Sarah Alderson
@imp-sci-saraha.bsky.social
GP & Associate Prof in Primary Care & Implementation Science @ Uni of Leeds
Audit & Feedback, healthcare behaviour change, reduces opioid prescribing, SMART designs, wild swim, run, aerial hoop, knit & crochet
“Thinks too much & too little” #ImpSci #MedSci
Audit & Feedback, healthcare behaviour change, reduces opioid prescribing, SMART designs, wild swim, run, aerial hoop, knit & crochet
“Thinks too much & too little” #ImpSci #MedSci
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New paper! 📣
Inappropriate prescribing is common in older adults which puts them at greater risk of adverse effects. However, strategies to address are limited, particularly the lack of agreement on how to measure kidney function in this group!
Read here 👇
qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...
Inappropriate prescribing is common in older adults which puts them at greater risk of adverse effects. However, strategies to address are limited, particularly the lack of agreement on how to measure kidney function in this group!
Read here 👇
qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...
Widespread inappropriate prescribing for older people with reduced kidney function: what are the harms and how do we tackle them? A scoping review for primary care
Background Increasing age is associated with reductions in kidney function and increasing polypharmacy. Most medicines are eliminated through the kidney, meaning older patients are at risk of medicati...
qualitysafety.bmj.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
New paper! 📣
Inappropriate prescribing is common in older adults which puts them at greater risk of adverse effects. However, strategies to address are limited, particularly the lack of agreement on how to measure kidney function in this group!
Read here 👇
qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...
Inappropriate prescribing is common in older adults which puts them at greater risk of adverse effects. However, strategies to address are limited, particularly the lack of agreement on how to measure kidney function in this group!
Read here 👇
qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...
New paper alert! 🚨
Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme (YCRBCIP) conducted a rigorous consensus process with clinicians and patients to develop quality indicators to support opioid stewardship for patients undergoing bowel cancer surgery 👇
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...
Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme (YCRBCIP) conducted a rigorous consensus process with clinicians and patients to develop quality indicators to support opioid stewardship for patients undergoing bowel cancer surgery 👇
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...
Development of actionable quality indicators and an implementation toolkit for perioperative opioid stewardship in colorectal cancer in the UK Yorkshire and Humber region: a modified RAND consensus st...
Objectives There are global concerns about the rise in opioid prescribing. Patients undergoing potentially curative surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC) are at high risk of adverse outcomes from opioid...
bmjopen.bmj.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
New paper alert! 🚨
Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme (YCRBCIP) conducted a rigorous consensus process with clinicians and patients to develop quality indicators to support opioid stewardship for patients undergoing bowel cancer surgery 👇
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...
Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme (YCRBCIP) conducted a rigorous consensus process with clinicians and patients to develop quality indicators to support opioid stewardship for patients undergoing bowel cancer surgery 👇
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...
📣 New paper published❗️
🫘We know kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm of many medicines 💊
📉 We showed that providing feedback to primary care on prescribing in reduced kidney function is both feasible and acceptable 😀… [1/2]
📖 Read more here 👇
doi.org/10.1093/famp...
🫘We know kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm of many medicines 💊
📉 We showed that providing feedback to primary care on prescribing in reduced kidney function is both feasible and acceptable 😀… [1/2]
📖 Read more here 👇
doi.org/10.1093/famp...
Creatinine clearance, reduced kidney function, and optimizing prescribing safety through practice feedback: a mixed methods study
AbstractBackground. Kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm from raised blood levels of many medicines. Prescribing is often inappropria
doi.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📣 New paper published❗️
🫘We know kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm of many medicines 💊
📉 We showed that providing feedback to primary care on prescribing in reduced kidney function is both feasible and acceptable 😀… [1/2]
📖 Read more here 👇
doi.org/10.1093/famp...
🫘We know kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm of many medicines 💊
📉 We showed that providing feedback to primary care on prescribing in reduced kidney function is both feasible and acceptable 😀… [1/2]
📖 Read more here 👇
doi.org/10.1093/famp...
Lovely weather and a great day at the @heights_ultra_trail festival with the @slaithwaitestriders gang! My longest run yet - the Heights 27km Wessenden trail (28.5km on Garmin) 💪
September 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Lovely weather and a great day at the @heights_ultra_trail festival with the @slaithwaitestriders gang! My longest run yet - the Heights 27km Wessenden trail (28.5km on Garmin) 💪
Chelmsford Central #ParkRun no. 16 🏃
I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is!
🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!)
Official time - 37m 24s
#loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity
I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is!
🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!)
Official time - 37m 24s
#loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity
August 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Chelmsford Central #ParkRun no. 16 🏃
I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is!
🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!)
Official time - 37m 24s
#loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity
I've wanted to do my childhood home town @parkrunuk.bsky.social for a while. Forgot how lovely Central Park is!
🤦 Missed the start by ~5 mins (thanks SatNav!)
Official time - 37m 24s
#loveparkrun #running #loverunning #runhappy #runnerslife #runningcommunity
🙋 New paper alert! 📣
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
🙋 New paper alert! 📣
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social
A great research snapshot by Dr Qandeel Shah on how she obtained rich and informative data using rapid ethnography in her PhD within a limited timeframe 👇
#ImpSci #ResearchMethods
youtu.be/RczeobLmntE?...
#ImpSci #ResearchMethods
youtu.be/RczeobLmntE?...
Improvement Science Snapshot- Rapid Ethnography
YouTube video by NIHR ARC Yorkshire and Humber
youtu.be
August 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A great research snapshot by Dr Qandeel Shah on how she obtained rich and informative data using rapid ethnography in her PhD within a limited timeframe 👇
#ImpSci #ResearchMethods
youtu.be/RczeobLmntE?...
#ImpSci #ResearchMethods
youtu.be/RczeobLmntE?...
Proud supervisor moment! 🤩
So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏
So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏
July 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Proud supervisor moment! 🤩
So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏
So lovely to see Qandeel Shah on her doctoral graduation🎓 at University of Leeds today! I really enjoyed supervising her with the great team of Prof Rebecca Lawton & Dr Edmund Breckin. Wishing her all the best in the next part of her career 👏
Park Run no. 15 for me & a very hot but lovely one! This is a nice route and there is a fair bit of shade on the way round too. I got to meet one of my lovely online running friends in person for the first time. We nattered all the way round & nattered over brunch afterwards. 😀
#ParkRunLove #ParkRun
#ParkRunLove #ParkRun
July 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Park Run no. 15 for me & a very hot but lovely one! This is a nice route and there is a fair bit of shade on the way round too. I got to meet one of my lovely online running friends in person for the first time. We nattered all the way round & nattered over brunch afterwards. 😀
#ParkRunLove #ParkRun
#ParkRunLove #ParkRun
Stunning Buck Moon rising tonight 🌝
July 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Stunning Buck Moon rising tonight 🌝
This is a lovely event! Hoping the smoking dragons will be there again 😄
#IMC2025
#IMC2025
The International Medieval Congress is back next week from 7 to 10 July ⚔️
@imc-leeds.bsky.social, Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies, will draw medievalists from over 60 countries, and we expect to welcome thousands of attendees 👇
www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
#IMC2025
@imc-leeds.bsky.social, Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies, will draw medievalists from over 60 countries, and we expect to welcome thousands of attendees 👇
www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
#IMC2025
July 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is a lovely event! Hoping the smoking dragons will be there again 😄
#IMC2025
#IMC2025
Reposted by Sarah Alderson
Congratulations to Noah and Robbie on this recent publication on using audit to identify where improvement is needed and providing feedback to healthcare professionals.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change
Cambridge Core - Medicine: General Interest - Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change
www.cambridge.org
June 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Congratulations to Noah and Robbie on this recent publication on using audit to identify where improvement is needed and providing feedback to healthcare professionals.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
That was a hot ParkRun number 14! Far too hot for this (now) northern lass 🥵 Lovely route though and I was so grateful for the few bits of shade 😎
#ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist
#ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist
June 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
That was a hot ParkRun number 14! Far too hot for this (now) northern lass 🥵 Lovely route though and I was so grateful for the few bits of shade 😎
#ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist
#ParkRun #LoveParkRun #runforfun #runforhealth #parkruntourist
Reposted by Sarah Alderson
The University has placed in the top 100 universities in the world for the 8th year in a row, moving up to 13th position among the 90 UK institutions on the list 🙌
The QS World University Rankings were released today, and Leeds is ranked 86th in the world.
The QS World University Rankings were released today, and Leeds is ranked 86th in the world.
June 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The University has placed in the top 100 universities in the world for the 8th year in a row, moving up to 13th position among the 90 UK institutions on the list 🙌
The QS World University Rankings were released today, and Leeds is ranked 86th in the world.
The QS World University Rankings were released today, and Leeds is ranked 86th in the world.
Fern Harvey’s fab poster presentation of her systematic review on process evaluations for complex intervention trials. Better reporting of context, mechanisms of action and fidelity would enable greater learning about successful interventions #ImpSci #EIE2025 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Fern Harvey’s fab poster presentation of her systematic review on process evaluations for complex intervention trials. Better reporting of context, mechanisms of action and fidelity would enable greater learning about successful interventions #ImpSci #EIE2025 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social
Absolutely stunning! I enjoy crocheting but definitely do not have the patience for something as fine as this.
Brittany, France early 20thc, skilled women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt
June 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Absolutely stunning! I enjoy crocheting but definitely do not have the patience for something as fine as this.
Apparently it’s #NationalBiscuitDay so I’m sharing my greatest culinary creation: An anatomically correct* biscuit person
*artistic interpretation
*artistic interpretation
May 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Apparently it’s #NationalBiscuitDay so I’m sharing my greatest culinary creation: An anatomically correct* biscuit person
*artistic interpretation
*artistic interpretation
Don’t you just love it when a system update decides it’s more important than the work meeting you are in and decides to install and update mid meeting and doesn’t let you delay for just 15 mins? 🤯🤬😬
#NeedMoreCaffeine #JustBreathe🧘
#NeedMoreCaffeine #JustBreathe🧘
a cartoon character with a very angry face and the words `` frustrating !!! ''
ALT: a cartoon character with a very angry face and the words `` frustrating !!! ''
media.tenor.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Don’t you just love it when a system update decides it’s more important than the work meeting you are in and decides to install and update mid meeting and doesn’t let you delay for just 15 mins? 🤯🤬😬
#NeedMoreCaffeine #JustBreathe🧘
#NeedMoreCaffeine #JustBreathe🧘
Inspired after hearing @drailyntan.bsky.social, a ParkRun ambassador and Associate Professor of Rheumatology, speak on Monday, I was motivated to get up and go do a tourist #ParkRun this morning.
ParkRun #13 for me - not unlucky though - I got a course PB! 💚
#ParkRunLove
ParkRun #13 for me - not unlucky though - I got a course PB! 💚
#ParkRunLove
May 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Inspired after hearing @drailyntan.bsky.social, a ParkRun ambassador and Associate Professor of Rheumatology, speak on Monday, I was motivated to get up and go do a tourist #ParkRun this morning.
ParkRun #13 for me - not unlucky though - I got a course PB! 💚
#ParkRunLove
ParkRun #13 for me - not unlucky though - I got a course PB! 💚
#ParkRunLove
Reposted by Sarah Alderson
📢NEW Vacancy to join our Decluttering (Safely) for Safety theme with Prof @rebeccalawton.bsky.social
⌛️ Closing date: 12 May 2025
Find out more here: 👇
www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/West_...
⌛️ Closing date: 12 May 2025
Find out more here: 👇
www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/West_...
April 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
📢NEW Vacancy to join our Decluttering (Safely) for Safety theme with Prof @rebeccalawton.bsky.social
⌛️ Closing date: 12 May 2025
Find out more here: 👇
www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/West_...
⌛️ Closing date: 12 May 2025
Find out more here: 👇
www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/West_...
Reposted by Sarah Alderson
📢We are excited to be organising the Implementation Conference 2026 alongside @penarc.bsky.social!
🤲The theme is inclusive implementation - making it happen.
🗓️Save the date - 25-26 June 2026 in sunny Bristol
🙏Supported by the UK Implementation Society
👋See you there!
#ImpConf26 #ImpSci
🤲The theme is inclusive implementation - making it happen.
🗓️Save the date - 25-26 June 2026 in sunny Bristol
🙏Supported by the UK Implementation Society
👋See you there!
#ImpConf26 #ImpSci
May 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
📢We are excited to be organising the Implementation Conference 2026 alongside @penarc.bsky.social!
🤲The theme is inclusive implementation - making it happen.
🗓️Save the date - 25-26 June 2026 in sunny Bristol
🙏Supported by the UK Implementation Society
👋See you there!
#ImpConf26 #ImpSci
🤲The theme is inclusive implementation - making it happen.
🗓️Save the date - 25-26 June 2026 in sunny Bristol
🙏Supported by the UK Implementation Society
👋See you there!
#ImpConf26 #ImpSci
☀️ The sun is shining in the beautiful setting of Oulton Hall today for the Inspiring the Next Generation event for the Leeds Clinical Academic Trainees.
🙋 We have a fantastic programme of inspiring speakers and workshops today on balancing clinical and academic careers.
#AcademicSky
🙋 We have a fantastic programme of inspiring speakers and workshops today on balancing clinical and academic careers.
#AcademicSky
May 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
☀️ The sun is shining in the beautiful setting of Oulton Hall today for the Inspiring the Next Generation event for the Leeds Clinical Academic Trainees.
🙋 We have a fantastic programme of inspiring speakers and workshops today on balancing clinical and academic careers.
#AcademicSky
🙋 We have a fantastic programme of inspiring speakers and workshops today on balancing clinical and academic careers.
#AcademicSky
Reposted by Sarah Alderson
The #NHS is vital for us all, except the extremely wealthy
There is a need to protect services
It’s our responsibility to ensure they’re available for everyone
Don’t let misinformation get in the way
The healthy & wealthy are most likely to be ignoring the facts & making cuts
#TeamGP
There is a need to protect services
It’s our responsibility to ensure they’re available for everyone
Don’t let misinformation get in the way
The healthy & wealthy are most likely to be ignoring the facts & making cuts
#TeamGP
May 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reposted by Sarah Alderson
Reminder 📣
Join us at this in-person event (w lunch) at Uni Leeds on Wed 14 May (11am-2pm) for exciting open research talks.
& chance to discuss in groups barriers and potential solutions to implementing OR in your field.
Register 👉 leeds.libcal.com/event/4369744
@researchcultureuol.bsky.social
Join us at this in-person event (w lunch) at Uni Leeds on Wed 14 May (11am-2pm) for exciting open research talks.
& chance to discuss in groups barriers and potential solutions to implementing OR in your field.
Register 👉 leeds.libcal.com/event/4369744
@researchcultureuol.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reminder 📣
Join us at this in-person event (w lunch) at Uni Leeds on Wed 14 May (11am-2pm) for exciting open research talks.
& chance to discuss in groups barriers and potential solutions to implementing OR in your field.
Register 👉 leeds.libcal.com/event/4369744
@researchcultureuol.bsky.social
Join us at this in-person event (w lunch) at Uni Leeds on Wed 14 May (11am-2pm) for exciting open research talks.
& chance to discuss in groups barriers and potential solutions to implementing OR in your field.
Register 👉 leeds.libcal.com/event/4369744
@researchcultureuol.bsky.social