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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
OMG. This is *really* good. Personally I'd have gone even further in challenging the status quo, but this is a solid rock on which to build the national mental health strategy. Please read it (yes, all 500 pages of it. It's a magisterial report). www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: final report
Final report detailing the findings of the independent review into the prevalence and support for mental health conditions, ADHD and autism.
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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
'As provision of basic needs (housing, health, education, employment) continues to atrophy, [Neuro-identitarianism] resistance increasingly takes an individualised, myopic form, dissipating collective pressure that might otherwise demand the system be fixed.' www.madintheuk.com/2026/06/on-a...
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On Alienation and the Chimeric Promise of Neuro-Identitarianism - Mad in the UK
a systemic psychotherapist, makes the case that human distress needs to be understood in its relational and social context.
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
And in Cumberland we have close to 100% vaccination uptake for HPV now. We can effectively eliminate cervical cancer if we keep the focus on this - extraordinary achievement 👏👏👏
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This year's Cumberland Public Health Annual Report focuses on men - and what's wrong with them (...us!). What is it about masculine identity that damages men, and the people we live with? And what can we do about it? All suggestions gratefully recieved... www.cumberland.gov.uk/health-and-s...
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Cumberland Public Health Annual Report 2026 | Cumberland Council
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children
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Cool streets
Paris's school streets are effectively sculpting out instant parks in the locations where they'll provide immense public health benefits to the city's most vulnerable populations
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Royal Society for Public Health @rsph.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill has received Royal Assent, which means it is now law 🎉 Here's what you need to know 🧵 👇
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This afternoon's Third Reading debate marks the end of the Tobacco & Vapes Bill's journey through the Lords. We're so close to creating a smokefree generation and a future free from the harms of tobacco. 🎉
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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Today, the government has launched a 12-week public consultation, proposing smoke‑free playgrounds, school grounds & hospital areas, plus new vape‑free/heated‑tobacco‑free spaces. This is a key step toward the Tobacco & Vapes Bill and a smoke‑free generation. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Children to be better protected from second-hand smoking & vaping
The government is launching a consultation on extending smoke-free places and introducing vape-free and heated tobacco-free spaces
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Excellent article on our current approach to medicalising mental distress - we have to think differently about this. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...
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‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness?
Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than good
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
What fresh hell is this?! 6 Nations ITV coverage showing adverts DURING THE MATCH PLAY???!!! Enough already!
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Public Health Jobs UK @pubhealthjobsuk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Public Health Consultants x 2 posts Cumberland Council Carlisle £81,049 - £83,932 Closes 24/11 recruitment.cumbria.gov.uk/trentl_webre...
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Fantastic to be at the launch of the Pears Cumbria Medical School this evening, welcoming the first cohort of students this week. An evening of celebration and optimism and a really good bunch of students. Really positive stuff!
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
@felly500.bsky.social - time to update your graphic perhaps - make it fit for the future?
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
So... this is a screen grab from page 52 of the new NHS 10 year plan.
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=t_BX... This week I presented the latest Public Health Annual Report, "Stronger With Age", to Cumberland Council. Watch here and follow the link to the full report.
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Director of Public Health Annual Report
YouTube video by Cumberland Council
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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The medicalisation of distress, and possible overdiagnosis of MH conditions needs discussion focused on how best to help people, rather than as route to cut the benefits bill. Elspeth Davies and me in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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How do we talk about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions without dismissing people’s suffering?
On 16 March the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, made headlines by declaring in an interview that there was an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions. The comment was made in the ...
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Public Health Jobs UK @pubhealthjobsuk.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Health and Wellbeing Officer Cumberland Council Carlisle or Workington £31,067 to £31,586 Closes 28/04 recruitment.cumbria.gov.uk/trentl_webre...
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Exciting opportunities to join the Public Heath team in Cumberland! Now recruiting to two Public Health Consultant roles ⬇️ recruitment.cumbria.gov.uk/trentl_webre...
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Richard Pemberton @socratext.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Mental health conditions are over diagnosed theconversation.com/are-mental-h...
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Are mental health conditions overdiagnosed in the UK? Two experts go head to head
Experts challenge Streeting’s claim about ‘over-diagnosis’, and bring some nuance to the debate.
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
⬇️ Yes to every word of this. Sounds like a must-read book and very much along the theme of my last annual report www.cumberland.gov.uk/publications...
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Cumberland Public Health Annual Report, 2023/4 | Cumberland CouncilCumberland Council
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The Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Article in Psychology Today about the successful project to introduce the Power Threat Meaning Framework approach into London AMH inpatient wards, and the encouraging results. #PTFramework #PTMF www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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From Symptoms to Stories: Reframing Mental Health Treatment
A new approach that reframes mental health struggles not as defects but as understandable responses to stress and trauma shows promise for patient outcomes, new research finds.
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cumberlanddph.bsky.social @cumberlanddph.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
For anyone wondering what public health actually *is* - it's this: ravigurumurthy.substack.com/p/how-to-hal... Great article that really shows how focusing on social and commercial change makes more difference than obsessing about individual choices.
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How to halve obesity
And why we shouldn't fear the politics
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Chris Whitty: "Historically, the cigarette industry, despite what it claims, has always targeted children. It always deplores it in public, but if you look at its internal documents you discover that that is what it has been aiming to do" hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025... @ashorguk.bsky.social
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Tobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting) - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Tobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)' on Tuesday 7 January 2025.
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