Dr. Elli Wilson
@elliwilson.bsky.social
Dr. Elli Wilson - Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. UK.
Qualitative researcher, palliative+end of life care, MND, complex homecare
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/eleanor.wilson
Views are my own
Qualitative researcher, palliative+end of life care, MND, complex homecare
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/eleanor.wilson
Views are my own
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Are you a homecare worker? working with someone with MND who has equipment in the home such as ventilation, suction, a feeding tube etc? Would you be willing to share your experiences? contact: nicola.turner@nottingham.ac.uk
#CHiMND @rachelkelso.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social
#CHiMND @rachelkelso.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social
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UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says
Resolution Foundation finds one in three carers from poorer families unable to work because of responsibilities
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:27 PM
UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Sign up to hear about our latest research on improving end-of-life care and future projects and collaboration opportunities. Our research team is part of PELiCam in the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sign up to hear about our latest research on improving end-of-life care and future projects and collaboration opportunities. Our research team is part of PELiCam in the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge.
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Our new paper revealing the often under-reported harms in end-of-life care, within reported incidents. This inhibits systems learning and downplays the patient and family voice
Hidden harms in #End-Of-Life injectable symptom control #HealthCare: many patient safety incidents reported as 'no harm' contain descriptions of physical/psychological harm experienced by patients and families doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @drbenbowers.bsky.social @carsonstevens.bsky.social #PrimaryCare
Revealing the hidden harms in end-of-life care: a mixed-methods characterisation of reported safety incidents involving injectable symptom control medication | British Journal of General Practice
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January 30, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Our new paper revealing the often under-reported harms in end-of-life care, within reported incidents. This inhibits systems learning and downplays the patient and family voice
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Access our new research paper in BJGP on learning from injectable medication incident reports in the community. We highlight the potential of cross-organisational targets to visit within 2 hours in a crisis
Patient safety involving injectable medication in community end-of-life care needs improvements in symptom control care to ensure access to assessment, prescriptions, continuity & rapid visits to administer medication doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @drbenbowers.bsky.social @dphpc.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Access our new research paper in BJGP on learning from injectable medication incident reports in the community. We highlight the potential of cross-organisational targets to visit within 2 hours in a crisis
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📣Out today: “The system doesn’t really cater for the trauma that Black people have experienced” – Experiences of grief and bereavement in Black British and Black Caribbean heritage communities in England: A qualitative study
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Policy brief: tinyurl.com/34sh98ac
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Policy brief: tinyurl.com/34sh98ac
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
📣Out today: “The system doesn’t really cater for the trauma that Black people have experienced” – Experiences of grief and bereavement in Black British and Black Caribbean heritage communities in England: A qualitative study
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Policy brief: tinyurl.com/34sh98ac
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Policy brief: tinyurl.com/34sh98ac
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If you're an ECR who has done great work to promote open research, please consider applying for this excellent award! I recieved this earlier this year and my minifig sits proudly in my office 😊 A great way to recognise ECR contributions!
Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened!
Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement.
Nominations close 18 January 2026.
#AcademicSky #Research
Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement.
Nominations close 18 January 2026.
#AcademicSky #Research
Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026
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December 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If you're an ECR who has done great work to promote open research, please consider applying for this excellent award! I recieved this earlier this year and my minifig sits proudly in my office 😊 A great way to recognise ECR contributions!
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Vacancy for a Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University of Oxford. Lead dementia and mental health research shaping future care for older adults. Closing date: 5th January
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/professo...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/professo...
Professor: Old Age Psychiatry - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University of Oxford. Lead dementia and mental health research shaping future care for older adults.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Vacancy for a Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University of Oxford. Lead dementia and mental health research shaping future care for older adults. Closing date: 5th January
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/professo...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/professo...
'The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) expresses serious concerns following the University of Nottingham’s decision to suspend children’s nursing and mental health nursing programmes.'
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Short term decisions – long term impact | Fiona Smith
Short term decisions – long term impact on children and young people
The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) expresses serious concerns following the University of Nottingham’s decision ...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
'The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) expresses serious concerns following the University of Nottingham’s decision to suspend children’s nursing and mental health nursing programmes.'
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"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care."
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis | Rachel Clarke
While the government debates assisted dying, palliative care is an afterthought. And many more people face death without the care and support they need, says Rachel Clarke
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care."
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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NEW on Wonkhe: Little England’s splendid isolation in European HE looks increasingly absurd bit.ly/4i2SbpV
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Little England’s splendid isolation in European HE looks increasingly absurd bit.ly/4i2SbpV
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Can you help me out by signing this petition? c.org/SSJG8CkZvB
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of Uni of Nottingham Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion
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November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Can you help me out by signing this petition? c.org/SSJG8CkZvB
Cuts to Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion courses at the University of Nottingham will have wider implication for the NHS workforce at the time when we need more nurses
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As Head of School of Health Sciences and Professor of Nursing at the University of Nottingham, I am devastated about the proposals to suspend courses for 26/27 intake in health promotion and public… |...
As Head of School of Health Sciences and Professor of Nursing at the University of Nottingham, I am devastated about the proposals to suspend courses for 26/27 intake in health promotion and public he...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Cuts to Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion courses at the University of Nottingham will have wider implication for the NHS workforce at the time when we need more nurses
www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-g...
www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-g...
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Research Associate (Fixed Term, full-time post). Come work with me and amazing colleagues at University of Cambridge. An excellent post for a dynamic post doctoral researcher and thinker...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Research Associate (Fixed Term, full-time post). Come work with me and amazing colleagues at University of Cambridge. An excellent post for a dynamic post doctoral researcher and thinker...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
📢New publication from the TVLife study: Living with tracheostomy ventilation for MND - Family member perspectives - important to understand both the challenges and joys. Families sharing their experiences on HealthTalk: healthtalk.org/experiences/...
doi.org/10.1080/0963...
doi.org/10.1080/0963...
Living with tracheostomy ventilation for motor neurone disease: a qualitative study of family member perspectives
To examine the experiences of family members caring for people with motor neurone disease (MND) who use tracheostomy ventilation.Drawing on a constructivist interpretivist approach, qualitative int...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📢New publication from the TVLife study: Living with tracheostomy ventilation for MND - Family member perspectives - important to understand both the challenges and joys. Families sharing their experiences on HealthTalk: healthtalk.org/experiences/...
doi.org/10.1080/0963...
doi.org/10.1080/0963...
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
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Superb news showcasing the wonder of medical science.
Huntingdon's is a brutal terminal disease.
This new gene therapy slows the disease's advance by 75%.
One medically retired patient has now returned to work.
Others, expected to need wheelchairs, are walking.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntingdon's is a brutal terminal disease.
This new gene therapy slows the disease's advance by 75%.
One medically retired patient has now returned to work.
Others, expected to need wheelchairs, are walking.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Superb news showcasing the wonder of medical science.
Huntingdon's is a brutal terminal disease.
This new gene therapy slows the disease's advance by 75%.
One medically retired patient has now returned to work.
Others, expected to need wheelchairs, are walking.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntingdon's is a brutal terminal disease.
This new gene therapy slows the disease's advance by 75%.
One medically retired patient has now returned to work.
Others, expected to need wheelchairs, are walking.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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In @dailymirrornews.bsky.social today - with thanks to @martinbagot.bsky.social
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'I'm a full-time carer - people don't realise they're one accident from my life'
Katy Styles, a full-time carer from Canterbury, has warned people
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September 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
In @dailymirrornews.bsky.social today - with thanks to @martinbagot.bsky.social
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Thank you so much to all who have taken part in the EMPOWER survey to date! Only more day to go to register your views. We particularly want to hear from midwives and health visitors 👇
@rcn.org.uk @rcm.org.uk @nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @arc-em.bsky.social
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March 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Thank you so much to all who have taken part in the EMPOWER survey to date! Only more day to go to register your views. We particularly want to hear from midwives and health visitors 👇
@rcn.org.uk @rcm.org.uk @nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @arc-em.bsky.social
t.ly/pDJPH
@rcn.org.uk @rcm.org.uk @nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @arc-em.bsky.social
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Reframing resilience in community healthcare. Our latest piece in BJCN
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August 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reframing resilience in community healthcare. Our latest piece in BJCN
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New paper from the TVLife study - Tracheostomy ventilation in ALS: healthcare practitioner perspectives on quality of life and implications for decision-making. @mndassoc.bsky.social @silvah-uk.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/2167...
doi.org/10.1080/2167...
Tracheostomy ventilation in ALS: healthcare practitioner perspectives on quality of life and implications for decision-making
Objectives: This qualitative study aimed to increase understanding of how healthcare practitioners (HCPs) perceive quality of life for people with ALS who use tracheostomy ventilation (TV) and the ...
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July 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New paper from the TVLife study - Tracheostomy ventilation in ALS: healthcare practitioner perspectives on quality of life and implications for decision-making. @mndassoc.bsky.social @silvah-uk.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/2167...
doi.org/10.1080/2167...
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📢Publication alert! Delighted to have this available to read in full: Providing life-sustaining treatments at home for those with Motor Neurone Disease: A qualitative study of bereaved family members’ experiences of responsibility #VentMND
doi.org/10.1177/0269...
doi.org/10.1177/0269...
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March 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
📢Publication alert! Delighted to have this available to read in full: Providing life-sustaining treatments at home for those with Motor Neurone Disease: A qualitative study of bereaved family members’ experiences of responsibility #VentMND
doi.org/10.1177/0269...
doi.org/10.1177/0269...
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Ensuring nutrition & hydration in people with #MND is crucial for their wellbeing & to prevent complications, but can be challenging
Our revised infographic on dietetics & nutrition is a practical tool for HSCPs with a quick summary of NICE guidelines👇
mndassociation.org/propublicati...
Our revised infographic on dietetics & nutrition is a practical tool for HSCPs with a quick summary of NICE guidelines👇
mndassociation.org/propublicati...
July 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Ensuring nutrition & hydration in people with #MND is crucial for their wellbeing & to prevent complications, but can be challenging
Our revised infographic on dietetics & nutrition is a practical tool for HSCPs with a quick summary of NICE guidelines👇
mndassociation.org/propublicati...
Our revised infographic on dietetics & nutrition is a practical tool for HSCPs with a quick summary of NICE guidelines👇
mndassociation.org/propublicati...