uk/health/im-a-vi…

The UK welfare system is driven by biomedical understandings of work limitation. This obscures the multiple structural, economic and relational factors that pose barriers to employment. PEOPLE'S DISTRESS IS REAL. But to fully understand work capacity, we need a broader lens. 👇🔗

Thrilled to appoint Eluned Morgan - currently Cabinet Secretary of Health & Social Care of Wales (UK) - as a WHO Champion for the European Well-Being Economy Initiative!

In Wales, well-being is underpinned by concrete legislation - an example to follow!

who.int/europe/news/it…

Sure Start worked. It had big long term effects on the educational achievement of poor children. Its demise is a study in policy failure - over centralisation, over extension, poor data, 'not invented here syndrome'. thetimes.co.uk/article/sure-s…

Probably one of the most important pieces of new evidence on how to reduce educational inequalities in a long time.

Sure Start worked. It worked best for those who really needed it. And it paid for itself. These findings are huge.

Another interesting looking paper dropped at NBER by Alexander Mas and coauthors on unionization and its effect on the distribution and compression of faculty salaries and employment. (My favorite example of monopsonist employers is the university.)

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

We are paying for this, enabling this, complicit in this.

Internationally, our leaders urgently need to rise to the challenges and find peaceful solutions to the many armed conflicts that are promoting homelessness and having devastating effects on people’s lives.

bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Shelter
Homeless Link
Crisis
Homewards

The 2nd study from my PhD is out today in The Lancet Public Health projecting socioeconomic inequalities in multimorbidity in England up to 2049 🎉☀️

📖 bit.ly/3TCSdJb

Martin O'Flaherty Sagar Mohite

🚨135 MPs and Lords have signed a letter urging the UK government to suspend arms sales to Israel.

The letter notes that UK-made weaponry was likely used by Israel to bomb British doctors in Gaza.

Something very special just happened at Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee. Jasmin Paris just became the first woman ever to complete the #BarkleyMarathons . 🇬🇧 Incredible achievement.

Congratulations Ihor Verys on winning the thing 🇺🇦 🇨🇦

#smalleuropeanwoman #BM100

Five #PrestonModel policies announced recently:

✅️ First new council housing in a generation
✅️ Preston Digital Cooperative to expand digital access
✅️ Directly provided homeless shelter provision
✅️ Supporting Brookfield Retrofit Coop
✅️ Real Living Wage paid early

Continuity of Care will be made a requirement.

We have that with our NHS GP but Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB IGNORE thousands of patients who’ve asked to keep her!

Remember Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB promised to listen to us! 😡

49 days since decision on her future was deferred.
13 months of uncertainty so far #NHS

UKRI suspended the whole EDI panel for months in response to the Minister’s accusations. I can only speak for myself, but this clearly signalled to me that doing EDI work is not only unrewarded & unvalued but also risky to wellbeing, career & reputation. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

I'm so tired of this bullshit. Yet another pathetic distraction from the chronic under-funding which has forced councils to the brink of ruin (and beyond). What next? Can we claw back tens of thousands of pounds across the UK by cracking down on refreshments at council meetings?

The taxpayer has met the cost of damages paid after a government minister recklessly defamed two academics and they lecture councils about wasting money. Give me strength

Michelle Donelan MP Meanwhile, Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser, whose initial response - now also deleted - was craven and pathetic, also needs to consider her position. At the very least a proper public apology is required.

tl:dr

For political reasons, Michelle Donelan MP recklessly spread a damaging and dangerous lie about named academics in an area *directly relevant to her Ministerial responsibilities*.

She has now admitted this and paid damages.

In what world is this not a resigning issue?

My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share

Does it matter if corporations own primary medical care providers?

New research using Australian data with Anthony Scott, Tamara Taylor and Grant Russell

authors.elsevier.com/c/1ieEgcP6nJZLz [authors.elsevier.com]