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Physician. Honorary Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Manchester. Delirium. Dementia. Quality improvement. Book lover. Mum to daughter with PKU.
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Don’t miss next month's discussion on bridging the digital divide in healthcare and how strong collaborative networks can chart a way forward. 📧 Email [email protected] for the seminar Zoom details! #DigitalHealth #HealthEquity

For those who missed it MRCP is a 🇬🇧 exam for physicians They *just* discovered that in 2023, >200 people passed who should have failed & > 60 who failed should have passed They expect people to resit The harm is huge Single episode high stakes exams are not fit for purpose #MedSky #MedEd

#FridayReads Mary Olivier: A Life by May Sinclair. This modernist, autobiographical novel follows a Victorian girl growing up as the youngest child in a family of boys, and gradually understanding that she's less valued and won't have the same opportunities as her brothers.

The most beautifully written book about a murderer I’ve read. In the Forest (@PicadorUSA) by Edna O’Brien #FridayReads

#FridayReads WILD HOUSES by Colin Barrett. I love his work so much. @thebookmaven.bsky.social

To those who would ban #books and #BlackHistoryMonth, I say THANK YOU. Thanks to your arrogant racism, I’ve doubled down on this month’s #FridayReads. The lives of #MayaAngelou and #MLK are radically inspiring. Maya and Martin wouldn’t put up with this shit—neither should we. #Resist

My #fridayreads is @msmarianayagam.bsky.social delightful middle grade debut, NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Who can resist an opening like this?

A bodice that might have grown from the seabed, soft ripples of pleated silk jersey that meet in a central ruffle of ruching. It is a mid #1950s Mme Grès clinging like a limpet to the body #drouot #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

What a worry for her family. 😟 Share away.

Access to respite care for family carers must be considered. academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

The rescheduled session with Dr Raouf Gharbo - really looking forward to this one! Next Weds 6pm - live and interactive ⬇️

An escape room this morning, then a lovely wander round Sheffield in the sunshine #streetartsheffield

Out and about earlier before the rain started #Sheffield

Senior Clinicians – Making data count: what data do you need to collect in specialist palliative care and how can you best use it? 🗓️ 2 July 2025 ⏰ 12:30 - 13:30 👤Professor Fliss Murtagh 🎟️https://apmonline.org/events/859-126/

A new Scottish #tartan has been created to honor the thousands of people—primarily women—executed for #witchcraft in Scotland between the 16th and 18th centuries. The #Witches of #Scotland is a movement seeking “Justice for people accused and convicted under the Witchcraft Act 1563-1736”

“I think if more of our politicians knew more fiction and poetry, we’d have a better politics”. I really do! Great to chat with Tim Adams over lunch at the fab Food for Friends & cover everything from patriotism to protest and poetry #AnotherEngland👇

First study at Manchester Met to look at long term harms of vaping - and it’s not good news.

@emreadsthebooks.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

To celebrate the new thread feature & because it's a good time to remember that doing small things is better than doing nothing, here's my only thread from Old Twitter that went viral. Seven years ago, when I moved in, I inherited what I thought was an overgrown tip at the bottom of my garden...

Come with me to the hotel in Harrogate where the missing-person hunt for Agatha Christie ended in 1926... The policeman and her husband waited by the lift for her to come down for dinner. When its doors opened to reveal her, they pounced.

I thought I’d make some of my own marbled endpapers for a forthcoming book. Thank you Marmor Paperie for a fabulous afternoon tutorial! #booksky #marbling #endpapers

Wow! Incredible #Lung -themed cake 🍰🫁👏 When is our next “Bake your #PhD” session @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social - I need to up my baking game 👩🏼‍🍳

Finally some winter #Sunshine ☀️ By the sea 🌊 🌊 🌊 Finding colourful sea glass 🌈 Smooth & shaped from over 100 years tumbling through the waves of the North Sea #Durham coast #Nature #VitaminSea #Saturday 📸

Timeline cleanser

This small megalithic tomb in the north of the Burren of County Clare is likely to be a wedge tomb. These are relatively common monuments in the area, and they usually date to around 2500BCE, during the Chalcolithic Period. A transitional time between the Neolithic and Bronze Age. #SpéirGhorm 🏺

This is Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine. He is Jewish. His grandfather fought Nazis in WW2. Many of his relatives were killed in the Holocaust. He is standing up to a dictator. Because he is brave. Because he knows what happens if you don't.