Lucy Pollock
Geriatrician who gets to write stories. Celebrating longevity, tackling delicate questions. She/her. linktr.ee/lucypollock #TheGoldenRule #TheBookAboutGettingOlder Proud patron @AgeUKSomerset
- Fab study @sonyabushell.bsky.social 👏👏👏👏👏
- This study suggests that #AdvanceCarePlanning may be well-received and could be discussed earlier with adults living with long-term conditions, before onset of advanced illness or severe frailty doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @sonyabushell.bsky.social @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social #PrimaryCare
- Reposted by Lucy PollockThis study suggests that #AdvanceCarePlanning may be well-received and could be discussed earlier with adults living with long-term conditions, before onset of advanced illness or severe frailty doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @sonyabushell.bsky.social @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social #PrimaryCare
- wordsinwatchet.com Fab new small but growing festival in Watchet - poetry nature fantasy games and more, and I’ll be talking interesting sad funny important stuff about #GettingOlder on Sat 21st Feb please share and come along, bring BF mum grandad son or neighbour!
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- Jeepers what did I say? 😝😝- I had a great time and learned lots thanks @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app
- Two brilliant books
- The level of #Frailty in #Cardiovascular trial participants isn’t always assessed w due care, so applicability to a wider popn isn’t as straightforward as some triallists would claim academic.oup.com/ageing/article… - editorial to accompany great study by Bousetta et al @emmavardy2.bsky.social
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- 🎄🎄🎄The most uplifting event of the season! It’s free, no ticket needed, donstions welcomed and a warm glow guaranteed www.ageuk.org.uk/somerset/act... 11am this Wednesday
- Reposted by Lucy PollockA new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards. Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer” www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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- Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...
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- @emmavardy2.bsky.social your name mentioned! We all need a shared care record like that used in Greater Manchester!
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- Whoohoo! Calling #Bristol and surrounding areas 🥳🥳 I’ll be @cliftonlitfest at 10.30 on Sunday 16th Nov talking useful happy sad important things worth knowing about #GettingOlder - pleased come, bring mum, grandad, best friend, son ❤️❤️🐘🐘❤️❤️
- Very exciting! I’m interviewing Prof @MasudHusain TOMORROW evening Monday 30th October @wellslitfest about his terrific book Our Brains Our Selves. Please come along! It’s a fascinating read ❤️📖🧠
- Hello bluesky!! Whoop whoop I love this! #TheGoldenRule published in China as #EnlightenOurTwilight with a beautiful foreword by geriatrician Dr Xinyu Chen. Beyond global politics more still unites us than divides us. Thank you @PenguinUKBooks @MichaelJBooks @Taffyagent 🥳🥳🥳
- Loved every minute of this. Super turn out and great questions - pills, AI, looking after someone at the end, loving life - and kisses! Really special thank you for inviting me xx
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- Reposted by Lucy PollockMy partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
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- Hugely looking forward to tomorrow Tuesday evening in Chorleywood (#BestBookshopEver) chilternbookshops.co.uk/events/categ... where we’ll talk happy sad funny helpful stuff 🥳❤️
- We had such a happy time recording this. And wow @juliasamuelmbe.blueskysocial is a wise and funny woman and I wish I’d listened more and talked less! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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- Reposted by Lucy PollockReform UK’s plans to obstruct green energy projects in Lincolnshire put at risk almost £1bn in local investment and more than 12,000 jobs, How many people analysed policies before voting for Reform, the party that also voted against worker rights.
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- Reposted by Lucy PollockA great moment for the Centre as we enjoy the inaugural lectures of both Prof Jennifer Lau and Prof Claudia Cooper, illustrating a range from youth mental health to dementia @qmul-wiph.bsky.social
- One very cheery geriatrician!! Paperback coming soon and it has fab reviews. I’m so happy! www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Rule-...
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- One of the best bookshops ever. I’m honoured to be invited!
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- I’m very excited about this - next Friday 9th at 10 am in Stratford upon avon - and I have 2 free tickets so please DM if you’d like them 🥳🥳https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/dr-lucy-pollock
- doi.org/10.1136/ejhp... Super article - drug errors cause so much harm but this is an optimistic article identifying ways to help - systems, tech, support for fallible humans 👏👏👏👏
- And 🥳 I’m very excited about this one - we’ll be looking at happy sad important stuff about #GettingOlder and what we can change right now. Plan A: stay young forever Plan B: come along to this one! www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/dr-lu...
- This is very exciting! We’re going to have a happy afternoon thinking about funny sad or important stuff - sometimes all 3 at once - about #GettingOlder and hearing from people who know what it’s all about 🥳❤️🐘❤️
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- We’re going to have a happy time - sharing information, shifting power. What does the next generation of professionals working with older people need to know? Come and tell them! ❤️🐘❤️🌱❤️📚
- Lots to think about . I hope we shall cast some light on implications of #AssistedDying Bill for patients families lawyers doctors and all of us as citizens
- podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... here’s an 18 min chat w Jonathan about statins in older people. Maybe you know someone like Mrs Evans …
- Whoohoo hope people like this one! It’s such a common subject and I hope we’ve done a bit of demystifying …
- @emmavardy2.bsky.social you’re so kind! talking about falls w fab Morning Live team from around 25 mins in 😁 ❤️🐘❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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