Excited to announce the MAPS study will commence on 1st June - our mixed methods @NIHRresearch funded study of mental health admissions to general children’s wards. We will work with stakeholders including @NHSEngland @RCPCHtweets to study how to improve care for CYP.

Love @glastonbury. Such a brilliant range of artists. Just watching Rod Stewart, my Dad's favourite and looking forward to Olivia Rodrigo tonight with my kids. but from home in my living room where I can go to the loo when I want and grab a drink from the fridge. @BBC done.

"Integration" is a real buzz word - this article is spot on. The UK has never been integrated by region, age, background, accent or class. Immigration is one bit of it. We have always been a "nation of strangers" in lots of ways. We are split dependent on where we are born and.

Surge in expert from home economist opinions on the TV and radio right now are like epidemiologists and virologists were during the pandemic.

Congratulations to our MSc student, Sarah Eisenman on leading the publication of this paper from her thesis @JAdolesHealth @UCLPopHealthSci @UCLchildhealth .

We are looking for parents of children with #Arfid to interview about their experiences of physical health impacts on their children. This is my student's PhD project. Please retweet or DM me if you would like to be involved.

On the top shelf of my book case in my study, away from the reach of child hands looking for play with grubby hands, there sits my prize possession book. The Hunger Disease, a study of starvation by the Jewish physicians in the Warsaw ghetto. Now out of print it is a combined.

Pleased to announce that @katrinacathie and I will be co-leading an @NIHRresearch funded incubator project for research in general #paediatrics. We will be working with colleagues across the UK to enhance research capacity and developing research careers in this specialty.

RT @bmj_latest: The number of young people admitted to general wards in English hospitals for mental health problems rose by 65% in 2012-22….

Here's our paper @TheLancet @LancetChildAdol on numbers of CYP admitted to general wards (paeds and adult) of 5-18 year olds due to their mental health. Will do a commentary tomorrow on bit-by-bit findings. The great privilege has been working with young people and their.

Are you under 25 and had experience of being a young parent of a baby on special care or neonatal intensive unit? We are looking for advisors for our research, led by my PhD student, Megan. Please retweet!

Thanks to a grant @RosetreesT we are developing an evidence based, educational theory based approach to training general paediatric ward teams on how to manage acute mental health crises. We need stakeholders to tell us what it should look like: . 1. People with lived

An academic Halloween

RT @DrNighatArif: “Because when we are raped, we have shame, but it's not for us to be ashamed, but for those men”. “It's not for us to hav….