john williams

life sciences, systems, neuroscience,mental hlth, wine,gardens,gargoyles, wales may intrude. I cross boundaries. Speaking in my own voice. @johnhuww.bsky.social

[john williams @wi_john]

@AlanCarson15 Interesting, thanks for sharing.

[john williams @wi_john]

“The therapy a patient receives after stroke is the most important determinant of how well they recover: will they be dependent on others or able to fend for themselves? Yet what most patients receive is grossly inadequate,” https://t.co/nRoAW2YETC

[Alan Carson @AlanCarson15]

@wi_john There are models of care that work. In SE Scotland all admitted tbi across network hospitals transferred to neurosciences & managed bewteen neurosurgeons and mdt led by neurology/ neuropsychiatry with approximately 3 hours therapy per day- rehab whilst plasticity window is open

[john williams @wi_john]

If only I’d done this I might have been more successful!😂

Lunch-break Botox: executives turn to ‘tweakments’ to get ahead

“clients want “to feel that their outward appearance reflects their capability and energy”,
https://t.co/8WGWp3j5tE

[john williams @wi_john]

“What we now realise is that a majority of those patients have got cognitive changes that haven’t been picked up,”

“There’s an invisible disability. It affects their relationships, their employment and they get into trouble with the police.”

[john williams @wi_john]

“It’s not just stroke rehabilitation that’s in trouble. Care for TBI is also badly neglected”

“Many such patients are discharged within a couple of weeks. Superficially, they seem better:they can walk & talk. But often,important problems are simply not spotted”

[Richard Sloggett @rcsloggett]

Interestingly, strong support for public/private sector working in the NHS according to this poll. Which also shows that voter appetite for any further tax rises to fund public services has run out of steam (this NHS tax fatigue aligns with our polling from last year)

[john williams @wi_john]

Link to the report which is wide ranging and damming.

https://t.co/NvmmA1vh5r

[john williams @wi_john]

“The committee on Wednesday said its findings were not “ideologically motivated or driven by concerns about the quality of [Palantir’s] products”. https://t.co/lAb8jt7mYh

[john williams @wi_john]

Little is written about the companies who can provide comparable functionality and who presumably can tick the “values” box. Do they exist?

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

"Our software has helped... the NHS to deliver 110,000 operations that would not otherwise have happened."

CEO of Palantir UK Louis Mosley responds to MPs who say that the UK is too dependent on the American data giant.

[john williams @wi_john]

What happens when heat pump installations go wrong: “Industry professionals say the main culprit is a regulatory system that has certified installers who are not all up to the task of delivering the results customers pay for.” https://t.co/ypiJKKqWWL

[john williams @wi_john]

“Girolami said the lab was going to be a prototype for “what the UK is going to require” from AI research. The lab aims to be commercially driven but research focused, exploring the use of the technology in complex organisational problems.”

https://t.co/e9cIArDbvl

[john williams @wi_john]

Amidst the palpable bragging I can recommend the graphic novel version !

Funny and full of sex: why you should read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | The Guardian https://t.co/LU27V3icfn

[Research Fortnight @ResFortnight]

UKRI lacks ‘heft and punch’, Peter Mandelson told Patrick Vallance.

Disgraced former US ambassador pushed for more ministerial direction at national funder, new documents show.
https://t.co/OxKzl2YnG0

[APSM Rugby Channel 🏉 @ApsmRugby]

1986 Colin Watkins
Llanelli vs Ebbw Vale, Stradey Park
8 February 1986 (24-22)

[Richard Sloggett @rcsloggett]

Health policy is exactly like this. We'll cut waiting lists, while shifting care out of hospitals, bringing back the family doctor and delivering prevention all at the same time with the same money.....Hooray!(1/3)

[john williams @wi_john]

“here was someone who had become a minister of state, but whose first thought about a place that is a hub for both financial services & the life sciences — 2 sectors at the heart of Britain’s comparative advantage economically—is that it is too “corporate” https://t.co/Epd6MNSZ0e

[Dr David Nicholl @djnicholl]

I wrote this paper over 10years ago, it’s STILL true.

The medical history is key, don’t knock the skills involved in taking it.

AI doesn’t solve this.

https://t.co/gG88j16EIP

[Roy Lilley 💙 @RoyLilley]

Senior civil servants, NHS leaders and the organisations who represent them should have said; ‘Woha… slow down… lets plan this.’
Instead they didn’t want to risk their jobs, their status and their need to be ‘in the tent’, so they fawned and complied. https://t.co/xQpp0fAwvv