Save the date! The BJGP Research & Publishing Conference 2026 will be coming to Bristol on 20th March 2026. Stay tuned for more details! #BJGPRC

Training GP practice teams to discuss poverty and support patients experiencing poverty-related mental distress increased understanding of causes of distress; helped avoid inappropriate prescribing; and enabled coordinated team support ➡️ doi.org/10.3399/10.3...

I've been renovating a room in our #OldHouse. Gypsum off, lime on, limewashing this weekend. But I've also been upcycling old furniture. The cats seem impressed with the sideboard that's going in my study!

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

One problem with ‘AI v Doctor’ diagnostic studies is that most diagnoses are either obvious or emergent (ie have an unfolding-over-time dimension in which an ongoing clinician-patient relationship can prove crucial). Also, the most important things a GP knows are a) whether to refer and b) to whom.

Doctoral thesis successfully defended. Huge thanks to @simondymond.bsky.social and Alan Finnegan for a great discussion of my thesis this morning. And to Dan @leightley.bsky.social, Nicola and Neil for the last few years of supervision! #PhDone #DoctorateDone #PhDChat

I've been terrible for using Bluesky but going to make an effort! #Medsky - check out our latest paper in #BMJSRH: "Experiences of abortion in the UK Armed Forces: a cross-sectional survey." Give it a read and share your thoughts with us! @antonywillman.bsky.social @drkateking.bsky.social

Thank you very much to all the BJGP Open readers who spent a bit of their time with our article. Number 2 in last year's most read!

I'm looking forward to the BJGP Research Conference on Friday. Anyone else going to be there? bjgp.org/conference-p... @bjgp.bsky.social @bjgpopen.bsky.social #BJGPRC

Great to see this work in print. Hopefully adding to the evidence that we need to recognise there is a need for ongoing perimenopause management and support in the UK Armed Forces.

Our latest paper is out in #BMJSRH. Currently open access so feel free to have a look and let us know what you think. srh.bmj.com/content/earl... @vkinkaid11.bsky.social @antonywillman.bsky.social

If you're an early career researcher, or a wise guru of general practice research, come along and say hello!

Doctorate submitted on Wednesday. Now I'm a little uncertain what to do this weekend! I think I've forgotten what I'm supposed to do other than work

Can I please ask #AutismBlueSky... The ADOS assessment... aren't they toads and not frogs? It's causing a lot of discussion in our house tonight!

Is the cornish wafer the cheese biscuit selection of the strawberry creams in the Quality Street? #Cheese 🧀

Is it just me or do the oscillations between love and hate swing ever more frequently as you get closer to the submission deadline? #PhDChat #PhD

What are GPs' experiences with the recommendation text box in hospital discharge summaries? Results from a nationwide survey in Denmark ➡️ doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

In London for a meeting of the Defence Professors and have arrived far too early. I do like being able to get work done at the @rcgp.bsky.social members' lounge. It's very quiet here though!

Been super busy (have a thesis to write) so turned my back on here for a while. Come back and #MedSky #GPSky have arrived!

bjgplife.com/rcgp-researc... - summaries of all the winning papers

Play buzzword bingo at the #RCGPAC during Wes Streeting's talk this morning. Credit to @drgandalf.bsky.social

x.com/drgandalf52/... Play along with BuzzWord Bingo during Wes Streeting's talk this morning at the #RCGPAC

Now freely available @bjgp.bsky.social for anyone to read. "Deprived practices require proper funding that considers differential health needs." @oohgpwales.bsky.social @helensalisbury.bsky.social #BJGP #primarycare

Today started at 0345, for a workshop on women's health hosted by the Australians. Cats provided much hilarity by pouncing each other and play fighting just at the point I was speaking. Now onto the surgery for my NHS time. Fuelled by coffee today!

Pleased to have been able to contribute and steer this article on the glass barriers faced by women in the Defence Medical Services. militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/earl...

Been busy and come back to a load of new followers. Most of who appear to be bots. Sigh.

Posting from @rcgp Council. #BreakingNews After some interesting discussion, Council voted to oppose Physician Assistants working in General Practice. Posting from @rcgp Council. www.rcgp.org.uk/News/physici... #PhysicianAssistants

Early start to get to Chelmsford to see the team at Anglia Ruskin. Looking forward to nosing around the med school and talking all things military women's health!

Back into teaching mode for me today with our #DefenceGPTrainees. A morning of consultation skills and now talking about high altitude medicine. Its cold, windy, dry (even with snow), there's less oxygen and electrical storms. I'm not sure why anyone likes mountains!

There’s a lot of NHS folk who’d like to see the end of GP partnerships because they can’t work with every practice being slightly different. Those same people just do not understand that that’s what makes general practice successful and efficient, designed around the community. 1/3

Tell me you work in the NHS with a picture....

I'd found about 80% of these people but it's great to get a few more GPs and GP researchers visible.

First post here, working out how to use it! Seeing if I can pin this, a paper I am quite pleased with: www.maturitas.org/article/S037...

What I really need Bluesky to do is let me have a list of people that I want to follow but who aren't here yet, and then notify me when they join so I can follow them! I keep searching for people and they're not here 😭

The scale and impact of #LongCOVID are revealed in a new paper from @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social in The Lancet. 📈1 in 50 affected in UK 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Impacts all ages, races and genders 📅 Can last years Want to cut your risk? 💪 Vaccines, masks & quick action are key! www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/the-sca...

I was talking about writing a new GP book list with our registrars over dinner so this is well timed! Day 1 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books House of God by Samuel Shem. Old and dated in some respects, such vital relevance still now. I remain convinced it should be required reading for all Drs.

Couple of gentle nudges… Use a capital for each separate word in hashtags so that screen readers, used by people with visual impairments, can distinguish between words. Also, do use alt text on media…..you can set an auto reminder for that in Settings.

Lucy Easthope told the RCGP conference she would rock our world when she talked to us last year. She did indeed! The book has so many moments of truth and realisations. Definitely worth a read for anyone who hasn't read it yet!

This Maori meaning for the word autism is incredibly apt.

Underrated aspect of this place Vs twitter is the lack of an algorithm trying to push you to more & more content means likelihood of falling down the infinite scroll rabbit hole feels way lower here? Open app, check notifications & DMs, scroll a bit, close app? It hasn't felt that simple in ages

My first paper for Blue-sky! A little piece looking at the need for Precision Medicine for Defence. Can we use medication better based on knowing our pharmacogenomics? militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/earl...