Prof Jim McManus, OCDS, D.Sc,FFPH,FBPsS,

Remembering people I’ve lost today and the way they lit up the world, but celebrating those great folks who live and thrive and work for a better world #HIV

Livestream — Farm Street Church

Today’s mass has Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe OP Preaching and is live-streamed #HIV #worldaidsday2025 www.farmstreet.org.uk/livestream

Panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display. Poignantly in the side chapel and an opportunity to remember everyone we have lost to , and celebrate all those living with, HIV.

Here for the World AIDS Day Mass at Farm Street Church. Great to support the brilliant work of PositiveFaith/CAPS and great to see so many agencies included #HIV

WOW!!! This is ramping up. Massive thanks to everyone who’s giving to @prisonadvice.bsky.social using BIG GIVE! Your donations are being doubled !!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

13 years ago this week I was diagnosed with cancer and started my treatment journey in hospital where I stayed until Easter 2013. Deo Gratias . Lots of reasons to be grateful.

The @prisonadvice.bsky.social Big Give Christmas 2025 campaign is now live!
For one week only, your gift to Pact will go twice as far thanks to the Big Give campaign. Every donation is doubled—up to £32,500—when you give before 12 noon 9 December.
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Looking forward to seeing many people and friends of PACT , volunteers, donors and people with lived experience at this tonihhtn

“We thank the committee for this report – we remain committed to transforming palliative and end of life care through our 10-Year Health Plan.”

I’ve read the NHS 10-year plan cover to cover.

It’s 171 pages long.

Guess how many times the words “palliative care” appear?

Once.

🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published.

Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.

Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.

The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.

I’m proud to be a signatory to this call for collaborative action. Every child deserves the best start.
Read more 👉 phw.nhs.wales/news/rise-in-mental-health-difficulties-among-children-and-young-people-highlight-need-for-early-action
#MentalHealth #ChildWellbeing #EarlyAction #Wales

Protective factors matter:
✅ Strong family & community ties
✅ Trusted adults
✅ Creativity & play
✅ Physical activity
✅ Supportive schools

Causes are complex: poverty, inequality, academic pressure, digital influences
There IS hope. BUT let's stop grabbing simplistic causes (eg it's ALL social media. No it isn't. It plays a part but so do many other things. If we seize too readily on “the problem” we wont get the answers right.)

New joint statement from @PublicHealthW highlights:
✔ Emotional difficulties like anxiety & depression rising
✔ Causes: poverty, inequality, academic pressure, digital influence
✔ Rates doubled since 2004

📈 Mental health difficulties among children & young people in Wales have doubled in 20 years – from 1 in 10 to 1 in 5. We need early action. 🧵
phw.nhs.wales/news/rise-in-mental-health-difficulties-among-children-and-young-people-highlight-need-for-early-action

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I strongly recommend joining the @hospiceuk.bsky.social trustee network if youre a fellow Trustee. These are tough times for hospices. We’re better together www.hospiceuk.org/innovation-h...

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Published yesterday. I’m very grateful to have a chapter in here on judgement and relational leadership in crises , and what can we learn from prudential styles of devision making. But I’m even more grateful for the way contributors share their experience so generously. uk.jkp.com/products/hum...

Ad multos annos!!!! 🙏🎂

“The evidence that children were better off being vaccinated against Covid-19 than getting infected by it during the pandemic just got even stronger. “. From @newscientist.com #VaccinesWork

I’m proud of our team, grateful for our partners and energised by just how much people with Diabetes in Wales want us to do our bit better , so they can be in control of their health. people power!

Thanks and congratulations to all involved, particularly Helen Rose-jones (Lead for Community Engagement) for leading the work, and to Sheona Roberts (Communications Manager) for supporting and bringing together comms and engagement as a powerful catalyst for change.

These insights combined with our other research, our voluntry sector partners and and the sheer people power of welsh people living with diabetes are strengthening hour ability to achieve better.

On top of this, our newly published report on what people living with Diabetes tell us could be better means we have kick started improvements to diabetes prevention and care including a new digital support hub and creatung better peer support.
phw.nhs.wales/news/nhs-wal...

The Diabetes “Hackathon” brought people together to identify what is going well and what needs to be better.We are already working on things people tell us we can improve following this, like a better newly diagnosed pack.

Our Tackling Diabetes Together team won the CIPR Cymru Silver Award for Community & Stakeholder Engagement. With Diabetes UK Cymru, Breakthrough T1D and people living with diabetes they organised a “Hackathon” which brought people with diabetes and professionals together

You can read the news story and the report of what they have said here lnkd.in/eFmGgr82

Strengthened Peer Support: Linking with NHS Wales organisations, Diabetes UK Cymru, T1D Breakthrough and public sector partners to enhance and expand peer support programmes across Wales, recognising the powerful role of shared experiences in successful management.

NHS Wales App Enhancement: Working with the NHS Wales app team to prioritise diabetes-specific functions that will help patients track their progress and stay connected with their care.

Healthcare Professional Support Pack: Comprehensive materials designed with and for clinicians and patients to support consistent, empowering conversations from the point of diagnosis onwards.

An Enhanced Digital Support Hub: A new user-friendly NHS Wales diabetes resource hub providing easily accessible, trusted information for patients, families and healthcare professionals, ensuring everyone has access to the same high-quality resources.