Chris C 🏳️🌈
@chris-carmona.bsky.social
Health evidence synthesis and guideline development methodologist. Geek out over qualitative evidence synthesis. Hater of unfairness and social injustice. (He/him)
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The 10 Year Health plan assumes that all innovation is good for population health, but Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci say we should carefully weigh up the costs and benefits of new healthcare tech.
Read their BMJ editorial here: buff.ly/2ZKIZBy
Read their BMJ editorial here: buff.ly/2ZKIZBy
August 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The 10 Year Health plan assumes that all innovation is good for population health, but Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci say we should carefully weigh up the costs and benefits of new healthcare tech.
Read their BMJ editorial here: buff.ly/2ZKIZBy
Read their BMJ editorial here: buff.ly/2ZKIZBy
Only just heard about the death of Prof Mike Bury, he of the biographical disruption. Sad news. Mike was a lovely man and an incisive thinker. Medical sociology is poorer without him. RIP Mike.
August 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Only just heard about the death of Prof Mike Bury, he of the biographical disruption. Sad news. Mike was a lovely man and an incisive thinker. Medical sociology is poorer without him. RIP Mike.
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The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.
May 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.
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The Trump administration has sharply expanded its campaign against experts who track misinformation and other harmful content online, abruptly canceling scores of scientific research grants at universities across the country.
Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Trump administration has sharply expanded its campaign against experts who track misinformation and other harmful content online, abruptly canceling scores of scientific research grants at universities across the country.
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@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social report, Health in the UK after Brexit: Moving Apart or Stuck Together? explores how leaving the EU is shaping our health system.
Check out the full report, including contributions by Nick Fahy from @randeurope.org nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/hea...
#NHS #Health
Check out the full report, including contributions by Nick Fahy from @randeurope.org nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/hea...
#NHS #Health
Health in the UK after Brexit: Moving apart or stuck together?
How has Brexit reshaped health in the UK? The final report in our Health and International Relations Monitor series, supported by the Health Foundation, tracks the ongoing impact from EU exit on medic...
nuffieldtrust.org.uk
March 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social report, Health in the UK after Brexit: Moving Apart or Stuck Together? explores how leaving the EU is shaping our health system.
Check out the full report, including contributions by Nick Fahy from @randeurope.org nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/hea...
#NHS #Health
Check out the full report, including contributions by Nick Fahy from @randeurope.org nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/hea...
#NHS #Health
This plus the resignation of NIH boss…
It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.
March 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This plus the resignation of NIH boss…
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Free speech news
I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Free speech news
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Endometriosis is a chronic condition where endometrium-like tissue grows outside the uterus.
This article summarises recently updated recommendations from NICE, specifically focusing on factors associated with time to diagnosis
Includes an infographic
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
This article summarises recently updated recommendations from NICE, specifically focusing on factors associated with time to diagnosis
Includes an infographic
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
February 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Endometriosis is a chronic condition where endometrium-like tissue grows outside the uterus.
This article summarises recently updated recommendations from NICE, specifically focusing on factors associated with time to diagnosis
Includes an infographic
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
This article summarises recently updated recommendations from NICE, specifically focusing on factors associated with time to diagnosis
Includes an infographic
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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The UK has one of the highest retirement ages in the world, the lowest pension in Europe, some of the longest working hours in Europe, one of the lowest minimum wages, the highest energy costs, the biggest profits, and the lowest taxes for the richest.
It all needs to change.
It all needs to change.
February 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The UK has one of the highest retirement ages in the world, the lowest pension in Europe, some of the longest working hours in Europe, one of the lowest minimum wages, the highest energy costs, the biggest profits, and the lowest taxes for the richest.
It all needs to change.
It all needs to change.
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Repost if BlueSky is now your main social media 🙏
January 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Repost if BlueSky is now your main social media 🙏
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"How has this been allowed to happen again?": RCEM President demands answers as winter crisis deepens. With hospitals declaring critical incidents due to flu surges, staff sickness, and high patient numbers, we call for urgent action to prevent further harm.
Read in full: rcem.ac.uk/how-has-t...
Read in full: rcem.ac.uk/how-has-t...
‘How has this been allowed to happen again?’: RCEM demands answers as winter crisis deepens
With patients at risk of harm due to spending days in Emergency Departments and health care professionals left in tears due to winter pressures, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has asked ‘how has this been allowed to happen again?’
rcem.ac.uk
January 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"How has this been allowed to happen again?": RCEM President demands answers as winter crisis deepens. With hospitals declaring critical incidents due to flu surges, staff sickness, and high patient numbers, we call for urgent action to prevent further harm.
Read in full: rcem.ac.uk/how-has-t...
Read in full: rcem.ac.uk/how-has-t...
Rapid QES fans might be interested to see this dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmje...
Rapid reviews methods series: guidance on rapid qualitative evidence synthesis
This paper forms part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group and addresses rapid qualitative evidence syntheses (QESs), which use modified systematic, tra...
dx.doi.org
January 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Rapid QES fans might be interested to see this dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmje...
Making public involvement in QES easier and more meaningful is so important and here’s a neat set of ideas about visual methods for doing so.
doi.org/10.1002/cesm...
doi.org/10.1002/cesm...
Using visual methods to further enhance qualitative evidence synthesis
Using visual methods in qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) enhances transparency in the process, helping to understand and create new knowledge. This paper gives an overview of accessible visual me...
doi.org
December 30, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Making public involvement in QES easier and more meaningful is so important and here’s a neat set of ideas about visual methods for doing so.
doi.org/10.1002/cesm...
doi.org/10.1002/cesm...
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Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
December 21, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
I always look forward to the BMJ Xmas paper ☺️
Disney princesses face serious health risks, warn experts.
Disney must consider ways to improve princesses’ wellbeing, including mindfulness, training on cohabitation with animals, and personal protection measures against toxic particles
#ChristmasBMJ
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Disney must consider ways to improve princesses’ wellbeing, including mindfulness, training on cohabitation with animals, and personal protection measures against toxic particles
#ChristmasBMJ
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
December 17, 2024 at 12:13 PM
I always look forward to the BMJ Xmas paper ☺️
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In October 2025 the UK will finally introduce restrictions on unhealthy food and drink advertising.
Restricting advertisements is an essential step towards a healthier food environment, writes Katharine Jenner @oha-updates.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Restricting advertisements is an essential step towards a healthier food environment, writes Katharine Jenner @oha-updates.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...
December 11, 2024 at 5:07 PM
In October 2025 the UK will finally introduce restrictions on unhealthy food and drink advertising.
Restricting advertisements is an essential step towards a healthier food environment, writes Katharine Jenner @oha-updates.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Restricting advertisements is an essential step towards a healthier food environment, writes Katharine Jenner @oha-updates.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Holy Moly. Surely that’s not legal?
December 10, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Holy Moly. Surely that’s not legal?
So important. So much misleading info for so many of these tests. My Instagram feed is full of them.
The variety and volume of direct-to-consumer medical tests has increased.
This Analysis argues that the public needs high quality information and effective communication about the evidence behind the marketing of these tests
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
This Analysis argues that the public needs high quality information and effective communication about the evidence behind the marketing of these tests
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
December 10, 2024 at 9:35 PM
So important. So much misleading info for so many of these tests. My Instagram feed is full of them.
Good to see NICE publish the update asthma guideline with some pretty big changes as we move to combination treatment www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...
NICE finalises long-awaited joint guidance overhauling asthma care
Long-awaited joint UK guidelines for asthma have today been finalised, overhauling recommendations to GPs for diagnostics and treatment.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Good to see NICE publish the update asthma guideline with some pretty big changes as we move to combination treatment www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...
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In 2011 the private sector treated 3% of NHS patients.
Today they treat 10% of patients, and receive 20% of the NHS budget (£29,000,000,000)
Privitisation is happening right here, right now.
Today they treat 10% of patients, and receive 20% of the NHS budget (£29,000,000,000)
Privitisation is happening right here, right now.
1/5 of the health budget is being directed away from the NHS, and into private healthcare. That's 20%.
The research shows that more private use creates worse patient outcomes (Lancet).
This is daylight robbery.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
The research shows that more private use creates worse patient outcomes (Lancet).
This is daylight robbery.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Private equity is a horror story for the NHS - yet one fifth of the health service budget goes to it
Numerous studies have found private equity is associated with worse patient outcomes due to NHS privatisation - and 'preventable deaths'
www.thecanary.co
November 27, 2024 at 8:29 AM
In 2011 the private sector treated 3% of NHS patients.
Today they treat 10% of patients, and receive 20% of the NHS budget (£29,000,000,000)
Privitisation is happening right here, right now.
Today they treat 10% of patients, and receive 20% of the NHS budget (£29,000,000,000)
Privitisation is happening right here, right now.
Good for you Prof Bishop!
November 25, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Good for you Prof Bishop!