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Emma Vardy

@emmavardy2.bsky.social
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Physician. Honorary Professor of Geriatric Medicine. Delirium. Dementia. Quality improvement. Book lover. Northerner. Mum to daughter with PKU.

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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 16h
To live a meaningful life in the modern age we need to be able to understand and reckon with our most primal instincts. And then try to rise above them to something better.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 18h
Congratulations to @sharonduggal.bsky.social Today we publish Light Across the Plains @waterstones.bsky.social Brighton. @thebookseller.com @theguardian.com @foylesforbooks.bsky.social
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer! @emmavardy2.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck. Check Emma's attached post to see why. If you'd like to read this book, just get in touch. UK only
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@biggreenbooks.bsky.social I'd like to buy someone a copy of East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Read maybe 30 years ago now. Having watched the netflix series and rereading its even better than I remember. Brilliant descriptions of people and places. Interesting/complex characters. #buyastrangerabook
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. A groovy kind of day all round.. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. UK only It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
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Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
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UK Hospital At Home Society @ukhahsoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
⏰ There’s still time to submit your ideas for the UK Hospital at Home Society Conference 2027 We’re currently gathering suggestions to help shape next year’s conference programme & would love to hear from you. 📅 Submission deadline: Weds 21 Oct 2026 👉 buff.ly/udf3w4f #HospitalAtHome #HaHConf2027
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Funded PhD at Newcastle University (NIHR ARC NENC) using mixed methods to study whether Community Diagnostic Centres reduce health inequalities. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-equi...
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PhD: Equity and Access in Community Diagnostic Centres
Funded PhD at Newcastle University (NIHR ARC NENC) using mixed methods to study whether Community Diagnostic Centres reduce health inequalities.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not a surprise at all. As a parent of a 13 year old girl. A lot to say but not for sharing here.
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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My reading rate has decreased a lot over the last few years. However, since I moved to my lovely retirement village it's gone down even more. I'm so much busier, socialising more and it's wonderful. I'm the youngest resident at 58, the eldest is 93. Yet we all have fun together. Still, I'm happy.
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It does sound a lot of fun. You're always busy from sounds of it.
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We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"You Are What You Choose" Zoe Kazan’s 'East of Eden' premieres this Fall on Netflix. #EastOfEden
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#EastofEden
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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My aunt passed away earlier this year, and for a while it broke me. She always enthusiastically supported my art, from when I was a child to this year, she always insisted on buying art from me. She commissioned this Zelda art when I was 12, and she had kept it all that time.
Colour pencil Zelda art on wood
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Manchester, 1975, photo by Kemal Cengizkan.
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Interesting www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Jehovah’s Witness ban on accepting blood components in transfusions is lifted
Jehovah’s Witnesses can now decide themselves whether to accept or donate blood components, without risk of excommunication. New guidance issued to its members worldwide by the Governing Body of Jeho...
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oooohhh!
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your point very well made too.
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Started watching East of Eden. Must have been 21/22 when I read the book by John Steinbeck. Was in India on a placement in a leprosy hospital. With fellow student and friend Louise Tebboth, sadly no longer around to reminisce with. Rest in peace Louise. I still have the book on my shelf.
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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A drawing of a kitten sitting among candles. The caption reads, "let's prioritize comfort for now"
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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every wednesday my husband cooks dinner for a group of pensioners, his dad and some of his parents pals. They are politically and financially mixed. All said they dont care about the triple lock but all want social care sorting.
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1/10 here....
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Booked for Saturday!
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New library books....
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Johnny Marrs a much nicer person than Morrisey though. Or so it looks from outside.
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Chain of Flowers @craigatcof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Johnny Marr’s Quiet Genius Comes Fully Into Focus On ‘The Age of Everything’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
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Johnny Marr’s Quiet Genius Comes Fully Into Focus On 'The Age of Everything' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine
When The Smiths broke up in 1987, Morrissey was the obvious choice for a solo career. Johnny Marr's career wasn’t so obvious. As half of the iconic
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Had a fluorescein angiography today to look at blood vessels at back of my eyes. Not to bad. Though am one of few who vomits during dye injection. Eugh. Still bit queasy. Celebrity Traitors later should help.
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have you listened to this David? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Superfans! - The Beatles! - BBC Sounds
Amy Lamé tells the story of The Beatles through the words of their devoted fans.
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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's the start of October so that means we've launched our new Book of the Month giveaways! We have some great titles this month, so enter now for a chance to win. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-of-the-...
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Agreed. No no no to AI in music.
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Asan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really work
From finding love to becoming a better parent … Philippa Perry, Paul Dolan, Orna Guralnik and others reveal the books that will change your life
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Asan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Buffalo Beach, southwest Western Australia 🇦🇺❤️😊
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How many have you done Asan ?
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Asan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Including older people in health and social care research: best practice recommendations based on the INCLUDE framework
AbstractBackground. Older people are often explicitly or implicitly excluded from research, in particular clinical trials. This means that study findings m
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Asan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Complaining about healthcare can feel like an act of betrayal. But there is a real cost to silence | Ranjana Srivastava
The demands on doctors are only intensifying. From dissatisfied patients, I would ask for a measure of grace, understanding and, where possible, forgiveness
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Asan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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A job that changed me: I cried nearly every day working in aged care, then realised I could bring joy instead
I once asked a resident what she would do if she could do anything. She replied: ‘I’d run in a field’
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Asan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life
We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis
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Asan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Electronic Frailty Index 2 (eFI2) | British Geriatrics Society
The eFI2 is a tool used in UK primary care to identify older people living with frailty and predict their risk of adverse outcomes. It uses information already held in GP electronic health records and...
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Asan @asanakpan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Britons are not ageing healthily – we need to learn from countries that have made it a priority | Devi Sridhar
Although we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care, says public health academic Prof Devi S...
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Graphnet Health @graphnethealth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Victoria Betton, Director for Digital,Data & AI, Health Innovation Network Kent Surrey Sussex, made a compelling case at #HETT2026 for sitting alongside staff & observing their day-to-day work. That’s where teams can spot the workarounds, pressures & unmet needs that might never come up in a meeting
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You have outdone yourself @janicehallett.bsky.social thoroughly enjoyed the silent appeal. Especially loved the petty gripes aired by different characters via message/email.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just finished Frenchman's Creek, and I feel sad.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sometimes a book comes along, And you just know, know that it is storytelling at Its very, very best. A truly remarkable novel and a shadow history of the 20th century. Light Across the Plains by Sharon Duggal. Remarkable.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 30/09/2026
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not you @nowthenthee.bsky.social
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Purchase made for the York city fan in my life....and football fanatic.
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dare I say perfect for Christmas!
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SIGNED BOOK NEWS! I'll be getting a VERY limited number of SIGNED copies of "Games of My Life" by Alex Ferguson. Widely regarded as the greatest football manager of all time. Out next week. ORDER HERE (quickly) www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Front cover of Sir Alex's new book. It has a photograph of him looking to the left.
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