
Sarah Slight 🇺🇦
@sarahpslight
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Mother to three energetic children. Professor of Patient Safety and Digital Health. Newcastle University, UK. FRPharmS, PhD
Newcastle University
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I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
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130 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in Gaza this weekend. People are starving. Many were shot by the Israeli military while simply trying to get food. This is completely insane and unacceptable. No more U.S. military aid to Israel.
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17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance. And $3.5 trillion was added to the deficit. All for a tax cut for Trump’s billionaire donors. The ultimate betrayal.
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Over 100,000 people attended the Pride parade in Budapest, defying Orbán's ban. “This isn’t just about LGBTQ+ rights, it’s also about the right to assemble, about standing up for one another, and not allowing the government to oppress us,” one protester said.
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California will keep fighting on behalf of all our people including in the courts. If some of us can be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least
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“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber
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No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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11 and 8-year old PRODIGY SISTERS played Vivaldi Winter with me on the violin in Rome airport! They were SO CUTE AND AMAZING.. the whole airport loved it 😍.
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Was a pleasure presenting our research exploring underserved groups' perspectives on strategies to improve digital inclusion within healthcare at todays @HI_NENC digitial inclusion forum. @sarahpslight @RionaMcArdle @ClareLTolley @NCL_Pharmacy
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Many congratulations to Jude Heed and the team @NCL_Pharmacy who published another paper on the development of a simulation tool to support the evaluation of hospital e-prescribing (EP) systems. https://t.co/vefF0NNHwH
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cribing advice to users. We sought to evaluate the usability and acceptability of ePRaSE across different EP systems in England. Materials and Methods: NHS hospitals in England with live EP systems...
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Yesterday, after 34+ years of excellence in teaching & research, Dr Julian Knight gave his last organic chemistry lecture at Newcastle. Then this happened...😍 Thanks so much to Julian, and all the staff and students that turned out to wish him well in his retirement! #WeAreNCL
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A lesson in moral leadership and courage. Our government would do well to listen and learn.
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A pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.
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Our third and final research project presented by @Nehal_Hassan_ at the UK Public Health Sciences Conference today in Cardiff. We developed a risk score to predict health care utilisation when air quality is poor. @Nehal_Hassan_ led this work. Well done Nehal 👏👏👏 #NIHR
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One of our post-doc researchers @Nehal_Hassan_ presenting our second study at the UK Public Health Sciences Conference in Cardiff today. This project was led by Natasha Scott, an undergraduate MPharm student @NCL_Pharmacy #air pollution #communication #NIHR
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I am delighted to present our work on developing a risk score for healthcare utilisation prediction with poor air quality among multimorbid patients and air pollution information communication @UKPHSci @sarahpslight @NCL_Pharmacy
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One of our PhD students @sarahwilson99_ presenting her important work on advancing digital health equity at the UK Public Health Science Conference today in Cardiff today #digital #equity #UKPHSci
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Interested in digital health equity? Come swing by poster 3 in box 1 to check out my PhD study exploring underserved groups perspectives on stratigies to support digital inclusively at #PHSci
@sarahpslight @RionaMcArdle @ClareLTolley @Nehal_Hassan_ @NCL_Pharmacy
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Well done to Sophie Robson, another undergraduate MPharm student at Newcastle School of Pharmacy, who presented one of our research projects looking at the impact of #air pollution on #alzheimers disease. Our findings describe the impact of exposure on brain changes.
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One of our undergraduate MPharm students @AdeleKhannn presenting her research on air pollution and medicine management at Newcastle University Research Scholarship event last night. @Nehal_Hassan_ @sarahwilson99_ #environment #Sustainability
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