Cliff McMahon-Docherty 🏳️‍🌈 📸

You have to wonder what those young people will be like when they emerge into adulthood. They're our future and we can't fail them now. So where is the funding? It costs 30% less to refer to a social prescriber than later down the line to CAMHS.

Attended an interesting Teams meeting today about setting up children and young people's social prescribing services. The vast majority of the focus was on child mental health and the huge increase in referrals to CAMHS.

It's not often you'll find me sharing the Daily Mail but this makes upsetting reading because for once their report is true. I slid reluctantly into my 60s recently and actually I'm more tech literate than some people younger than me. Employers who fail to understand this are wasting talent.

EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

This is welcome. We need more and more major organisations to make this switch. There can no reason to support hateful and manipulative platforms. There must be consequences for lies, misinformation ans distortion.

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Seeing Musk just give a Nazi salute and the crowds cheering him on has turned my blood to ice. America, what have you done? #inauguration

I seldom hear much about medication induced weight gain. I've jumped 10kgs in 6 months myself because of vital meds and can't find much info on how best to tackle it, which means I'm only doing half my job when I refer these patients for weight and exercise. Thoughts? #primarycare #generalpractice

Healthcare Assistants do amazing things across the NHS every single day but rarely get the credit they deserve.

Huge thanks to all of them 💙

However it's interesting how many are also retaining accounts in absentia to prevent identity theft. I find it incredibly sad that we need to do that but to hell with it. I've deleted the accounts. Just waiting for the 39 day closure to tick round.

It's intriguing to see the numbers of colleagues from the health and care sector jumping one by one from X, Facebook, Threads and all the other Muskerberg platforms. Personally I think it's healthier and care-ier (TM) to leave them behind. Who needs trolls and toxicity on life. 1/2

Sounds like a plan

No. Thoughts on social media and the loss of safeguards.

Thoughts on social media developments.
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Colleagues #PrimaryCare who are unfamiliar with the Deep End Movement: it started with scholarship by Deep End GP academics in Glasgow
#inversecarelaw
English DE practices have tapped into #NIHR funding to set up research active deep end practices- transforming research participation & inclusion

But so often when we talk about workplace diversity, equity and inclusion we forget the over 50s living with CVD, painful osteoarthritis, and any number of challenging conditions requiring care and frequent hospital appointments, and yet the same absence management protocols are applied. Why?

This is interesting to read. Not everyone can work easily as they get older, especially those in manual trades, but the rest of us want to despite health challenges. There is study after study confirming the mental health benefits of working *in a non-toxic* work setting. 1/2

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You can read more about the terrible decisions happening in the corridors of power, and how Indie SAGE offered an alternative approach here, in Marres and Barragán’s article: 8/8
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Once again London's transport network is in a meltdown so I can't get in and have to cancel all my face to face appointments. This doesn't just affect commuters but leads to delays for patients, people missing job interviews, people missing holiday departures. Why does it never get better? #lrt

Just like Putin and Ukraine. Straight out his manual.

Completely unprofessional comment, but why does Zuckerberg always look like he's been caught with his hands in the cookie jar? Possibly because he has, and he knows damn well this decision is indefensible. When people die will he care? Of course not. He'll just blather on about choice.

This is troubling to say the least. Apart from just the spew of bile that comes out of traditional social media, what worries me equally is that we openly talk about a "post-truth society". How is that even a thing? The consequences are terrifying.

On a more positive note, time to take down the Xmas profile wallpaper and replace it with something that reflects the current weather. Taken at a friend's house in northern Sweden some years ago. Tiny, tiny place called Pauträsk.

Xmas done so its back to work and a salutary reminder of why I do my job. Patient couldn't come to see me because he has no shoes. No benefits, no home apart from a friend's sofa, and no shoes. Its 2025 and my patient has no shoes. Not 1825. But here we are. Our leaders should be utterly ashamed.

You mean 54th, after Canada, Greenland and Panama.

Time to change the #profilewallpaper with the change of season. A tree for #Christmas / New Year / Winter Solstice / Goodness Knows We Need Some Glitter. Perhaps it's my job but I see a tree & instantly think about how the glitter is only for those who can afford it. We need to do better than this.

Two women gardening.

New report!

Envisaging a Social Prescribing Fund in England makes the case for a new fund that would provide long-term funding for social prescribing activities and local communities 

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New - Creative Health Across the System: ICB, Hospitals, Public Health, & Combined Authorities. The short video explainer helps audiences to orientate themselves as to how creative health shows up in four key healthcare contexts!
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I'm not a fan of dissing people but this guy is such laughable stereotype. I don't think he actually understands proper masculinity. He's just a cartoon Popeye without the social conscience.

It occurred to me today that being a #photographer in my spare time has really helped my #socialprescribing practice because you end up having a mental encyclopedia of places to go and things to do from all the time you spend researching subjects to photograph. Happy days, quite literally 🖼️ 🎭 ⚽ 📷 💃

New toolkit to support evaluation in social prescribing  - Transformation Partners in Health and Care TPHC has launched a new Social Prescribing Evaluation toolkit to guide local social prescribing services in demonstrating their impact.

Really valuable meetings recently with @tphc.bsky.social to discuss their #socialprescribing evaluation toolkit. Keen to look at how we integrate this into strategy and work flow.

www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk/new-toolkit-...

Autistic adults’ experiences of managing wellbeing and implications for social prescribing Autistic people demonstrate poor outcomes on objective measures of wellbeing, yet research centring lived experience provides a more nuanced picture. There is growing support for person-centred, ho...

I’ve yet to see a social prescriber (long waiting list) but I’ll send my GP practice a copy of this encouraging #autism research.
It suggests that accessible, inclusive #SocialPrescribing in primary care could support the well-being of autistic patients.
#AutRes
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