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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@drccooper.bsky.social
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Researcher in community wellbeing @northumbriauniversity. Researching homelessness, trauma, and creative health, marginalisation, inequalities, and the life course. Pronouns: she/her

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I strongly believe the smallest act of daily creativity can powerfully reinforce & fuel our trauma recovery. Our bullies & abusers desperately want us forgetting how to make & share music, art, poetry, or anything else. Ask yourself why.
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024. Read more on our site here: museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...
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Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness
We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
"Choices" aren't real choices when we've been so heavily conditioned by trauma that we are blind to our options and resources. Questions like "Why didn't you leave?" & "Why did you keep repeating those patterns?" assume agency that we literally don't comprehend when we're down the rabbit hole.
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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
‼️ Today's new report makes for grim reading: There has been no progress on social #inequalities in health in the past decade in the EU, according to @eurohealthnet.bsky.social and CHAIN Centre for Health Equity Analytics eurohealthnet.eu/publication/...
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Social inequalities in health in the EU - EuroHealthNet
EuroHealthNet-CHAIN report Social inequalities in health in the EU Are countries closing the health gap? Read summary report Read technical report […]
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
You do not feel bad because you are "disordered." You feel bad because CPTSD has poisoned your beliefs about yourself & your options. Thats not a "disorder," that's an injury-- & injuries can heal w/ the proper care.
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The NHSA @thenhsa.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Arthritis is more common amongst 55-64 year olds in the North of England (28%) than in the South (23%). Just 51% of people in the North East and Yorkshire are seen for treatment within the national 3 week target, compared to 79% in the South West www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/06/olde...
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
You're not as bothersome or burdensome as Trauma Brain is trying to convince you you are. Yes, you might bug some people-- but so does every human. Our conditioning tries to tell us we're a huge inconvenience for breathing, that everyone resents-- but that's BS (Belief Systems).
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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Greater London contains some of the highest poverty rates in the UK. Yet no matter how many times I read the newly-published list of 75 places Angela Rayner considers the country's "most left behind" I see nowhere in Greater London on it: www.gov.uk/government/p... #london #poverty
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Plan for Neighbourhoods: prospectus
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Health Equity North @healthequitynorth.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“Tackling poverty is not just about income – it’s about dignity, opportunity and health." - a piece on regional inequalities in the North East northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Regional inequalities: the North East
“Tackling poverty is not just about income – it’s about dignity, opportunity and health. We remain committed to building a fairer, more inclusive South Tyneside.”
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The NHSA @thenhsa.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Women aged 65 and over in the North East are predicted to have the highest number of unhealthy years at 23.7 years, compared to 19.4 years in the South East. For men, the number is 20.2 years in the North East, while the South East has 16.6 www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/06/olde...
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Cant think of anyone more deserving. Gisèle Pelicot is one of the most brwv3 and powerful women I have ever come across.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
A new youth panel is being set up to help advise the Labour government on the Youth Guarantee - ensuring all 18-21yr olds can work or learn. The panel will contain those with experience of being out of education, employment & training. It will discuss the barriers they face & how to overcome them.
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New panel of young people to shape the Government’s Youth Guarantee
Young people with experience of being out of education, employment and training will help shape policy as part of a new Youth Guarantee Advisory Panel.
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Let's apply this to traumatised adults too.
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Gerry Diamond. @gerrydiamond1971.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Blaming & shaming pupils parents /caregivers doesn't break intergenerational trauma. Pupils will blame themselves, this is what traumatised kids do.Its never about blame because where does it stop? It's about supporting pupils to heal & do things differently.🧠🌱 #cyclebreakers
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Excited to share our most recent publication (co-authored with @profmlhussier.bsky.social detailing the protocol for our study exploring trauma-impaired executive function and its impacts on homeless adults in the UK (see link below). bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...
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Understanding trauma-impaired executive function and its impacts on homeless adults in the UK: a realist evaluative synthesis protocol
Introduction Approximately 90% of people with experience of homelessness report adverse childhood experiences, having far-reaching consequences across the life course. Trauma-informed approaches have ...
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Gerry Diamond. @gerrydiamond1971.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Trauma informed means that you have a "BASIC" understanding of trauma & what it is. Responsive is where you should be.A responsive school setting is continually evolving,meeting pupils specific needs.Biological underpinnings,developmental difficulties,behavioural difficulties🧠🌱
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We were at Museum European Museum of the Year Awards, not nominated but guest speaking, on the theme of solidarity. Next year who knows?! ☺️ museumofhomelessness.org/news/museum-...
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Museum of Homelessness at the European Museum of the Year — Museum of Homelessness
MoH directors Matt and Jess Turtle spoke on solidarity at this year's European Museum of the Year Awards conference in Bialystok, Poland with MoH Chair Sharon Heal MoH's work was very well received ...
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
MoH fights the overdose crisis: museumofhomelessness.org/news/moh-fig...
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MoH fights the overdose crisis — Museum of Homelessness
40 people a week are dying from opioid overdose in the UK. 47% of the deaths we document in our community, through the Dying Homeless Project are classed as ‘Deaths of Despair’ through overdose or sui...
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This is my default setting.
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We don’t “age out” of our vulnerability to complex trauma.
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The most wonderful, emotional, powerful, empowering day at work yesterday with Katriona O'Sullivan talking to us about inclusive education. It's going to be ticking over in my mind for a good while this one.
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today I start marking assignments from our very first cohort of students to take our new Creative health module on BSc Health and social care. I am so excited to delve into all the wonderful ways our incredible students have used creativity to improve wellbeing outcomes.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Retraction of RCTs (because they were at best flawed & at worst fraudulent) leads to substantial changes in evidence syntheses (systematic reviews and meta-analyses). How many more crap RCTs are lurking? Time to stop hero-worshipping this design. GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT. www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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Investigating the impact of trial retractions on the healthcare evidence ecosystem (VITALITY Study I): retrospective cohort study
Objective To investigate the impact of retracted trials on the production and use of healthcare evidence in the evidence ecosystem. Design Retrospective cohort study based on forward citation searchi...
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Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities @mobcommassets.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Our last knowledge exchange event saw all twelve MCA projects get together to share insights & experiences one year into Phase 3. An invigorating moment of collaboration and dialogue captured in an insightful blog by @ncch.bsky.social & stunning illustration by Temujen ncch.org.uk/blog/mobilis...
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National Centre for Creative Health
The National Centre for Creative Health will advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and...
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Private landlords and hotels ‘cashing in’ on England’s hidden homelessness crisis
Exclusive: Half of local authorities charged double by private providers for temporary housing, investigation finds
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 25/04/2025
Research has found that privatisation of health services reduces quality of care. @franbaum.bsky.social‬ and colleagues look at how the concept of "enshittification" applies to health services and their decline with privatisation www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Health service, not wealth service, sticker
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
MoH national visitors portrait. 😊 Yesterday, just at the 2pm sharing we had visitors from Invisible Cities Manchester, Doorway Wiltshire and Pathway Newcastle We love it when we have colleagues from all over the country coming to hear stories from our collection. ❤️ Thank you all for your support ❤️
A group gathered outside themuseum. .
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Action needed: social housing providers must be made accountable for the treatment of their tenants | Steve Bundred
Angela Rayner’s renters’ rights bill won’t help those living in substandard accommodation, says former Audit Commission chief Steve Bundred
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Aaaaand we are OPEN for the spring summer season! 🤩😍 Thanks to everyone who has visited so far, we've loved meeting you all. It's been good vibes! ❤️ We are running tours of the museum and collection at 1230, 2pm and 345pm again today. FREE but donations welcome.
Dave signs the Peoples history of finsbury park for a visitor Lisa telling the story of Fred's trolley in the museum Matt welcomes visitos to the museum in the sun Matt and Jess posing in the new merch
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16/04/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I reflect often on big themes in what’s been working for me the best in trauma recovery. One of them is—lean into your temperament. However your body and personality work, let them work that way. Be the person you are. You don’t have to be like everyone else.
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Fantastic to take part in this and to see our project represented in this way! #SeeMeNorth
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Volunteers needed! Join our legendary crew 🥰 We need people to help us welcome visitors to the museum on Thursday and Friday afternoons. Register your interest at museumofhomelessness.org/volunteering
A flyer for volunteering. Text is also in post. Images are our crew welcoming groups to the museum.
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Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities @mobcommassets.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Exciting news! 🎉 Our lived experience producer, Kiz Manley, and advisory group member, Celeste Ingrams, have been published by @britsciassoc.bsky.social! Their essay explores the lived experience journey in health inequalities research — check it out www.britishscienceassociation.org/essay-1-ucl-...
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A lived experience journey in health inequalities research
Involving people with lived experience in health inequalities research is vital to ensuring it has real impact. But how do we ensure lived experience experts (LEXperts) flourish in the traditional res...
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Severing trauma bonds absolutely comes w/ withdrawal symptoms & reactions. And, like withdrawal from any toxic substance or relationship, the discomfort does NOT mean severing our relationship w/ it was the wrong choice.
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A therapist who thinks they're trauma informed "enough," is not trauma informed. *I* am not trauma informed "enough." Being truly trauma informed is being committed to keeping up w/ the research, open to radical shifts in understanding, & consistently deferential to lived experience.
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Exciting PhD opportunity. Working with women with experience of incarceration exploring notions of housing and home. Find out more below. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Housing and home following incarceration (ref: PHIL24/HLS/SWECW/COOPER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Housing and home following incarceration (ref: PHIL24/HLS/SWECW/COOPER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Exciting PhD opportunity. Working with women with experience of incarceration exploring notions of housing and home. Find out more below. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Housing and home following incarceration (ref: PHIL24/HLS/SWECW/COOPER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Housing and home following incarceration (ref: PHIL24/HLS/SWECW/COOPER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Fantastic couple of days presenting ideas on homelessness, trauma, research, and creativity from our #SeeMeNorth project at the @artshomelessint.bsky.social 3rd International arts and homelessness summit at The Old Diorama Arts Centre, London. Amazing place, amazing people.
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We are pleased to see our work cited in this letter from 10 Peers to the Times regarding the full repeal of the Vagrancy Act, which is yet to take place.
Screenshot of a letter to the Times from 10 Peers pushing for full repeal of the Vagrancy Act.
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IDEAS-NET @northumbriaideas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
At our Future of Evaluation in Health & Social Care Symposium, we were thrilled to collaborate with Sian McArthur & Chris Murray from More than Minutes. Their visual capture of key themes and discussions added a dynamic layer to our event, offering fresh insights and deeper perspective.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 21/01/2025
The UK has higher rates of health related worklessness than most comparable economies. In tackling this, the government should be careful to not drive people into more poverty, stigma, and ill health, and thereby further away from employment @profbambra.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...
People on a bus
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Arts and Homelessness International @artshomelessint.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
We’re thrilled to be part of the One Roof Festival at ODAC! Coinciding with the AHI Summit, this inspiring event welcomes everyone—artists, local residents, and supporters alike. 🗓 Save the Date: 📅 January 22–24, 2025 📍 ODAC, Euston, London
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Looking forward to attending and yo sharing my thoughts on the trauma (Thurs) and research (Fri) panels. See you there?
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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We’re building a youth-led campaigning collective to challenge those in power. The programme will be led by MoH’s Harry Gay and experienced campaigners Matt Bonner (Werbepause, Dog Section Press, Revolt Design) and Tommy Vickerstaff (anti-fracking, fuel poverty, trans liberation)
A poster in blue and purple block letters saying Join the fight against housing inequality and homelessness register your interest now A poster in blue and purple block letters which says are you 18-25 and have lived experience of poverty inequity and homelessness? We're forming a youth led campaigning collective to take on those in power and fight back
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Dr Chris Cooper 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @drccooper.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Education systems have gone a long way towards being more relational in the last decade, but much remains to be done to better support young people... Adolescent health: from individual risk behaviours to wellbeing ecosystems: learning from the paradigm shift www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Adolescent health: from individual risk behaviours to wellbeing ecosystems: learning from the paradigm shift
Recent years have seen a plateauing of most risky behaviours initiated in adolescence and an increase in mental health issues and social isolation. In parallel, there has been a shift from adolesce...
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Getting real about our mistakes & regrets in trauma recovery means being willing to view our past choices through the lens of our vulnerability at the time-- & to remember that explanations are not excuses. Realism, accountability, & grace can coexist. Indeed, they have to.
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
In my experience, learning the stories of people who recovered from their own trauma-- even if nether they nor their trauma especially resemble mine-- can be a game changer in designing strategies & adapting tools to my own struggles & goals. Read. Listen. Seek models.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Our paper on the impact of living with multiple long-term conditions on everyday life: a qualitative evidence synthesis. The 'work' is not only around medications and healthcare use, it is also emotional & financial with lots of learning & adaptation bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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