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🚭 Stopping smoking reduces the risk of 50+ illnesses and conditions. 💡 Need support? People who use stop smoking services are 3x more likely to quit for good. This #NoSmokingDay, take the first step - find free support near you: www.nhs.uk/better-healt... #NSD2025

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Some great afternoon sessions on #publichealthresearch in the @local.gov.uk / @adphuk.bsky.social conference this year - sponsored by @nihr.bsky.social @nihr-phirst.bsky.social @lgawellbeing.bsky.social lgaevents.local.gov.uk/lga/frontend...

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Why isn't @nihr.bsky.social posting anything on this platform? But still posting in the other place?

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Today is Young Carers Action Day. This year I've travelled across the country meeting young carers and hearing their stories. Their resilience and strength always amaze me. Young carers deserve more support – we’re fighting hard every day to make sure they get it.

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Public health folk working in Local Government. Want to join a funded, exclusive club? See here: sites.google.com/view/nihrrss... Apply by 16th April 2025.

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Labour is hiking taxes on billionaires. Don’t be distracted by the farmers protesting in Westminster. Inheritance tax on farmland means the super rich will pay their fair share. Here’s who’s most affected:

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Labour is doing a wealth tax. But instead of a one-off hit, it’s rolling out a series of measures to make the richest pay their fair share. 5 examples:

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Efficient transport looks empty. Inefficient transport looks full.

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@nihr.bsky.social wants senior #publichealth people to help them decide what research to fund. Apply for the Prioritisation Committee to help us fund the research you need in your public health work. @adphuk.bsky.social @local.gov.uk @pubhealthjobsuk.bsky.social www.nihr.ac.uk/get-involved...

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🆕NIHR alert on vaping and breathing issues in young people: evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/vaping... Read ASH's comment on the findings ⬇️

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Cuts to welfare won’t solve the working age health challenge. Coverage of new @healthfoundation.bsky.social report in todays @theguardian.com It’s not enough to reform welfare - there must be more support for people in work but in ill health www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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📣📣📣 Two fabulous jobs at @healthfoundation.bsky.social for public health consultants wanting to drive forward the prevention agenda. 1. Assistant director 2. Senior Fellow Please share lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde01/ats/ca...

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On this International Women’s Day, I am longing for safe enough infrastructure to live my life as this woman is, taking her dog for a run, on a bike, in the Netherlands.

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@brenttoderian.bsky.social

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ULEZ works. It’s that simple. Expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone wasn’t a decision I took lightly, but the latest figures show that it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners.

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🧵 1/11 📚 Our new rapid systematic review, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social in @bmj.com examines the role of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthetic associates (AAs) in the UK. This is a crucially important question in light of the Leng Review

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Depending on the amount of time, love, energy and resource we choose to invest in a child, they either grow to become a longterm contributor to, or cost centre for, our society. Invest now or pay later!

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We’re not failing to eliminate homelessness because it’s too expensive, because it’s actually cheaper to house people than let them continue unhoused

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@pubhealthjobsuk.bsky.social

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📣📣📣 Absolutely fabulous job opportunity @healthfoundation.bsky.social for a Public Health Consultant with the drive to improve health and reduce inequalities through transforming prevention policy - in its broadest sense - across the UK! Please share ☺️ lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde01/ats/ca...

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This is such a unique and exciting opportunity to join @healthfoundation.bsky.social as an Assistant Director and PH Consultant to lead on UK prevention policy. V happy to chat. Please share @adphuk.bsky.social @fphuk.bsky.social @publichealthjobs.bsky.social @pubhealthjobsuk.bsky.social 👇👇

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Find order in chaos by starting from the islands of coherence. #existential

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Thought provoking thread 👇🏻 Will scientists start leaving the US in the way that they left Germany in the 1930s? Could the @nihr.bsky.social benefit from that?

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✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine. 📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.

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“Every $1300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” Among many other benefits, bike-lanes are a really smart public health investment.

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Research Practitioner In my team Grade 11 £56 to £61k 0.5 WTE ce0369li.webitrent.com/ce0369li_web...

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Cities should be designed for: ❌ A̶u̶t̶o̶n̶o̶m̶o̶u̶s̶ C̶a̶r̶s̶ ✅ Autonomous Kids

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Until the gambling industry is recognised as a corporate vector of harm & effective measures taken to restrict its influence & its marketing, prevention of that harm will remain unachievable. Thank you to @pamelawrites.bsky.social for covering our recent analysis usrtk.org/healthwire/g...

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For 20 years, the WHO FCTC has been a powerful force in reducing smoking and saving lives. As an early signatory, the UK has seen record declines in smoking since its adoption. We remain committed to protecting health from tobacco industry interference. #FCTC20Years

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Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the #WHOFCTC. Professor Anna Gilmore has co-authored an article for @thelancet.bsky.social on the FCTC's achievements and how it needs to change in order to continue to effectively address the tobacco epidemic. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

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My Ebike has its speed and power limited from the factory because elected leaders view them as a potential hazard to the public inside of cities.

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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

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It is important to protect future generations from ever becoming addicted to this lethal product, laying the foundations for a healthier, more productive and smoke free UK. ash.org.uk/media-centre...

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'[The tyrant appears] particularly earnest in the service of the Gods; for if men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands, and they are less disposed to conspire against him' (Aristotle, The Politics, Book 5).

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IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

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While Tory scum are whinging, Labour is acting. #ukpolitics

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Remember, there’s infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch infrastructure.

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“The tangible wider societal costs of #smoking in England are £43.7 Bn” according to the @ashorguk.bsky.social ready reckoner ashresources.shinyapps.io/ready_reckon...

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'A person must learn to be alone in solitude, to listen in one's heart to the wordless speech of the Spirit, and to discover the truth bout oneself and God. Then their word to others will be a word of power, because it is a word of silence' (Kallistos Ware) ✝️☦️

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This is exciting. Big shoes to fill but very much looking forward to it. www.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-dir...

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Hope has been in the making at Greenbelt for more than a half-century, and it’s our theme for this year’s festival. We choose to roll up our sleeves, open our hearts and be reminded that, together, we can be the change we want to see. We’d love you to join us. www.greenbelt.org.uk/hope-in-the-...

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'It would be far better, instead of having this vast proliferation of different rates of assistance for different people, to say that a civilised community is not going to allow anyone to starve and that therefore we are going to have a minimum income' (Jo Grimond, 1980). 🔶️

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Sabotaging the global fight against polio is an act of almost unparalleled sadism.

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Spotted: One Less Tesla sticker on a cargo bike. Appreciate the refinement of the message.

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20mph zones reduce the costs of motoring by reducing insurance costs! I want 20mph default in urban streets in #Hampshire

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