Emma Wilkinson

The MJA is concerned about reports that journalists are being barred from medical conferences after an update to the ABPI code on public access to info about drugs now including journalists. Please let us know at admin@mjauk.org if you have been impacted by this.

👀 Did you post this to my office? Written with pink/purple ink? I'd really like to talk to you if so, I can protect your identity but what you sent was really important but not enough on its own. Get in touch via DM email etc... Pls RT.

Donna Ockenden made Leeds Hospitals Trust maternity inquiry chair Donna Ockenden is appointed to lead the maternity services inquiry at Leeds hospitals.

Donna Ockenden has been named as chair of an investigation into maternity services in Leeds, following a campaign by families: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Yep annoying isn't it. But woe betide if you try to go around them. The heartsink when a contact says happy to speak just let me run it past the press office

It is really disheartening. I have SO many other things to be doing! But I am also only an AL so I don't have to do this and easier for me to walk away.

Journalism/PR and sports journalism students. Some of them will also be holding down jobs as well as Uni or having to travel in quite a distance and this was an addition to the timetable. But still...

This week was 3.... At one point thought it would be just 1 and that is the worst case scenario for all involved...

Great to see headlines from our annual lecture today in the BBC, Guardian and Telegraph as well as Healthcare Leader and The Pharmacist. For our write-up of the night see below.

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Image shows the book 'Ultra Women' by Lily Canter and Emma Wilkinson.

No music this evening.
Just finished 'Ultra Women' – this excellent book by
@lilycanter.bsky.social
and @emmajourno.bsky.social
I can't recommend this book enough to anyone who is into ultra running/endurance or sports in general.
An important, eye-opening and inspiring book.

#UltraRunning

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Niece visiting for weekend so brought with daughter to Meadowhall. They’ve left me to do their own thing (I’m good enough to carry coats). So far have bought a pyrex measuring jug. Sure this is unrelated to them not hanging out with me…

Chris Whitty’s ‘tour de force’ at MJA Annual Lecture mjauk.org/2026/03/06/c...

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

This is why we need big newsrooms with lots of reporters who can dig into things. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...

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Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

I once had a convo with nursery about why 3yo kept shouting arsehole. Turns out he was saying Paw Patrol…

My partner who grew up in Cumbria tells me this all the time. I will not accept it. No part of Yorkshire can be in the midlands end of.

Thank God for some actual proper reporting on this. Had seen a thing on FB and had no idea what people were on about. Parents were really getting their knickers in a knot about it though...

@lilycanter.bsky.social and I on the @runnersworld.bsky.social podcast this week talking all things Ultra, girls in sport and sexism in sports publishing open.spotify.com/episode/1kaz...

Burst pipes, supply outages, and disease outbreaks: Can the UK still rely on safe water? With the UK’s ageing water infrastructure creaking, Emma Wilkinson examines whether we are at risk of losing a cornerstone of public health In January, as many as 30 000 households across Kent and Su...

The day this was published I had a letter from my MP about a meeting to discuss Yorkshire Water, burst pipes and huge bonuses… pretty apt www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Michael Marmot: Labour has reneged on its child poverty promises Lifting the two child benefit cap is an important step but will still leave 4.15 million children in poverty, Marmot tells Elisabeth Mahase Michael Marmot, the UK’s leading expert on health equity, ...

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Containing a measles outbreak is nearly impossible. Now what? With vaccination levels well below those needed for herd immunity, outbreaks are lasting longer and becoming more dangerous, not just for the most vulnerable

The only way to contain measles - and prevent deaths - is vaccination for almost everyone. And we do not seem to be getting on top of it.... As one public health expert told me "it is ferociously infectious". www.doctors.net.uk/news/contain...

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This month we have a fantastic webinar with award-winning journalist @rosietaylorjourno.bsky.social on Social Media for Reluctant Journalists. She'll be sharing her top tips and practical tools on how to make content work for you www.tickettailor.com/events/freelancingforjournalists/2058020

Find me a more perfect Daily Mail headline. I’ll wait….

I think my time teaching at university is done. Doing a 4-wk mini course and 2/29 showed up. Such a huge waste of my time when already v busy (although the 2 that were there were great). Universities will lose access to professionals actually working in the real world because there’s just no point.

R number somewhere between 12-18. Hangs around in the air. Imagine the infection control nightmare in a A&E waiting room (hopefully a patient with suspected measles would have been triaged on arrival). 1 in 5 cases hospitalised potentially. Huge knock on impact on your immune system after recovery.

None of it adds up…

‘Electoral integrity should be taken v seriously. Shouting fraud while never producing any evidence does not do that.’