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Jan Fish
@griefresearch.bsky.social
This is all about what helps people with their grief
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7176-6850
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Carrying out a mental capacity assessment is complex. 📝

Social workers on the panel will need to see the person seeking an assisted death where there is a question about mental capacity.

We’re therefore calling for this right to be made explicit within the legislation.
October 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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As cervical cancer screening lags behind target, it's great to see that at-home test kits are being offered to thousands in England.

There are many reasons why women might miss screening appointments - that’s why initiatives like this are vital for ensuring our NHS becomes truly inclusive of all.
At-home HPV test kits to be offered to thousands of women in England
The home tests will be offered so that women can check for cervical cancer without visiting a GP.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Another 'impartial' assisted dying group has just been exposed for being nothing of the sort

Another day, another group that has been touted as being impartial is actually made of of pro-assisted dying campaigners who back Kim Leadbeater's bill
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Another 'impartial' assisted dying group has just been exposed for being nothing of the sort
Yet another group that has been touted as impartial is actually made of of pro-assisted dying campaigners who back Leadbeater's bill
www.thecanary.co
March 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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As UK Parliament considers how the Bill on #AssistedDying should be implemented, if it becomes law, ARC palliative and end of life care webinar highlights the complexities and makes key recommendations:

👉 arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...

#AssistedDyingBill

@arceastofengland.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Thanks for inviting us to share our research on what is a complex topic
As UK Parliament considers how the Bill on #AssistedDying should be implemented, if it becomes law, ARC palliative and end of life care webinar highlights the complexities and makes key recommendations:

👉 arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...

#AssistedDyingBill

@arceastofengland.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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NSFT leaving special measures marks some welcome progress, but people in Suffolk and Norfolk are yet to feel this in their lived experience of mental health care, with many still recounting tragic personal stories of institutional failure.

This is far from being ‘job done’.
Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust exits special measures
The trust for Norfolk and Suffolk has been receiving intensive support for more than seven years.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Mozart C Minor Mass and other works
We are delighted to welcome Guest Conductor James Morgan for what is generally considered to be Mozart’s greatest choral work after the Requiem.
You can now book on TicketSource, or buy tickets on concert day from 6.15pm
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beckenhamcho...
February 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Applications now open for our well-established, international, online PhD in Palliative Care. Book an appointment with our admissions tutor @catherinewalshe.bsky.social via c.walshe@lancaster.ac.uk. Read more about this distinctive, highly regarded programme here: lnkd.in/eNrwCv4U
February 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Seems to be a lot more on assisted dying leading up to the parliamentary debate on Friday. We have conducted research in a number of countries of first hand accounts of families and healthcare workers which is complex, and summarised in this paper theconversation.com/assisted-dyi...
Assisted dying: first-hand accounts of what it’s like to help a loved one die
Choosing to hasten one’s death is an intensely personal, carefully considered decision. But it is rarely made in isolation.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Very interesting podcast episode on what Al algorithms are doing to music and music criticism pca.st/episode/80a9...
How AI and Algorithms Are Transforming Music - On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transp...
pca.st
January 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Now that Ukraine has become very active in the Kursk region, we would like everyone that hasn't found us on BlueSky, to be aware of the latest updates.

Therefore, we would like to ask you to share this post in order to reach as many people as possible. Let's aim for 75.000 followers 👍
January 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:
January 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM