Dr Mike Brady (PhD) Consultant Paramedic / Academic

SEND in the Spotlight - Introducing... Send in the Spotlight - BBC Sounds Real stories, bold ideas: Reimagining support for special educational needs

The special educational needs system is widely considered to be broken. Put simply, demand is outstripping supply, and too many children are being left without the support they need or having to go to school far away from home.

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Three-quarters of parents let children miss school for ‘duvet day’ Survey shows changing attitudes towards school attendance among parents

Three-quarters of parents let children miss school for ‘duvet day’.

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#druidai #healthcareai #aithatworks #agenticai #nhs #digitalhealth | Druid AI The Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust launched their Druid AI Voice Agent in July, in partnership with Robotics AI and it’s already handled over 13,000 conversations. Jonny Sammut highlig...

Here's Welsh Ambulance Director of Digital talking a little bit about the NHS 111 Wales Online chatbot & the work myself & others did to get it live.

More to do, some improvements to make, but key to start offering more modes of access to trusted information.

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Fantastic to have new specialist clinicians in my direct and wider team working alonside my remote care specialists; making a fantastic contribution to the expansion & development of remote clinical care.

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Thousands of NHS England staff to be made redundant The government announced the abolition of NHS England, with plans to bring the organisation under the Department for Health and Social Care

Update given for ICB and NHSE redundancies.

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Torfaen: Volunteers to mourn at funerals no-one goes to Volunteers will be called in by the council when no-one else is expected to turn up.

Volunteer mourners are to be invited to attend funerals for people with no next of kin.

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SCAS and Secamb ambulance services to share senior leadership The change is being implemented in phases until 2027, the NHS trusts say.

BBC News - Two ambulance services in England will combine their senior leadership.

South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) and South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) said they would adopt a shared leadership model.

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Capita fined £14m for cyber-attack which affected millions The outsourcing giant accepted liability, after the data watchdog said they failed to protect client data.

BBC News - Outsourcing firm Capita fined £14m after millions had data stolen.

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Companies have decided to pay people less who work remotely, even if they have more expertise and/or provide more value to a company than certain people who go into the office.

Guess who needs remote jobs more? Marginalized groups! especially disabled people! What a coincidence! 🫠

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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BBC One - Panorama, Kellie Bright - Autism, School and Families on the Edge Kellie Bright meets parents fighting for the right education for their autistic children.

BBC: Autism, School and Families on the Edge (I'll need to be in the right headspace to watch this one #livedexperience

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The role of Remote Clinical Care in Health Promotion: a scoping review protocol Abstract Objective: This scoping review aims to understand what opportunities exist to provide health promotion to the adult population within Remote Clinical Care. Introduction: With increasing deman...

The role of Remote Clinical Care in Health Promotion: a scoping review protocol - Preprint.

Great to see early pieces coming out of my Professional Doctorate student Craig Browns work.

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Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

Resilience under pressure: Study reveals ambulance staff’s adaptive response to Covid-19 A Swansea University study has uncovered the intense emotional and operational strain experienced by emergency ambulance staff across the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Mike Brady from Welsh Ambulance Service & part of the research team said:

“These insights are highly relevant today, as UK health services undergo large-scale clinical model transformations, winter preparation responses, & future pandemic preparedness exercises".

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Leading with Humility: The Role of Modesty in Effective Leadership.

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What is modest leadership? Why humility improves teams, leaders and patient care.

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‘Every day was a learning curve’: implementing COVID-19 triage protocols in UK ambulance services—a qualitative study of staff experiences Background TRIM (What TRIage model is safest and most effective for the Management of 999 callers with suspected COVID-19? A linked outcome study) was an evaluation of models used to triage and manage...

New publication: While this research was undertaken a few years ago, its findings remain relevant. As health services respond to winter pressures & large-scale clinical model transformation, the lessons continue to offer valuable insights.

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Great to showcase the work of Welsh Ambulance Service
& Industry Partners today at the 999 Remote Patient Care Best Practice Day & Robotics AI summit - Discussing the implementation & validation of clinical systems & early learning from conversational AI for NHS 111 Wales Online.

Episode 26 - Advancing Remote Clinical Care with Dr Mike Brady

With a robust background in clinical practice & telehealth, Dr. Brady delves into the profound impact of remote clinical care in today's health landscape. The conversation explores benefits, including increased accessibility & convenience for patients.

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This past week of leave has been a game-changer. Less dread, more disconnection. With my fantastic family and beautiful wife, I found a new sense of clarity. Now, I'm curiously and excitedly searching for new opportunities that will truly value my unique contributions.

BBC News - The head of research at South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the College of Paramedics.

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Researchers suggest one-a-year publication limit - Research Professional News “Probably controversial” proposals intended to spark renewed efforts to tackle “publish or perish...mania”

Aiming to spark debate through possibly controversial proposals, the authors suggest that academics should be limited to one publication, book or chapter every year, or even every two years, as a solution to the “publish or perish…mania”.

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Appropriateness of NHS 111 Wales outcomes—using the Call Prioritisation Streaming System: a RAND/UCLA modified Delphi method.

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The Challenge of Taking a Week’s Leave: A Personal Reflection. It's weird, right????? “Living the dream”. “Is it Friday yet?”.

The challenge of taking a weeks leave: A personal reflection.

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Coroner calls for 111 action after Buckinghamshire baby's death A coroner says her concerns about NHS call handling may be widespread following the death of a baby.

Horribly tragic case which evidences how challenging designing remote clinical decision systems for call handlers can be, in assessing peadiatrics breathing rates, noises, causes.

Improvements should include the people, the processes, as-well-as the technology used.

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Great to see Tom Fallon featured here. Tom is WAST respiratory clinical lead for remote care and a key member of my team.

His work is already showing the potential to embed respiratory and rehab thinking upstream in the 999 and 111 systems.

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British 999 caller's voice cloned by Russian network using AI A BBC Verify investigation has revealed that the identities of British public sector workers have been cloned using AI by a Russian-linked disinformation campaign.

A BBC Verify investigation has revealed that the identities of British public sector workers (like 999 Emergency Medical Advisors) have been cloned using AI by a Russian-linked disinformation campaign.

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Welsh Ambulance Service demonstrates commitment to environmental management standard and has successfully retained its ISO 14001 accreditation for another year.

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I really enjoyed being a panel member at this week's Welsh Ambulance research day with colleagues Aasha & Scott where we discussed & answered questions on emerging technologies, change management, implementation science, & of course the role of AI in healthcare.

Is the PhD in nursing in terminal decline? This discussion paper critically examines the current state and future viability of the PhD in nursing, questioning whether it remains a sustainable a…

The authors advocate for a renewed commitment to nurturing nurse scientists and collecting robust data to inform future planning, asserting that without such action, the academic and clinical contributions of nursing science may diminish significantly.

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