🆕“Although most countries still rely on traditional in-person dispensing, our analysis shows that diversified models, when thoughtfully implemented, can reduce access barriers, save costs, and better align with people’s preferences.” ...

🆕“Our findings underscore the central role of primary care in anxiety and depression management and highlight the need for sustained funding, workforce support, and age-sensitive and sex-sensitive interventions to address both ongoing and crisis-related mental health demands.”

🎧A new episode of The Lancet Primary Care In Conversation With... is now live! We talk with Tina Lavender about their Viewpoint on meaningful relational maternity care. Listen now 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🎵 open.spotify.com/show/5gsbXDd... thelancetprimarycare.buzzsprout.com

🆕 "In this Review, we assess current and potential applications of AI in primary care, including AI to support primary care providers and AI to support people with their health." Read the Review by @lilianalaranjo.bsky.social and colleagues now ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🆕“Supporting long-term retention in HIV care is becoming a priority challenge for ART programmes globally... Therefore, understanding patterns of disengagement from ART within #primarycare services is central to improving treatment outcomes and reducing operational burdens”

🆕 “Artificial intelligence (AI) is already reshaping various aspects of primary care, from documentation and triage to population health planning; however, AI implementation remains fragmented, uneven, and often poorly aligned with the realities of front-line services”

🆕In their Viewpoint, Tina Lavender and colleagues call for improved integration of relational care in maternity care in LMICs Read the Viewpoint online ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🆕 Linnea Stansert Katzen and colleagues highlight the importance of community health workers as a cost-effective solution in primary and community care Read the full Comment here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🎧 A new episode of The Lancet Primary Care In Conversation with... is now available! We talk with Dame Louise Robinson about therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease, including potential implications for global use, for the health-care workforce, and what data are still lacking.

Our fifth issue is now live and free to read for all!🎉 ➡️Explore and download the issue on our journal homepage: hubs.li/Q03yqV6c0

Present a talk or poster alongside a stellar faculty at The #LancetSummit: shaping the future of #diabetes prevention. Abstract submission is open until Jun 12, 2026. View our Advisory Board and learn how you can take part: hubs.li/Q03MV20T0

🆕 “These findings show that guideline-recommended care is not being consistently followed, highlighting the need for evidence-based strategies to improve heart failure diagnosis and management.” Read the study ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @clarejtaylor.bsky.social @nath-conrad.bsky.social

🆕"By integrating PrEP services in family planning clinics—a trusted and routinely accessed service among women—we successfully reached nearly 25000 women in 24 months, 19773 of whom were screened for PrEP eligibility, demonstrating the potential to efficiently reach women with HIV prevention needs”

🆕 “SMS recall is an effective and scalable way to implement targeted cardiovascular disease risk screening in general practice.” Read the results of the Text to Detect trial here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @carissabonner.bsky.social

🆕 In a single-blind RCT, topical hydrogen peroxide was compared with topic fusidic acid and simple wound hygiene in the management of non-severe impetigo lesions in school-aged children in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Read the findings of the TIARA trial ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📣 Big news! We’re excited to announce the Advisory Board for The #LancetSummit: shaping the future of #diabetes prevention. Welcome Amanda Adler, Kamlesh Khunti, Dianna Magliano, Chantal Mathieu and Didac Mauricio Puente. Find out more and submit your abstract to join the Summit: hubs.li/Q03MV20T0

🆕In a cross-sectional study, Dominique Huvent-Grelle and colleagues report on associations between social isolation and cognitive decline in a 10-year nationwide study based in France. Read the Article here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our fourth issue is now live 🎉 All content is free to access and read now www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #primarycare #familymedicine #communitycare #openaccess

🆕📢“As vertical HIV programmes collapse... primary health care, with its syndemic approach and infrastructure for chronic disease management, is well positioned to absorb HIV services while ensuring sustainability” Read the Viewpoint ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🆕 In The Lancet Public Health, read the findings of the PREVENT project, investigating cervical screening via self-collection, with point-of-care HPV testing and same-day colposcopy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Western Australia ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Introducing a new @lancetprimarycare.bsky.social podcast channel 🎙️ For all episodes, visit the page & subscribe ⤵️ bit.ly/3UteSbW

🆕 “To our knowledge, this is the first study to describe the association between raised symptomatic FIT and all-cause mortality and mortality from causes other than colorectal cancer.” Read the primary care cohort study ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📢Can't wait till our next issue? Stay connected with The Lancet Primary Care’s Update Alerts! Receive curated content, exclusive features, and more delivered straight to your inbox in between issues. Sign up today! hubs.li/Q03BhmQt0 #medsky #familymedicinesky #internalmedicinesky

📄Cognitive functional therapy, with or without movement sensor biofeedback, for chronic disabling low back pain resulted in sustained effects at 3 years of follow-up compared with usual care. Read the Article in @thelancetrheum.bsky.social ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🆕In their Comment, Karen Flegg and @vivimbmd.bsky.social discuss how prioritising the wellbeing of family doctors is not optional, but essential, to achieve global health outcomes. Read the Comment➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🆕A qualitative analysis of patient enrolment policies in primary care across 12 high-income countries: “Our typology provides policy makers and researchers with an accurate basis for comparing policies” Read the Review ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @tarakiran.bsky.social

📢We're extending our introductory offer and waiving the article-processing charge (APC) for articles submitted before Sept 30, 2025. Read our commitment to publishing excellence, reach and impact, and take advantage of this offer ➡️ bit.ly/4jMtT45 #medsky #familymedicinesky #internalmedicinesky

Want more of The Lancet Primary Care? 🎧 Listen to our podcast, The Lancet Primary Care in conversation with, hosted by our Senior Editor Lauren Southwell We launch our podcast with three inaugural episodes Listen or follow here ➡️ thelancetprimarycare.buzzsprout.com/2466883

🆕An outbreak investigation and retrospective cohort study of fully vaccinated individuals with mpox in NSW, Australia, suggests that protection against severe disease persists beyond the point at which MVA-BN induced antibodies have been found to wane Read here➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Reassuring data from Australia showing that the protection that is conferred by the MVA-BN vaccine against mpox is durable up to two years after vaccination. Highlights the importance of expanding access in countries with outbreaks. @lancetprimarycare.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our first issue is out now! 🎉 #openaccess Explore and download at: hubs.li/Q03yqVNW0 Read our inaugural Editorial, a varied selection of comments and research articles, and more. Thank you to our authors and reviewers #medsky #familymedicinesky #primaryhealthcare #primarycare #communitycare

Short-term digital mental health interventions reduces depression and anxiety in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war - a first of its kind randomised controlled trial found delivering a problem solving digital mental health intervention significantly reduced symptoms.

🆕John Weisz and colleagues report the results of their RCT investigating the effect of a digital problem-solving intervention among Ukrainian youths displaced by war. Read the Article here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @dennisougrin.bsky.social

💊 5-8% of adults and children have a penicillin allergy label in their medical records. A new trial in @lancetprimarycare.bsky.social explores how checking for penicillin allergies can help doctors prescribe more targeted penicillin antibiotics safely: tinyurl.com/m3bvm94s

🆕“The penicillin allergy assessment pathway increased the opportunity for patients to receive first-line treatment and is a potentially effective antimicrobial stewardship tool in primary care.” Read the report of the ALABAMA trial here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🆕 In their Health Policy paper, Luke Allen and colleagues investigate how primary health care is operationalised in strategic documents by major international development organisations. Read the paper here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Are you ready for your research to spark global conversation? ✨ Begin your publication journey with us today and help to advance health and science worldwide. ➡️https://hubs.li/Q03vpxN70

🩺“Vaccinating new older adult care home residents upon entry has the potential to substantially reduce the burden of pneumococcal disease in this vulnerable population” Read the findings from the national observational study in The Lancet Healthy Longevity ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Online first: Oral contraceptive use and risk of #livercancer: a population-based study, systematic review, and meta-analysis thelancet.com/journals/lan... Linked comment: Oral contraceptives and risk of liver cancer thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New peer-reviewed research letter analyses undisclosed changes made to public health datasets published by US federal agencies. The most common change was renaming the category "gender" to "sex". tinyurl.com/2hdbu295 @bulaw.bsky.social

🆕 “In this Comment, we make the case for cultivating PHC leadership capacity worldwide and share early lessons from a first-of-its-kind effort to do so.” Faraz Khalid and colleagues describe efforts to improve leadership in global primary health care Read here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📢“Protecting hard-earned gains in prioritising person-centred and community-centred care is ... crucial” A new Review in The Lancet HIV discusses the landscape for ART adherence and treatment success in the U=U era Read here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🆕“Efforts to mitigate sepsis should focus not only on the initial hours after hospital presentation, but also on mitigation and management before hospitalisation” Read the Viewpoint on sepsis in the community by @kristinarudd.bsky.social and colleagues here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🆕In a new Comment, William R Phillips and Elizabeth Ann Sturgiss describe the development of the CRISP Checklist to improve the dissemination and implementation of primary care research globally Read here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @billpmd.bsky.social @lizsturgiss.bsky.social

A new Series published in @thelancet.com highlights the drivers and consequences of early-onset type 2 diabetes, as well as the unique challenges of managing the condition, highlighting the importance of a multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach Read more ➡️ www.thelancet.com/series-do/ea...

🆕 In our first Online First Article, Zhaonan Wang and colleagues "provide a UK-based perspective on the increasing burden of ARLD and sociodemographic variation in both burden and outcomes.” Read more ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This World Refugee Day, we highlight the recent Editorial in The Lancet on migrant and refugee health, in which the uncertainty around the future health-care prioritisation of these vulnerable groups is discussed ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

On #WorldRefugeeDay, we stand in solidarity with all refugees & reaffirm that … ‘HEALTH IS A HUMAN RIGHT’, not a privilege. Everyone deserves access to safe, dignified, culturally sensitive & affordable care. #HealthForAll 👉 bit.ly/4kQoVDu

🩺In The Lancet Regional Health—Americas, The Brazilian Implementa-Chagas/SaMi-Trop project highlights a “need to shift [Chagas disease] management from a specialist-centred approach to one that is more primary care-focused” ➡️https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(25)00146-2/

"The belief that decreasing public health budgets in this way can lead to cost saving is immoral and misguided." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...