Derek Tracy
Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director @OxleasNHS @bexleycare. Visiting Senior Lecturer @KingsIoPPN & @UCLPsychiatry. Ed board @TheBJPsych. #ACMD member
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Election 2019: Boris Johnson vows end to migrants ‘treating Britain as their own’
EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum...
An alternative scenario for the first human dispersal out of Africa
Recent paleoanthropological evidence from the early Pleistocene site of Dmanisi in Georgia has revealed that the first hominins out of Africa were mor…
Which advanced ape was humanity's direct ancestor?
The discovery of an ancient skull in Ethiopia underlines the complexity in the evolution of humans.
Measles crisis kills more than 140,000 in a year, with majority of victims children
Cases doubled between between 2017 and 2018, reports say
Flu fighter - get your jab!
Have you had your flu jab yet? Protect yourself and others. Even healthy people can get the flu, but especially people whose immune systems are vulnerable.
The Volteface Podcast #17 ‘What Should we do About Drugs’: A Byline Times and Volteface Event
In early November, Volteface teamed up with Byline Times for an evening of discussion about drugs, what’s working, what’s not, and what the best approach to take towards them might be. Does the current prohibition on drugs work? Should the UK...
Into the Abyss
Is mental illness a disease of the brain or a disease of the mind?
To Stay In or Go Out? Four Tips for Deciding
Balancing social and solitary needs is fundamental for subjective happiness.
AUTP Annual Conference 2020
THE premiere event in the UK for trainers and trainees interested in undergraduate psychiatric education
Patterns of use of the Mental Health Act 1983, from 2007–2008 to 2016–2017, in two major London secondary mental healthcare providers | BJPsych Open
Patterns of use of the Mental Health Act 1983, from 2007–2008 to 2016–2017, in two major London secondary mental healthcare providers - Volume 5 Issue 6 - Sian Oram, Craig Colling, Megan Pritchard, Mizanur Khondoker, Daniela Fonseca de Freitas,...
Joshua Cheptegei breaks 10km road world record in Valencia
Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei breaks the 10km road world record in Valencia, setting a new time of 26 minutes 38 seconds.
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Derek Tracy
"Cheptegei's average pace was two minutes and 40 seconds per kilometre" 😍 - Try keep that pace for even 400m of your fastest sprint.
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'Laziness has won': apostrophe society admits its defeat
Organisation formed in 2001 to preserve punctuation mark comes to a full stop
Influencer Award
About the Award There are those individuals who know which buttons to press to make things happen, from campaigning for a change in law to bringing together different groups to achieve what might have seemed impossible. We want to acknowledge the...
HSJ podcast: Have the politicians forgotten mental health?
Listen to the HSJ Health Check podcast - this week we come from the HSJ Mental Health Summit in Leeds, and hear from mental health foundation trust chief Matthew Trainer, and sector leader Sean Duggan.
THE Live 2019
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