pharmacists are great. no question. but the idea that 'minor illness' can always be separated from major or what will be ongoing needs are not true. Additionally, 'minor illness' is often the way that people get to know their GP; builds relationships, and creates trust;

Establish David Attenborough Day on 8th May - Sign the Petition! c.org/4tXVdDRT2n via @UKChange

This is an absolute disgrace. In 2026, is the GMC fit for purpose?

‘Respair’ is a word recorded just once in the OED. It means ‘fresh hope’, a recovery from despair. I wish the world and the Church and human hearts everywhere respair in the new year. @thetimes @guardian @ChurchTimes @churchofengland

It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on improved palliative, social and end-of-life care theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Great opportunities for values in postgraduate medical education research #MedEd #medicaleducation @ED4MEDPRAC

Dear @David_Cameron I know you mean well, but unfortunately screening for early disease may sound logical and sensible but can also be ineffective and harmful. Recommending a bad test leads to false reassurance, and harms through unnecessary or ineffective treatment that only /

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How can we move from accumulation to abundance? What's the relationship between money & spirituality? We've come to the end of this week's "Daily Meditations," exploring these questions. Revisit highlights from our meditations with today's weekly summary. buff.ly/CIvDLvV

I'm inspired by my colleague @brianmclaren's words in today's "Daily Meditations." He writes: "We are free to understand Jesus as more than a prophet, but we should never understand him as less." Join us this week as we explore Jesus as a prophet. buff.ly/SYYVrAf

This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week. I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding. This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need. In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric. @CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's. Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are). These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government. So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices. I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye. So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting. We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch? Thank you @channel4news for covering this story. #palliativecare #hospicecare #NHS

Lucy Winkett (a priest in the ⁦@dioceseoflondon, so knows about her leadership style⁩) writes about ⁦@bishopSarahM⁩’s appointment as #ArchbishopofCanterbury. ⁦@OfficeofABC⁩

As the CNC is said to be meeting this week, here is my advice for what we need desperately from a new Archbishop: trust the people and clergy on the ground; let go of the power to control what they do and how they do it; show that they are loved. thecritic.co.uk/biscuit-crum…

Jesus, as a teacher, largely talked about what was real and what was unreal, what was temporary and what would last—and therefore how we should live inside of reality. It required humility and honesty much more than education. buff.ly/lW3LFra

Celebrating our founder Della Fish, on what would have been her 82nd Birthday. linkedin.com/posts/the-della…

"When the dark night descends on the soul, its radiance blinds the intellect. She can no longer formulate concepts; she doesn’t even want to. It is tempting to consider this inability to engage the intellect as a failing." —Mirabai Starr #DailyMeditations tinyurl.com/yavzexv2

Palliative care is an important part of good vascular care. So Many of our patients have end of life conditions.

.@BrianMcLaren asks: "What if Easter was about our ongoing resurrection 'in Christ' — in a new humanity marked by a strong-benevolent identity as Christ-embodying peacemakers, enemy lovers..., boundary crossers, and movement builders?" #DailyMeditations tinyurl.com/k6sv6fv3

Compassion fatigue. Moral distress when healthcare workers know the right thing to do, but can’t do it because of the everyday constraints of staffing, policy and time. myemail.constantcontact.com/…

‘The ground is level at the foot of the cross…’ Pen and watercolour on paper