David Gurney

The six principles of patient partnership: Treating patients as equals Patients who are fully informed Shared decision-making and patient partnership Recognising inequalities Seeking patient input Joining services around patients

🤝 Patient partnership is the engine of better outcomes, safer care, and more efficient services. When the system is under strain, partnership isn’t a luxury. It’s the lever that helps services work smarter, fairer, and with purpose.

Find out more: www.patients-association.org.uk/the-six-prin...

8/ Obviously it's easy to be wise after the event, but everything we said at the time is on our web site for others to judge
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The next Training Officer Support Forum will be held on the 7th October at 12pm and will be hosted by Jim Taylor and Deirdre McLaughlin.

This session will focus on OneFile Troubleshooting. It's a great opportunity to ask any questions you have about OneFile.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4pjMWp3

🌟 Generative AI in Higher Education by Nigel J. Francis, Sue Jones (IBMS Executive Head of Education), & David P. Smith explores AI’s potential for personalised learning & the challenges it brings for academic integrity.

Read more: bit.ly/3Wgn3tw

#GenerativeAI #HigherEducation #IBMS

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the leading cause of infectious birth defects and linked to many other morbidities such as with transplantation. For the first time after >50 years of pursuit, a vaccine is in reach jci.org/articles/vie...

Know of an endangered Victorian building? Want it renovated? Well see below 👇

Wanna get notified when somebody adds you to a starter pack, list etc.?
Then this is for you! 🤍

I'm still testing it, but it looks promising.

During Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day the police could force their way into your home and make them return to their own homes.
Does anybody know if this service is still available and, if so, do you have to book it?

Arnos Vale Cemetery in autumn with yellow leaf trees and fluffy cloud sky. Graves in foreground

Autumnal @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social . Just look at those colours #nofilter

If you think more privitisation is good for the NHS.

Ask yourself, why hasn't it helped with water? Or energy? Or transport? Or in fact anything ever?

Rivers full of sewage, energy bills through the roof whilst record profits are recorded and disrupted expensive travel. Let this be a warning.

📆 #OnThisDay 29 Nov 1827: Burke & Hare sold their first body to Dr. Robert Knox. 🕵️‍♂️ @anatomicalcat.bsky.social, Conservator of Human Remains at @surgeonshall.bsky.social, rages that they weren’t body snatchers—they were serial killers! 💀✨

🎧 https://pod.fo/e/130a67
#OTD #History #Podcast

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The older I get the more I see how women are described as having gone mad when what they’ve actually become is knowledgeable and powerful and fucking furious

Low light casts long shadows across the Henge at Avebury, Wiltshire. There are a number of the stones from the circle in the image surrounded by grassland and trees in the distance.

It’s #StandingStoneSunday so we sharing this wonderful picture from #Avebury by Emma Weston. Like many of our places, Avebury is closed today due to high winds. There are two special winter walks coming up with @drnickarchaeo.bsky.social in December: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wiltsh...

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

And when the routine stuff is confusing, ask a specialist 😀

Laboratory monitoring?

Vaccines save lives. Keep repeating the message. It’s the truth.

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

Probably @thejanine.bsky.social trying to convince me to take my own advice when I'm ill. Wishing your folks better and you calm

These are wise words

Following 😀

Well that's a friends grouping that I wasn't expecting! Also you didn't mention photography in the lab!

Just your regular reminder that laboratory reference intervals rely on the following assumptions

✨Gaussian distribution of values
✨Healthy population
✨2.5% of population on either side is out of range

Therefore they may or may not be relevant to any individual clinical decision making

It's suddenly appeared by your left elbow, why wasn't it there a moment ago

How outsourcing has contributed to England’s social care crisis Benjamin Goodair and colleagues argue that growth of private provision in adult social care in England has resulted in worse care and should be rolled back Adult social care in England is in crisis. ...

New paper in @bmj.com today:

We show how public provision of adult social care has nearly ended over the last 20 years.

We argue it has done so a) worsening the quality of care b) reducing accessibility of services and c) increasing inequalities.

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Meeee

Unlikely as it's only seems microscopically 🤣

Produces basophillic stipling in the red cell, which is typical of lead poisoning and quite pretty under microscope

I can vouch for @drporridge.bsky.social 😃