Claire Goodman

Continuity defined: "Being there, available most days for your patients, is one of the key elements in building relationships, and strong, rooted relationships don’t just help the patients. They also help the doctor"

How good are general practices in England at recording who is an unpaid carer? Unpaid carers provide vital support supporting vulnerable people, doing work worth tens of billions to the economy. Identifying carers in our national health records is essential for ensuring that peo...

There are gaps in the general practice record of unpaid carers when compared with census data:

🔍 Almost a million unpaid carers are missing from GP records

🔍 Where a carer lives, and their ethnicity, affects the likelihood that they will be identified by general practice

Read the full analysis 👇

A Palestinian girl cries out for food with her hands held out at a charity kitchen amid the famine in Gaza. She is surrounded by other young, anguished children. This photo was taken on Thurs July 11, 2025 after at least 10 children were killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point. More Palestinians have now been killed just waiting for food than the number of victims killed in the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7. Photograph credit is to Ebrahim Hajjaj of Reuters

Gaza is now officially in IPC Phase 5, the final stage of hunger. Designated as 'catastrophe'.

A further 67 of the starving were killed by IDF soldiers yesterday trying to access food. Witnesses say the victims had their hands held in the air.

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

Today I heard an MP, on @LBC, say #water nationalisation doesn't work as Scotland has worse water pollution than England. This is a complete lie. See figure below,
2024.
Some of the cleanest water in
Europe (ref provided).
Disgraceful. England, fight for nationalisation.

We ask so much of residential care workers, and they rise to that challenge every day, yet they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty as the average UK worker.
Poverty, pay and the case for change in social care | www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

"among people with dementia eligible for publicly funded social care, take up of direct payments or individual service funds remains very low compared to other groups, with most care and support arranged directly by local councils".

Neighbourhood health teams: a Q&A with Thea Stein With the new 10 Year Plan for the NHS featuring a central role for neighbourhood health teams, we spoke to Thea Stein about what they are and what needs to happen for them to be successful.

🆕 Q&A: With the new 10 Year Plan for the #NHS featuring a central role for neighbourhood health teams, we spoke to @theasrstein.bsky.social about what they are and what needs to happen for them to be successful.

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Just finishing Suzanne O’Sullivan’s The Age of Diagnosis & struck by this para about the value of medical generalists

"..A plan would tell us: when particular hospital services could be expected to be delivered in the community; how much extra it would cost in the short term to keep those hospital services running & to pay for the development of the community services before the latter were operational.." Quite!!

1/10 On this day 20 years ago, I was with @chriscocking.bsky.social and Steve Reicher at the Royal Society summer exhibition in London, presenting our work on how people behave in emergency evacuations. As I tried to travel to the exhibition venue, I was part of a crowd of

PM launches new era for NHS with easier care in neighbourhoods The Prime Minister launches a new era for the NHS, bringing more easily accessible care closer to home.

Who could argue against a neighbourhood health service? But #socialcare reform is on an entirely different trajectory - a missed opportunity? NHC won’t work properly without it.

If enacted this will see the State finding new £ & staff to help people kill themselves whilst hospice care in many places is being reduced. Is that the outcome legislators intend? If not what are they going to do about the latter?

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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A picture of the title and abstract of the research paper: All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education Lucy Rycroft-Smith, Darren Macey University of Cambridge Current discourse around AI (artificial intelligence) tools suggest they can offer users quick access to research evidence, with the goal of improving our practice and policies in mathematics education. However, recent evaluations suggest that AI often falls short of human capabilities in accurately summarising complex information, raising questions about trust, credibility, and reliability. In this paper, we investigate whether AI tools are able to successfully perform the educational knowledge brokering function of finding, selecting, and summarising research with implications for practitioners. In particular, we ask if AI tools are able to find research papers that actually exist (accuracy), are relevant to the question (relevancy) and are able to interpret findings into useful, actionable implications for practitioners (applicability). We find that generally they are not, and even when they are, they do so in a way that is so inconsistent as to be a serious threat to credibility. Keywords: artificial intelligence; AI; knowledge brokering; large language models; mathematics education

I am delighted to announce that my new paper with @darrenmacey.bsky.social is now published, entitled 'All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education'

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Worth a read and wider discussion. ...."senior scientists spend around 45% of their time on administrative activities relating to the acquisition and management of funding," describes alternative approaches to funding good science. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

LTC Care System Profile: England

NEW COUNTRY PROFILE: #England 🌍

In this system profile, @blimeysimon.bsky.social (@thekingsfund.bsky.social) and @natashacurry.bsky.social (@nuffieldtrust.org.uk) unpack the country's long-term care system. 🔍

Read now: goltc.org/system-profi...

On responding to far right parties … from Angela Merkel’s autobiography. It should be read by U.K. political leaders but I’d be surprised if it was.

Welcome to the official Research page for University of Hertfordshire! 🎉 We’re solving global challenges through research & enterprise. Stay tuned for our Research Impact Symposium this Tuesday! Follow us for updates on people and projects shaping our world. #HertsResearch

Mandate+evidence=👍

Michael Marmot

One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot told a Royal College of Physicians conference.

Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010
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In 2023/24, tooth extractions were the number one reason for hospital admissions among children aged five to nine in England. Inequalities in child dental health are also prevalent.

@stutibagri.bsky.social‬ looks at regional variations in dental decay and tooth extraction 👇

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'We're all failing each other'

Sir Andrew Dilnot says that although we should be celebrating reaching older ages, our social care system is failing us.

Explore our updated key trends in adult social care in our latest 360-degree review. buff.ly/oHnSpV5

YES! "Session Zero would be the part at the very beginning of the project, where everyone involved shared their hopes and aspirations for the study, as well as discussing things they might prefer not to discuss, or boundaries they want to set" @elspethma.bsky.social @louca-mai.bsky.social

NEW: In our chart of the week, @billypalmer.bsky.social‬ explores the concerning decline of district nurses in England - at a time of increasing population need - and finds that over a quarter are paid at a lower band than could be expected.

See the chart 👇
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Do you work with older people living in care homes using technology? Do you have ideas of how technology could help you deliver care? Complete our NIHR Healthtech Research Centre survey to help us work out what technologies to evaluate in this setting: forms.office.com/e/4tnrpKhLgy

Moral Maze - What is the ethical purpose of the NHS? - BBC Sounds Debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

This episode of BBC Radio 4's #MoralMaze, recorded at our Summit, makes for a fascinating listen.

Should the #NHS prioritise care for the most disadvantaged patients? Or would doing so be addressing a symptom and not the cause of deeper intersecting inequalities?

Catch up here 👇

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

*** BEGGING MESSAGE *** please email me if you know any named people at NHS England (ex NHS digital)?

We are massively struggling to even get a case officer for our data app (after THREE months) knowing that getting to any data is *at least* 6 mnths once a case officer assigned

c.pagel@ucl.ac.uk

"ICB digital leadership will be effective if technology budgets are protected and digital implementation prioritised, otherwise funding will be used for other priorities and transformation will be slow or absent altogether"

Round-up of GOLTC webinars: Exploring new and “old” ethical issues when using new technology in LTC. 24 April 2025 Care Workforce Retention – what factors are critical and how they change with worker age. 30 April 2025 The politics of live-in care migration: a comparative study of Taiwan, Austria, and Germany. 8 May 2025 Global initiatives on continence care in long-term care. 14 May 2025. Ageing out of Place: Rethinking Aging, Place, and Policy in Times of Change 19 May 2025 Estimating the Cost of Informal Care with a Novel Two-Stage Approach to Individual Synthetic Control. 27 May 2025

Interested in engaging with global experts in #health + #SocialCare?🌍

In April + May, we're hosting a series of exciting webinars - there's something for everyone, from ethics of #caretech, to #workforce retention, #continence care + more!

MORE DETAILS:👉 goltc.org/news/
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