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Nigel Praities

@nigelpraities.bsky.social
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Health editor, head of learning and careers content at BMJ and frustrated short story writer. Here for #journalism #meded #writingtips #日本語

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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Thrilled about this
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What a waste of money, particularly when we have doctors desperate to get into specialist training www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
dailymail.co.uk
NHS spends £674m filling up to 1 in 3 consultant posts with locums
Managers regularly wait over 12 months to secure a candidate, placing a strain on finances and impacting on efforts to cut waiting lists.
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Why are German trains so bad? Decidedly off-brand
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The perils of using AI to do your research... From @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...
bmj.com
White House scrambles to correct error strewn MAHA report
The US government has hastened to correct multiple citations in its first Make Our Children Healthy Again assessment,1 which pointed to non-existent studies or dead internet links. New errors have cre...
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A great opportunity to come and work with us #meded #editing #journalism jobsearch.bmj.com/jobs/job/Lea...
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Lead Clinical Editor | 07 March, 2025 | Jobs and careers with BMJ Group
Jobs and careers with BMJ Group -
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Heard some dark predictions from @parthaskar.bsky.social last week that there will be a large number of doctors out of work this August due to lack of NHS posts. Why are we in this ridiculous position?
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Looking forward to discussing how to #EmpowerIMGs in Newcastle today
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Never thought a living funeral could sound so good www.thetimes.com/article/bf0b...
thetimes.com
I went to my own ‘funeral’— it was one of the best days of my life
The intensive care doctor Matt Morgan, 44, on why he wanted a memorial service while he’s still alive
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Dave West @ HSJ @davewwest.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Two successive health and care secretaries spent nearly £500,000 dismantling and then rebuilding ministerial offices in their department, HSJ has learned. excl from @henryanderson1.bsky.social www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Getting increasingly irritated by publications without BlueSky as a sharing option, especially if X is there. I'm trying to promote your article on a site that actually allows people to see it. Help me help you man.
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I think we are going to see much more of this www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk sponsored British pharmacies in pursuit of sales
Danish drug company gave money for Google ads to promote weight loss services and received data on web traffic and prescriptions
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JAMA @jama.com · 30/12/2024
🧵 Pulse oximeters overestimate arterial oxygen saturation and provide more variable readings in people with darker skin pigmentations. Despite guidance from the @fda.gov, the reporting of participant skin tones in pulse oximeter testing has been inconsistent. ja.ma/3DKuKBw
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
BBC News - BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It was a delight to judge this award on behalf of @mja-uk.bsky.social (although annoyingly I had to recuse myself from judging the winner's application!). A worthy winner Thanks to @roysocmed.bsky.social www.rsm.ac.uk/latest-news/...
rsm.ac.uk
Jacklin Kwan wins award for exposing fake healthcare news
Jacklin Kwan is the winner of the 2024 Sarah Hughes Trust Prize, awarded annually for new journalism that exposes false or misleading information in health or medicine.
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I don't understand in 2024 why we can't just digitally recreate the Parthenon/Elgin marbles and give the originals back...
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a picture of the parthenon in greece with people standing in front of it
ALT: a picture of the parthenon in greece with people standing in front of it
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Major focus this year was updating all our learning resources for GPs on how to manage pregnancy complications, both immediately and in the longer term new-learning.bmj.com/collection/3... #meded #pregnancy
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
You won't read it in the article, but this is a direct result of the coalition government cancelling the NHS bursary for nursing degrees in 2017. Short-term decisions have long-term consequences. www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
dailymail.co.uk
Nearly 25% of nurses and midwives in the UK are recruited from abroad
The record-high 200,000 foreign-trained members of the workforce now represent 23.8 per cent of the register, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🚨 BREAKING: MPs vote for #AssistedDying to become law for terminally ill people. Ayes - 330 Noes 275
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Big day...
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Graham Stretch @grahamstretch.pharmsky.app · 27/11/2024
Finally out. Asthma Guidelines NG245 Move over SABA ➡️ AIR & MART now main treatments www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng245 #PharmSky
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
First joint BTS, NICE, SIGN guideline on asthma published today www.nice.org.uk/guidance/NG245
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Overview | Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (BTS, NICE, SIGN) | Guidance | NICE
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Stuti Bagri @stutibagri.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#NHSTalkingTherapies, the flagship psychotherapy service offered by the NHS, was heralded as a game changer when it launched in 2008. 16 years on, I’ve done some data digging to inspect its inner workings. @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social 1/7 🧵
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 26/11/2024
Long-term antipsychotic use increased from 2011–2020, while proportion of patients receiving an annual psychiatrist review fell. Researchers warn that 360 000 patients may be ‘trapped’ on antipsychotics doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...
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Antipsychotic management in general practice: serial cross-sectional study (2011–2020) | British Journal of General Practice
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
From Dr Phil Hammond
Dr Phil Hammond thread - shit life syndrome (poverty, poor diet & poor housing etc) creates chronic illness
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We are working on a whole new set of courses on #palliativecare for BMJ Learning, starting with this one on pain management. If you want to know more, please contact: @journal-kristoffer.bsky.social
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Regent Street's Christmas lights in the rain last night
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Emma Wilkinson @emmajourno.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
GPs around country reconsidering shared care for ADHD as part of collective action - my story for Pulse with Eliza Parr www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...
pulsetoday.co.uk
GPs asked to pull out of ADHD shared-care agreements as part of collective action
GPs around the country are withdrawing from shared care arrangements for ADHD as part of collective action, Pulse has learned.
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Whatever you think of this bill, it is incredibly heartening to see someone as informed and compassionate as @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social leading on it
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We now have more than 100k followers for our YouTube channel. Whoop whoop! youtu.be/xTzoJdNDl6w?...
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How to do a spirometry test and interpret the results - new version for 2024
YouTube video by BMJ Learning
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Erick Turner @eturnermd1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"The Fragile Promise of Psychedelics in Psychiatry ", out now in the BMJ. Honored to be able to contribute to this piece along with @floriannaudet.bsky.social @ioanaacristea.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social and others www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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Nigel Praities @nigelpraities.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hi there. I'm a health journalist and medical editor based in the UK. Keen to connect with anyone in #journalism or #meded
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