@kieranwalshe.bsky.social
Professor of health policy and management at University of Manchester, UK. Research health reform, governance, workforce, quality, evidence - ideas not ideologies. Ultrarunner. Citizen of UK, Ireland & Europe. Son of an immigrant. He/him.
Good report from @nuffieldtrust.org.uk and @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on the abolition of NHS England. Strikes a sceptical tone about rationale, process and likely impact. I'd probably be more sceptical. Full report at www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/defaul.... I liked this graphic!
05.12.2025 10:04 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We've responded to reports that the NHS will pay a higher price for branded new medicines as a condition of a UK-US trade deal.
Read the statement from @sallygainsbury.bsky.social 👇
Latest paper on locum doctors just out in Medical Education, on their involvement in CPD. In short, they miss out/are often excluded from learning opportunities, and its a problem. Lead author @janeferguson.bsky.social. Full paper at asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
24.11.2025 10:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0And here's the link assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6908f7...
05.11.2025 09:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Bob, some of us left Twitter precisely because we didn't want to read what Musk and other were tweeting, and it gets covered in the press anyway. I don't need this on Bluesky!
03.11.2025 09:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
03.11.2025 07:44 — 👍 72 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 6
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
03.11.2025 07:20 — 👍 684 🔁 210 💬 50 📌 28
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
Anyone else had this spam email from the so-called Academy of Public Health?
29.10.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
25.10.2025 07:38 — 👍 2074 🔁 681 💬 91 📌 106
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
Challenging and incisive report from the Transforming Evidence team on what needs to change in health R&D in the UK. Well worth reading. It's at transforming-evidence.org/resources/op...
21.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Come along tomorrow to LSHTM, Keppel Street or online to hear me talk about why we do research, why it's not used, and how we might engineer the system to get better value for all of us...
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Just for context the owner of BetFred is worth about £3 billion, money which - let's face it - has in large part come from the poorer sections of society. But the government can't possibly tax gambling or they'll close their shops.
19.10.2025 11:24 — 👍 168 🔁 56 💬 10 📌 1
📣New article!
We use publicly-available NHS referral data to outline the private healthcare market for NHS patients 2008-2024, and to review NHS patient choice policies since New Labour. (1/3)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
Especially delicious as this published 24 hours ago by an OpenAI employee ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For anyone who's published a book. (Source: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...)
30.09.2025 14:55 — 👍 20 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2
The day the Home Office tried to deport me
www.thetimes.com/article/ffe3...
New from @sheencr.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/sheenacr...
Again, with the essential use of sibling controls, in a nationwide prospective study in Sweden of ~2.5 million children, no increased risk even with higher dose exposure
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Let's talk about "gold standard science"
I confess I sometimes wonder whether Unherd should really be called Unhinged. But just occasionally, especially when it does reportage rather than rage-baiting, it comes up with real gems. This IMHO is one of them. unherd.com/2025/09/the-...
16.09.2025 11:34 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 2
NIHR ARC Wessex withdraws from X/Twitter
@nihrarcs.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social
www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/post/nihr-ar...
CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION! Disappointingly poor reporting from @theguardian.com. Of course we want more girls to play sport, but this study is what is technically termed "a load of nonsense". www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
11.09.2025 09:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There's a new social care 'think tank' that has appeared from nowhere. @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social has some questions... open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...
10.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Fiona Godlee
The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
