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Donna Wakefield

@donnawakefield.bsky.social
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Palliative Medicine Consultant 🩺 in North East England, NIHR Doctoral Fellow, PhD on #Inequalities in lung disease, #Mesothelioma #LungCancer #COPD #ILD🫁 🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTQ 💪🏻 #WomenInMedicine Book/coffee/travel/photography enthusiast ☕️📚📷 🌊⛰️

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🫁 ⚖️ People in disadvantaged areas more likely to have advanced #lung disease- but less likely to receive #PalliativeCare 📣My #PhD study is now OPEN 💬 To hear from people with #ILD #COPD #LungCa #Mesothelioma carers & HCP about tackling #inequalities Advertising with cake #BakeMyResearch 🍰 🫁
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🏆Proud to share that I have won @nihr.bsky.social (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Rising #ResearchLeader prize, one of five Doctoral level researchers recognised nationally as showing outstanding research leadership #NIHR20 🌟 #PalliativeCare #Research
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🌒 Partial solar eclipse on the Tyne - with appropriate #eclipse glasses this time 😎 In 2015, I was at work & viewed the partial eclipse through an X-ray 🩻🏥 In 1999, I was a teenager & viewed the eclipse through a sheet of paper 📄 #EclipseOnTheTyne #UK
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In today’s issue of @thelancet.com I reflect on the importance of context in #inequalities #research, where nuanced understanding demands more than just a sound bite 💬 or stock photograph 📸 which potentially stigmatises those from disadvantaged communities www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You might be waiting for computers and AI to take over 🤖 I would just be happy if I could send a single day not fighting computers Todays saga- laptop is plugged in (which it confesses to), yet it keeps turning itself off due to low battery 🪫 Lets go back to pen, paper Overhead projector etc
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Atlantic puffins taking a break after returning from fishing, beaks filled with sand eels, Before returning to their underground burrows to feed their pufflings ♥️ #Bird #Nature #Photography 📸 Be more #puffin #FarneIslands #UK @nationaltrust.org.uk
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🏆🏳️‍🌈 #LGBT Alliance Award winners! 🥰 Extremely proud to be part of this award winning initiative to improve #trans inclusive #hospice care 🏳️‍⚧️ Well done to the team at the wonderful @alicehousehospice.bsky.social #Hartlepool 👏 👏 👏 Read more via the link 🔗⬇️ alicehousehospice.co.uk/news/hospice...
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Hospice Recognition at LGBT Alliance Awards | Alice House Hospice
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
👏 We had a brilliant, engaging day at @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social Research Centre Conference “Meeting the challenges in #PalliativeCare #Research: Data, Delivery & Diversity at @hyms.ac.uk Grateful to have the opportunity to present my #PhD work on #Inequalities in #lung disease 🫁📊
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🔴 #Red4Research -Wearing red today to show appreciation to everyone who makes #research possible- from patients, support staff to researchers 👏 👏 👏 👏🫁 Extremely grateful to have an @nihr.bsky.social Fellowship to follow my dreams of doing a #PhD -on #inequalities in #lung disease 👩🏼‍⚕️
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Explaining to my child how we measure length 🐜 very small things in millimetres 📏 small things in centimetres 🛣️ big things in kilometres 🧍‍♀️Try using my height as an example, automatically say 5 foot 7 inches 🚙 And then we get in the car to school, the Satnav tells us it is 4 miles away 😂😂😂
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🫁📚 Great talks and discussions, including tackling #inequalities in care for people with #ILD at todays Northern ILD Education day in Newcastle 🙌 Also further appreciation of the brilliant goal-orientated care provided by OTs, physios & pharmacists 👏 #PulmonaryFibrosis #PalliPulm
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
When I am up to my neck in a quagmire of stress and disappointment - #photography always helps, especially when its the chance spotting of this beautiful little #bird outside my office window 📸 #Nature #NeverGiveUp
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Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Socio-economic inequalities shape end-of-life outcomes in advanced lung disease. People in the most deprived areas are more likely to die in hospital. This is seen across the social gradient but is most influenced by cause of death.” Great work by @donnawakefield.bsky.social at #EAPC2026
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Our third trip to beautiful Japan 🇯🇵♥️ and we don’t want to leave….
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Genuinely so excited to see our paper exploring “ #PalliativeMedicine in 2050: How will people live the last part of life” 📖 Thank you @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to this special themed edition of @rcphysicians.bsky.social @futurehealthj.bsky.social 📚
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Dr Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In another first for FHJ,here's their first video article, a conversation/reflection about the Australian experience of legalising Assisted Dying. Thoughtful, courteous, curious, balanced. Thanks to @katherinesleeman.bsky.social Dr Tom Osborne & Lucy Easthope sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 8/
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Dr Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This edition is full of great ideas, wonderfully expressed. @pallyscot.bsky.social paired up with Monica Lalanda to produce the @futurehealthj.bsky.social 's first ever comic. This image is their abstract. Follow sciencedirect.com/science/arti... to see the rest of this fabulous article. 4/
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Dr Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Buckle up, folks, I have big news. I was invited to guest edit this month's @futurehealthj.bsky.social from @rcphysicians.bsky.social * Yes, a dedicated #PallCall & #EoLCare issue! It's open access, so here's the full contents with links. This may require more than a single pot of tea. 1/
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thanks so much for inviting me to share our #SystematicReview on #Inequalities in #PalliativeCare in #Lung disease today - #LungCancer, #Mesothelioma #COPD #ILD 🫁 🫁 🫁 🫁 Great to hear about all the other inspiring #PalliativeCare #Research @peolcsw.bsky.social 🙌 @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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
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The NHSA @thenhsa.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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...
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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...
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Line up of beautiful #birds in my garden today 📷 🌳 #Bluetit #Robin #Coaltit #GardenWatch #Bird #Photography
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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 😴☕️🪫
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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 😆
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Snow + frost for the 1st #Monday commute of the year ❄️🥶
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy #NewYear! 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🍾🥂
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
🎄Belatedly celebrating Christmas Day today and its finally time for festive Colin the caterpillar 🍰🥳 #MerryChristmas 🎅🏻 🎁
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
🏆 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
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
🎄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 🥰
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 20/12/2025
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
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."
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
📣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...
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
✍️ I love learning the craft of writing 📕 Really recommend this #book to dip in and out of for hints and tips #PhD #Mumademia
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
What a week! Beautiful sun rising over #Newcastle this morning 🌅
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🏆Honoured to win the Dorothy Robson prize for #PalliativeMedicine at @hyms.ac.uk for an abstract -from my #PhD research on #Inequalities in access to #PalliativeCare in lung disease - thank you ☺️ 🫁 @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social @jonathankoffman.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🏥👩🏼‍⚕️Monday: Busy day in the hospital being a #PalliativeMedicine consultant in the north-east 👩🏻‍🎓✍️ Tuesday: Beautiful winters day on @hyms.ac.uk campus being a #PhD researcher - today focusing on how to write a thesis 📝 Love having a varied week of clinical & #research @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Mini-milestones unlocked today 🔓 🎉Successful 1st Thesis Progression Panel. Great to present the last 2 years of my #PhD #research & have meaningful discussion 🏋🏻‍♀️When I started my PhD, I decided it was time to improve fitness. Weight-lifting & boxing has helped & I finally reached 70kg 🎯 (from 95kg)
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Such a buzz in the room as people arrived from all over the country for todays #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator 🎉 @pri-uk.bsky.social Wonderful to see people in real life Thank you for coming to my home city 🤗 #Newcastle (sorry about the weather ☔️) I’ve gone away feeling inspired 🥰
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I am sick of seeing the generic sad hands in articles for #PalliativeCare So this Sunday night, I am experimenting with some potential drawings for my next journal editorial. My first attempt drawing on the iPad. Its helping my stress/anxiety and is much less messy than my paints or linocutting ✍️
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy #Halloween - or #EAPC2026 deadline day to all who celebrate 🎉 🎃 Every year I create academic themed pumpkins: this year I’ve carved lungs in pumpkin 1 🫁 (dedicated to my research on #inequalities in #lung disease) & pumpkin 2 describes what I’ve been working on for the past 2 weeks solid 💪🏻
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Komorebi - the Japanese word for when the sunshine filters through the leaves 🍂 English lacks a single word for this beauty
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I love the colourful autumn sky 🍂 Current view from the window 🪟📸 as I work on my #Qualitative study protocol 👩🏼‍💻 - in #Newcastle
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📣New paper - Remote & rural communities face #inequalities in receiving specialist #PalliativeCare. Patients & staff found video-consultation to be a beneficial option (& preferable than a phone call ☎️ ) 🌟 #OpenAccess in “PalliativeCare & Social Practice”📔 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A beautiful #heron, looking for fish 🐟 #Bird #Photography 📸 #BirdPhotography #Nature 🌳
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy #EuropeanDayOfLanguages! Enjoyed practicing languages for my daughter’s homework and on theme wearing my Europe map top! 🗺️ My dream is to visit every country in Europe & pick up more languages on the way 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 #EuropeAddict #MapAddict
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Clare Gardiner @claregardiner.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
⭐We have just published our new book 'Understanding Mesothelioma' ⭐ Highlighting the lived experience of meso, and underpinned by robust research, this book helps us understand what good care for meso looks like. www.routledge.com/Understandin...
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Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences and Care Needs of People with Mesothelioma and their Families
This practical text highlights the lived experience of mesothelioma. Following the patient journey and underpinned by the evidence, it explores what good care for mesothelioma looks like. Mesothelioma...
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Great day presenting & learning at the North of England #Mesothelioma 🫁 Educational update at the beautiful Beamish Hall Hotel, #Durham And delighted to be welcomed as the only #PalliativeCare member of the North of England Thoracic society (yet!) Very impressed with the badge! 🥰
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📣New textbook - out TODAY! 📕 “Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences & Care Needs of People with #Mesothelioma & their Families” 🫁 Really grateful to have the opportunity to contribute this essential resource 📚 @claregardiner.bsky.social @mesouk.bsky.social @vsherbo.bsky.social Link below
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Really exciting to see 1️⃣6️⃣8️⃣ like-minded people logging in for the launch 🚀 of the 🆕 #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator So many potential opportunities to connect with others, as working in a small field, spread geographically can sometimes feel isolating. @pri-uk.bsky.social
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