Tessa Richards
@tessajlrichards
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Associate editor BMJ, advocate for doctor/ patient partnership, living with ACCancer + other LTCs
UK
Joined December 2010
Patient leaders condemn plans to replace NHS safety bodies with app feedback
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RT @dignityindying: “Doctors who support the Bill have made it clear: palliative care is not a catch-all solution. In some cases, no amount….
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RT @oncology_bg: NEW FDA- Make Surrogate Endpoints Great Again!.100% of cancer drug approvals since May 2025 have been on the basis of surr….
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RT @dignityindying: "Fundamentally, the question here is: is it right for me to tell the person next to me that because of my moral scruple….
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RT @dignityindying: "Decades of experience as a GP working with terminally ill patients has convinced me that we need to change our laws on….
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RT @HelenMackie27: @kimleadbeater 2 of my dad's friends did this when they were in their 90's. They ended up on drips in hospital and it ea….
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RT @kimleadbeater: Heartbreaking: “Voluntary Stopping Eating & Drinking is not an easy death but with the current law in England this is th….
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A doctor notes: “The real disruption is bottom-up: patients arriving at appointments having already run their symptoms, lab results, and imaging through AI systems that have digested more medical literature than any physician could in a lifetime.”.
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RT @HealthwatchE: 2Missed information and mistakes in medical records are frustrating and can put people’s health at risk. People in our po….
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RT @UKHaHSoc: Happy #InternationalNursesDay to all our amazing #HospitalAtHome nurses! Your compassion, innovation & commitment bring hospi….
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UK GPs (predictably) don't want to have anything to do with assisted dying but need to "acknowledge that their patients will turn to them "to have conversations about it."
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A thoughtful and thought provoking read on the risks and benefits of using AI psychotherapy tools @https://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r821.
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Your place or ours?—the case for mainstreaming Hospital at Home programmes is persuasive
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"Trump’s first 100 days have destroyed the foundations of 100 years’ scientific progress and pre-eminence."
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"If people want diagnoses they shall have them."Valuable insight in this important new book by O'Sullivan, into the role of doctors in fuelling the over diagnosis epidemic.
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Public input into health policy is not just important - its essential.
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RT @DanLasserson: #Improvisation is a core process for implementation of H@H - you work with what you find around you. Policy makers need t….
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RT @UKHaHSoc: 📢Join us & connect with a growing community of professionals dedicated to advancing #HospitalAtHome services. Whether you’re….
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