Professor of Health Policy, University of York.

York, England
Joined May 2010
Tim Doran retweeted
We're interested in why #GPs choose to take up partnership roles (or choose not to). IF YOU ARE A GP PARTNER, what is the main reason you took on a partnership? #TeamGP please retweet
12%Stable working life
55%Able to shape practice
26%Better pay
7%Continuity of care
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A quick thread:
 A lot of people have asked me this week: Where did this ivermectin obsession come from? Who could possibly benefit from it? Most importantly, why did my antivaxx aunt start eating horse goo from the tractor store? It’s complicated, but here are some answers.
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Our latest paper takes a global view of the various causes of healthcare inequalities - The inverse care law re-examined - published in @TheLancet - with @RichardACookson @narodmit Indrani Gupta and Fiorella Parra Mujica - thelancet.com/journals/lance… #healthinequality
2 firsts, 1st paper deposited on medrxiv prior to acceptance medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… modelling excess #COVID19 led by @dataevan with @miqedup showing 10,000 excess non covid deaths, and 1st paper (with appendices close to 400 pages 😳 @AnastasiaSMihai @venkmurthy @ShrillaB
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Brilliant opening from BBC Newsnight. Watch. xitter.cf/ed_son/status/12480212…
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York talking heads on life, the universe and everything: thestoryofthings.podbean.com… @ProfKEPickett
Quantitative social scientists have written to the census authorities raising concerns about guidance for the 2021 census which advises respondents to answer the sex question in terms of their self-identified gender. thetimes.co.uk/article/censu…
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Get out of my city, you mediocre pseuds...
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Followed the final whilst travelling on a TGV to Basel. The indifference in this carriage is something to behold. xitter.cf/haveigotnews/status/11…
BREAKING: Ben Stokes appointed Prime Minister with immediate effect.
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BREAKING: Ben Stokes appointed Prime Minister with immediate effect.
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Fascinating new data from @ONS on inequality in life expectancy in England - shocking to see the extent of decline in female life expectancy for those living in deprived areas even as life expectancy continues to rise for the affluent: ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa… #Inequality
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Tricky graph for the colour blind, but I think you can still guess the odd one out.
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But probably won't...
Costly and time consuming @CQCProf inspections don’t improve quality - important new evidence that should prompt a serious review @thompa101 @pmw777 @1johnholden @LawtonRebecca @janekohara Hospital inspections 'bad for patients' telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04… via @telegraphnews
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You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means. RT @FiveThirtyEight: Ajax’s win was surprising. Manchester United’s was almost inconceivable. 53eig.ht/2SRPVVu
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"Anything that makes us briefly confused or makes our train of thought stumble will make an idea less believable." 53eig.ht/2TxqlJu
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People in the future may be too busy licking lichen from cave walls to care, but I take the point.
Depressing to see pictures of the empty benches in the House of Commons at last week's debate on climate change. This is far and away the most serious issue facing each one of us. People in the future will look at the low turn-out of MPs and despair.
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Filth infatuated.
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