On my way to Edinburgh for a meeting to discuss recommendations from this report, as well as other recent work on new models of primary care by Stewart Mercer and team. Great to have @kathcheckland.bsky.social, John Ford and Mogens Vestergaard joining us.

"The future doctor may be less the sole expert and more a kind of relational anchor... open to ideas from patient, family, colleague, or algorithm. We bring discernment, perspective, humanity. We’re invested." @deependgp.bsky.social bjgplife.com/still-in-the...

🚨 Big news! The EFPC has been granted special consultative status with @UN_ECOSOC 🎉 🔗 Learn more: euprimarycare.org/2025/08/22/e...

Latest Deep End International Bulletin (no. 13), expertly curated by Prof Graham Watt, now online - www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

How do we 'create health'?💡 Dr @dnblane.bsky.social leads this afternoon's first panel w/ Dr Carey Lunan of @deependgp.bsky.social, @tejeshm.bsky.social of @vhscotland.bsky.social, and Leanne McBride of Chance 2 Change on the role of primary care and voluntary sector in healthy communities 💬

Read Dr @dnblane.bsky.social's Quick Insight on the Programme for Government📝 Dr Blane, @deependgp.bsky.social, looks at the FM's health pledges, focusing on new GP appointment plans and growing concerns around access and investment in general practice. 🔗 Read more: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Proud to have supported this letter to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social The UK (& Ireland) need a conflict of interest disclosure system detailing the payments that pharmaceutical & medical device companies make to healthcare professionals, healthcare organisations and patient organisations

9/ The full paper can be read here: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

#HealthCare Bridges — Pathways toward #Trust in Gaza and Beyond www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... -positive piece in grim times. "..findings suggest that cross-national #health care programs can overcome formal & informal segregation, establish connections, & help build trust between groups in conflict."

Austerity kills. “For society’s sake, we need to reverse these cuts, not add more. We need to use the power within our communities – our collective voice – to demand that austerity policies are reversed.” @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social @deependgp.bsky.social www.chex.org.uk/latest/artic...

Special thanks to @dnblane.bsky.social, @dremekadumbili.bsky.social and @maizie333.bsky.social with episodes ranging from Deep End GPs in the south side of Glasgow, to alcohol marketing in Nigeria, to industry-sponsored gambling, alcohol fossil fuel and firearm education materials in schools.

This is why @kityates.bsky.social post is so relevant today kityates.substack.com/p/science-is... and why my dystopian piece is perfectly plausible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-dystopia...

People help people. A hero has passed.

🧐 Curious about the #ClimateResearchNet? Our interactive network map is here! 🔍 See which research themes connect our different projects! 🌐 Start exploring now: bit.ly/climaterese... Thanks to @eerie-project.bsky.social for this cool map!

Sharing this short (10mins) survey by colleagues working to improve care for people with liver disease. 📢 Clinicians (doctors and nurses) in primary and secondary care, in the UK. 🏅Prize draw to win one of five £75 High Street shopping vouchers. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/adi...

My partner is a community link worker, they do absolutely brilliant work for people 👍🏻

Something positive to share... short video accounts from GPs, patients, and community links workers... vhscotland.org.uk/cabinet-secr... @deependgp.bsky.social

Exciting times, calling all third sector, policy, public affairs and academic bods interested in child poverty 👇

Exemplars of innovative medical education in Scotland at #NADEGS2025 - Community engagement in ScotGEM - Outcomes of Post-CCT GP Fellowships - Communications Masterclass - Graphic Medicine (e.g. figshare.arts.ac.uk/articles/pre...)

Highly recommend Gwen Adshead’s Reith Lectures from the end of last year on “Four Questions about Violence” “Violence is contextual and relational” - these lectures build empathy and understanding of complex behaviours www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Two key papers from @euanlawson.social (BJGP editor) keynote talk at #NADGES2025: 1) Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility - www.nature.com/articles/d41... 2) Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

What an incredible, brave woman.

it's almost as though apps for fertility/contraception should be treated like a medical intervention capable of side effects/ineffectiveness/harm and women should have really high quality information on that srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

Great start yesterday to the “Future of Evaluation in Health & Social Care” conference at Northumbria University. - fantastic plenary talks by Kathryn Skivington, Laurence Moore, Ray Pawson and Dave Byrne. Excited for Day 2… www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

bjgp.org/content/75/7... For a lover of both words and General Practice (still holding hope for a transformed future) this was a seriously good read. Thanks @euanlawson.social - and @oohgpwales.bsky.social for the fabulous research

“By 2048, NHS Scotland’s premises have become models of environmental sustainability and community integration.” A vision for the future of the NHS in Scotland, by Deep End GP Dr Peter Cawston www.reformscotland.com/nhs2048/the-...

📢 PhD project opportunity Please share this exciting interdisciplinary fellowship opportunity - aiming to advance understanding of "proportionate continuity" in GP as a mechanism for mitigating health inequalities. 🤝 Further info on the project: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Ok so Trump won again, Musk is buying up democracy, media is overdosing on Farage and Tory sour grapes… BUT We kicked the Tories out, the right is split, Brexit hovers over the shredder, Trump and Musk will trip up over their monstrous egos and we moved to Bluesky. There’s always hope. Cheers all🎄🥂

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

New book by David Walsh and Gerry McCartney @uofgshw.bsky.social helps us understand the drivers of declining UK life expectancy… TL;DR = Austerity policies

Having bought the US election, Musk now wants to buy ours. This ketamine-infused menace thinks global domination is his to buy. And Farage is grasping for his money.These repulsive men weaponise prejudice for power. They feed off ignorance, resentment and inadequacy. If they succeed, we have failed.

Thanks Lisa. I would argue that similar messages apply to any condition/disease-specific research area 🤔 #uksf24 #MedSky #primarycare

Important update from the #DRC MOH: A concerning situation in Kwango province, with 376 cases and 79 deaths reported, mostly in children. This highlights the need for robust health systems capable of detecting and investigating outbreaks rapidly.

Early Xmas present... 9mins of Hope, Joy, Inclusivity, Kindness, and Advocacy - the themes of the Deep End conference held in Glasgow earlier this year. (Thought this would be appropriate for our #firstpost #MedSky #AcademicSky - Enjoy!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRqj...

Get ready for an unforgettable event Join us at on Friday 21 March 2025 for an exhilarating day of workshops, presentations, keynote speakers, prizes and networking opportunities. We're expecting #BJGPRC to be bigger and better! Early bird rates until 5 December 2024 Book: bit.ly/BJGPRC-Book-...

⏳ Another few weeks to go until deadline. Interested? pls get in touch to discuss your application. Glasgow Uni is a vibrant place to study diet, nutrition and health inequalities #FoodStudies #nutsky @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Our new paper, led by @oohgpwales.bsky.social: Muscle weakness post-COVID: a practical guide for primary care TL;DR: patients with muscle weakness after COVID-19 infection may have myelopathy, nerve damage or other organic pathology. Not always due to 'deconditioning'! bjgp.org/content/74/7...

Ok here’s a thread of feeds that aren’t topic themed but utilitarian and do things like show you different versions of your timeline or provide services that should be official Bluesky features. 🧵

📢 PhD project opportunity Please share this exciting interdisciplinary fellowship opportunity - aiming to advance understanding of "proportionate continuity" in GP as a mechanism for mitigating health inequalities. 🤝 Further info on the project: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

This feels like a thread worth re-visiting! 📌

STRENGTHEN PRIMARY CARE

Stumbled across this fab animation about the value of family medicine (general practice) - and primary care research in particular - for health systems (and society in general!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLuy...

📢 PhD project opportunity join us on this interdisciplinary project exploring Time, Convenience, and Identity as roots of health inequalities in the Glasgow diet ℹ️ www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... ⏰ Deadline 12/01/25 please get in touch for guidance on applying #FoodStudies @dnblane.bsky.social

TACKLING THE INVERSE CARE LAW IN SCOTTISH GENERAL PRACTICE: Policies, interventions and the Scottish Deep End Project www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_... @rcgp.bsky.social @dnblane.bsky.social

#OSHA = US Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Grim thread about how the new regime is likely to decimate its work.

Great to see the NHS Fife pain team doing this important public engagement/media work www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is my #firstpost on bluesky... I don't have any pets (yet!), so posting an image of the flags of the 18 different Deep End projects around the UK and internationally. I hope it's more civilised (and inclusive) here than on X/Twitter...