Parashar Ramanuj
Psychological Medic @RNOHnhs. Senior Fellow @RANDEurope. Previous @harknessfellows @MaudsleyNHS @ColumbiaPsych
Interested in patients, policy & parity. [RT ≠ E]
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Groundbreaking study finds origins of anorexia
Research shows it is not just a disease of the mind, but also of the body's metabolism.
Parashar Ramanuj
Truly groundbreaking @KingsIoPPN @bbchealth @NatureGenet and showing the value of cross-country collaboration in academic research:
Anorexia stems from body as well as mind – a metabo-psychiatric condition.
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NHS England hired consultancy to find out what it is responsible for
NHS England paid external consultants more than £200,000 to 'map' its responsibilities ahead of the merger with NHS Improvement, HSJ has learned.
Patients to be asked what they need from doctors
The government has instructed Health Education England to consult patients and the public on what they need from “21st century” medical graduates.
The requirement is set out in the Department of Health and Social Care’s latest mandate for HEE,...
Revealed: The evidence which shows we need the sugar tax to fight the obesity epidemic
“A good way to start would be basing tax policy on clear evidence.
Expanding traditional tendon-based techniques with nerve transfers for the restoration of upper limb function in tetraplegia: a prospective case series
Early nerve transfer surgery is a safe and effective addition to surgical techniques
for upper limb reanimation in tetraplegia. Nerve transfers can lead to significant
functional improvement and can be successfully combined with tendon transfers to...
Parashar Ramanuj
What new wizardry is this @TheLancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Views? @TJQPNI @RNOHnhs?
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Optionally AI - the AI member of the clinical team
Can AI that gives us more options augment clinicians and patients to unlock a step change in how care can be provided?
Martin Plackard’s implementation framework — NHS Networks
This week, NHS Blithering's communications supremo Martin Plackard, looks forward to delivering the commitments of the NHS Long Term Plan. But first he has to reassure Sir Trevor Longstay, head of the Blithering STP, that the newly published NHS...
Physical health inequalities in primary care
Andy Bell calls for action in response to the Public Health England briefing on severe mental illness and physical health inequalities.
Equally Well
A new collaborative to support the physical health of people with a mental illness
Enablers and barriers to implementing collaborative care for anxiety and depression: a systematic qualitative review
Collaborative care is an increasingly popular approach for improving quality of care for people with mental health problems through an intensified and structured collaboration between primary care providers and health professionals with specialized...
Get the Picture
Images are an extremely powerful way of telling a story and the photos that accompany articles in the media have great impact. Mental health is a broad and complex topic to illustrate, but we're campaigning to help newspapers, TV and magazines to...
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Parashar Ramanuj
I feel like I have to say I wrote the article in this week's @bmj_latest... I did not choose to illustrate it with a picture of a woman with sinusitis. Or possibly a tension headache. Or maybe photophobia?
Accurate images for depression may be found here: time-to-change.org.uk/media-centre/r… twitter.com/elinlowri/stat…
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Guest Blog - Dr Aumran Tahir: The B word
In implementing data analytics in our practices, it is worth making the point that our objective isn’t to simply drive down costs, even though you will be pleased to hear that this is often a welcome result. We use IT to create solutions that...
Public, health professional and legislator perspectives on the concept of psychiatric disease: a population-based survey
Objective To assess which mental health-related states of being are perceived as diseases by psychiatrists, non-psychiatric physicians, nurses, parliament members and laypeople.
Design and setting A population-based, mailed survey in...
What If Our Care Were Designed by Patients?
What if health care were designed by patients? Patients have three wishes for their care, and they’re not as complicated as you might think.
Discrediting experiences: outcomes of eligibility assessments for claimants with psychiatric compared with non-psychiatric conditions transferring to personal independence payments in England | BJPsych Open
Discrediting experiences: outcomes of eligibility assessments for claimants with psychiatric compared with non-psychiatric conditions transferring to personal independence payments in England - Volume 5 Issue 2 - Katie Pybus, Kate E. Pickett,...
BBC Radio 4 - My Name Is..., My Name is Sammy - I'm thinking of leaving the NHS
Sammy is an intensive care doctor who is considering leaving the NHS.