Catherine Pope
Professor of Medical Sociology, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford
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If you've cancelled your Washington Post or NY Times subscription but HAVEN'T subscribed to an independent news media organization - consider doing that today. Some options: @propublica.org, @theappeal.org, @thenarwhal.ca, @404media.co, your local public radio or independent newspaper. - Reposted by Catherine PopeBrilliant letter from the Fawcett Society CE, Penny East. About ALL THIS SHIT. us5.campaign-archive.com?e=7cf967225b...
- Reposted by Catherine PopeLocal residents removed 8 flags hung around Oxford last night in response to an organised campaign from a group calling themselves the ’Raise the Colours Oxford’, who brought activists from the Midlands and Sheffield to ‘make Oxford look patriotic’
- I was privileged to see Cabaret at the Kennedy Centre in 2017. It was spectacular, wondrous, provoking, and, now it seems, sadly prescient* of what was to come. I hope one day to return, when the abomination is long gone, and those misplaced extra letters in front of the name have been removed.
- *chilling note in one of the reviews here dctheaterarts.org/2017/07/15/r.... "Beneath the surface, of course, Cabaret is another story, a tale of a country spiraling downward – defeated by war and economic depression – while fascism, in the form of the Nazis, is on the rise."
- Reposted by Catherine PopeThe killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeGov. Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the street, or the side of a nurse for a VA hospital who died bearing witness to such government?"
- Reposted by Catherine PopeCongratulations to our Primary Care Medical Education team on achieving Sustainable Quality Improvement Beacon Site Status from the @sushealthcare.bsky.social – an international recognition of leadership in sustainable medical education. Read more: f.mtr.cool/zfaazmjptu
- Nice to see this important research by colleagues @oxprimarycare.bsky.social getting some coverage.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeGreat to see our Citizens' jury paper add to the understanding of how best to widen engagement in the development of orphan drugs @cjpope.bsky.social
- Reposted by Catherine Pope🎧Governing Body Fellow Catherine Pope @cjpope.bsky.social joins a panel of leading ethnographers in the latest Thinking In Between podcast to explore how ethnography shapes health and social care research. Listen now 👇https://open.spotify.com/episode/72Vffh8ycM8a4qhXRONoyG?si=d52b3b763aaf4268
- Reposted by Catherine PopePowerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
- Reposted by Catherine PopeRCEM has backed a new statement from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges calling for urgent action to protect and grow clinical research across the NHS. rcem.ac.uk/news/rcem...
- Reposted by Catherine PopeCovid bereaved call for Boris Johnson to lose ex-PM benefits over inquiry report
- Reposted by Catherine PopeToday, as the #CovidInquiry releases its module 2 report, we are thinking especially of everyone who will have to relive the trauma of that time, who will have to hear of the government failings that led to their loved ones' deaths. We will never forget our beloved dead. ❤️
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- Reposted by Catherine PopeLast chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
- Our paper about GP access is out now (TLDR patients and receptionists are engaged in a quest to get the prize of an appointment but are thwarted by digital barriers and practice systems) doi.org/10.1111/1467... #NIHR @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
- Reposted by Catherine PopeWell done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...
- gonna need a big apology... I've been angry since #Thatcher Tories need a leader who can say sorry - on.ft.com/3KA8bmR via @FT
- @petescarbs.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I vote we have Sosajis and Bwerger's....🌭🍔😀
- Reposted by Catherine PopeMy thoughts on job advisers in GP surgeries. As you might guess, I'm not a fan. Will make anxious patients worse. How about incentivising employers instead of telling patients to try harder.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeA rapid reponse to my article: 'Despite our practice putting in 6 months of work to prepare for the roll out the coverage in the national press has led to overwhelming demand which has pushed us to the limits of safer capacity. Patients have to read and acknowledge a warning about not using..1/2
- At #RCGP25 - inspired by plenary about #kindness in health care. Mum's GP did all this when mum was dying. Not sure my family have experienced any of this in the last few years. 😢
- Reposted by Catherine PopeFuck. Ing. Hell.
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- Reposted by Catherine PopeThe politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
- Reposted by Catherine PopePubMed is in trouble This is beyond bad for medical research pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Reposted by Catherine PopeLancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya) by Richard Horton bit.ly/3IPC0PD
- Reposted by Catherine PopeThree more days to wait, and our new album Ricordanze will grace the airwaves and the internet! In the meantime, here's a comprehensive interview with Robert Hugill to pique your curiosity about our #nuntastic project. www.planethugill.com/2025/09/one-...
- What an awesome event and line up...
- Thanks to @oliwilliams.bsky.social @tomshakespeare.bsky.social and everyone else who contributed to this weeks qualtiative symposium and for giving us much to think about arc-swp.nihr.ac.uk/news/reflect...
- Reposted by Catherine PopeThis week, I’ve secured £20 million for neighbourhoods in Millbrook and Redbridge, through Labour's Pride In Place fund. 💸 Even better, local people will decide how to spend it. 🎉 What would you prioritise? 🙋🏾♀️
- Horrific and damning evidence from the war zone medics. #BMJ "resulting injury profiles resembled those reported in combat settings among trained military personnel, highlighting the burden of trauma among civilians in #Gaza." www.bmj.com/content/390/...
- Why aren't we doing cutting edge emergency stroke care (thrombectomy)? We asked healthcare professionals. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9... (part of #NIHR Optimist/SPEEDY trial) @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @newcastleuni.bsky.social @ouhospitals.bsky.social @rdm.ox.ac.uk
- Reposted by Catherine Pope"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do." Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action www.bmj.com/content/390/...
- Reposted by Catherine PopeThere's a reason why they want to invent a cause of autism. It's the same reason they want to claim they have a cure. It's to remove any emotional or legal obligations to care for or accommodate autistic people
- Thank you @london.gov.uk Sadiq Khan for your continued dignity and for role modelling decency and moral values.
- All this talk of the Rapture reminded me of this 1956 social psychology classic: When Prophecy Fails by Festinger, Riecken and Schachter. Their 5 conditions /reasons why people hold onto beliefs also seem helpful for our current times .... 1/2
- Especially ...the importance of having a social group who support the belief system. ...'Without the group an individual might be unable to resist the pressure to abandon their belief in the face of disconfirming facts'
- This. Well said @nisreenalwan.bsky.social (We have made the wider context more unequal for 20 years. Shouting at the victims that it's their fault ain't gonna fix it)
- Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeLeaving aside optics of attending at any time an event hosted by industry that does so much to create misery, transferring billions from the poor and desperate to billionaires, Rachel Reeves’ decision to do so ahead of a budget seriously questions her judgment www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Looks like me and @jjn1.bsky.social are both re-reading our Gramsci. I'm inclined to agree that this feels like the interregnum, and am wondering how much worse it can get - the birth pains of the new are becoming unbearable observer.co.uk/news/columni...
- Reposted by Catherine PopeI’m at yet another conference (this time in 🇨🇭) where a plenary speaker (African) is absent because he couldn’t get a visa. This is a disgrace. And it’s a direct consequence of the pathetic failure by our cowardly politicians to challenge racism.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeIn London, hate will never win.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeWhat’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeWe must unite against those who seek to divide us.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeThe ever-impressive @iandunt.bsky.social speaks for many of us.* * It looks like things might be starting to change at the top of the Govt since this was filmed.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeEncountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
- Reposted by Catherine PopeA page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeDelighted to see our Analysis piece on Ambient Scribes published @cjpope.bsky.social We call for more research and urge GPs to use this #AI tech with diligence
- @lescarr.bsky.social it's like they heard you...spooky
- The perils of vibe coding on.ft.com/41nzwy3 | opinion
- "The art of all truly great national leaders at all times consists in not dividing the attention of a people but in concentrating it upon a single foe." Adolf Hitler 1925. The Farage (& Trump's) playbook is 'Look "small boats" "migrants"!' Some of us have read the history. We know how this ends.
- Taken at the Auschwitz not long ago not far away exhibition at ROM, Toronto. www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/exh...
- Reposted by Catherine PopeTrump's termination of federal grants for universities has jeopardized lifesaving research breakthroughs at Harvard Medical School — including treatments for cancer and developmental disorders. His attacks on higher education will hurt us all.
- Reposted by Catherine PopeThis week's @thelancet.com cover and editorial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- From the fiercely brilliant @chrischirp.bsky.social - her update on #authoritarianism "America was the world’s foremost scientific superpower. No longer". open.substack.com/pub/christin.... Chilling. Essential reading. #StandUpForScience
- Reposted by Catherine PopeThe evidence for more 20mph zones ⤵️ ✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3 ✔️ Protect children ✔️ Reduce crashes ✔️ Lower noise ✔️ Boost walking & cycling
- Reposted by Catherine PopeLetter of the day (in the Times)
- Reposted by Catherine PopeThis weekend we were proud to join fellow trade unionists at #Tolpuddle2025. A powerful reminder of our history and why we fight on. ✊
- Reposted by Catherine PopeReading these together: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r... & www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
- Hear hear! And Oxford UK based folk do come along next Tuesday 15 July at 1830 to hear all about these arguments from Emily M Bender @ Blavatnik School of Government (message me for details)
- Reposted by Catherine PopeNew paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- They took their time .... And they created unnecessary misery and confusion with their previous ill thought through statements. Next we need to reform all the poorly worded equality legislation to make it fit for a world that can be brave enough to embrace diversity and inclusion. #EHRC #Equality
- BREAKING: the EHRC has formally abandoned its contention that employers need to provide single sex toilets. goodlaw.social/4npg
- Reposted by Catherine PopeOxford trying out a congestion charge is worth a shot in 2025 I am quite honestly fed up with the negativity and hypocrisy around it. It's time to make the positive case 👇 [10 minutes and a ☕ may be needed] cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/from-city-...
- Looking at what's happening with #PalestineAction and thinking about how successive governments have suppressed (largely) peaceful protest. Recalling what they did to #UKuncut and #Greenpeace. How did we get here? www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme....
- Reposted by Catherine PopeReally enjoyed giving my inaugural lecture at @education.ox.ac.uk this evening! Good to share work that I’ve been doing with @johannawaters.bsky.social over the past few years on post-Brexit student mobilities Thanks to everyone who came along - in person or online 😊
- More Dipex international conference - Lisa Zuidema from Netherlands, researching menstruation, pain and shame. Linking with Sharon Dixon to do some exciting cross country analysis. @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
- Dr Sharon Dixon at Dipex international reflecting on being a medical doctor and (genuinely lovely) human, trying to research the experiences of young people and period pain. @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
