Christine McCourt

Professor of Maternal Health @ City University London

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

If Polanski was accepting big donations from corporations & foreign donors,denying climate change, spent his youth goose stepping & bullying Jews or was currently supporting genocide he’d be getting an easier ride from our media.I don’t know what to do with that, it’s just sick.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are…

Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.

[City St George's, University of London @CityStGeorges]

💬 Pull, Not Push: Collaboration and Governance for High-Impact Digital Education

Professor Baba Sheba’s Inaugural Lecture will focus on the journey and ideas behind years of high-impact digital education transformation.

🗓️ Wednesday 29th April

➡️ https://t.co/H9zjJVGWHK

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

BOARD OF PEACE - Season 1

[Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney]

here's ANOTHER paper demonstrating why continuity of care matters... and why searching for quick access comes at a cost. Waiting a little bit longer for someone who knows you, and who will follow up with you may be better all round https://t.co/YjNUMNPeGI

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

New BMJ Research: Exposure to sugar rationing in first 1000 days after conception and long term cardiovascular outcomes.

Early life sugar restriction was associated with lower risks of myocardial infarction, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and stroke
https://t.co/YaPoPwrtMU

[Milli Hill @millihill]

Breastfeeding seems to cause specialised immune cells to flood into the breasts and stay there for years or even decades, reducing the risk of cancer.
https://t.co/JxP13VDCGs

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

New BMJ Research: Restricted sugar intake during early life is linked to lower risks of several heart conditions in adulthood, including heart attack, heart failure, and stroke, finds study using data from the end of UK sugar rationing in 1953
https://t.co/YaPoPwrtMU

[Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney]

Fragmenting care costs more+ lower quality care. meantime qualified GPs can't get jobs in practices (complex but increased costs of running practices, underfunding /instability). far better to invest in stable core NHS GP (and read evidence on walk in services!)

[Christine McCourt @ProfMcCourt]

@mgtmccartney I just would submit an article elsewhere

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Farage’s plan to scrap indefinite leave could collapse the NHS…

Which would be incredibly good news for someone wanting us to move to an ‘insurance based system’

FYI the average American pays £480 per month for private healthcare

Please wake up folks.

[ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ ғᴏʀᴍᴇʀʟʏ ᴋɴᴏᴡɴ ᴀꜱ ᴀ.ʏ. @tafkaay]

@owenjonesjourno Blood on their hands now.

Can’t wash that off.

- Macbeth Act 2, scene 2, lines 55–61.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“I have not betrayed my people. It is they who have betrayed the tenets of Judaism, which were always full of compassion.”

Actor Miriam Margolyes denounces Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, sharing she has lost friends and family members over her outspoken views.

[Christine McCourt @ProfMcCourt]

@JonathanPieNews My mother was 56 when she lost her job in 1981. Was never able to get another despite trying anything advertised & approaching places. The local housing estate became overrun with heroin problems. Entire areas of unemployment and enormous psychological damage as well as poverty.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

In November, I expressed my concern that the Assisted Dying Bill could not provide adequate safeguards against abuse and social coercion.

I am still not satisfied - and that is why I voted against this legislation.

[Lizzi Green 🌈 @LizziGreen2]

I’m genuinely shocked that this incredibly ill thought law has succeeded. When I worked in a hospice, we had to fundraise approximately £10,000 a day to keep it fully functioning. To see this bill succeed before palliative care is fully funded and available is almost unbelievable.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

.@kimleadbeater you are misleading the House before today’s vote. You know the Royal College of Psychiatry - the experts in capacity & coercion - has explicitly opposed your bill. It breaks my heart that you would use a sleight of hand to mislead MPs and the public in this way.

[Christine McCourt @ProfMcCourt]

@birthandbiology @TheBMA It’s almost as though they haven’t read the actual judgement but o my some news headlines or social media comments. It severely misrepresents it and I fail to see how that helps anyone.

[Christine McCourt @ProfMcCourt]

Have had (more than) enough of Twitter/x. Bad for mental health, democracy, peace, humanity. I’m not a very active social media user anyway but each user feeds the profits of a fascist. Going to use Bluesky Social if you want to follow me there.