Cliff McMahon-Docherty 🏳️🌈 📸
@cdocherty.bsky.social
Personalised Care Fellow at NHS North East London, and East London social prescriber, with a background in voluntary sector management and healthcare.
Oh, and obsessed photographer. Keep following me for a seasonal wallpaper every couple of months 🙄
Oh, and obsessed photographer. Keep following me for a seasonal wallpaper every couple of months 🙄
Attended an interesting Teams meeting today about setting up children and young people's social prescribing services. The vast majority of the focus was on child mental health and the huge increase in referrals to CAMHS.
June 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Attended an interesting Teams meeting today about setting up children and young people's social prescribing services. The vast majority of the focus was on child mental health and the huge increase in referrals to CAMHS.
It's not often you'll find me sharing the Daily Mail but this makes upsetting reading because for once their report is true. I slid reluctantly into my 60s recently and actually I'm more tech literate than some people younger than me. Employers who fail to understand this are wasting talent.
"The proportion of people who fail to see the value and benefits of employing people in their 50s and 60s is worryingly high, but sadly also not surprising." Says our Chief Executive, Dr Carole Easton.
Why do some bosses reckon it's not worth employing over-50s?
A poll of more than 2,000 British adults found a 'significant' proportion of the population believes that middle-aged people can't learn new skills and struggle to cope with technology.
www.mailonsunday.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's not often you'll find me sharing the Daily Mail but this makes upsetting reading because for once their report is true. I slid reluctantly into my 60s recently and actually I'm more tech literate than some people younger than me. Employers who fail to understand this are wasting talent.
This is welcome. We need more and more major organisations to make this switch. There can no reason to support hateful and manipulative platforms. There must be consequences for lies, misinformation ans distortion.
EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky | Reuters search.app/kz5HHXVhby5Z...
EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky | Reuters search.app/kz5HHXVhby5Z...
EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.
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January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is welcome. We need more and more major organisations to make this switch. There can no reason to support hateful and manipulative platforms. There must be consequences for lies, misinformation ans distortion.
EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky | Reuters search.app/kz5HHXVhby5Z...
EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky | Reuters search.app/kz5HHXVhby5Z...
Seeing Musk just give a Nazi salute and the crowds cheering him on has turned my blood to ice. America, what have you done? #inauguration
Genuine Nazi Twitter (I sizeable proportion these days) is absolutely loving this from Musk
Start as they mean to go on I guess
Start as they mean to go on I guess
January 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Seeing Musk just give a Nazi salute and the crowds cheering him on has turned my blood to ice. America, what have you done? #inauguration
I seldom hear much about medication induced weight gain. I've jumped 10kgs in 6 months myself because of vital meds and can't find much info on how best to tackle it, which means I'm only doing half my job when I refer these patients for weight and exercise. Thoughts? #primarycare #generalpractice
January 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I seldom hear much about medication induced weight gain. I've jumped 10kgs in 6 months myself because of vital meds and can't find much info on how best to tackle it, which means I'm only doing half my job when I refer these patients for weight and exercise. Thoughts? #primarycare #generalpractice
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Healthcare Assistants do amazing things across the NHS every single day but rarely get the credit they deserve.
Huge thanks to all of them 💙
Huge thanks to all of them 💙
November 21, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Healthcare Assistants do amazing things across the NHS every single day but rarely get the credit they deserve.
Huge thanks to all of them 💙
Huge thanks to all of them 💙
It's intriguing to see the numbers of colleagues from the health and care sector jumping one by one from X, Facebook, Threads and all the other Muskerberg platforms. Personally I think it's healthier and care-ier (TM) to leave them behind. Who needs trolls and toxicity on life. 1/2
January 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's intriguing to see the numbers of colleagues from the health and care sector jumping one by one from X, Facebook, Threads and all the other Muskerberg platforms. Personally I think it's healthier and care-ier (TM) to leave them behind. Who needs trolls and toxicity on life. 1/2
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Sounds like a plan
January 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Sounds like a plan
Thoughts on social media developments.
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No.
Thoughts on social media and the loss of safeguards.
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January 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thoughts on social media developments.
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Colleagues #PrimaryCare who are unfamiliar with the Deep End Movement: it started with scholarship by Deep End GP academics in Glasgow
#inversecarelaw
English DE practices have tapped into #NIHR funding to set up research active deep end practices- transforming research participation & inclusion
#inversecarelaw
English DE practices have tapped into #NIHR funding to set up research active deep end practices- transforming research participation & inclusion
January 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Colleagues #PrimaryCare who are unfamiliar with the Deep End Movement: it started with scholarship by Deep End GP academics in Glasgow
#inversecarelaw
English DE practices have tapped into #NIHR funding to set up research active deep end practices- transforming research participation & inclusion
#inversecarelaw
English DE practices have tapped into #NIHR funding to set up research active deep end practices- transforming research participation & inclusion
This is interesting to read. Not everyone can work easily as they get older, especially those in manual trades, but the rest of us want to despite health challenges. There is study after study confirming the mental health benefits of working *in a non-toxic* work setting. 1/2
Fewer than three in five (57%) people aged 50-65 who have a long-standing health condition are in employment, compared to almost three in four (73%) aged 35-49.
Download our Health and work report: https://ageing-better.org.uk/resources/why-over-50s-are-key-solving-health-and-work-dilemma
#Ageism
Download our Health and work report: https://ageing-better.org.uk/resources/why-over-50s-are-key-solving-health-and-work-dilemma
#Ageism
January 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This is interesting to read. Not everyone can work easily as they get older, especially those in manual trades, but the rest of us want to despite health challenges. There is study after study confirming the mental health benefits of working *in a non-toxic* work setting. 1/2
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You can read more about the terrible decisions happening in the corridors of power, and how Indie SAGE offered an alternative approach here, in Marres and Barragán’s article: 8/8
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January 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
You can read more about the terrible decisions happening in the corridors of power, and how Indie SAGE offered an alternative approach here, in Marres and Barragán’s article: 8/8
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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EveryDoctor is stepping things up and we have just launched a community to build the movement of millions to fight for the NHS. Click here to join it: chat.whatsapp.com/JvFzeWNis5e6.... 🌟🌟🌟
👉https://youtu.be/lldMgsl-ezo
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WhatsApp Group Invite
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January 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
EveryDoctor is stepping things up and we have just launched a community to build the movement of millions to fight for the NHS. Click here to join it: chat.whatsapp.com/JvFzeWNis5e6.... 🌟🌟🌟
👉https://youtu.be/lldMgsl-ezo
👉https://youtu.be/lldMgsl-ezo
Once again London's transport network is in a meltdown so I can't get in and have to cancel all my face to face appointments. This doesn't just affect commuters but leads to delays for patients, people missing job interviews, people missing holiday departures. Why does it never get better? #lrt
January 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Once again London's transport network is in a meltdown so I can't get in and have to cancel all my face to face appointments. This doesn't just affect commuters but leads to delays for patients, people missing job interviews, people missing holiday departures. Why does it never get better? #lrt
This is troubling to say the least. Apart from just the spew of bile that comes out of traditional social media, what worries me equally is that we openly talk about a "post-truth society". How is that even a thing? The consequences are terrifying.
The shitification of social media continues lost trump/musk as meta remove moderators and encourage political content on their sites. What a fxcked up world we live in where trolling is enabled, rewarded and enhanced. This is not free speech - its bullying.
Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is troubling to say the least. Apart from just the spew of bile that comes out of traditional social media, what worries me equally is that we openly talk about a "post-truth society". How is that even a thing? The consequences are terrifying.
On a more positive note, time to take down the Xmas profile wallpaper and replace it with something that reflects the current weather. Taken at a friend's house in northern Sweden some years ago. Tiny, tiny place called Pauträsk.
January 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
On a more positive note, time to take down the Xmas profile wallpaper and replace it with something that reflects the current weather. Taken at a friend's house in northern Sweden some years ago. Tiny, tiny place called Pauträsk.
Xmas done so its back to work and a salutary reminder of why I do my job. Patient couldn't come to see me because he has no shoes. No benefits, no home apart from a friend's sofa, and no shoes. Its 2025 and my patient has no shoes. Not 1825. But here we are. Our leaders should be utterly ashamed.
January 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Xmas done so its back to work and a salutary reminder of why I do my job. Patient couldn't come to see me because he has no shoes. No benefits, no home apart from a friend's sofa, and no shoes. Its 2025 and my patient has no shoes. Not 1825. But here we are. Our leaders should be utterly ashamed.
Time to change the #profilewallpaper with the change of season. A tree for #Christmas / New Year / Winter Solstice / Goodness Knows We Need Some Glitter. Perhaps it's my job but I see a tree & instantly think about how the glitter is only for those who can afford it. We need to do better than this.
December 11, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Time to change the #profilewallpaper with the change of season. A tree for #Christmas / New Year / Winter Solstice / Goodness Knows We Need Some Glitter. Perhaps it's my job but I see a tree & instantly think about how the glitter is only for those who can afford it. We need to do better than this.
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New report!
Envisaging a Social Prescribing Fund in England makes the case for a new fund that would provide long-term funding for social prescribing activities and local communities
Find out more⬇️
https://buff.ly/49zgibp
Envisaging a Social Prescribing Fund in England makes the case for a new fund that would provide long-term funding for social prescribing activities and local communities
Find out more⬇️
https://buff.ly/49zgibp
December 11, 2024 at 12:00 PM
New report!
Envisaging a Social Prescribing Fund in England makes the case for a new fund that would provide long-term funding for social prescribing activities and local communities
Find out more⬇️
https://buff.ly/49zgibp
Envisaging a Social Prescribing Fund in England makes the case for a new fund that would provide long-term funding for social prescribing activities and local communities
Find out more⬇️
https://buff.ly/49zgibp
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New - Creative Health Across the System: ICB, Hospitals, Public Health, & Combined Authorities. The short video explainer helps audiences to orientate themselves as to how creative health shows up in four key healthcare contexts!
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More info
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More info
ncch.org.uk/news/creativ...
Creative Health Across the System: ICBs, Hospitals, Public Health, and Combined Authorities
YouTube video by National Centre for Creative Health
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December 6, 2024 at 3:23 PM
New - Creative Health Across the System: ICB, Hospitals, Public Health, & Combined Authorities. The short video explainer helps audiences to orientate themselves as to how creative health shows up in four key healthcare contexts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fHH...
More info
ncch.org.uk/news/creativ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fHH...
More info
ncch.org.uk/news/creativ...
It occurred to me today that being a #photographer in my spare time has really helped my #socialprescribing practice because you end up having a mental encyclopedia of places to go and things to do from all the time you spend researching subjects to photograph. Happy days, quite literally 🖼️ 🎭 ⚽ 📷 💃
December 6, 2024 at 5:39 PM
It occurred to me today that being a #photographer in my spare time has really helped my #socialprescribing practice because you end up having a mental encyclopedia of places to go and things to do from all the time you spend researching subjects to photograph. Happy days, quite literally 🖼️ 🎭 ⚽ 📷 💃
Really valuable meetings recently with @tphc.bsky.social to discuss their #socialprescribing evaluation toolkit. Keen to look at how we integrate this into strategy and work flow.
www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk/new-toolkit-...
www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk/new-toolkit-...
New toolkit to support evaluation in social prescribing - Transformation Partners in Health and Care
TPHC has launched a new Social Prescribing Evaluation toolkit to guide local social prescribing services in demonstrating their impact.
www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk
December 6, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Really valuable meetings recently with @tphc.bsky.social to discuss their #socialprescribing evaluation toolkit. Keen to look at how we integrate this into strategy and work flow.
www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk/new-toolkit-...
www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk/new-toolkit-...
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I’ve yet to see a social prescriber (long waiting list) but I’ll send my GP practice a copy of this encouraging #autism research.
It suggests that accessible, inclusive #SocialPrescribing in primary care could support the well-being of autistic patients.
#AutRes
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It suggests that accessible, inclusive #SocialPrescribing in primary care could support the well-being of autistic patients.
#AutRes
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Autistic adults’ experiences of managing wellbeing and implications for social prescribing
Autistic people demonstrate poor outcomes on objective measures of wellbeing, yet research centring lived experience provides a more nuanced picture. There is growing support for person-centred, ho...
www.tandfonline.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:18 AM
I’ve yet to see a social prescriber (long waiting list) but I’ll send my GP practice a copy of this encouraging #autism research.
It suggests that accessible, inclusive #SocialPrescribing in primary care could support the well-being of autistic patients.
#AutRes
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It suggests that accessible, inclusive #SocialPrescribing in primary care could support the well-being of autistic patients.
#AutRes
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is another issue that I get too animated about, especially with library closures. I spend a great deal of my practice time connecting patients with social groups at libraries, advice surgeries, children's activities, & more. Patients usually unaware. Better publicity needed?
November 27, 2024 at 5:31 PM
This is another issue that I get too animated about, especially with library closures. I spend a great deal of my practice time connecting patients with social groups at libraries, advice surgeries, children's activities, & more. Patients usually unaware. Better publicity needed?
Really valuable ICB CoP meeting today. I was excited to learn about the CYP social prescribing schemes around the country and to get a chance to talk about frameworks to take this forward. A huge gap in provision at the moment. Also need to consider Family Social Prescribing schemes.
November 27, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Really valuable ICB CoP meeting today. I was excited to learn about the CYP social prescribing schemes around the country and to get a chance to talk about frameworks to take this forward. A huge gap in provision at the moment. Also need to consider Family Social Prescribing schemes.