Dr Kate Cushing

Effect of HEPA Filtration Air Purifiers on Blood Pressure: A Pragmatic Randomized Crossover Trial Particulate matter (PM) pollution is a leading cause of cardiovascular risk and illness, including elevated blood pressure (BP).The purpose of this st…

Using HEPA filters to clean the air isn't just about limiting disease transmission. It's about improving overall health in a number of ways. In this interesting study they show that HEPA can be used to lower blood pressure: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Head & neck photo of my seal point Siamese cat, Katsu (Kaloke line). Black face & eRs, beautiful blue eyes & cream neck/front of chest

Katsu says Hi and wishes everyone a happy #InternationalCatDay

Steve Rotheram, Labour mayor of Liverpool city region, has told Robert Peston he is deeply critical of Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint the former editor of the Sun newspaper to a new Whitehall perm sec position in charge of all 7,000 civil servants engaged in communications and PR

Statement here

Head & neck photo of my seal point Siamese cat, Katsu (Kaloke line). Black face & eRs, beautiful blue eyes & cream neck/front of chest

Katsu says Hi and wishes everyone a happy #InternationalCatDay

Statement from Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust about measles - Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust Statement from Alder Hey about media interest in cases of measles

A child at Alder Hey hospital has died of measles. The tragic death came less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the rise, severely endangering the health of some of those affected.
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www.alderhey.nhs.uk/...
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As the Gaza famine death toll rises, UK imports of Israeli fruit and veg have soared - £51.3m in just three months, up from £29.1m.

While Palestinians starve, Israel’s agricultural exports to Britain are booming.

Full story by ‘Slicker’ in the latest issue.

Picture of pub by a river with a footbridge running across it. Below the headline reads: Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire

Not a single new reservoir built in England for 30 years. ❌

3 billion litres of water lost from leaking pipes every day. ❌

What's the private water sector's solution? Hosepipe bans and ruining rare river ecosystems. 🤯
We need public ownership now.

Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is abhorrent and it's increasingly clear that his goal is ethnic cleansing.

The UK can't just sit on its hands. The Prime Minister must stop all arms exports to Israel and sanction Netanyahu and his cabinet.

Absolutely agree with you.

Pop along and say hi if you're free or need a chat 🤗
#NotAloneTalk

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

Another deeply concerning allegation, the latest in a long line of apparent commercial and political lobbying against protest movements, some of which has led to the extremely repressive legislation we now face.
Powerful lobbyists are the bane of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.

RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

Go Decaf promotion poster

I’m pleased to say that our pilot project, “Go Decaf,” has been shortlisted for a Patient Experience Network National Award (PENNA). Promising results, with an 11%& 20% reduction in inpatient toileting related falls. Always happy to share our approach! #pen25

www.northumbria.nhs.uk/media-centre...

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As Keir Starmer announces a returns agreement for asylum seekers with France, something we haven't had with the EU since Brexit

In 2015 Keir Starmer called for safe and legal routes

It's now 2025, Keir Starmer is Prime Minister, why isn't he establishing safe and legal routes?

Reeves warned she must raise taxes or cut spending to plug £50bn black hole Leading economists say the chancellor may have to raise taxes, cut public spending or tear up her fiscal rules

Or we could rejoin the CU and SM. 🤷🏼‍♂️

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

A white air purifier on wheels placed in a hospital or clinic hallway next to a wooden bench with a yellow cushion.

There is no more important place for clean air than in a hospital.

Britain’s medical exodus is a warning sign for the NHS Doctors are increasingly prepared to travel abroad in search of better pay and conditions

Excellent piece from @stephenkb.bsky.social: migration provides an exit option for Britain's doctors and nurses (but also for other professionals too), meaning that if the NHS wants its people, it had better pay to keep them

Dramatic sea & sky!

Yes 🙁

V windy here in Newcastle! Trees down approaching Gosforth High Street this afternoon.
My Northumberland cottage neighbours say it’s v v windy-
but no damage so far - fingers crossed 🤞

HEPA indoors, N95+ outdoors, oddly exactly what would help prevent Covid, and flu, and measles, and a hundred other airborne infectants and pollutants.

It’s so simple; why aren’t we doing it everywhere?

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Four people sit on oversize metal bench with legs up next to oversize bicycle locked to bench.

New sculpture installed in Tynemouth, close to newly-extended Sunrise Cycleway. 'Life's Adventure' is by local sculptor Ray Lonsdale. Interesting that the bike is a period one, with rod brakes. Pic by Destination North East England.

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Simple.

this is very good

Outrageous. The White House is sidestepping Congress and halting up to $15 billion in NIH research funding, which would have gone to study diabetes, cancer & more.

The order was issued through a four-sentence email sent to NIH directors from Office of Management & Budget Director Russell Vought.

Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank Israeli settler Yinon Levi, whom Trump removed from US sanctions list, arrested after death of Awdah Hathaleen

"Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been killed during an attack by Israeli settlers in the south Hebron hills"

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Wes Streeting’s donations are 80% related to private healthcare providers

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep!

Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications.

This should also be banned?

Influence being bought in Govt?

Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy