Donna Wakefield
@donnawakefield.bsky.social
Palliative Medicine Consultant 🩺
in North East England,
NIHR Doctoral Fellow,
PhD on #Inequalities in lung disease, #Mesothelioma #LungCancer #COPD #ILD🫁
🏳️🌈 #LGBTQ 💪🏻 #WomenInMedicine
Book/coffee/travel/photography enthusiast
☕️📚📷 🌊⛰️
in North East England,
NIHR Doctoral Fellow,
PhD on #Inequalities in lung disease, #Mesothelioma #LungCancer #COPD #ILD🫁
🏳️🌈 #LGBTQ 💪🏻 #WomenInMedicine
Book/coffee/travel/photography enthusiast
☕️📚📷 🌊⛰️
Pinned
📣Out now in Lancet’s @eclinicalmed.bsky.social
🫁The inverse #PalliativeCare law in advanced lung disease:mixed-methods #SystematicReview & #MetaAnalysis -1st paper from my #PhD provides evidence of #Inqualities in #lung disease
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🫁The inverse #PalliativeCare law in advanced lung disease:mixed-methods #SystematicReview & #MetaAnalysis -1st paper from my #PhD provides evidence of #Inqualities in #lung disease
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reflecting on what a phenomenal year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ has been!
🎂40th birthday trip to Easter Island🗿🇨🇱
📖✍️Making meaningful connections & co-authoring 11 publications (5 first author)+ book chapters
🏆Winning the Lancet Wakley prize
👩🏻🎓Reaching the HALF WAY point of my PhD- 2 years to go
🏋🏻♀️ My fitness journey
🎂40th birthday trip to Easter Island🗿🇨🇱
📖✍️Making meaningful connections & co-authoring 11 publications (5 first author)+ book chapters
🏆Winning the Lancet Wakley prize
👩🏻🎓Reaching the HALF WAY point of my PhD- 2 years to go
🏋🏻♀️ My fitness journey
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reflecting on what a phenomenal year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ has been!
🎂40th birthday trip to Easter Island🗿🇨🇱
📖✍️Making meaningful connections & co-authoring 11 publications (5 first author)+ book chapters
🏆Winning the Lancet Wakley prize
👩🏻🎓Reaching the HALF WAY point of my PhD- 2 years to go
🏋🏻♀️ My fitness journey
🎂40th birthday trip to Easter Island🗿🇨🇱
📖✍️Making meaningful connections & co-authoring 11 publications (5 first author)+ book chapters
🏆Winning the Lancet Wakley prize
👩🏻🎓Reaching the HALF WAY point of my PhD- 2 years to go
🏋🏻♀️ My fitness journey
🎄Belatedly celebrating Christmas Day today and its finally time for festive Colin the caterpillar 🍰🥳
#MerryChristmas 🎅🏻 🎁
#MerryChristmas 🎅🏻 🎁
December 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🎄Belatedly celebrating Christmas Day today and its finally time for festive Colin the caterpillar 🍰🥳
#MerryChristmas 🎅🏻 🎁
#MerryChristmas 🎅🏻 🎁
🏆 Its been the biggest honour of my life to win The Lancet 2025 Wakley Prize and have my essay published in the final @thelancet.com of the year 📖 🤩
It was the perfect #Christmas present to receive the paper edition, as a surprise delivery yesterday 🚚 📦
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
It was the perfect #Christmas present to receive the paper edition, as a surprise delivery yesterday 🚚 📦
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🏆 Its been the biggest honour of my life to win The Lancet 2025 Wakley Prize and have my essay published in the final @thelancet.com of the year 📖 🤩
It was the perfect #Christmas present to receive the paper edition, as a surprise delivery yesterday 🚚 📦
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
It was the perfect #Christmas present to receive the paper edition, as a surprise delivery yesterday 🚚 📦
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
🎄Got to take a festive pause on that #PhD in Medical Science to dedicate my time to building Marie Curie’s lab 👩🏼🔬🧪 ….and some DNA 🧬🔬🤓
#WomenInSTEM #LEGO
#MerryChristmas 🥰
#WomenInSTEM #LEGO
#MerryChristmas 🥰
December 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🎄Got to take a festive pause on that #PhD in Medical Science to dedicate my time to building Marie Curie’s lab 👩🏼🔬🧪 ….and some DNA 🧬🔬🤓
#WomenInSTEM #LEGO
#MerryChristmas 🥰
#WomenInSTEM #LEGO
#MerryChristmas 🥰
Reposted by Donna Wakefield
In the 2025 Lancet #WakleyPrize winning essay, @donnawakefield.bsky.social explores how personal experiences and understanding of the social determinants of health can transform patient care and foster a more inclusive healthcare system.
Read now 👉 spkl.io/63329AcBBV
Read now 👉 spkl.io/63329AcBBV
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In the 2025 Lancet #WakleyPrize winning essay, @donnawakefield.bsky.social explores how personal experiences and understanding of the social determinants of health can transform patient care and foster a more inclusive healthcare system.
Read now 👉 spkl.io/63329AcBBV
Read now 👉 spkl.io/63329AcBBV
📣Out now in Lancet’s @eclinicalmed.bsky.social
🫁The inverse #PalliativeCare law in advanced lung disease:mixed-methods #SystematicReview & #MetaAnalysis -1st paper from my #PhD provides evidence of #Inqualities in #lung disease
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🫁The inverse #PalliativeCare law in advanced lung disease:mixed-methods #SystematicReview & #MetaAnalysis -1st paper from my #PhD provides evidence of #Inqualities in #lung disease
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📣Out now in Lancet’s @eclinicalmed.bsky.social
🫁The inverse #PalliativeCare law in advanced lung disease:mixed-methods #SystematicReview & #MetaAnalysis -1st paper from my #PhD provides evidence of #Inqualities in #lung disease
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🫁The inverse #PalliativeCare law in advanced lung disease:mixed-methods #SystematicReview & #MetaAnalysis -1st paper from my #PhD provides evidence of #Inqualities in #lung disease
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✍️ I love learning the craft of writing
📕 Really recommend this #book to dip in and out of for hints and tips
#PhD #Mumademia
📕 Really recommend this #book to dip in and out of for hints and tips
#PhD #Mumademia
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
✍️ I love learning the craft of writing
📕 Really recommend this #book to dip in and out of for hints and tips
#PhD #Mumademia
📕 Really recommend this #book to dip in and out of for hints and tips
#PhD #Mumademia
What a week!
Beautiful sun rising over #Newcastle this morning 🌅
Beautiful sun rising over #Newcastle this morning 🌅
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
What a week!
Beautiful sun rising over #Newcastle this morning 🌅
Beautiful sun rising over #Newcastle this morning 🌅
🏆Honoured to win the Dorothy Robson prize for #PalliativeMedicine at @hyms.ac.uk for an abstract
-from my #PhD research on #Inequalities in access to #PalliativeCare in lung disease
- thank you ☺️ 🫁
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
@jonathankoffman.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social
-from my #PhD research on #Inequalities in access to #PalliativeCare in lung disease
- thank you ☺️ 🫁
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
@jonathankoffman.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🏆Honoured to win the Dorothy Robson prize for #PalliativeMedicine at @hyms.ac.uk for an abstract
-from my #PhD research on #Inequalities in access to #PalliativeCare in lung disease
- thank you ☺️ 🫁
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
@jonathankoffman.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social
-from my #PhD research on #Inequalities in access to #PalliativeCare in lung disease
- thank you ☺️ 🫁
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
@jonathankoffman.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social
🏥👩🏼⚕️Monday: Busy day in the hospital being a #PalliativeMedicine consultant in the north-east
👩🏻🎓✍️ Tuesday: Beautiful winters day on @hyms.ac.uk campus being a #PhD researcher - today focusing on how to write a thesis 📝
Love having a varied week of clinical & #research @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
👩🏻🎓✍️ Tuesday: Beautiful winters day on @hyms.ac.uk campus being a #PhD researcher - today focusing on how to write a thesis 📝
Love having a varied week of clinical & #research @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🏥👩🏼⚕️Monday: Busy day in the hospital being a #PalliativeMedicine consultant in the north-east
👩🏻🎓✍️ Tuesday: Beautiful winters day on @hyms.ac.uk campus being a #PhD researcher - today focusing on how to write a thesis 📝
Love having a varied week of clinical & #research @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
👩🏻🎓✍️ Tuesday: Beautiful winters day on @hyms.ac.uk campus being a #PhD researcher - today focusing on how to write a thesis 📝
Love having a varied week of clinical & #research @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
Mini-milestones unlocked today 🔓
🎉Successful 1st Thesis Progression Panel. Great to present the last 2 years of my #PhD #research & have meaningful discussion
🏋🏻♀️When I started my PhD, I decided it was time to improve fitness. Weight-lifting & boxing has helped & I finally reached 70kg 🎯 (from 95kg)
🎉Successful 1st Thesis Progression Panel. Great to present the last 2 years of my #PhD #research & have meaningful discussion
🏋🏻♀️When I started my PhD, I decided it was time to improve fitness. Weight-lifting & boxing has helped & I finally reached 70kg 🎯 (from 95kg)
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Mini-milestones unlocked today 🔓
🎉Successful 1st Thesis Progression Panel. Great to present the last 2 years of my #PhD #research & have meaningful discussion
🏋🏻♀️When I started my PhD, I decided it was time to improve fitness. Weight-lifting & boxing has helped & I finally reached 70kg 🎯 (from 95kg)
🎉Successful 1st Thesis Progression Panel. Great to present the last 2 years of my #PhD #research & have meaningful discussion
🏋🏻♀️When I started my PhD, I decided it was time to improve fitness. Weight-lifting & boxing has helped & I finally reached 70kg 🎯 (from 95kg)
Such a buzz in the room as people arrived from all over the country for todays #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator 🎉 @pri-uk.bsky.social
Wonderful to see people in real life
Thank you for coming to my home city 🤗 #Newcastle
(sorry about the weather ☔️)
I’ve gone away feeling inspired 🥰
Wonderful to see people in real life
Thank you for coming to my home city 🤗 #Newcastle
(sorry about the weather ☔️)
I’ve gone away feeling inspired 🥰
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Such a buzz in the room as people arrived from all over the country for todays #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator 🎉 @pri-uk.bsky.social
Wonderful to see people in real life
Thank you for coming to my home city 🤗 #Newcastle
(sorry about the weather ☔️)
I’ve gone away feeling inspired 🥰
Wonderful to see people in real life
Thank you for coming to my home city 🤗 #Newcastle
(sorry about the weather ☔️)
I’ve gone away feeling inspired 🥰
I am sick of seeing the generic sad hands in articles for #PalliativeCare
So this Sunday night, I am experimenting with some potential drawings for my next journal editorial. My first attempt drawing on the iPad. Its helping my stress/anxiety and is much less messy than my paints or linocutting ✍️
So this Sunday night, I am experimenting with some potential drawings for my next journal editorial. My first attempt drawing on the iPad. Its helping my stress/anxiety and is much less messy than my paints or linocutting ✍️
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I am sick of seeing the generic sad hands in articles for #PalliativeCare
So this Sunday night, I am experimenting with some potential drawings for my next journal editorial. My first attempt drawing on the iPad. Its helping my stress/anxiety and is much less messy than my paints or linocutting ✍️
So this Sunday night, I am experimenting with some potential drawings for my next journal editorial. My first attempt drawing on the iPad. Its helping my stress/anxiety and is much less messy than my paints or linocutting ✍️
Happy #Halloween - or #EAPC2026 deadline day to all who celebrate 🎉
🎃 Every year I create academic themed pumpkins: this year I’ve carved lungs in pumpkin 1 🫁 (dedicated to my research on #inequalities in #lung disease)
& pumpkin 2 describes what I’ve been working on for the past 2 weeks solid 💪🏻
🎃 Every year I create academic themed pumpkins: this year I’ve carved lungs in pumpkin 1 🫁 (dedicated to my research on #inequalities in #lung disease)
& pumpkin 2 describes what I’ve been working on for the past 2 weeks solid 💪🏻
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Happy #Halloween - or #EAPC2026 deadline day to all who celebrate 🎉
🎃 Every year I create academic themed pumpkins: this year I’ve carved lungs in pumpkin 1 🫁 (dedicated to my research on #inequalities in #lung disease)
& pumpkin 2 describes what I’ve been working on for the past 2 weeks solid 💪🏻
🎃 Every year I create academic themed pumpkins: this year I’ve carved lungs in pumpkin 1 🫁 (dedicated to my research on #inequalities in #lung disease)
& pumpkin 2 describes what I’ve been working on for the past 2 weeks solid 💪🏻
Komorebi - the Japanese word for when the sunshine filters through the leaves 🍂 English lacks a single word for this beauty
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Komorebi - the Japanese word for when the sunshine filters through the leaves 🍂 English lacks a single word for this beauty
I love the colourful autumn sky 🍂
Current view from the window 🪟📸
as I work on my #Qualitative study protocol 👩🏼💻 - in #Newcastle
Current view from the window 🪟📸
as I work on my #Qualitative study protocol 👩🏼💻 - in #Newcastle
October 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I love the colourful autumn sky 🍂
Current view from the window 🪟📸
as I work on my #Qualitative study protocol 👩🏼💻 - in #Newcastle
Current view from the window 🪟📸
as I work on my #Qualitative study protocol 👩🏼💻 - in #Newcastle
📣New paper - Remote & rural communities face #inequalities in receiving specialist #PalliativeCare. Patients & staff found video-consultation to be a beneficial option (& preferable than a phone call ☎️ )
🌟 #OpenAccess in “PalliativeCare & Social Practice”📔
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🌟 #OpenAccess in “PalliativeCare & Social Practice”📔
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📣New paper - Remote & rural communities face #inequalities in receiving specialist #PalliativeCare. Patients & staff found video-consultation to be a beneficial option (& preferable than a phone call ☎️ )
🌟 #OpenAccess in “PalliativeCare & Social Practice”📔
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🌟 #OpenAccess in “PalliativeCare & Social Practice”📔
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Happy #EuropeanDayOfLanguages!
Enjoyed practicing languages for my daughter’s homework and on theme wearing my Europe map top! 🗺️
My dream is to visit every country in Europe & pick up more languages on the way 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇺
#EuropeAddict #MapAddict
Enjoyed practicing languages for my daughter’s homework and on theme wearing my Europe map top! 🗺️
My dream is to visit every country in Europe & pick up more languages on the way 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇺
#EuropeAddict #MapAddict
September 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Happy #EuropeanDayOfLanguages!
Enjoyed practicing languages for my daughter’s homework and on theme wearing my Europe map top! 🗺️
My dream is to visit every country in Europe & pick up more languages on the way 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇺
#EuropeAddict #MapAddict
Enjoyed practicing languages for my daughter’s homework and on theme wearing my Europe map top! 🗺️
My dream is to visit every country in Europe & pick up more languages on the way 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇺
#EuropeAddict #MapAddict
Reposted by Donna Wakefield
⭐We have just published our new book 'Understanding Mesothelioma' ⭐
Highlighting the lived experience of meso, and underpinned by robust research, this book helps us understand what good care for meso looks like.
www.routledge.com/Understandin...
Highlighting the lived experience of meso, and underpinned by robust research, this book helps us understand what good care for meso looks like.
www.routledge.com/Understandin...
Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences and Care Needs of People with Mesothelioma and their Families
This practical text highlights the lived experience of mesothelioma. Following the patient journey and underpinned by the evidence, it explores what good care for mesothelioma looks like. Mesothelioma...
www.routledge.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
⭐We have just published our new book 'Understanding Mesothelioma' ⭐
Highlighting the lived experience of meso, and underpinned by robust research, this book helps us understand what good care for meso looks like.
www.routledge.com/Understandin...
Highlighting the lived experience of meso, and underpinned by robust research, this book helps us understand what good care for meso looks like.
www.routledge.com/Understandin...
Great day presenting & learning at the North of England #Mesothelioma 🫁 Educational update at the beautiful Beamish Hall Hotel, #Durham
And delighted to be welcomed as the only #PalliativeCare member of the North of England Thoracic society (yet!)
Very impressed with the badge! 🥰
And delighted to be welcomed as the only #PalliativeCare member of the North of England Thoracic society (yet!)
Very impressed with the badge! 🥰
September 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Great day presenting & learning at the North of England #Mesothelioma 🫁 Educational update at the beautiful Beamish Hall Hotel, #Durham
And delighted to be welcomed as the only #PalliativeCare member of the North of England Thoracic society (yet!)
Very impressed with the badge! 🥰
And delighted to be welcomed as the only #PalliativeCare member of the North of England Thoracic society (yet!)
Very impressed with the badge! 🥰
📣New textbook - out TODAY! 📕
“Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences & Care Needs of People with #Mesothelioma & their Families” 🫁
Really grateful to have the opportunity to contribute this essential resource 📚 @claregardiner.bsky.social
@mesouk.bsky.social @vsherbo.bsky.social
Link below
“Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences & Care Needs of People with #Mesothelioma & their Families” 🫁
Really grateful to have the opportunity to contribute this essential resource 📚 @claregardiner.bsky.social
@mesouk.bsky.social @vsherbo.bsky.social
Link below
September 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
📣New textbook - out TODAY! 📕
“Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences & Care Needs of People with #Mesothelioma & their Families” 🫁
Really grateful to have the opportunity to contribute this essential resource 📚 @claregardiner.bsky.social
@mesouk.bsky.social @vsherbo.bsky.social
Link below
“Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences & Care Needs of People with #Mesothelioma & their Families” 🫁
Really grateful to have the opportunity to contribute this essential resource 📚 @claregardiner.bsky.social
@mesouk.bsky.social @vsherbo.bsky.social
Link below
Really exciting to see 1️⃣6️⃣8️⃣ like-minded people logging in for the launch 🚀 of the
🆕 #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator
So many potential opportunities to connect with others, as working in a small field, spread geographically can sometimes feel isolating.
@pri-uk.bsky.social
🆕 #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator
So many potential opportunities to connect with others, as working in a small field, spread geographically can sometimes feel isolating.
@pri-uk.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Really exciting to see 1️⃣6️⃣8️⃣ like-minded people logging in for the launch 🚀 of the
🆕 #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator
So many potential opportunities to connect with others, as working in a small field, spread geographically can sometimes feel isolating.
@pri-uk.bsky.social
🆕 #PalliativeCare #Research Incubator
So many potential opportunities to connect with others, as working in a small field, spread geographically can sometimes feel isolating.
@pri-uk.bsky.social