Delighted to share our fourth paper from a really rewarding collaboration bringing together biostatisticians, epidemiologists, applied physiologists and clinical and nursing experts in Geriatric Medicine and Infection Control.

www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019...

Adam Gordon explaining ‘macro’, ‘meso’ (a new concept for me!) and ‘micro’ politics, and how to keep going through iterative policy cycles, celebrating success along the way.

#EUGMS2025 National Plans for better care for older people: a means to catalyse innovation in Geriatric Medicine. Interesting examples from across Europe and important lessons for the ‘campaign trail’. A goal without a plan is just a wish……..

#EUGMS2025 ‘going beyond the glucose’. Virginia Boccardi explains the five I pillars of diabetes management in older adults with frailty. Indemnification, Individualisation, Innovation, Integration of technology and Intelligence with AI

Big data, including routinely collected healthcare data, can answer clinically meaningful questions. Prof Claire Steves explains how data helped address the challenges older patients faced in the pandemic and its aftermath at #EUGMS2025

A packed auditorium at the EUGMS for Emerging Diagnostics and the Aging Brain

Excited to be @EUGMS conference in Reykjavik. Mixing light, amazing architecture, and Big Data…….

Learning about the @nihrexeterbrc.bsky.social and the breadth of support for clinical academic career development across the South West

The UK Health Security Agency reported that another baby died of whooping cough earlier this summer. These diseases, and the tragedy they cause, are real. We cannot make them relics of the distant past……..unless we vaccinate. Vaccination protects us all.

www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/ke...

Excited to be at SWAIH

🧠📉 The 'pivot penalty' in science

A new study in @nature.com finds scientists get cited less after switching research fields – the bigger the shift, the steeper the drop.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/d415...

#SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪

‘Borborygmi’ - a medical word I never knew! I think I’ll have a biscuit now…….

After four decades of neglect we have finally renovated the Dolls House. I might move in…..

Something to inspire as we celebrated International Women’s Day this week.

Yay! First daffodils. Hello
Spring

We are thrilled to announce that Adilia Warris, joint theme Lead at the NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Read more here 👇

tinyurl.com/yhvzheme