Donna Wakefield

Thanks so much for inviting me to share our #SystematicReview on #Inequalities in #PalliativeCare in #Lung disease today - #LungCancer, #Mesothelioma #COPD #ILD
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Great to hear about all the other inspiring #PalliativeCare #Research @peolcsw.bsky.social 🙌

@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

There’s always more work to do
It feels impossible to take a break
This weekend includes appraisal paperwork that there’s zero time to do in work time

Really appreciate having someone *make* me take a break from it
Today it was really mindful to take a calligraphy lesson ♥️ to keep #Burnout at bay

The 2025 Wakley Prize: finding a home in medicine In the call for submissions for the Wakley Prize earlier this year, we quoted Søren Kierkegaard's notion that life “must be understood backwards; but…it must be lived forwards” and encouraged people t...

Congratulations to NIHR Doctoral Fellow @donnawakefield.bsky.social, who has won the Lancet Wakley essay prize.

Her entry focussed on how growing up in the North shaped her medical practice and research.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Line up of beautiful #birds in my garden today 📷 🌳

#Bluetit #Robin #Coaltit
#GardenWatch #Bird #Photography

Absolutely love my birthday gift 🎁
A solar ☀️ powered camera bird feeder- live link to the bird visitors to my garden 📸 🪏🌳

First #robin visitor for breakfast ♥️

#BirdWatch #Bird #Photography #Birds #Nature #Birdfy @birdfybynetvue.bsky.social

Incredibly busy week
🎂🎂 Birthday cakes x2
🗞️ 📰 In the local news x2
📝 ✍️ Paper revisions x2
👩🏼‍💻😑 NHS ethics/IRAS
🤒👧🏼 Sick child off school
🏥🏃‍♀️Many stairs climbed
Not enough time for my new “Publish or Perish” board game ♟️😭

Very tired 😴☕️🪫

My #SystematicReview was a real labour of love- fuelled by hundreds of mugs of coffee- and now it’s on its own MUG! ☕️🥰

Featuring the #MetaAnalysis forest plots 🌳 - produced in Stata 💻 one of my favourite new skills 🌟

Absolutely love the mug thank you @profbambra.bsky.social ☕️🎁 🙌 #MugMotivation 😆

Aw thats kind, thank you ☺️

Snow + frost for the 1st #Monday commute of the year ❄️🥶

We enjoyed the fireworks in Newcastle at 6pm 🕕😂

Reflecting on what a phenomenal year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ has been!
🎂40th birthday trip to Easter Island🗿🇨🇱
📖✍️Making meaningful connections & co-authoring 11 publications (5 first author)+ book chapters
🏆Winning the Lancet Wakley prize
👩🏻‍🎓Reaching the HALF WAY point of my PhD- 2 years to go
🏋🏻‍♀️ My fitness journey

Happy #NewYear! 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🍾🥂

There’s always a Christmas Colin! And Halloween and Easter and Valentines Day and Mothers Day…… any excuse for a novelty Colin 🍰

Oh no! Sorry to hear that. We must have been lucky to get one

There’s only three of us, so plenty of Colin left (including the head because we work from the bottom backwards, always feel guilty eating the face! 😂)

🎄Belatedly celebrating Christmas Day today and its finally time for festive Colin the caterpillar 🍰🥳
#MerryChristmas 🎅🏻 🎁

Do they need another friend? 🙋🏼‍♀️

My girlfriend embroiders the 12 days of Christmas and gives me one each year. We are on our 6th Christmas 🧵 🪡 Six more to go until I get the complete set….

Suspense waiting for The Traitors next week…..

Thank you! ☺️

Thank you for reading it! 📖♥️ I hope someone finds it helpful

Not much to spot today. The birds must have taken Christmas off…..

🏆 Its been the biggest honour of my life to win The Lancet 2025 Wakley Prize and have my essay published in the final @thelancet.com of the year 📖 🤩

It was the perfect #Christmas present to receive the paper edition, as a surprise delivery yesterday 🚚 📦

@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

Thanks. I fear that I may have put the 4 stone back on today with the quantity of food eaten

🎄Got to take a festive pause on that #PhD in Medical Science to dedicate my time to building Marie Curie’s lab 👩🏼‍🔬🧪 ….and some DNA 🧬🔬🤓
#WomenInSTEM #LEGO
#MerryChristmas 🥰

Quote from the 2025 Lancet Wakley Prize winning essay by Donna Wakefield. Quote reads: "Medicine must be practised with openness and without prejudice towards people's social circumstances. This outlook is essential to deliver holistic care."

In the 2025 Lancet #WakleyPrize winning essay, @donnawakefield.bsky.social explores how personal experiences and understanding of the social determinants of health can transform patient care and foster a more inclusive healthcare system.

Read now 👉 spkl.io/63329AcBBV

📣Out now in Lancet’s @eclinicalmed.bsky.social
🫁The inverse #PalliativeCare law in advanced lung disease:mixed-methods #SystematicReview & #MetaAnalysis -1st paper from my #PhD provides evidence of #Inqualities in #lung disease
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✍️ I love learning the craft of writing
📕 Really recommend this #book to dip in and out of for hints and tips

#PhD #Mumademia

What a week!
Beautiful sun rising over #Newcastle this morning 🌅

Thank you! ☺️