Luke O’Shea

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Important to spread hope. People are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours… www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Thanks for doing this important and brilliantly informative podcast, and shining a light on OCD as a devastatingly difficult and misunderstood condition. It's truly appreciated

YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.

The rise of YouTube shorts in the last year is mind blowing. Up to 200 billion daily views or over 1 billion hrs a day. In a world of 8 bn people! Will any productivity gains from AI simply be offset by increasingly effective tech distractions? www.thewrap.com/youtube-shor...

Watching the bbc pulp Live Session reminded me how funny his lyrics are. Even new stuff like Dishes (I’m not Jesus though I have the same initials, I’m the man who stays home & does the dishes).That misshapes verse is genius. We’ll use the one thing we’ve got more of - that’s cheese rinds (surely?)

Worked with Axel at Prime Minister's strategy unit under Blair. Very smart.

The Game Changers Official Film Website | Documentary Watch the Game Changers movie about plant-based eating, protein, and strength. Presented by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic and Chris Paul.

Also lots of gym folks have gone vegan to get the perfect gym body. Foxes been watching gamechangersmovie.com

Great #FestivalofExcellence hearing superb improvement work UCLH. I talked about quality, & why spending more ≠ better outcomes. Gave 3 case studies which show drive quality ⬆️ then cost ⬇️ (hip surgery, gloves off, clinic letters). Complexity the enemy of reliability & quality

That's so good to hear Helen!

Autistic teen with needle phobia helped to go abroad by NHS Terence Panzu-Lema is given the ability to travel abroad for the first time, by a unique collaboration by NHS teams.

Person centred care at it's best! Uclh team working across services to enable one of our young, severely needle phobic patients to get the vaccinations needed to visit his family abroad for the first time. (Spoiler alert: solution was to vax when under general for his dental work) buff.ly/pFxkkcj

By the way our uclh sustainability transformation fund applications need to be in by the 26th. If you have an idea for greening ID, we want to hear it! Email me if want to speak. Application easy. Funds for two years

What China is doing on Solar PV, batteries & cars is mind blowing. Still need massive push in other areas like chemicals though in China. Follow @hannahritchie.bsky.social if you don't know her. Superb and data driven analysis

Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time - Carbon Brief For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

BIG STORY which brings hope! China's emissions are dropping for the first time! This really matters as China has more than a third of global emissions. Wow. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle... Climate action on a massive scale

Epic has a very good patient portal/app as others have said, with wider functions than the NHS App. Nhse and epic are working on how core data will appear in the NHS app and how they will be linked, as I understand it

High quality clinical EPR, preferred by most hospital docs. Staff at Epic are responsive and knowledgeable. Judy, the CEO, is a remarkable, interesting figure. Like many US companies, needs to up game on reducing carbon footprint, staff parental leave & social issues

Analogue radio I hope Alf. This digital business is a flash in the pan

The words game changing are usually a flag

So pleased it was a good experience!

It’s quite incredible what UCLH staff do for our patients. Take outpatients, where last year we did over 1.4m appointments up about 100k on the year before. Some weeks we saw 30,000 patients. The NHS is under huge pressure but the work of our staff is just remarkable

Great to have the Chinese Health Minister come to see first-hand what we are doing at UCLH on sustainability. The Chinese Government is responsible for the largest hospital sector in the world, so discussing net zero is important. Minister was full of praise for our staff’s work

Oxford sparkling tonight

Sat in on a superb UCLH ENT clinic today trialing ambient AI to write notes/letters
- patients & clinicians happy
- shifts doc from writer to proof reader
- saves time but justifies £?
- incredibly complex case worked well
- no idea why send letters every time, even if AI helps

Loved speaking on electronic health records, including on critical need to focus on adoption, that digitisation in itself does not guarantee transformation and the implications of hardwiring EHRs into so much of what we do. Great debate.

Brilliant discussion with colleagues from @ouhospitals.bsky.social @cuhnhs.bsky.social @microsoft.com and @lukeoshea.bsky.social and @nellthornton.bsky.social about the role of AI in delivering improved healthcare, including the trade-offs we need to discuss with the public #Shelford2025

As the most destructive wildfires in US history rage, the climate stats have dropped

2024 was the hottest year on record, the first above 1.5C

We may be the only civilised life anywhere in the universe

Time is running out

Millions of us need to act

Thank you if you are

Congratulations! Very well deserved Matt. How lovely

Key influence on thinking of Dans jumper, who argues consciousness is a dynamic, evolutionary process extending well beyond the hegemony of human life to knitware of the highest order

Over 200,000 trees planted since we switched to Ecosia as our default search engine at uclh! Plants a tree for every 45 searches & is carbon negative. Easy to do, great search algorithm & climate friendly. Who else will follow?

Visited Toyota factory & 🤯
- 🚗 every 1-2 mins
- drive quality ⬆️ waste/cost ⬇️
- Mgmt system crystal clear (planning to delivery). Qual control every step
- STANDARDISE EVERYTHING incl. jobs & work processes. Staff follow to letter
- relentless improvement by workers & reward

How to bridge the NHS’s gulf on AI adoption AI is shaping many aspects of our lives, yet the NHS is seemingly impenetrable to its advances – here’s how to close the gulf between policy and implementation

We win Nobel Prizes for AI in the UK. It has jaw dropping capabilities in health. We have burgeoning patient need.

So why is the NHS seemingly impenetrable to AI’s advances?

My HSJ article here

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