Leila Heelas

Death rates rise when NHS cuts back on nursing Using lower-paid workers to plug the gaps left by a failure to hire registered nurses damages safety, new research has shown

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...

A colourful illustrated graphic on a black background with hand drawn text reading “Sending love to anyone who is” at the top. Around the words are playful drawings in bright colours: a Christmas stocking, a white dove, a decorated Christmas tree, mittens, a shooting star, and a festive wreath. Each illustration is paired with text naming different struggles: “healing from a breakup,” “grieving lost loved ones,” “finding Christmas difficult,” “feeling lonely,” “fighting an illness,” and “struggling mentally.” The overall tone is warm, caring, and supportive, acknowledging that Christmas can be hard for many people. Picture by @nikkimiles_

“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.”Brené Brown

Sending care and compassion to anyone finding this season a little more tender in ways that aren’t always visible.

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#kindness #compassion #christmas #care

Picture by @nikkimiles_

Very happy to be part of this inspiring group of researchers. Exploring how social assets and deficits affect health.

Great, please do that. Thanks for coming to support the event. It was great to get our community together.

Fabulous, what a great initiative 👏

Academic writing skills webinar. 1st April 2025

Do join us for this webinar, free to Physio Pain Assn members.

Today - 28/12/2024 - BBC Sounds Professor Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, guest edits Today.

Don’t miss this episode of Today on @BBCSounds!

BPS Honorary Member Prof. Irene Tracey, Vice Chancellor of @UniofOxford, guest edits the programme with themes of hope and kindness.

👉 Listen now www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

ResearchRabbit The most powerful discovery app ever built for researchers 🔥

Just discovered this. Anyone else use it. What do you find helpful or clunky about it? www.researchrabbit.ai#show_popup_v...

Ouch! If one in five studies in a field appears fishy, we can’t trust systematic reviews 🫣

I fear the fields I work in may have a similar proportion of rubbishy papers 😱

1/Great to be on Bluesky- to get started here’s a mega thread on what I know about #FND and how to have the best chance of beating it. It's just my personal view- so not set in stone - I hope people will find it helpful.

Welcome to the 20M+ new folks who just joined BSky!! 🔥 Here's a Pain Science & Medicine starter pack for those interested. Please RT so that our community can find us! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Comment if you'd like to be added 🤓👇🏼
#medsky #medtwitter #PsySciSky #neuroscience #neuroskyence #PainSky
go.bsky.app/4r8uAeG

How pain is misunderstood and ignored in women Sex hormones seem to have profound effects, but research mostly avoids the question of sex.

Our team features in two recent Nature Outlook articles on pain:

1. How pain is misunderstood and ignored in women www.nature.com/articles/d41...

2. A drug-free prescription for pain www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thanks! I will let Fran know.

Excellent, I will give this feedback to Fran. I look forward to reading your work!

Understanding what it is like to experience pain as you grow up: a poetic meta-ethnography - PubMed A recent Lancet Commission raised concerns about the management of child and adolescent pain. We aimed to undertake a comprehensive review of qualitative research to understand children and adolescent...

Fantastic paper here about young people’s experiences of pain. Qualitative research presented in poetic form and translated to multiple languages by my fantastic colleague Dr Francine Toye pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39432809/

Research priorities in #regionalanaesthesia identified by anaesthetists have been published, BUT the views of patients, carers & other healthcare professionals have not been considered.

Enter the Regional Anaesthesia UK (RA-UK) priority setting partnership!

#AnSky #MedSky

https://buff.ly/3Zpr9kL

#NHSTalkingTherapies, the flagship psychotherapy service offered by the NHS, was heralded as a game changer when it launched in 2008. 16 years on, I’ve done some data digging to inspect its inner workings.

@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social

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The 2025 Pacific Pain Forum will be held on April 4; attend in person in downtown Vancouver, BC or participate online. I am a member of the planning committee and I will be presenting again. I suggest registering early to secure your spot at: lnkd.in/g_mf-3Hn. I hope you can join us.

Great ideas here!

Just posted. I think if you check my profile, scroll down and look at starter pack it should be there also.

Starter pack of researchers interested in persistent pain.

go.bsky.app/JHdMUW5

I’ll add you!

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Fabulous thanks!

QR code for researchers interested in persistent pain

Had a go at Bluesky users interested in pain research....

QR code for starter pack of pain interested physiotherapists

My starter pack of physiotherapists interested in pain. Let me know if I have missed anyone. It's my list so far...https://go.bsky.app/MBaVoNJ

Long COVID: a clinical update Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and lead to sever...

Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?

Introducing the ENTRUST-PE framework YouTube video by ENTRUST-PE

youtu.be/OqZK3N0o8ts?...