Efi Mantzourani

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Transitions of Care presentation at Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference Professor Efi Mantzourani speaks about successful service at conference.

Read all about it! Our fantastic Efi Mantzourani gave a talk about transition of care at the FIP World Conference of Pharmacy in Copenhagen.

www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...

Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

In case you missed it ...
💥 This is the type of speech Starmer could have given on immigration. But unlike the Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, Starmer doesn't seem to feel any sense of duty, protection, or thanks towards the foreigners in the UK who are holding this country together.
#NotStrangers

Trump administration considering suspending habeas corpus The White House is

Trump administration considers suspending habeas corpus.

This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention.

Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised.

No different from dictatorships.

Rule of law? Respect for human rights?

UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK

We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too.

Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nobel prize winnerJoseph Stiglitz explains how Brexit is making the UK worse off

Then criticises Keir Starmer and Labour for negotiating with Trump from a position of weakness and not with strength by joining other countries

Meanwhile, the incessant claims from some politicians and newspapers about recent growth being mostly or entirely driven by “low-skilled migration” have little or no support from the actual data. There are certainly plenty of recent migrants on relatively low pay – but equally many on average or better wages. And, perhaps more importantly, they seem to be seeing quite rapid earnings progression, so the longer-term impacts may be even more positive.

For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here.

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www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

Anybody who claims all/most recent immigration is "low-skilled should be forced to explain this..

I am seriously shocked at the words coming out of Yvette Cooper’s mouth

Trump’s Cronies Aren’t What Broke Public Health - WHN The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them. Public health didn’t die when RFK Jr. became Trump’s Health Secretary. It was already on life support, hamstrung by a si...

Hard hitting from @mark-ungrin.bsky.social on how a naive reliance on a cartoonish version of EBM killed public health.
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Of course I’d rather Labour had won the by-election and losing by six votes is astonishing.

But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.

Mae Jemison wears a bright orange NASA space suit and holds her helmet for a photo

Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

Pharmacy First Evaluation | LSHTM An independent evaluation of England's Pharmacy First service. Launched in 2024, we will study implementation and impact of the new scheme which enables pharmacies to supply prescription-only

Better late than never...our evaluation website is now live!

www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

@dianeashiru.bsky.social @ayodejimatuluko.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social @efimantz.bsky.social

Brilliant teamwork from Cardiff University/WG and LSHTM @kerryhood.bsky.social

Clinical outcomes following acute sore throat assessment at community pharmacy versus general practice: a retrospective, longitudinal, data linkage study - PubMed The pharmacy-led STTT service is safe, cost-effective, and contributes to antimicrobial stewardship.

Yes, definitely, quality of tests needs to be confirmed before integration in any service! In terms of costs, we have done the work for Wales pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39523475/

@antimicrobial.bsky.social @pharmacycu.bsky.social @philiphowardamr.bsky.social

Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry.

The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations.

And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

Trump warns that arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be 'first of many' President Donald Trump is warning that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administ...

PROTEST in any way you can the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil for practicing free speech. He's a Columbia grad married to an American. This is an outrageous violation of the First Amendment. apnews.com/article/colu...

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...

But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

it will be the best depression, the most beautiful depression, better than all of the other depressions in the world

$1 Increase in Minimum Wage Linked to 3.5–6% Drop in Suicide Rate Effects seem to be strongest during periods of high unemployment, shows 26-year study. A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with...

"A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with high school education or less, reveals a 26-year study, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health"

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So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?

But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?

Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

excerpt from THEY KNEW

:There was a coup in America, and no one noticed. It was a slow-moving coup, decades in the making, forged by redefining laws and loyalty until the contours of betrayal blurred."

--THEY KNEW (2022)

Perhaps it’s best for women to explain it. We would rather keep our rights, our jobs and not have men tell us what to do with our lives and our bodies. The Left offers that, the AfD would take it away.

“I do not want my picture in your offices: the president is not an idol, an icon or a portrait. Hang your kids’ photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision.”

Today marks three years since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Donald Trump could learn a lot about leadership from Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin