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Katherine Walesby

@kewdoc.bsky.social
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Specialist Registrar Geriatrics & Internal Medicine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Research interests: dementia, big data/routinely collected health data, epidemiology. Mum to a child with rare disease, and advocate for recognising lived-experience in healthcare and research.

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
@humanaqvi.bsky.social @clarepharmacy.bsky.social @kewdoc.bsky.social @susanshenkin.bsky.social
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Katherine Walesby @kewdoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Great to be at the Harpa Centre in Reykjavik for the 21st EuGMS Congress www.eugms.org/events/21st-...
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 04/07/2025
"It's been a missing piece that's needed to make health respond to what patients really need." Sophia Walker on the value of lived experience expertise. 👀 Look out for our New BMJ collection "Lived experience as expertise" launching on bmj.com on 8 July
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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Compassionate leadership helps to create psychologically safe working environments. Previous studies on doctors, nurses & midwives have shown that the wellbeing of health & care staff is affected by 8 key factors, organised into 3 core needs 👇 Read more: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
Diagram showcasing eight key workplace values divided into three categories: Autonomy, Belonging, and Contribution. Autonomy includes justice, fairness, influence, and work conditions. Belonging covers teamwork and culture. Contribution focuses on workload, management, supervision, and education and learning development. Each category is color-coded and connected by arrows.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 07/04/2025
"One of the potential outcomes of these policies is to drive more sick and disabled people into poverty, which has well documented links with mental health problems." @katiepybus.bsky.social looks at Labour's welfare reforms and their impact www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Protests about the disability cuts
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James Moore @moore2c.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Another vote for european-alternatives.eu - so far I've dropped a few streaming services, switched iCloud for kDrive, switched gmail for kMail with. For Amazon I've started buying direct wherever possible and I'm already finding it saving a lot of money. For photography I'm using Darktable (free)
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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Cambridge @cambridgebrc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚨 Learn about how a trial using the immunosuppressant Azathioprine showed possible breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s disease (AZA-PD trial) >>> bit.ly/4jlUfss @cuhnhs.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @cureparkinsons.org.uk #research #parkinsons
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Groundbreaking Cambridge research indicates immunosuppression may help treat Parkinson's - NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Groundbreaking Cambridge research indicates immunosuppression may help treat Parkinson's disease - results presented last weekend in Vienna
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04...
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New blood test for protein troponin can improve heart attack and stroke risk prediction
A simple £5 blood test for the protein troponin could predict a person's risk of heart attacks and strokes with greater accuracy than ever before, research suggests.
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Abhishek Behl 🫵🏼 @abehl.net · 26/02/2025
Just amazing to see our daughter enjoying ice skating at Murrayfield (Edinburgh) with her school class group @team-oaklands.bsky.social with @kewdoc.bsky.social #edinburgh #Inclusion #specialneeds
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Katherine Walesby @kewdoc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Thank you so much! It was so lovely to meet you and the other examiners in person today - with lots of interesting discussion. It’s been a long journey but so grateful to be at the finish line! Thanks also to my incredible supervisors Dr Tom Russ and @susanshenkin.bsky.social
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