Richard J Pinder

Fascinating time visiting @HarvardHBS last week. Observed class on AI, data science & leadership - brilliantly taught and so much overlap with #PublicHealth. So many of our shared challenges are in #leadership and #strategicthinking. Lots to take away - watch this space!

Two-thirds of medical students reported change in health behaviour after taking our #LifestyleMedicine and Prevention programme @ImperialMed. We're teaching 700+ students each year. This is prevention in practice! Well done team! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…

It was great to join @FPH and @ukmedschools colleagues last month to discuss #prevention and #populationhealth in #MedEd - in response to the @NHSEngland 10 Year Health Plan. Here's a blog that colleagues have assembled based on those conversations - is.gd/sX1zCM

Great to see a 5* review of our textbook in the @RCGP_InnovAiT journal this week. Great outline of scope, purpose and utility of Essential Lifestyle Medicine published by @CambridgeUP. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Good luck to everyone receiving their #ALevelResults today! 🤞✨ To our new students – we can't wait to welcome you to #OurImperial community! Professor Alison McGregor & Dr Richard Pinder share a message 👇

@raviparekh86 @imperialcollege @Imperial_PCPH @ImperialSPH Many congratulations Ravi and team - a fantastic showing from Imperial colleagues at ASM this year!

It's a delight to receive the ASME Institutional Award for the MEdIC team @imperialcollege 🥳 This award reflects an incredible team & journey, with so many people making this possible. We are excited to see what the future has in store! #ASME2025 @Imperial_PCPH @ImperialSPH

I am so proud of our brilliant colleagues @ImperialSPH who always go the extra mile to deliver a world class experience and environment for our students. Well done Ray, Beatrix and Anna!

@nnedpro @UlsterUni @imperialcollege Thank you for the very generous hospitality!

Announcing the 2025 NNEdPro-IANE Award Winners! From @UlsterUni to @imperialcollege, this year’s honourees are shaping the future of nutrition education & practice. Full list of winners & event highlights: tinyurl.com/bdhtjaes #NutritionEducation #NNEdPro #IANE

Unboxing our new Essential Lifestyle Medicine textbook from @CambridgeUP - two years of multidisciplinary collaboration to define the discipline in the UK and universal healthcare systems. Thanks to colleagues from around the world who made this happen! cambridge.org/core/books/ess…

Lovely day in Cambridge - accepting inaugural @nnedpro and International Academy of Nutrition Educators #IANE award for nutrition in medical education with Dr Chris Harvey on behalf of @ImperialSPH and @imperial_SoM. Thank you @DrFedeAmati and @ProfSumantraRay!

🌿Thrilled to announce Essential Lifestyle Medicine from @CambPressAssess, the first textbook for UK Lifestyle Medicine, drops 15/05/2025! Crafted w global experts, it’s a clear, digestible intro to theory & practice. 📚 #LifestyleMedicine amazon.co.uk/dp/1009391585 @ellenfallows

What a great example of how effective our #VCSE partners can be in addressing real world challenges - that are the #widerdeterminants of health in practice. Great work @TheGurkhaCentre! This is how we improve health, independence and protect #OurNHS #PublicHealth @NHSEnglandLDN

@NHSEngland end is being celebrated by some, but what’s next? The PG training review, Leng review, workforce plans still need to happen. NHSE made some things worse, but it also did vital work worth keeping. #VeryMixedEmotions

@NHSEngland abolition is being celebrated by some on social media. But what happens to work promised: PG training review, Leng review, workforce plans? NHSE caused lots of problems, but it also did vital work worth keeping - and still needed. #VeryMixedEmotions

Heart vs. brain: @NHSEngland demise only guarantees instability, confusion, and crushed morale. Medium-term benefits are possible. Time will tell. Fingers crossed & thoughts with the staff holding it together.

Busy but fun weekend - celebrating our soon-to-be medical graduates @imperial_SoM on Saturday evening. Then early Sunday start - working to support careers with lots of student volunteers and sixth formers @In2MedSchool at @KingsCollegeLon.

Come and join our undergraduate teaching team at @ImperialSPH! Clinical Teaching Fellow in #LifestyleMedicine & #PublicHealth (x2), Imperial College London. £54-61k. 12 mo FT. Closes 13/02. For August 2025 start. #FY3 imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo… @pubhealthjobsuk

@jovicharris1 @UEL_News Congratulations Jo and welcome back to London!!!

Very excited to share that I am starting a new role as Founding Dean of Medicine at University of East London @UEL_News 🎉 🎊 Tasked with setting up a new medical school in an area with extreme health inequalities.#MedEd #wideningparticipation #selectingforexcellence

@DrRobgalloway Well done @DrRobgalloway on a very pertinent article. While we need some central direction on workforce numbers - the delegation of training to local providers makes sense and aligns the incentives for looking after, training and retaining staff!

We need to be honest and look at how those at the very top of the NHS, from the GMC to the Royal Colleges to NHS Education England, have let down a whole generation of doctors, tax payers and patients. We have a situation where trainee doctors who want to work in the NHS whilst training to be the consultants and GPs of the future are forced either to locum or leave because of workforce planning policies which have created 1000s of newly qualified post foundation doctors but with not enough ongoing training jobs. Meanwhile hospitals have to reply on locums, wasting Billions and Billions whilst forcing so many Drs to locum – and whilst the money may be better for them, what they want is a flexible job, with training and support. Even worse we have experienced anaesthetic Drs who can’t complete their last years of training as there are not enough training places and fully qualified GPs who can’t get jobs. Meanwhile money is spent on alternatives to Drs such as PAs - with no evidence that this is either safe or cost effective. What evidence does shows is that the most effective use of NHS money is on GPs providing continuity of care. They are trained to be “riskaticians” and decide when not to investigate or overtreat and so can safely reduce the demands in the hospitals. In this week’s Health section, I look at why we need to change the workforce planning for the medical doctors so needed for the future wellbeing of our NHS

@avi_medicine @EditorJRSM @Azeem_Majeed @ShyamSuBu Well done Avi! Pleasure working with you.

So thrilled to share that our commentary piece has been published in @EditorJRSM 🎉 Huge thanks to my incredible co-authors - Georgia, @richardjpinder @Azeem_Majeed & @ShyamSuBu! #PublicHealth #EatingDisorders #MentalHealth Please do have a read here: doi.org/10.1177/014107…