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cassmacg.bsky.social
PhD student & Physiotherapist. Research interests: mechanisms of inequities in chronic pain experiences & potential responses to promote equity | intersectionality | qualitative methodologies | health systems GCU & NHS Lanarkshire
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It's crunch time for my thesis - I believe (hope) all the appendices are located...now trying to conclude the discussion with the ecosystems (my findings) meeting the MRC-NIHR complex intervention framework🌹👍. It's now been over 6 years of a slightly wild journey...

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We are here : "We will consider anonymity when a clinical scenario is particularly important to share and learn from, or to protect an author’s safety—for example, if they are a whistleblower." Responding to fear and magical thinking in the US, a nice editorial in the @bmj.com.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Council Tax is enraging. Regressive, divorced from reality, driving the poorest into debt, hunger, hardship. Getting worse. But no political party yet had the courage to sort it. Ht @lalithatry.bsky.social @tom-clark.bsky.social @resfoundation.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/risi...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

🥁Abstract submission now live for this year's conference!🥁 Conference dates: Wednesday 10th - Friday 12th September 2025, with an ECR day on Tuesday 9th Where: Bradford Submit your abstract here: bit.ly/3PKGo2k Submission deadline: 23:59 GMT, Monday 24th February 2025 📷 Neil Turner

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Addressing the environmental impact of pharmaceuticals is no longer optional It’s urgent and necessary in the drive for >>sustainable healthcare Read our call to action, link below👇 And then, whenever you can and however you can, take action 🙌 @oxprimarycare.bsky.social doi.org/10.12968/hme...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Opening now in Glasgow. Wishing everyone there luck this morning and really hoping it helps... #drugdeathcrisis #harmreduction #stopthedeaths

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

tech bros: we built a machine that can tell you stuff loudly and confidently! us: cool. is it right about stuff? tech bros: we cannot stress enough how loud and confident it is!

submitted 57 days ago • 66 comments

If you are curious about #QualitativeResearchMethods we're running our 8 week evening class, from 22/1/25... Pull up a comfy chair and join us as we read the Pope and Mays textbook and chat to expert researchers (& chapter authors). @oxprimarycare.bsky.social www.phc.ox.ac.uk/study/short-...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

And if the political logic for not closing X accounts is ‘Musk/Farage will weaponise that’: we are way, way, way past that now.

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

Environmental Physiotherapy: A transformative ecological movement toward planetary health. Our presentation at CSP conference 2024 youtu.be/_AcxVEGTIWY?si… @sanjamaretic.bsky.social @adambjerre.bsky.social @eivinden.bsky.social @msk-pain.bsky.social @jamesholroyd.bsky.social

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

The Reith lectures this year are on the topic of #Violence - worth a listen as always, some tough content. #Trauma #Prison #CriminalJustice #Gender #Rehabilitation www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

submitted 73 days ago • 375 comments

Gisèle Pelicot, post convictions, says she "never regretted" opening up the trial, "so society could see what was happening" adding she has "confidence in our capacity collectively to find a better future where women & men can live together in mutual respect". What a debt of gratitude we owe her.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

NIHR has a funding call for decarbonising the health and social care system - surely improved (preventative, community, rehabilitative focused) pain care/pathways and decarbonising would dovetail interests? #SystemChangeNotClimateChange www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/deca...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Hopefully the govt will enact some evidence based policies on work, and stop marginalising disabled groups and those with chronic illnesses - big issue for those with #ChronicPain - we can and should do better.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to a varied programme of research and service improvement projects at the NHS Research Pain ASM tomorrow #NRSPain2024 #PainResearch #ChronicPain Full programme & details: www.nhsresearchscotland.org.uk/calendar/nhs...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday's #ScottishBudget brought some welcome measures that are a step in the right direction. But we must move beyond expensive sticking plaster solutions and use the full budgetary powers to enable our communities to thrive. Read our full response: www.weallscotland.org/post/scottis...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

I was delighted to be invited out to San Diego Pain Summit earlier in the year to talk about my PhD research with Joletta Belton 'What is #acceptance of #ChronicPain? An ecosystem approach and its implications for practice' - all videos from the summit now available www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRc...

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

‘We're having a bit of a problem with our boys.’ That's what author Alan Bissett hears from schools across the country when he visits to speak about his book, Lads: A Guide to Consent and Respect. I spoke to him for @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2476126...

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Did you know that GWL is the only Accredited Museum dedicated to women's history in the whole of the UK? We're always in need of support, & one of the best ways is to become one of our valued Friends: womenslibrary.org.uk/how-to-get-i... Join us and help to keep us running!

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

📢 PhD project opportunity Please share this exciting interdisciplinary fellowship opportunity - aiming to advance understanding of "proportionate continuity" in GP as a mechanism for mitigating health inequalities. 🤝 Further info on the project: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Myself and lots of fab colleagues feature here. If Social Policy research is your thing then take a look!

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Who’s good on here on UK benefits? I’m wondering whether I’m right that this government hasn’t reversed even the Tories’ last gasp, ultra-mean tightening of sanctions, including an expectation of 3 hour commutes & almost immediate demand that even the best qualified immediate apply for min wage jobs

submitted 101 days ago • 7 comments

NICE will launch a consultation in January, on proposed changes to better account for #HealthInequalities information in their economic evaluation. They already have a position statement: www.nice.org.uk/about/what-w...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment