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Anne Marie Cunningham

@amcunningham.bsky.social
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GP, Digital health. Living in the Mournes in Co. Down with Chris and Bonny the sprocker. Working for a sustainable, equitable society. Always learning. Previously 20 years in lovely Wales :-)

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 22h
New blog post: Are you a smartwatch "power user"? shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/are-you-a-… What do you use your smartwatch for? A few weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about …
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Are you a smartwatch "power user"?
What do you use your smartwatch for? A few weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about her Pixel watch and what features she used. He'd ignored me when I said I had a non-Google watch. She thought for a moment and said, other than telling the time, all she used were pretty much the step counter and…
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 22/09/2026
this is a real pin from a real company designed by a real person and I own it
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Strike Gently - Horse Pin
1.25 inchesHard enamel with gold platingDeluxe clasp backingShipped with love from our warehouse in LA.
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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 18/09/2026
What first attracted you to the billionaire Peter Thiel?
on the left, Tom battles against the gambling industry. On the right, a mere two years later, Tom battles for the gambling industry.
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We don't have to accept this. Here's some starter ideas - alert PALS when we've had excellent care from minoritised staff - volunteer at our hospitals and offer direct support to staff - report NHS staff and patients who are racist towards minoritised colleagues www.nhsemployers.org/anti-racism-...
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Anti-racism in the NHS
This page has been developed to help NHS organisations to tackle racism and ensure that staff feel supported by employers.
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@petraboynton.bsky.social Hello - long time, no see!
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uofguelph.bsky.social - that's the University of Guelph, Canada, which is in Ontario, I find Its been a university since 1964, growing out of older colleges If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!
An old colour picture postcard showing a handsome stone building, with a tower and red tile roof. Printed at the foot of the card is Administration Building, OAC, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sublime. @sigurros.com with @ulsterorchestra.bsky.social and the Palestrina Choir in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast tonight.
Sigur Ros on stage with the Ulster Orchestra and Palestrina Choir in Waterfront Hall
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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good opinion piece by @marydixonwoods.bsky.social et al on shakey evidence for AI, eg ambient voice technology. A bit of “evidence” is doctors who’ve tried it eg in private practice & asking “When can we have it in NHS as it makes me more efficient?” www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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AI might help the NHS—but we need to build the evidence
Accelerated rollout of AI should be matched by transparent, credible evaluation, supported by the right infrastructure NHS England’s announcement of an accelerated rollout of AI1 promises a beguiling...
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Heard the @thenewsagents.co.uk comments and was taken aback.. Good to see this rebuttal
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
so basically you're the bear now
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Lily Allen | Somewhere Only We Know (John Lewis Christmas Advert)
YouTube video by Lily Allen
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/07/2026
oh so a while back I used to run these fun interviews with MPs for Parliament's in-house magazine - did one with John Healey, which I really enjoyed at the time, and you may like also: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 19/07/2026
Fine
A very bad drawing of, apparently, Madonna, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo in a Mad Max-esque dune buggy FOR SOME REASON
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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 19/07/2026
There's a tattooed child dressed as an elf who is completely killing any sort of atmosphere or energy. What is going on?
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 15/07/2026
Familiar to Chelsea fans: a Tuchel side sitting very deep for the last 10. Unfamiliar to Chelsea fans: Enzo having that many shots on target.
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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 03/07/2026
🚨 LAST DAY TO APPLY 🚨 More than 500 people have now applied for a ticket for the first ever @policycamp.bsky.social, taking place at UCL on Thursday 23 July Applications close TONIGHT at 11.59pm - the ballot takes place over the weekend Last chance to apply for a ticket: policycamp.org.uk
The Policy Camp logo. On the left, a pink triangle and thin rectangle form a 'P' shape and two yellow triangles a 'C' one, with a green triangle separating the stem of the 'P' and bottom of the 'C'. Policy Camp is written in black (Aharoni font) on the right
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Policy Camp @policycamp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Over 500 people have now signed up to Policy Camp! policycamp.org.uk
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Policy Camp
Policy Camp is an unconference for policy practitioners, taking place at UCL on 23 July 2026.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Opportunity at Uni of Oxford: Professorship of Global Primary Health Care. Working in our vibrant department with many international links. Clean slate to develop your own programme of research. Global South applicants especially welcome. #academicsky #healthpolicy www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW338/d...
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Dr Sadok Besrour Professor of Global Primary Health Care at University of Oxford
Apply for the Dr Sadok Besrour Professor of Global Primary Health Care role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Prob the main thing on lots of people's minds re: AI just now is "is it making me more stupid?" Am having regular conversations about that with nearly everyone I have a work meeting with. (The answer is: probably, yes.) With that in mind, is fascinating to sit in the barbers and watch them at work
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Ben Rathe @benrathe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It is a universal truth that if you want to know how things are actually going at a by-election count, find the Liberal Democrat huddled over a laptop entering data.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The right-wing arsonists claim that violence is spiralling because of migrants. That is a lie. On every single measure, violence has steeply fallen in Britain over the last 20 years.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.
A stack of books with their spines showing. Gordon Brown, Texture, Lakes, Sun
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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
How the COVID vaccine was brought to Wales, by @amcunningham.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...
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The Team Was the Infrastructure
How Wales built its COVID vaccination system.
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This might feel a bit after the fact - who talks about COVID response now? - but I wanted to record the story of the team who built our vaccination software for Wales #fundteamsnotprojects open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...
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The Team Was the Infrastructure
How Wales built its COVID vaccination system.
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.
From the Point of View of a Cat
This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some!
He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs.
Let me out!
I don’t know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime.
He keeps my rooms clean for me.
In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love.
Often at night when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don’t imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood.
But don’t think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices.
Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What is healthy life expectancy and why has it fallen? open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin... I built an interactive dashboard
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What the data tells us about why healthy life expectancy has fallen in the UK
Data analysis with Claude (of course)
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Tradeoffs are already happening in healthcare but some are not so visible open.substack.com/pub/amcunnin...
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We need to talk about opportunity cost
The trade-offs are already happening. The question is whether we can see them.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/05/2026
The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Down may have lost today but here's a great piece by Peter Makem about their 1st All-Ireland win in 1960. It's absolutely brilliant. www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
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When Down’s 1960 All-Ireland victory brought down barriers
Protestants and Catholics travelled to Croke Park and celebrated side-by-side in Newry
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Marcus Baw @marcusbaw.com · 01/05/2026
@robdykedotcom.bsky.social @helensalisbury.bsky.social @amcunningham.bsky.social @bengoldacre.bsky.social @doctorow.pluralistic.net There is an open letter keepthingsopen.com Please share and sign - let's send a strong message.
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An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public.
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Alan Shirley @alanshirley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Had a couple of interactions in last couple of weeks (one with @amcunningham.bsky.social ) which reminded me how much I used to like the bird place so I thought I’d try dropping in here a bit. So hello! I have a new puppy
A cavapoo puppy looking up and looking really cute
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Not a win for the UK....paying more for drugs :-(
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Craig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 09/04/2026
Stick it in a massive Excel spreadsheet, stick that in PowerBI, generate a map with heatmapping. There you go, saved you £15,000,000, with probably <1hr of a competent tech's time. It'd take probably 15 extra mins of finding it and adding it to add in demographics and all other useful stuff too.
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Oh my days ...Craig just saved £150m
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Always good to see scientists replicating previous famous findings.
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
New essay: Why hospitals always get bailed out. A Hungarian economist already knew. A French sociologist explains why. And it turns out they were both reading the same German. amcunningham72.substack.com/p/why-hospit...
The image shows the Substack article preview card for "Why hospitals always get bailed out" with the subtitle "What a Hungarian economist and a French sociologist can tell us about NHS funding" by Anne Marie Cunningham, dated March 28, 2026. The header image is an interior photograph of a hospital corridor — tall glass walls, directional signs pointing to SDEC, outpatients, escalators, a surgical ambulatory unit, and an outpatient pharmacy. "
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Julian Winn @winn-on-health.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Can't hold a candle to a headline such as this
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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Fighting deprivation requires 2 things mainly: a long term plan, and significant investment in that long term plan. That's why nothing ever happens
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It's absurd. Have a read. open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/m...
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
youtu.be/2TOR895yhIw?... for those who have not had the joy yet
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On The Air with Gerry Anderson: Hypno Hen
YouTube video by flickerpixvideos
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
On the pod with @marcusbaw.com - talking about money, power and Palantir and there NHS, and observing the similarities with MOD contract which @davidallengreen.bsky.social explored
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Marcus Baw @marcusbaw.com · 12/03/2026
A new episode of Everything Digital Health just dropped: FDP and Palantir - The Fall? - with Anne-Marie Cunningham www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovdBfYtcPgI As Mandy and Randy Andy's Epstein connections have been publicly unpicked - still ongoing at the ...
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FDP and Palantir - The Fall? - with Anne-Marie Cunningham
As Mandy and Randy Andy's Epstein connections have been publicly unpicked - still ongoing at the ...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If you missed it, you can watch it here: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/why-sustaina...
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Why Sustainability in Health Care Cannot Be Implemented: From Implementation Failure to Ongoing Mediation
Sustainability in health care is widely framed as a problem of implementation: policies are designed, evidence is assembled, and failure is diagnosed when action does not follow. This lecture challeng...
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Jyoti Mishra @jyotimishra.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Thank YOU for still listening :D
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Honestly could not believe this was 30 years ago. Had to look it up. Still have the cd single. thanks @jyotimishra.bsky.social
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Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This has been a long term ambition of mine - here's how I got there....https://open.substack.com/pub/amcunningham72/p/conversational-prototyping-what-i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6f6pv
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Conversational Prototyping: What I Learned Building a Data Dashboard With a GP
yeah, I let Claude write this one ;-)
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
During WW2 both the UK and France asked a leading thinker to prepare a plan for post-war reconstruction. The British got The Beveridge Report, the French Simone Weil’s The Need For Roots.
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Hannah Spencer MP of @greenparty.org.uk sworn in parliamentlive.tv/event/index/... House of Commons just now.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It tells you something about the disorientating rate of change underway that nobody is particularly shocked that a head of state has been assassinated by other states, something which has *never happened* in the modern era. Which is illegal under US law. Shed no tears for Khamanei, but still. 1/3
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