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Nick Hopkinson

@copddoc.bsky.social
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Professor of Respiratory Medicine FRCP #LungSky, Social justice 🫁 🚭 #NHS He/him cis Born at 323ppm profiles.imperial.ac.uk/n.hopkinson #MedSky #NHS #LungSky pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Hopki…

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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New from @ashorguk.bsky.social Smoking and inequalities dashboard. ashresources.shinyapps.io/inequalities... #RespEd @asthmaandlung.org.uk @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can set up a direct debit to the RNLI here: rnli.org
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wildfire smoke and health: current evidence, mechanisms, and future challenges. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #LungSky #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @thelancet.com
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lung Facts: a practical tool to strengthen respiratory advocacy in Europe publications.ersnet.org/content/brea... #ERScongress #LungSky #RespEd @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social @europeanlung.bsky.social
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tom Hopkinson's 1934 pamphlet 'Fascists at Olympia' describes the assault on dissenters at Mosley's London rally.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Professor Jason Arday vigil.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Weird racist death cult.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Statement of the @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social on the achieving the tobacco endgame publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social @europeanlung.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd /n
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Impact of omitting annual reviews for COPD on patient reported care quality- outcomes from the @asthmaandlung.org.uk COPD patient passport bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/4... @btsrespiratory.bsky.social #RespEd #LungSky
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is a fierce read.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"You've got to have love." Pulp at The Festival Hall. @southbankcentre.bsky.social
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
People who smoke have more microplastic in their coronary artery circulation, and higher levels are seen in people having a heart attack.... Another reason to quit. @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad... #RespEd #LungSky
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Exercise-based interventions enhance smoking cessation: A systematic review and meta-analysis @asthmaandlung.org.uk @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @btsrespiratory.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A convergence of death cults. archive.ph/dWkfA
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Holiday reading haul.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Anti-apartheid veteran Ronnie Kasrils' autobiography - an apt read on the 50th anniversary of the Soweto massacre. /n
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tobacco and Vapes definitions. /n
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tobacco and Vapes timeline /n
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tobacco and Vapes Act: the goal of the tobacco endgame is that no one starts to smoke, and everyone who smokes is supported to quit so that the tobacco industry ceases to be commercially viable. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #LungSky #RespEd @ash.org @bmj.com @imperialnhli.bsky.social /n
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Marjane Satrapi - Such sad news www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Ahead of World No Tobacco Day, John Crofton in Thorax from 1990 - Tobacco and the Third World. thorax.bmj.com/content/45/3... @bmj.com @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social #WorldNoTobaccoDay #TobaccoFree #LungSky
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
June issue of Thorax - out now. thorax.bmj.com/content/81/6... @bmj.com @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk @europeanlung.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"The best model of care is not about one profession replacing another. It is about ensuring patients have timely access to the right clinical expertise at the right time, with appropriate oversight from a senior doctor." @rcphysicians.bsky.social www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If we want to increase trust we need to avoid deception rather than secrecy.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Commuting podcast: ERJ Podcast March 2026: Mortality in severe asthma. publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/... #RespEd #LungSky
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Huge variation in NHS stop smoking funding leaves high need areas underresourced. www.bmj.com/content/393/... @bmj.com @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #StructuralViolence
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The SPACE for COPD maintenance programme improved quality of life and was cost-effective when delivered over 12 months. However, the primary outcome, endurance walking time, was not different between control and intervention groups. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #RespED
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The SPACE for COPD maintenance programme improved quality of life and was cost-effective when delivered over 12 months. However, the primary outcome, endurance walking time, was not different between control and intervention groups. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #RespED
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"adding stop-smoking support to lung cancer screening would improve overall health and reduce health inequalities...with the greatest benefits seen in the most deprived groups". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #RespEd #LungSky @ashorguk.bsky.social @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Celebrating a bad day for fascists - Tom Hopkinson, 1934 on Mosley's London rally.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"We too recommended that the GMC should lose their right of appeal. The Government and the GMC accepted our recommendations" @bmj.com @rcphysicians.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
When they poured across the border I was cautioned to surrender This I could not do I took my gun and vanished.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
People waiting so long for the march to start that there's starting to be weddings....
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Randomised trial of delivering co-located, personalised stop-smoking support within lung cancer screening: the YESS study thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... @bmj.com @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
State of the art review: Biological drivers of the host response in sepsis thorax.bmj.com/content/81/4... #LungSky #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Holiday reading haul.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Pipe and cigar use, lung function decline and clinical outcomes: an analysis of the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study thorax.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
UK Government takes world-leading steps to enable a ban on so-called cigarette ‘filters’ and end the #FilterFraud Filters no more protect against lung cancer than drinking beer through a straw stops you getting drunk ash.org.uk/media-centre... @ash.org @whofctc.bsky.social
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Child poverty is his political choice - Households living below a Minimum Income Standard: 2008–2024. @jrf-uk.bsky.social #AusterityKills #StructuralViolence www.jrf.org.uk/households-l... /n
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Child poverty as a political choice #AusterityKills #StructuralViolence @jrf-uk.bsky.social www.jrf.org.uk/households-l... /n
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Impact of the UK’s smokefree generation policy on tobacco-related equity in England tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl... #LungSky #RespEd @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In data from nine U.S. birth cohorts, ambient PM2.5 and indoor home water damage/home dampness together in early childhood were associated with an increased risk of the diagnosis of childhood asthma before the age of 5. #LungSky #RespEd #StructuralViolence journals.lww.com/environepide... /n
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Life Magazine. Churchill’s funeral, and the measles vaccine.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thorax: therapist-guided, internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (ICBT) effectively and safely reduces catastrophising about asthma, improves asthma control, avoidance behaviour and quality of life. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #RespEd #LungSky @asthmaandlung.org.uk @bmj.com /n
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Happy birthday, Angela Davis.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Ten Years After were splendid.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Looking forward to seeing Ten Years After again, 43 years after the last time.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Kerry James Marshall.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Development and validation of PRECISE-X model: predicting first severe exacerbation in COPD. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... @bmj.com #RespEd
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
European Respiratory Society clinical practice guideline for the management of adult bronchiectasis. publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/... #RespEd #LungSky
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