Dr Jo Maher NHS GP
GP partner Foundry PCN https://www.foundrypcn.co.uk
Physical Activity Clinical Champion Sheffield https://www.movemoresheffield.com movingmedicine.ac.uk/pacc/
Trustee Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social
Partner @cwjoneschris.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThis realist review examines the organisational- & system-level factors affecting GPs in their work and proposes recommendations to support a sustainable GP workforce and the delivery of effective and equitable patient care doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @emilyowenboukra.bsky.social @sophiepark.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPNEW POD EPISODE! 🚨 2026: the Journey so Far. @adamtranter.bsky.social @nedboulting.bsky.social and @lauralaker.bsky.social discuss local politics in the run up to the May elections, Ned's trip to India, and learnings from New York mayor Zohran Mamdani (& other mayors) shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPBrilliant letter from the Fawcett Society CE, Penny East. About ALL THIS SHIT. us5.campaign-archive.com?e=7cf967225b...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPIn this episode of the @bmj.com Medicine and Science podcast, @hughalderwick.bsky.social and @luisaptg.bsky.social discuss patient experiences of accessing primary care in England and what they mean for the 10-Year Health Plan. Listen now ⬇️ thebmjpodcast.podbean.com/e/bmj-jan-30...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPGreat @bmj.com podcast thebmjpodcast.podbean.com/e/bmj-jan-30... featuring the mighty @hughalderwick.bsky.social and @luisaptg.bsky.social talking about our paper on experiences of access to general practice and the 10 year plan. www.bmj.com/content/392/...
- open.substack.com/pub/davetris... Excellent article by @davetriska.bsky.social everyday GP is about containment, not solving health & the myriad other problems with a small dose of care
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPI led this! Please read news on "The Bristol Declaration" = massive transport + health impact. www.fph.org.uk/news/bristol... Thanks @fphuk.bsky.social @rsph.bsky.social @transporthealth.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social Please share! @livingstreets.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPBitterly disappointing that the UK has lost its Measles elimination status again. "UN health body says Britain is one of six countries in Europe and central Asia where disease has become re-established"
- Fellow @livingstreets.bsky.social Trustee and NHSE Director of Public Health Sarah Price talks through The Four Ways Forward Well worth a listen! #Movingmedicine podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
- ‘Harnessing the benefits of physical activity’ new report from NHSE: shout out for PACC program, Moving Medicine for empowering clinicians to have conversations on activity, 4 ways forward #activetravel gets a mention in supporting NHS workforce www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/publ...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPTimeline cleanse from Ynys Llanddwyn #YnysMôn for St Dwynwen’s Day 25th January and the Welsh patron saint of love and lovers 🏴❤️
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPRise and shine, it's the final day of #BigGardenBirdwatch! Remember, you can still take part even if you haven't signed up. Help us spread the word: share this post, text someone, or tell the whole table over your Sunday roast. The more data we get, the better 🧑🔬
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPWith MPs warning that England's child vaccination strategy is failing and children being put at risk of life threatening diseases is a “national disgrace", it's time to repost this feature I did for @bmj.com last year on the role of NHS inflexibility in declining uptake www.bmj.com/content/389/...
- Fascinating watching effect of montjaro, we are noticing high incidence of sciatica - maybe from reduced core strength with loss of muscle mass? To what benefit??
- New research shows people who stop weight-loss jabs can regain weight up to four times faster than those stopping diet and exercise. The study, co-led by Academy Fellow Prof Susan Jebb OBE FMedSci at @ox.ac.uk, highlights the risks of short-term approaches to obesity treatment. 🧵
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThe school run is the #1 source of school carbon emissions, outweighing heating and electricity, according to a new report from Eco Schools and @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social 💨🌿 Walking and wheeling to school reduces pollution and cuts down on chaos at the school gates - it's a win-win!
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GP'I have learnt that an individualised approach to physical activity promotion, targeting those who are least active, is most effective.' Bonar McGuire looks at the link between physical activity and the 10 Year Health Plan. bit.ly/4aWkvcb
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPPainter Georgia O'Keeffe with her pet cat #womensart
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThere over 6200 Neighbourhood Centres in England Invest and you will ‘Bring back the family Doctor’ GPs need a new GP contract with funding to provide the care that patients need
- Let’s really ‘Bring back the Family Doctor’ Wes Streeting with a real patient focused contract & real funding to make it happen Patients want to see GPs & GPs want to see patients Your GP, here for you - time to make it happen, it’s in your hands dauk.org/our-call-for...
- pulsepcn.co.uk/insight/how-... Thank you Pulse Magazine, good article on Physical Activity Clinical Champions
- Well done Kay you were brilliant ! 👏🏽 listen back ⬇️ @activetravelcaf.bsky.social @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk @livingstreets.bsky.social
- TODAY: We are delighted that Kay Inckle, our Campaigns and Policy Manager will be speaking about the latest edition of our Guide to Inclusive Cycling at the Active Travel Cafe. @activetravelcaf.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPPublished in #BMJ, brilliant, startling exposition from Montori et al of our dystopic future as surveillance capitalism invades health care. Depicts how patients & clinicians are unable to know who is listening to their consultations, who is using their data & to what end www.bmj.com/content/391/...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPSee the coverage: ➡️ BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ➡️ Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Read the full paper in @bmj.com: ➡️ www.bmj.com/content/392/... We’re proud to see Academy Fellows like Prof Jebb help shape public understanding of treatments through evidence-based research.
- ⬇️ Evidence catching up with what we see out in the wild. I look after people who 20+ years ago had bariatric surgery & I can think of only one who has not put all the weight back on. If #NHS really wanted to reduce morbid obesity, investment should be in mental health, not GLP-1
- New research shows people who stop weight-loss jabs can regain weight up to four times faster than those stopping diet and exercise. The study, co-led by Academy Fellow Prof Susan Jebb OBE FMedSci at @ox.ac.uk, highlights the risks of short-term approaches to obesity treatment. 🧵
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPNew powers for councils to enforce against pavement parking don't go far enough. Officials will be allowed to define what constitutes "unnecessary obstruction" when parking on the pavement, creating a postcode lottery. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp80l…
- Tidying up on a dreary day yesterday with Zeph the cat found an up to date map of Ireland which is handy, off to Dingle in March! #caturday
- More boxing in the news! 🥊
- Meet Warren, an occupational therapist at Oxleas NHS using non-contact boxing to support people’s mental health. 🥊💚 His charity, Off The Ropes, helps people build confidence, purpose and wellbeing through meaningful activity. Read more: loom.ly/HERfNHQ #OTWeek25 #RightTimeOT
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPEcclesall Woods, Sheffield, in the snow today. I never cease to marvel that we have such a place within our city.
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPGiant director tells of inspiration behind Prince Naseem Hamed film newsbeep.com/au/222458/ Growing up above a corner shop in the Sheffield suburb of Wincobank, Naseem Hamed rose from humble beginnings…
- www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Wincobank in the news, Giant-new filum about Brendan Ingle & Prince Naseem Tara - Brendan’s youngest daughter, a champion of his values of community, support for each other and being active Looking forward to seeing the movie by another local Rowan Athale
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPIn the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Brian Lewis about his memoir Last Collection in relation to my book of poems Little Piece of Harm. @petegreensolo.com @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @emmabolland.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/brian-lewi...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThe new Road Safety Strategy looks to reduce casualties by 65% by 2035. Wales reduced casualties on built-up roads by a huge 25% by implementing a default 20mph urban/village limit winning international road safety awards. Well done Wales for its leadership. www.20splenty.org/2026_for20sp...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GP20's Plenty and it could deliver 20% of the UK Gov's 10-year target of a 65% reduction in casualties in just 20 months.
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPSince 1986, 'Poems on the Underground’ has brought world-class poetry to millions of Tube customers, adding moments of reflection to daily journeys. TfL has announced a series of special events and publications to celebrate this 40th anniversary.
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPFifty million Brits had a Covid vaccine. The speed at which they were developed is one of the success stories of the last 25 years. Farage took to the airwaves today to say they were not real vaccines. This might be a popular view in the MAGA movement, but it's not where the British public is.
- 1st book finished in 2026 and it’s a cracker @rachelhewitt.bsky.social In Her Nature brilliantly written Lots of ideas & thoughts on women in nature, grief, history & the power of being outdoors. Thoroughly researched & thoughtful. Very good strong recommend @bedsidereading.bsky.social
- Well worth a listen well done @drguddisingh.bsky.social ! Hartlepool Tower Hamlets North Devon Featuring @michaelmarmot.bsky.social gave a big shout out speaking Sheffirld Children’s team today for PACC session #movingmedicine
- This one’s personal ❤️ After 18 months of hard work, #ThreeAgesofChild is finally out on BBC Radio 4! It’s a story of inequity, resilience, and why we must do better by our children. Listen, share, shout about it. Let’s make it impossible to ignore! 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Marmalade! 🍊 1st batch of the year seems to be a success. 👌🏽 Kitchen less sticky than previous years, due to using far more tea towels, a decent thermometer & funnel - not traditional by my dads method but otherwise I think he’d approve
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPFormer Royal Ballet principal dancer Deborah Bull is in the running to become the next speaker of the House of Lords. Read more 👇
- Great listen @dannydorling.bsky.social @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk + Arianne Shavisi Why we should talk to people with different views UK has 91% people who are not climate deniers- the highest % in the world. Parents should worry about bodies of water, peanuts, cars & roads not trees + more
- In our final podcast of 2025, geographer Danny Dorling, author of THE NEXT CRISIS, and philosopher Arianne Shahvisi look to the future to find out what we should be worried about and what we should do about it Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: lrb.me/ba9764 @versobooks.bsky.social
- Seamus watching David Attenborough Wild London with me, got quite excited by the peregrine falcons & parakeets !
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThe Owl and The Woodpecker by Brian Wildsmith Brian Lawrence Wildsmith was a British painter & children's book illustrator. He won 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for the wordless alphabet book ABC. In all his books, illustrations are always as important as the text.
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThe function of AI must not be to make the wealthiest people on Earth — Musk, Bezos, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Gates — even richer. This revolutionary technology must benefit ALL of humanity, not just the privileged few who own it.
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThis is really good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPTop read each month of 2025. Too many to choose otherwise(107 books this year) Loved discussing several of these on the podcast. Which have you read? Any thoughts?
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPBREAKING Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
- youtu.be/6rdPG6gEr6k Great start to 2026 in Sheffield Cathedral today, Hail Smiling Morn one of my favourites.After 6 weeks of practice we were in fine voice! Happy New Year, may yours be joyful, full of friends music dance song
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPNow this news has really made my day - very well deserved @felly500.bsky.social 🙌 www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/...?
- I agree with this @profdevisridhar.bsky.social we have malnourished patients eating 1/2 a MacMuffin breakfast or takeaway, Or drinking 1 pint of lager, not 3-4. GLP-1 may reduce weight and associated risk factors but it doesn’t improve nutrition & diet related disorders.
- www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Good listen & discussion on challenges of living with wildlife in urban areas, mention of swifts @cwjoneschris.bsky.social & badgers in cities, definitely a set not far from us in central #Sheffield with @rewildmystreet.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPLondon's cycleway #C3 #CS3 counter ran for 286 days this year, and recorded a total of 2,528,907 cycle journeys (Jan-start of Jul, late Sept-Dec). A full 365 day run-rate would have been 3,227,000, getting us well past an annual #3million for the first time. Happy 2026! bsky.app/profile/last...
- 31 Dec'25, morning o'clock, brass-monkey cold: > Victoria Embankment, #CS3Count, 917 cycle journeys counted so far this morning, 836,019 since the late September reboot. Over 750k journeys Oct/Nov/Dec, beating previous Q4s by 90+k! HNY 🎉 cc @cs3cs6count.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GP‘In addition to being a superb marketing tool, Doomerism is also an excellent distraction from the real-world harm being done by AI right here, right now.’ John Lanchester on the AI bubble. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThis was followed up with a recent Manchester Critical Mass ride. I used to be a regular pre-covid, but haven't been that often recently, so this was a nice change.
- ‘For all of our strengths and weaknesses as individuals, we ride together on the train, to places far and wide’ Public transport rightly fully getting prominence & importance in NYC
- Mamdani plans to take the oath of office on New Year’s Eve in a disused subway station beneath city hall… “It was a physical monument to a city that dared to be both beautiful and build great things that would transform working peoples’ lives,” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social said. Encouraging.
- www.adph.org.uk/2025/12/reco... Many congrats @felly500.bsky.social on your OBE! Well deserved. Thank you for all you do for Sheffield & putting up with the whinging! Photo with the mighty women of primary care in Sheffield & another honorary @michaelmarmot.bsky.social from Off The Shelf 2024
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPBea Lema, contemporary award winning Spanish cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart
- Merry Christmas from Comcord #parkrun in #Sheffield! a busy one, with a sea of Santas, elves, puddings, sprouts, reindeer…! #loveparkrun 💚🎄
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThe climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GP🧵1/ The Christmas @bmj.com is always an opportunity to use satire as a vehicle for serious health messaging. Borrowing from Jonathan Swift, I ask, if public health is to “work with industry,” why stop at alcohol and gambling? Why not go all the way… and collaborate with organised crime?
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPChristmas Still LIfe, 1908 by German Expressionist painter Gabrielle Münter #womensart
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPIn the last decade 21 countries have been able to grow economically while reducing emissions including Australia, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico & South Africa. US, Japan, Canada and most EU countries consistently achieved decoupling in the decades before & after 2015 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPRare Earth - transport. Cleaner, cheaper, faster www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Worth a listen Good reframing of common objections by Chris
- I’d put clean air policies at the top of this list
- Find out more and read the full list here 👇 www.rsph.org.uk/insights/the...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPEmma Haworth, contemporary UK painter known for her observations of parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPGermany shifts over 2 million e-bikes every year. France: over 500,000. Britain? It will be lucky to get to 150,000. Why? Because people need to feel safe to cycle, and that requires serious and sustained government support, which has not been forthcoming. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
- Well done Sheffield! Read more by @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social on the thriving volunteer communities tending our many green and blue spaces.
- Today's 🌳🚶🏽🦉🗞️post for #Sheffield - how #Volunteering makes #TheOutdoorCity with £2m+ / year of free labour - also #MuddyMother & lots more: open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPThe Innocents of Florence by Joseph Luzzi review – how abandoned babies spurred a flowering of Renaissance art The precarious, cruel but dazzling world of a foundling hospital is brought wonderfully to life by the author of Botticelli’s Secret Joseph Luzzi, a professor at Bard College in New...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPContemporary Ukrainian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPWhat's behind door No.1️⃣8️⃣ of the The EightyPercentMental advent calendar? ❄️🌲⛄🎁🧑🏿🎄 THE 100-HOUR WEEK! For many, the 100-hour week is aspirational - an indicator of grind, dedication, and hustle. For others (like doctors and nurses) it's a sign of a (deliberately) broken system Either way, it's stupid
- One of my books of the year @kathyburke.bsky.social Mind Of My Own celebrated on well- funded & cost efficient public transport 🧡
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPToday is the @theguardian.com Charity Appeal telethon Call 0203 353 4368 to donate to charities bringing #hope thro positive human connections Donations will support @citizensuk.org @locality.org.uk Hope Unlimited Who Is Your Neighbour? And our work…. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPLooks like flu is wave is likely to be "normal bad" shifted earlier and not bigger this year after all. Latest hospital data came out this afternoon.
- And a lovely afternoon listening back @quietriotpod.bsky.social current fave politics pod great balance between light /shade hosts & guests all 👌🏽
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPHad another lovely afternoon recording this great little podcast. Enjoy! 🥳👇
- NEW EPISODE: The space between peace and war ☠️ Europe's choice on Ukraine: be galvanised or paralysed 😎 How spies are waging their own war on us 🧞 Inevitable pantomime references 🎧 SPOTIFY open.spotify.com/episode/1Qn9... 🍏 APPLE podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... @annettedittert.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPLet’s go back to 2010! We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….
- Reposted by Dr Jo Maher NHS GPWe actually released a short film which explores some of these intersections. Check it out. youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A?...
