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Andrew Partington @arpartington.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
A great account of the barriers and enablers to HB-HTA. The work reported in the paper is itself a positive and admirable step forward. Hospital-based health technology assessment in France: how can we do more and better? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hospital-based health technology assessment in France: how can we do more and better?*
Health technology assessment (HTA) informs public decision-making regarding the use of medical innovations. In France, the national health authority (…
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Population Mental Health @popmhuk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Digital Innovations for Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention: Innovation Lab Expression of Interest form forms.office.com/pages/respon... @phiuk.bsky.social @lhgp.bsky.social @khe-kings.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @jdasmunshi.bsky.social @thriveldn.bsky.social @healthyurbanplaces.bsky.social
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New blog from Refugee Mental Health & Place network: “Calm in the eye of a storm” - how third-sector organisations help people from refugee backgrounds build belonging, community and hope in London: www.kcl.ac.uk/how-third-pl...
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We are pleased to be joining @thriveldn.bsky.social and other partners to work together and deliver upon a £1.5 million National Lottery Community Fund Climate Action Fund project, linking climate change and mental health. Learn more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/londone...
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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · 28/11/2025
The Treasury should introduce an alcohol duty escalator, targeting off-trade alcohol, to help fund alcohol treatment and narrow the widening gap in price between supermarket and pub alcohol, says Labour MP @catsmithmp.bsky.social. @dantomlinson.bsky.social @aha-uk.bsky.social
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Andrew Partington @arpartington.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Universal childcare? "Start putting public money into publicly run centres ... anything less than that, I think is just negligent". open.spotify.com/episode/5ogZ...
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The woman who exposed the childcare industry
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James Morris @jamesmorris24.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I've written a piece for @addiction-ssa.org on Alcoholics Anonymous, exploring it's current role - and tensions - within the current recovery landscape 90 years after its first meetings were held. Please share 🙏 www.addiction-ssa.org/features/ess... #alcoholicsanonymous #recovery #addiction
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Drugs: education, prevention and policy @deppjournal.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Check out our new issue on moralities in drug policy. Fantastic editorial and most of the papers are open access: Studying moralities in drug policy: An editorial introduction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Studying moralities in drug policy: An editorial introduction
Published in Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2025)
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King's Health Economics @khe-kings.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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'It gave me my voice back': How group singing is helping new mums with postnatal depression
New research suggests singing can be clinically effective at treating the symptoms and cost effective for the NHS.
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The gender wealth gap sits at 21% - much higher than the wage gap - so why don't we hear anything about it? @ignaciapinto.bsky.social of @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social explains why taxing wealth is a feminist issue in a guest blog. neweconomics.org/2025/09/taxi...
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Taxing wealth is a feminist issue
We hear a lot about the gender pay gap - but what about the gender wealth gap?
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Rapid ⬆️ in Px Doesn't appear to a rapid increase in the £ available for services to which people are referred If this were referrals to orthopaedics that wouldn't be ok not ok in this context
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National roll-out of social prescribing in England's primary care system: a longitudinal observational study using Clinical Practice Research Datalink data
Social prescribing has expanded rapidly in England, far exceeding initial targets of 900 000 patients by 2023–24, suggesting broad service acceptability. Progress is being made in reaching specific ta...
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lilyhuajiejin.bsky.social @lilyhuajiejin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🎉 Congrats to my PhD student Xiaoyu Zhang on her new PharmacoEconomics paper, co-supervised with @samjnorton.bsky.social and other co-authors! It reviews the economic burden of inflammatory arthritis. Full text: 🔗 rdcu.be/eIv8o cc: @khe-kings.bsky.social
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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Offering self-sampling kits to test for HPV during a routine GP appointment could prevent cervical cancer in an extra 1000 women a year, new research from @kingslsm.bsky.social, @qmulfmd.bsky.social, @cancerresearchuk.org finds. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/self-sa...
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Self-sampling kits in GP appointments could prevent cancer in 1000 women a year
Women who are overdue for cervical cancer screening are most likely to participate in screening when a self-sampling kit is offered by a healthcare professional as part of routine GP appointments
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
New gambling act needed for starters
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The health dividend of cash transfer programmes Brazil's Bolsa Família Program, which provides an average of US$139 per month to over 20 million households in poverty Study = www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The health dividend of cash transfer programmes
Cash transfer programmes have expanded rapidly across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), from eight countries with programmes in 1960 to 134 countries in 2019, and have demonstrated effec...
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Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
New paper klaxon - out now in the Journal of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social We used detailed alcohol purchasing data from the 12 months prior to the recent alcohol tax reforms to estimate how different consumer groups might be affected by the changes to alcohol duties. doi.org/10.1093/pubm...
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Estimating the differential exposure of household groups to alcohol duty reforms in Great Britain
AbstractBackground. We explored the potential impact of changes to the UK alcohol tax system implemented in August 2023 on increases on consumer spending,
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Matt Field @fieldmatt.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
New paper from myself and Matt Gaskell (Northern Gambling Clinics) out today. Commentary on excellent article from Phil Newall. Perhaps of interest if you like your commercial determinants of health applied to addiction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Read more about all the work of Policy Modelling for Health at www.phiuk.org/policy-model...
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Policy Modelling for Health
Developing computer models to show how policies might affect health, so that policymakers can better understand their impacts on people in their area.
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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We published our Annual Review yesterday 👇 So today, a short thread on the work of Healthy Urban Places...
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King's Health Economics @khe-kings.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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SARG - SCHARR @sarg-scharr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📚 Find out more about this new book co-authored by SARG's @jholmessheff.bsky.social and @soc-researcher.bsky.social which explores the complex social, cultural and economic factors driving the significant decline in youth drinking observed in high-income countries since the early 2000s #PublicHealth
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SARG researchers co-author new book exploring 'culture of caution' in youth drinking decline - Sheffield Addictions Research Group
A new book by an international team of experts, including researchers from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG), unpacks the complex social, cultural and economic factors driving the decline...
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Andrew Partington @arpartington.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Great taxonomy of simple vs. complex (complicated?) decision-analytic model features. drugrepocentral.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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<b>Can we Make Health Economic Decision Models as Simple as Possible, but Not Simpler? Introducing the SMART tool </b>
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d557661e165">Background: Developing health economic decision-analytic models (DAMs) requires making mo...
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SARG - SCHARR @sarg-scharr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
SARG's @victimofmaths.bsky.social contributes to this @nature.com article exploring the reasons why the USA has lower life expectancy than other wealthy nations.
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How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes
The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Has a lack of data effected the development of effective policies to treat #ADHD? New research argues that there are "significant gaps" in the evidence base which has resulted in an unclear picture of ADHD prevalence. Click the link to learn more👇 #IoPPNNews www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gaps-in...
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"Significant gaps" in ADHD research post 2020 hindering development of effective policy
A lack of reliable data tracking the prevalence and incidence of ADHD post-2020 has resulted in significant gaps in an evidence base to develop realistic health policy, according to new research from ...
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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health @kingscsmh.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New event alert! *Mental health in context: work and welfare transitions over time* with Dr.Annie Irvine @annieirvine.bsky.social 📅 25 June 2025 16:00 - 17:00 Sharing findings from a UK study exploring factors around work & welfare benefits Info and sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/esrcc...
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Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit @hscwru.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
#EIE2025 is co-hosted by the European Implementation Collaborative, the UK Implementation Society, @arc-southlondon.bsky.social and King's College London. Unit Director @annetteboaz.bsky.social spoke this morning about the WHO Global Research Agenda. Abstract ▶️ implementation.eu/wp-content/u...
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Mental Health in Development @mhid.org.uk · 03/06/2025
Researchers! Our Parent and Carer Research Network is open to you! We are looking for researchers whose work seeks to champion the voices of children, young people & their families #mentalhealth #mentalhealthresearch parentcarerresearchnetwork.org.uk/researchers
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Parent Carer Research Network - For Researchers
Find out more about partnering with parents and carers of children and young people for your mental health research via our Parent Carer Research Network.
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Andrew Partington @arpartington.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Early HTA is ".. a health technology assessment conducted to inform decisions about subsequent development, research and/or investment by explicitly evaluating the potential value of a conceptual or actual health technology” @ijtahc.bsky.social @htaiorg.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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DEFINING EARLY HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: BUILDING CONSENSUS USING DELPHI TECHNIQUE | International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care | Cambridge Core
DEFINING EARLY HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: BUILDING CONSENSUS USING DELPHI TECHNIQUE
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
On Mon 2 June 11.00-12.00 (UK time) I will be taking part in this online discussion about the future of universal school mental health interventions It's free and open to all, and there are lots of experts with varied viewpoints so should be good - sign up info below www.acamh.org/event/debate...
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Debate - Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions?
We are delighted to announce the inaugural CAMH journal debate on universal school-based mental health interventionsThe session will be chaired by Prof Umar Toseeb, featuring a panel of leading expert...
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@HSJnews @hsj.co.uk · 21/05/2025
A bold digital future for health and care is possible – but only with clear vision, sustained investment, and the humility to learn lessons from past failures, writes Tom Hardie. www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...
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Government must develop an NHS digitisation plan and stick to it
A bold digital future for health and care is possible - but only with clear vision, sustained investment, and the humility to learn lessons from past failures, writes Tom Hardie
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
What happens when health care professionals tell you your parents are no longer well enough to look after themselves at home? The Voiceless Isolation Exhibition, hosted by IoPPN on 28 May, explores this question, with poetry readings by Anne Murphy. #Carers #Health
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Voiceless Isolation Exhibition
An exhibition of poetry and drawings about the difficulties and distress of healthcare for the elderly.
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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We're very pleased to announce that PHI UK and the UKPRP Prevention Research Network will be hosting Prevention Research 2026 in Birmingham, 4-5 March. Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity. Register your interest at preventionresearch26.co.uk #preventionresearch26
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Prevention Research 2026, Birmingham, March 4-5th
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Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity
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Health Economics @hec-wiley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.
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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · 22/05/2025
If alcohol retailers are to gain £550m a year from MUP - if introduced in England - shouldn't some of that go back into the healthcare services? @smfthinktank.bsky.social's new report explores options to recover this windfall & how it could be earmarked for healthcare www.smf.co.uk/publications...
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The price is right: Minimum unit pricing for alcohol and the case for a windfall tax
Minimum Unit Pricing has potential to reduce alcoholism in England. Should it be introduced, and how could government recieve the windfall?
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King's Health Economics @khe-kings.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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