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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley

@natashabradley.bsky.social
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Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at UCL. Seeking to improve the lives of people living with serious illness. Interested in palliative care, health inequalities, and research methods. Views my own.

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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New paper alert! 🌟We explored the first year of an ambitious redesign to hospice services. Successful implementation happens when teams collaborate, adapt to changes, and receive support and feedback. Thrilled to see this published! #palliativecare Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New paper alert! 🌟We explored the first year of an ambitious redesign to hospice services. Successful implementation happens when teams collaborate, adapt to changes, and receive support and feedback. Thrilled to see this published! #palliativecare Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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MarieCurieEOLC @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🏅Announcing our awarded Research Impact Grants - 4/6 Connection, Compassion, and Action - Achieving impact towards integrated palliative care through knowledge mobilisation
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Don't miss this free online conference next Weds! 😍 "Caught between the dream and realities: considering advance care planning (ACP)" Register: tinyurl.com/4zbbpxka Amazing line-up, asking: How is ACP being used? Does the public engage with ACP? What are the challenges in ACP? Where to next?
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Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Don't miss this free online conference next Weds! 😍 "Caught between the dream and realities: considering advance care planning (ACP)" Register: tinyurl.com/4zbbpxka Amazing line-up, asking: How is ACP being used? Does the public engage with ACP? What are the challenges in ACP? Where to next?
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Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
Caught between the dream and realities: considering ‘advance care planning’
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Really pleased to share that this realist review on integrated palliative care in oncology has now been published by BMC Medicine. We focused on cancer but there are transferable lessons to non-malignant conditions and comorbidities. Open access article: rdcu.be/elqkN #palliativecare
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Integrated palliative care and oncology: a realist synthesis
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
If a government wanted to stop us being strangers, it could stop shovelling money at the tech bros & surveillance & start spending it on buses & cycle infrastructure & public spaces, it could regulate pay, hours, working conditions & rents better so people had energy to engage in their community.
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MarieCurieEOLC @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A new realist review from @natashabradley.bsky.social, Dr Tracey McConnell, Professor Joanne Reid and colleagues highlights the context, challenges and recommendations for integrating palliative care into oncology services. 👇
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Agree with you! + these kind of explanations function to reduce the threat to an individual: an unconscious "its not going to happen to me because I eat my vegetables" etc. Individualistic public health messaging continues to the blame culture. Addressing the structural determinants of health is key
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Really pleased to share that this realist review on integrated palliative care in oncology has now been published by BMC Medicine. We focused on cancer but there are transferable lessons to non-malignant conditions and comorbidities. Open access article: rdcu.be/elqkN #palliativecare
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Integrated palliative care and oncology: a realist synthesis
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It's #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek! If you're in London, come join us @codydock.bsky.social tomorrow for a thought-provoking and entertaining evening. #DyingMatters #TheCultureofDyingMatters Registration link below...
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I am so looking forward to 'Cycles of Life' at @codydock.bsky.social Join us for a special evening in a beautiful venue with brilliant speakers - inc. an artist, chaplain, ecologist, historian, psychologist, and an end-of-life doula 😍 You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cycles-of-...
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The introduction of Section 28 marked the peak of homophobic attitudes in the UK. For the years it was law, the belief that homosexuality was wrong diminished and acceptance grew. We lost the battle to halt Section 28 but it armed us well to win the war. Laws can’t crush us. Keep hope alive. 💜 16/16
Graph showing attitudes towards same sex relations over time. Negative responses peaked in 1987 with 75% believing homosexuality was always/mostly wrong. This figure dropped below 20% in 2017.
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Joanna Davies @joannamdavies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We have been describing the association between area-based deprivation and place of death for 30 years but we know little about causes and moderators or how to reduce inequalities. Our new paper in SSM Pop Health investigates with some surprising results... 👇👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm organising a public event to hear from different people on themes related to Mortality, in a beautiful venue in East London. We have some brilliant speakers already and there is time for more volunteers to contribute. Save the date and watch this space for a registration link coming soon!
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Important and timely work from @dianateggi.bsky.social and colleagues. Findings highlight the urgency of improving home-based services and providing real alternatives to hospital, if existing policy narratives around choice are to become meaningful. #palliativecare #endoflifecare #academicsky
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"For every patient we look after, there are others that we can’t care for. I really feel for the families. The ones that do get a bed can take a deep breath, it’s such a relief. People say they can go back to being a husband or daughter again rather than a carer.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘Hospices are in retreat’: funding crisis squeezing UK palliative care providers
St Catherine’s hospice in West Sussex says it has been forced to leave beds empty despite the demand for end-of-life care
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” - St Augustine (maybe)
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Plant everything now....Plant even the idea of a wave. It's a good day that starts with inspiration from @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, but brought by puppets. Hope is a muscle (adrienne taught me this but many poets have said it before and since - so it must be true) #academicsky
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Real honour to chair today's @mariecurieuk.bsky.social #MCResearch2025 conference session on poverty at end of life. Sobering new research: - Numbers dying in poverty rose to 110,000 in 2023. - Risk of dying in poverty far higher for working age, but also now rising for pensioners. 1/4
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John MacArtney @johnmacartney.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
You can also now download and read our report, "'To Know Dying' Identifying research areas in palliative and end of life care for the social sciences and humanities" healthopenresearch.org/documents/7-1 @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social @brionyhudson.bsky.social @marigreenfield.bsky.social
Screenshot of report's title page giving title and authors (all included in main message).
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Wonderful day yesterday and a landmark moment - launching the new set of priorities for palliative care research. Another impressive achievement from the Marie Curie team! 👏😊 @mariecurieeolc.bsky.social @sabinebest.bsky.social @brionyhudson.bsky.social @devirsagar.bsky.social
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Christian Sinclair @ctsinclair.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Benefits of Early Outpatient #PalliativeCare Enhances QOL Increases adaptive coping strategies Reduces symptoms of depression Fosters prognostic awareness Improves communication about EOL care preferences Leads to earlier initiation of #hospice services Decreases caregiver distress #hapc25
Benefits of Early and Longitudinal Palliative Care in the Ambulatory
Care Setting


Enhances quality of life

Increases use of adaptive coping strategies

Reduces symptoms of depression

Fosters prognostic awareness

Improves communication about end-of-life care preferences

Leads to earlier initiation of hospice services

Decreases caregiver distress

#hapc25
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It took me a few days to process so it must be solid gold
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@matthewhodson.bsky.social @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social @nagingtonuom.bsky.social @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social This research could reveal and change heteronormativity in end-of-life care. I wonder if you amazing blueskyers could help by sharing the survey link or taking part? (Flattery works, right?)
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@annefinucane.bsky.social I am not sure where you are in the UK - but Anne is brilliant, and I think she has also worked with colleagues to produce some educational resources on this topic
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hiiii sunshine 💛
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It really is hard to believe that he has this much power, or even that he had the time and concentration span to do all this (as well as everything else that's happened this week). 😣 How does that poem go again? #academicsky please read www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Wow, surely this is one of the best titles I've ever seen 👏
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...
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Literally every company now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 10/01/2025
"Choice can only be exercised when options exist that enable equitable access to comprehensive care." On the cover, a Comment explores assisted dying, complex systems, and global equity in palliative care. Read this & more ➡️ tinyurl.com/42n97mp4
Cover of The Lancet's Jan 11, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "Norms from high-income countries about what constitutes a good death have been exported and influence practice globally, often at odds with local death and dying systems."
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Hoping to get to Deep Work soon 😊 - after I finish Unheard by Rageshri Dhairyawan, which I think you could love as well!
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
It's hard when the "this will help me handle my to-do list" list is getting longer but you don't have time to get to it! If you do use spotify, the audiobook is on there 😊
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Woah! That sounds shocking. Experiences I've heard of in UK have been indirect discrimination (not making accommodations) but not direct attacks like that! Good luck with your book list and this project! 😊
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I'm just about to start: Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
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Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education on JSTOR
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, an...
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
An audiobook I loved and will return to - stories of the working lives of famously accomplished people and wise advice on how to master your productivity. Sharing as a reminder to myself as much as to recommend to others: Do fewer things. Obsess over quality. Work at a natural pace. #academicsky
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Wow... We are thinking of you in California, from here in icy England
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CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
⭐️ The 2025 CDAS Conference call for papers is OPEN!! ⭐️ Theme? Death and transition When? 12-13 June 2025 online Full details via the link below www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Looking forward to this! I am part way through 'Unheard' as an audio book and I would definitely recommend - it's fascinating company for some January tidying. Inspirational work @drrageshri.bsky.social 👏
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
For those of you interested in community building: emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se... "Competition makes sense only when we consider the unit of evolution to be the individual. When the focus shifts to the level of a group, cooperation is a better model, not only for surviving but for thriving"
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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
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Kimberly Curseen MD @curseen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
“fragmented, unsupported caregiving in a sea of chaos leaves lifelong scars, diminishing carers’ trust in both the health system and government as a whole. “ must read I’ve never read it put so well. #hapc katherinepettusconsulting.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/p...
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Palliative care creates small islands of coherence
“When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning che…
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Eeek! Thanks for sharing - now I will be looking out for what happens next 👀
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Could you add @libbysallnow.bsky.social if you spot this as well, she's recently joined the light side and should definitely be a part of this list 😄
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Thank you! You too - wishing you a happy festive season 😊
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Yes please Julie 😊
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Dr Natasha Mary Bradley @natashabradley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Can only imagine how lonely it could all get without the right relationships around, yet so challenging to maintain those relationships on top of everything else.
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Amara Nwosu @amaranwosu.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Facilitators of high quality out-of-hours care include: a palliative care specific single point of access for patients; formal structures to integrate generalist/specialist services; and timely/skilled management of symptoms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #hapc #PalliativeCare #hpm /1
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libbysallnow.bsky.social @libbysallnow.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
@thelancet.bsky.social Comment out today: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Social and structural determinants of dying well and the complex systems they exist in #palliativecare #socialdeterminantsofhealth
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying, published in the Times Free version here
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