@ProfMcCourt

Professor of Maternal Health @ City University London

city.ac.uk/health
Joined November 2012
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Christine McCourt retweeted
Jo Dagustun@GibbleJoSep 8
Oh my goodness, what a wonderful opportunity to hear again from @dunkleybent at this event today. I am attending online, but your inspirational leadership is palpable. Thank you @dunkleybent, from the bottom of my heart!
aims.org.uk@AIMS_onlineSep 8
Our options for where we labour and birth matter, and birth centres offer a space appreciated by many women and families. That's why AIMS is attending today's Midwifery Unit Network 10 year anniversary conference, to listen, learn and participate.
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Tanita Tikaram💙@tanita_tikaramMay 6
If Polanski was accepting big donations from corporations & foreign donors,denying climate change, spent his youth goose stepping & bullying Jews or was currently supporting genocide he’d be getting an easier ride from our media.I don’t know what to do with that, it’s just sick.
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Marina Purkiss
@MarinaPurkissMay 7
At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are… Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.
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💬 Pull, Not Push: Collaboration and Governance for High-Impact Digital Education Professor Baba Sheba’s Inaugural Lecture will focus on the journey and ideas behind years of high-impact digital education transformation. 🗓️ Wednesday 29th April ➡️ ow.ly/GW2g50YFvEM
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Led By Donkeys@ByDonkeysJan 23
BOARD OF PEACE - Season 1
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Margaret McCartney@mgtmccartneyJan 7
here's ANOTHER paper demonstrating why continuity of care matters... and why searching for quick access comes at a cost. Waiting a little bit longer for someone who knows you, and who will follow up with you may be better all round jabfm.org/content/38/5/812.a…

Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospita...

Objective: Continuity of primary care reduces costs and hospitalizations over 1-year periods, but its long-term effects remain unclear, a key concern for value-based payment. We examined associations...

jabfm.org
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The BMJ
@bmj_latest25 Oct 2025
New BMJ Research: Exposure to sugar rationing in first 1000 days after conception and long term cardiovascular outcomes. Early life sugar restriction was associated with lower risks of myocardial infarction, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and stroke bmj.com/content/391/bmj-2024…

Exposure to sugar rationing in first 1000 days after conception and long term cardiovascular...

Objective To examine whether exposure to sugar rationing during early life is associated with a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular outcomes in adulthood. Design Natural experiment study. Setting...

bmj.com
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Milli Hill@millihill23 Oct 2025
Breastfeeding seems to cause specialised immune cells to flood into the breasts and stay there for years or even decades, reducing the risk of cancer. newscientist.com/article/250…

Breastfeeding causes a surge in immune cells that could prevent cancer | New Scientist

Breastfeeding seems to cause specialised immune cells to flood into the breasts and stay there for years or even decades, reducing the risk of cancer

newscientist.com
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The BMJ
@bmj_latest23 Oct 2025
New BMJ Research: Restricted sugar intake during early life is linked to lower risks of several heart conditions in adulthood, including heart attack, heart failure, and stroke, finds study using data from the end of UK sugar rationing in 1953 bmj.com/content/391/bmj-2024…

Exposure to sugar rationing in first 1000 days after conception and long term cardiovascular...

Objective To examine whether exposure to sugar rationing during early life is associated with a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular outcomes in adulthood. Design Natural experiment study. Setting...

bmj.com
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Margaret McCartney@mgtmccartney13 Oct 2025
Fragmenting care costs more+ lower quality care. meantime qualified GPs can't get jobs in practices (complex but increased costs of running practices, underfunding /instability). far better to invest in stable core NHS GP (and read evidence on walk in services!)
Conor Matchett@conor_matchett13 Oct 2025
NEW: John Swinney announces a network of 15 walk-in GP services to deliver 1m extra appointments Open 7 days a week, open 12 to 8. No appointment needed "They will break from the status quo," he tells SNP conference BUT, only ONE open by the end of the year, + Qs about cash
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Marina Purkiss
@MarinaPurkiss23 Sep 2025
Farage’s plan to scrap indefinite leave could collapse the NHS… Which would be incredibly good news for someone wanting us to move to an ‘insurance based system’ FYI the average American pays £480 per month for private healthcare Please wake up folks.
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Replying to @owenjonesjourno
Blood on their hands now. Can’t wash that off. - Macbeth Act 2, scene 2, lines 55–61.
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Times Radio
@TimesRadio9 Sep 2025
“I have not betrayed my people. It is they who have betrayed the tenets of Judaism, which were always full of compassion.” Actor Miriam Margolyes denounces Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, sharing she has lost friends and family members over her outspoken views.
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Jeremy Corbyn
@jeremycorbyn20 Jun 2025
In November, I expressed my concern that the Assisted Dying Bill could not provide adequate safeguards against abuse and social coercion. I am still not satisfied - and that is why I voted against this legislation.
Jeremy Corbyn
@jeremycorbyn29 Nov 2024
My statement on the Assisted Dying Bill.
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Lizzi Green 🌈@LizziGreen220 Jun 2025
I’m genuinely shocked that this incredibly ill thought law has succeeded. When I worked in a hospice, we had to fundraise approximately £10,000 a day to keep it fully functioning. To see this bill succeed before palliative care is fully funded and available is almost unbelievable.
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Dr Rachel Clarke
@doctor_oxford20 Jun 2025
.@kimleadbeater you are misleading the House before today’s vote. You know the Royal College of Psychiatry - the experts in capacity & coercion - has explicitly opposed your bill. It breaks my heart that you would use a sleight of hand to mislead MPs and the public in this way.
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Have had (more than) enough of Twitter/x. Bad for mental health, democracy, peace, humanity. I’m not a very active social media user anyway but each user feeds the profits of a fascist. Going to use Bluesky Social if you want to follow me there.
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It's here - introducing City St George's, University of London 🏙️❤️ #WeAreCityStGeorges
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📺Tune into @bbcquestiontime to see @MayaGoodfellow, Presidential Fellow @Cityintpolitics (@CityUniLondon). ✍️Her work focuses include the role private security companies enforcing UK immigration, racial capitalism, the politics of international development & animal rights.
BBC Question Time
@bbcquestiontime26 Feb 2025
Replying to @bbcquestiontime
On the panel this week, Academic and Author Maya Goodfellow #bbcqt
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