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Isabel M. Perera @isabelmperera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please submit to our special issue on the politics of mental health, for @jhppl.bsky.social ! Christopher Ojeda and I are excited to hear about your work in this area:

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Kieran Laskawy @kieranlaskawy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very excited that my and Ian Greener’s new paper (my first, first author pub) is out. Using the Scottish Index of Multiple deprivation, we demonstrate how fsQCA can be a useful addition epidemiologists’ methodological toolkit. jech.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Fuzzy-set qualitative analysis in public health: an illustrative application to social determinants of health in Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow

Public health outcomes are affected by multiple, intersecting social determinants, yet dominant regression-based approaches often struggle to analyse such causal complexity. This paper illustrates the...

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"what do we remove?". Curriculums are already jam-packed. I'm not a GP but I'm not clear when these annual reviews would take place. It *might* be of benefit financially if it reduces subsequent GP appointments but it needs be paid for. In the absence of tax rises, what services do you drop to pay

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Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I really like a lot of Shaun's journalism and this is an exceptionally important issue but these solutions feel rather narrow. If you want more education of polypharmacy, you need to eliminate something from the curriculum. The question isn't "should students learn about drug interactions?" but

All medical students must learn the risks of mixing medicines and receive training for how and when to de-prescribe

The NHS should ensure that

anyone over 65 who is considered frail and is taking 10 or more medications is invited for an annual review of their drug

regimen

• 1,850 more geriatricians must be trained by 2030 to ensure there is one doctor for every 500 patients aged 85 and over

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 02/07/2026

How often do we have to debunk this? The moment you apply RCT results beyond the study population (even at a different point in time) you need transportability assumptions again. Observational studies often have the advantage of using actual field data from the population where decisions are made.

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Kieran Laskawy @kieranlaskawy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Prof. Ian Greener and my paper 'Education and Training, Institutionalism and the Social Determinants of Health: Using QCA to Explore Better and Worse Health in Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow' is out in open access in Social Policy & Administration. doi.org/10.1111/spol...

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 20/11/2025

A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards. Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer” www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Kieran Laskawy @kieranlaskawy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

This is a a very critical and clear-eyed piece of analysis about where things are headed (well, hopefully not) workforce planning-wise. Well worth your time.

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Kieran Laskawy @kieranlaskawy.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Sometimes @jlynch13.bsky.social gets you socks and sometimes she gets you in-depth case for Hanukkah (albeit slightly belated). Either way, I can’t complain.

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