Nick Hopkinson

Lung Disease and Social Justice: COPD as a Manifestation of Structural Violence atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.11… @atscommunity @asthmalunguk @ATSBlueEditor /n

RCP: Voting opens for the @RCPhysicians vice president for education and training (VPET) and for councillors. rcp.ac.uk/membership/ele…

@AshOrgUK @FCTCofficial @BTSrespiratory @ThoraxBMJ @NCSCT UK Government takes world-leading steps to enable a ban on so-called cigarette ‘filters’ to end the harm from smoking. @AshOrgUK @AshOrg @ThoraxBMJ #FilterFraud #RespEd ash.org.uk/media-centre/n… /n

The Great Cigarette Filter Fraud ash.org.uk/media-centre/n… @AshOrgUK @FCTCofficial @BTSrespiratory @ThoraxBMJ @NCSCT

Here's my story about Jesse Jackson. In 2012, I was offered an interview with him for the Evening Standard. Of course, I accepted. Who would turn down a chance to meet a historic figure who had been a friend of Dr Martin Luther King? more follows...

Tobacco Endgame Report for European Respiratory Society : Using lessons from the UK experience to develop a knowledge toolkit for tobacco control. #ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025 Download in thread. /n

We remain concerned about the inappropriate substitution of doctors with non-medically qualified staff. We’re exploring how advanced practice roles are being used by NHS employers. To help with this, we’re asking UK doctors and medical students to complete our advanced practice survey. Make sure your voice is heard 👇surveymonkey.com/r/MVXCB99

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We are exploring the use of advanced practice roles by NHS employers. To help inform our work, please complete our survey, which is open to all UK doctors and medical students. surveymonkey.com/r/MVXCB99

1. What would it take to convince healthcare leaders & policy makers that smoking cessation should be funded and delivered within lung cancer screening programmes? thorax.bmj.com/content/early/…

Transfixed last night by the wit, wisdom, warmth & humanity of @MichaelRosenYes on stage at the @OxfordPlayhouse performing Getting Through it, his new & wonderful one-man show. Billed as a “double bill on love, loss & mortality”, it takes the form of two exquisite monologues, one on the death of his son, Eddie, from meningococcal septicaemia, the other on the long weeks he spent on on a ventilator in ICU with Covid-19. Michael confronts the topics we so often shrink away from with such wonderful frankness. Really, this is a show about how to live a life full of love & meaning, even after enduring the worst. It included, to my delight, his magnificent homage to the NHS, These Are the Hands, written for the NHS’s 60th anniversary 💙 See it if you can 💙 These are the hands That touch us first Feel your head Find the pulse And make your bed. These are the hands That tap your back Test the skin Hold your arm Wheel the bin Change the bulb Fix the drip Pour the jug Replace your hip. These are the hands That fill the bath Mop the floor Flick the switch Soothe the sore Burn the swabs Give us a jab Throw out sharps Design the lab. And these are the hands That stop the leaks Empty the pan Wipe the pipes Carry the can Clamp the veins Make the cast Log the dose And touch us last.

11th January 1922 104 years to the day.... The first dose of #Insulin was administered A 14 year old boy called Leonard Thompson And life was never the same again for so many many people In the #NHS? Free at the point of delivery- to the user Don’t lose that #Diabetes

Lethal incompetence, five years on. #COVID19

Sir David King rating UK government #COVID19 response: "Is one the lowest number I can choose?" 1/n

Five years on..

Academy of thoracic imaging @EuroRespSoc 18–20 February, 2026 | Antwerp, Belgium ersnet.org/events/academy…

“If you come into my house and steal my jacket, don't then ask me whether I'm ready for my jacket” Julius Nyerere youtube.com/watch?v=bI2PVQ…

Development and validation of PRECISE-X model: predicting first severe exacerbation in COPD. thorax.bmj.com/content/early/… @ThoraxBMJ #RespEd

The NHS opt-out inpatient tobacco dependency service provides treatment on an equitable basis across deprivation quintiles, with the greatest proportion of patients making a supported quit attempt in the most deprived quintile. thorax.bmj.com/content/early/… @ThoraxBMJ

European Respiratory Society clinical practice guideline for the management of adult bronchiectasis. publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/66… #RespEd @EuroRespSoc

New government investment has delivered expanded stop smoking services that are working hard to reach smokers in all communities and reduce health inequalities. ash.org.uk/resources/view… @AshOrgUK