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Chris Williams
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GP, digital enthusiast & cyclist. Vice chair RCGP Scotland. Trying to improve health & social care. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 Views are personal. RTs ≠ endorsement.
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If you'd like to learn more about how OpenSAFELY works - and how we solved the privacy and efficiency challenges, to make national GP data securely accessible - here's a 5 minute video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...
OpenSAFELY in a nutshell
YouTube video by Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
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November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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We are working on designs for a separate cycle, wheelchair and walking route in Aviemore. Visit our drop-in event on Thursday 11 December, 2pm - 7pm at the Cairngorm Hotel. Find out more and share your thoughts ➡️ https://cairngorms.co.uk/taking-part/consultations/active-communities-consultation
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
An "admitted failure of document management". NHS Tayside destroyed 40 theatre logbooks in July that potentially were relating to disgraced surgeon Sam Eljamel. The inquiry chair Lord Weir had issued a formal "do not destroy" notice to the health board in October 2024.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Eljamel logbooks destruction 'may have broken law'
Forty logbooks potentially relating to the disgraced surgeon were destroyed by NHS Tayside in July.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Skye cycle way. Funding award moves project forward. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First phase of potential Skye-wide cycle route in funding boost
The project could eventually see an island-wide network of paths for pedestrians and cyclists.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Mani’s writhing, relentless bass was the Stone Roses’ secret sauce – it taught indie kids how to dance | Alexis Petridis
Mani’s writhing, relentless bass was the Stone Roses’ secret sauce – it taught indie kids how to dance | Alexis Petridis
His love of ‘good northern soul and funk’ was always in evidence and had a lasting impact on alternative music
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November 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Mani, a legendary bassist. I'm still listening to music he played as part of The Stone Roses when they made their debut and I'm still enjoying the experience (after all these years) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield: Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist dies aged 63
The Stone Roses pay tribute to
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November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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New sleeper services will run from Paris to Berlin next year
New sleeper services will run from Paris to Berlin next year
European Sleeper will operate the new service from March 2026, replacing the Nightjet train that is being axed next month The resurgence of sleeper trains on the continent hit a kink in the tracks in September, when the Austrian state operator ÖBB announced that it would be axing its two Nightjet services – Paris to Vienna and Paris to Berlin – from 14 December. ÖBB cited the French government’s ending of subsidies, dealing a blow to the night-train renaissance. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel. European Sleeper has told the Guardian that it will be taking over the route from Paris to Berlin, with the first train to run on 26 March 2026. The train will operate three times a week with departures likely to be from Paris Gare du Nord on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings and the return service from Berlin Hauptbahnhof and Ostbahnhof on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The current Nightjet service departs Paris Gare de l’Est just after 7pm and winds east via Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Erfurt and Halle before arriving in Berlin around 8.30am. European Sleeper intends to make the journey via Brussels, with precise route details and timings currently being confirmed with infrastructure managers in France, Belgium and Germany. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Preparing for winter pressures. Scottish Ambulance Service to get 100 extra staff members: 25 call handlers, 22 clinical staff for an integrated hub, 12 scheduled care co-ordinators, 36 ambulance care assistants. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scottish Ambulance Service recruits extra staff to ease winter pressures
The new staff will help the NHS cope with increasing demands on emergency services.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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You may be breathing in pollutants right now but you wouldn’t know it. That's because Australia doesn't monitor indoor air to scientifically acceptable standards. A new Academy report to be launched today explores the policy pathways to improve indoor air quality.
www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...
Time to act to improve the air we share indoors
If you’re indoors right now, do you know how much of the air you're breathing is someone else’s ‘breath backwash’ or what pollutants it contains?
www.science.org.au
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Gritter season is back. Enjoy the names chosen for the fleet this year, which include: Den-Ice Law, Clearopathra, Shovelly Jubbly and Thaw: God of Thunder www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gritter named Den-Ice Law in football legend's honour
Clearopathra and Shovelly Jubbly will also help keeps road clear in the north of Scotland.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I have published a new briefing for MSPs for the Stage 3 debate on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill tomorrow (wed 5 Nov). You can download a copy here andywightman.scot/2025/11/land...
Land Reform (Scotland) Bill – MSP Briefing - Land Matters
I have sent a final briefing on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill to MSPs this morning. After a delay last week, the final session on Stage 3 amendments is taking place today (4 Nov) and the debate on w...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Excellent, Dani. I was proud to produce the audio for an excellent piece of writing by Susan Rennie aimed at primary school kids that told the real story about witches. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Scotland - Stories in Scots, The Clootie Well
Ellie takes a tumble on a woodland walk and meets the mysterious Agnes at the Clootie Well
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November 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Had fun trawling the archives for images to go with this interview with Mike Gifford, new CEO of the Cairngorm Mountain ski area. Magical place on its day..

www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/ou...

#cairngorms #cairngormmountain #skiing #snowboarding #snow #mountains #tourism #scotland
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Our new paper:

Science for Pandemic Preparedness: A precautionary framework

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Science for Pandemic Preparedness: A Precautionary Framework
In the early weeks of the pandemic year 2020, health agencies were slow to warn of the potential for a global health emergency while scientists waited for ‘sufficient’ evidence of human-to-human tran...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Sharing this a lot tonight - donated items in disaster only make things worse (pretty much without exception and anywhere in the world). There is a long history of this going very wrong particularly after hurricanes www.theguardian.com/books/2023/m...
The big idea: in a disaster, bad help can be worse than no help at all
Emergency relief must be about money, not well-intentioned donations of goods
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Half billion pound GP investment ‘largest ever’
stabilising practices and getting more staff into general practice
www.healthandcare.scot/stories/4321...
Half billion pound GP investment ‘largest ever'
Scotland's GP practices are to receive additional funding of nearly £250m a year over the next three years which ministers say will be used to boost staffing and capacity, support day-to-day operation...
www.healthandcare.scot
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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📢 We've been nominated for a British Journalism Award for our environmental reporting.

Well done to @billybriggs24.bsky.social, @paul.theferret.scot
and @robedwards5.bsky.social 🎉

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British Journalism Awards 2025: Finalists revealed
Press Gazette is proud to reveal the shortlist for the British Journalism Awards 2025, with links to all of the winning work.
pressgazette.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
GP recruitment boost for Scotland. The Scottish government has said it would initially give £98m in the 2026-27 budget, £183m the following year and £249m in the third year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
GP surgeries in Scotland to get £531m for recruitment over three years
Doctors said the investment was a step in the right direction, having previously said £290m was needed to address the GP funding gap.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Community green hub vision. Ronald MacVicar is involved with a charity and fundraising to help to get a community growing and wellbeing hub up and running at the south-west edge of Inverness.
www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/pedal-p...
Pedal power drives plans for Inverness’s Knocknagael Green Hub
A 100-mile ride aims to support a new community growing space in Inverness.
www.inverness-courier.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Rural first responders. A new 10-person rural community cardiac responder group as been set up and launched in the remote Glenkens part of Dumfries and Galloway.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New cardiac team created for Glenkens area of Galloway
The Galloway group hopes to assist in the
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October 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Don't imagine it will be long before this not-thought-through policy gets quietly dropped...even if the IT could support it (spoiler: it can't). #NHSScotland #TeamGP primarycarecrunch.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/w...
Walk-in-centres for NHS Scotland: An unhelpful distraction which our IT can’t support.
Two-tier healthcare anyone? My father-in-law passed away recently. Although he had mostly good health, his last years were troubled by the removal of several cancerous skin lesions. With increasing…
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October 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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The problem with the single patient record: do you want the person doing yr hearing test in the high st to have access to your psychiatric diagnoses, incontinence, alcohol issues?
Fully accessible free text is promised - what does that mean for Pt-Dr confidentiality?
doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Helen Salisbury: Confidentiality and the single patient record
When patients unburden themselves to me in my consulting room, they do so in the knowledge that what they say is confidential. They tell me many things they wouldn’t want others to know: issues that m...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Rush hour changing. Victoria Road in Glasgow in June had more journeys cycled than driven. news.stv.tv/west-central...
More bikes than cars on main road at rush hour for first time, figures show
Cycling Scotland reported data from Victoria Road showed more journeys were cycled rather than driven between 8am and 9am on Thursday, June 5.
news.stv.tv
October 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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We’re thrilled that this stunning image by Gill Williams was voted by the public as a winner of the 2025 UK National Parks Photography Competition! 🎉

We love seeing the beautiful landscapes of the Cairngorms National Park being celebrated.

📍 Tulloch Moor
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM