Dido Harding: 🔹Has zero public health expertise 🔹Heads the Serco-led test & trace debacle 🔹Is a Tory peer 🔹Is married to a Tory MP who wants the NHS dismantled Appointing her to lead a national public health institute is pure, unabashed cronyism. bbc.com/news/uk-politi…

My word, this is rotten. Matt Hancock made much of awarding £60k compensation to families of heath & care workers who died from Covid. It turns out low income families awarded the lump sum will therefore be stripped of their benefits. Truly a new low 😔 theguardian.com/society/2020/a…

What a heartbreaking, wretched, unforgivable milestone 😔 theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…

Please help us spread the word - we would love to speak to people aged 65+ from ethnic minority backgrounds for this new project 👇

You can call the Macmillan Cancer Support support line for free on 0808 808 0000, any time 8am-8pm 💚

POLL: Vote for your all-round performance of week 8: - Ben Seeley (Edenfield) 79 & 5/44 - Umar Patel (Deane & Derby) 131 & 6/63 - Joseph Aston (Greenfield 4s) 115 & 3/16 - Josh Dickin (Europa Flowery Field) 107 & 4/17 Edenfield CC DEANE & DERBY C.S.C. Greenfield Cricket Flowery Field CC

This is an outstanding result Manchester Metropolitan Uni and provides an excellent springboard for our new Institute of Sport Manchester Met Institute of Sport which starts life as 94% world-leading and internationally excellent 👏

We’re so #McrMetProud of our #REFResults! In sport, we’re 6th in the UK for the power of our research, with 95% of our outputs being world-leading or internationally excellent.

What a heady last few days! To achieve 6th/61 submissions for research power in the ‘Sport & Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism’ unit of assessment is just fantastic! #REFResults #UoA24, @MMU_MSSM, MMU Research & Innovation , Manchester Met Institute of Sport

Another nugget of exciting result for UoA24 here at #teamManMet is that just over 94% of our outputs are rated as internationally excellent (~55%) or World leading (~39%)… @MMU_MSSM, MMU Research & Innovation , Manchester Met Institute of Sport

I am delighted to be joining Manchester Metropolitan University from next week as Professor of Children & Families and to head up a new Institute. It’s very exciting! I’m grateful to MMU for their warmth and enthusiasm, and I can’t wait to get going! mmu.ac.uk/research/news-…

A fantastic opportunity to study for a PhD at Newcastle University. You can list up to three projects in your covering letter. Why not take a look at Theme 2 project b? research.ncl.ac.uk/nudmtdtp/ @AdmissionCollab Miles Witham AGE Research Group

Excellent presentation from Jenna💙 on creative methods of involving Patient & Public representatives

ART Network co-lead Prof Rachel Cooper talking to our ECR workshop about working together across discplines #interdisciplinarity

Thanks for attending the dynamic #MLTCResearch workshop #SAPC2023 watch this space for next steps 👀 MLTC-M Clinical Community of Practice GEMINI

We’re excited to announce that our qualitative study on hospital care for people with multiple long-term conditions ADMISSION-QUAL is now recruiting! Find out more at bit.ly/3YgLgj2

Thanks to Dr Sue Bellass 💙 for a fantastic presentation to our Programme Management Group and early career researchers on planned research with the Mass Observation Project that will enhance our understanding of lived experiences of MLTC complementing other work within ADMISSION

📢Delighted to announce we’ve been successful in another year of funding. Thanks to UK Research and Innovation. Looking forward to working with you all to continue driving forward translational ageing research 🎉

Great to hear from Anand TN and Ewan Pearson at our @Admissioncollab Programme Management Group meeting today - sharing progress on understanding mechanisms underpinning MLTC using genetic epidemiology and omics data

How is care for multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) experienced in settings designed to treat single diseases? We review qualitative research on hospital care for MLTC in our new paper rb.gy/6bpvu8 BMC Medicine AGE Research Group Dr Sue Bellass 💙