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A study shows that when medical chatbots are required to interact with real people they arrive at the right diagnosis in only 35% of cases - and the study authors ask 'why humans fail when interacting with LLM based tools?' Is it really the humans that are failing? www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Proud to work through the #DERA Deep End Research Alliance with Johanna White #NIHR Senior Nurse Research leader -and David Bussue and Sheila Daley (SACMHA) & Qizhi Huang, over a several projects to address inequalities in #ProstateCancer screening, diagnosis and care including the #YCR #IMPROVE

In the UK , despite universal healthcare, Cardiovascular disease still drives over one‑fifth of the life‑expectancy gap between rich and poor—but much of this harm is preventable. #NIHR funded researchers driving collaborative research for change #BJGP bjgp.org/content/76/7...

Island kids in Fiji can’t get to school because boat fuel prices have skyrocketed. They have a message for world leaders.

Is osteoarthritis care built on evidence‑biased medicine? An SR of 241 RCTs; 22,443 participants-trials informing knee osteoarthritis guidelines overwhelmingly include White, highly educated women, with minimal reporting of equity‑relevant characteristics. authors.elsevier.com/c/1n0Oy3npMr...

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Agnus Dei in memory of Sarah Everard, composed by Elisabet Dijkstra. Performed in Christ Church Cathedral recently. Just beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

In other news, Nigel Farage accepted £200k donation plus a trip to Davos from Iranian oligarchs who used a churchwarden as strawman to conceal their ownership of companies in UK as well as in Iran. But sure, let's talk about national security, Nigel.

The SPCR recently hosted a masterclass titled “Engaging people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in research.” Webinar slides and link to the recording are now available for viewing: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/spcr-ma... #SPCR #PPIE #PrimaryCare #Research

A great conference- thanks to the organisers, great keynote speakers and wonderful to meet so many talented early career researchers passionate about generating evidence to transform primary healthcare. The workshop on research storytelling and messaging was outstanding!

Highlights from the BJGP's Research & Publishing Conference with @nadakhan.bsky.social Visit bjgp.org/conference #BJGPRC #PrimaryCareResearch #ResearchImpact #HealthcareInnovation #BJGP #PrimaryCare #research #GeneralPractice

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the probability of death is often greater than renal replacement therapy, with, on average, 11% of patients eligible for referral to nephrology services using the kidney failure risk equation doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice

#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare Delighted to be attend my first RDF26 conference. I’ll deliver a keynote about inclusive NIHR research from design to delivery and Deep End modelling powerful patient/public- practitioner-researcher collaborations to coproduce useful relevant primary care research

www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk/what-we-do/r... DERA - Deep End Research Alliance Researcher funded by WoW- co-creating useful relevant research outputs with and by underserved communities

SAPC ASM 2026, University of St Andrews, 24th - 26th June. Abstract and workshop submissions for SAPC ASM 2026 are closing soon — submit yours today, sapc.ac.uk/conference/s... #SAPC_ASM, #SAPC2026, #PrimaryCareResearch, #Abstract

Listen to the audio interview with Dr Isobel J McFadzean on critical illness in prisons www.bjgplife.com/220 #PrisonHealthcare #CriticalIllness #PatientSafety #EmergencyCare #SafetyIncidents #BJGP #PrimaryCare #research #GeneralPractice #FamilyMedicine

#vaccinationworks to prevent cancer. Well done Denmark!

And behind these figures, all that stress and worry for individual patients and their loved ones arising from delay and in some instances depersonalised care by completely overloaded staff

www.instagram.com/reel/DTUproS... A mother of a child of Elon Musk To anyone on X or advertising on X, where is your conscience and response to this rapid escalation in worldwide online misogyny?

To learn more, read the full article "Case studies: a guide for researchers, educators, and implementers" by Trish Greenhalgh, in BMJ Medicine bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

Are you conducting a case study in 2026? Here are some tips from @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social's guide to case studies, published in BMJ Medicine. 🧵

Physicians in the Trump administration are aligning themselves with anti-public health interests and policies. High profile physicians should be resisting Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Q: Are USA's cuts to childhood vaccines evidence-based? A: No. New from @sheencr.bsky.social #helathpolicy #episky sheenacruickshankimmunology.substack.com/p/sweeping-c...

A clinical gem of how to navigate the complexities of gout treatment. Gout is common and causes significant pain and disruption to normal activities, including work. It’s often poorly managed in Primary Care. Our #NIHR OCCUR RCT will pin down steroid use parameters. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac... Working with a great team on the REMAP study- using realist methodology with multisource data: What are the conditions that contribute to effective outcomes in multi-professional advanced practice?

When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

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Didn’t someone do a RCT showing that health visitors are “ineffective”? Healthcare is a complex system; we need to stop relying on 20th century research tools.

To clarify: I’m being cynical about the reliance on RCT evidence. Thanks @profsarahcowley.bsky.social for confirming - there was no RCT but policy decisions to withdraw HVs were made because no RCT had shown benefit.

“Like Mark Antony minus the toga and brains, he struts and preens, cries havoc! and lets slip the dogs of war.” Well penned, Simon Tisdall. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘The Role of Doctors is Changing Forever’- a New Yorker article today is an insightful read about what happens when there are so many sources of medical information now that there is credibility equipoise between AI / the MAHA influencers & the Dr in front of you…

Our PRAMs team study webinar - we trained and worked with community research link workers for exceptional community engagement with underserved groups

Expert generalism described with wit and clarity & this gem⬇️ bjgplife.com/bursting-bub...

Reflective research practice to drive inclusivity in research studies ⬇️

Evidence-based medicine is only as good as the evidence it is derived from. If research representation does not truly reflect the diversity of the general population, medicines &other healthcare interventions may not work for everyone.’ Time to revisit Sackett’s framework for reflective teamwork

@bjgp.bsky.social bjgp.org/content/bjgp... Evidence-biased medicine? Applying a health equity lens to Sackett's methodological framework #GeneralPractice #DeepEndGP #FamilyMedicine #PrimaryCare @nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social

This study developed a new intervention #PATH-GP, combining education, training, and systematic testing approaches to increase #HIV testing and access to pre-exposure prophylaxis in #GeneralPractice, addressing key barriers to HIV prevention doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @arc-west.bsky.social#PATH#HIV#GeneralPractice#PrimaryCare

Pure evil.

youtube.com/watch?v=lDj-... Thank you Deep End Canada for inviting us to share experiences from Deep End Scotland, Deep End Ireland and the Deep End Research Alliance . It’s good to see that these collaborations to tackle health are inequalities flourishing- activism and collaboration for change.

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Sad screenshot share - every time we look up a reference now on NIH we see a statement which states that the NIH is no longer able to guarantee up-to-date evidence sources #EvidenceBiasedMedicine #ResearchIntegrity @bjgp.bsky.social @bjgpopen.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social

Interested in applying for our DPhil in Translational Health Sciences? Dr Laiba Husain, our first ever student to complete the DPhil, shares her experiences on the programme, how the DPhil has contributed to her career so far, and about her journey pre-DPhil in her blog here: ow.ly/gOkg50Xj6aw

We are on the cusp of eradicating cervical cancer, and significantly reducing penile, anal and some head and neck cancers. These are cancers that kill young adults, and it’s a tragedy. Those who spread anti-vax disinformation are killing their children.

An excellent article - ‘lifestyle’ is an unhelpful , over-simplified practitioner-orientated and potentially pejorative term which ignores intersectionality of the causes of the causes of ill-health. So Ryan’s concept of ‘victim-blaming’ as a thought for the day… ppa.csp.org.uk/content/chro...

Everyone needs a break from clinical academia- I bring you snow monkeys protected in their own forest area & cycling the Shimanami Kaido. ❤️ Japan - everything works…

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.