It’s been a while blue sky but you’re looking more and more like old friends here. Without all the Xtreme. Yay to that.

'tools that give medical advice should be regulated as medical devices'

The updated guidelines for osteoporosis management and fracture prevention are an evidence‐based pragmatic tool designed to support general practitioners in the treatment and management of at-risk patients Read more: buff.ly/JgS77T3

The AMA has launched its 2025 federal election platform, setting out a comprehensive plan for health reform. 🩺 From modernising Medicare and ending the hospital logjam, to fixing private health and tackling chronic disease with a sugar tax, the AMA is demanding action from all sides of politics.

The brave little boy having one of the first polio vaccines is me. At school I recall two pupils who had leg calipers because of #polio caught before they could be vaccinated and there even was an iron lung for emergency use. #Vaccination saves lives

In my @mja.com.au Editor's Choice for the first issue of what's going to be an interesting year, it seems appropriate to reflect on the social and political framework of health www.mja.com.au/journal/2025... Read the whole issue here www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

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Hello, bluesky people! Who should I follow from the health services/epi/public health/medical community?

Things started to really go wrong the moment we began training the entire population that real life was form of entertainment.

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation. Our briefing, proposes replacing Carr-Hill with a modern, needs-based formula.

Interesting to see similar debates in accounting and medicine on training, the impact of technology and the future of the professions.

Fragmentation of care is a risk of hybrid general practice which should be urgently addressed according to new research from @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @oohgpwales.bsky.social doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... See Box 3. Unintended consequences of remote and digital triage #PrimaryCare

The enshittification of uk general practice. (He’s talking about our paper!!) led by @oohgpwales.bsky.social bjgp.org/content/75/7...

My latest @bmj.com on why an experienced workforce is necessary for safety and productivity www.bmj.com/content/387/...

The 10,000 step count goal is made up – and wrong. stories.uq.edu.au/contact-maga...

Menopause and depression. Taking a look at two new studies. vajenda.substack.com/p/depression...

Information is always values laden The question is “whose values?”

Fascinating article for Science translators & the firewall between evidence & policy. Quote “You need well-trained people who can be honest, and say ‘Prime minister, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

www.medicalrepublic.com.au/phn-review-a... Bad commissioning hacks by Australian health. How not to engage in community services when managing political widgets on a spread sheet.

Meet our editorial team! Jessica Sutherland from the University of Warwick will continue her work as our social media editor warwick.ac.uk/fac/so... #philsky

theconversation.com/how-cities-a... Public private partnerships at a community level. Four criteria for success. 1. Mission & vision centred 2 Diverse skills based partners 3. Excellent & strong governance 4. Appetite for innovation & growth Illustrates wide applicability ✅

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Excellent article from @vicclarke.bsky.social @ginnybraun.bsky.social and colleagues looks at qualitative researchers’ experiences of reviewer and editor comments. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Deep End workforce planning: ‘…for proper team based care, NOT task substitution’ Starfield’s : cost-effective primary care requires the 4 CS of 1st Contact +Continuity +Co-ordinated+ Comprehensive team care ( with Family Practitioner/ GP allocation matched to need/per capita). #GPandPrimaryCare

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” from A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut I read the book years ago but I had to look up the quote this morning after watching the beach sunrise.

One of my immediate thoughts about HBO not renewing Sesame Street is that we live in a moment where being kind is an inherently political act.

Great to have been one of opening speakers at Skin@Bath - taking delegates from around the world through the opportunities and barriers to a left shift of #dermatology and skin cancer diagnosis from hospitals to the community via #primaryhealthcare www.skinatbath.org #nhs #healthpolicy

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In any other industry this rate of failure and this kind of utter ignorance and incompetence would get you fired, but we're supposed to believe techbros are somehow better than all of us at deciding what society needs

Abstracts authored by all-female teams are less likely to get accepted for presentation at economics conferences than those authored by all-male teams, even after adjusting for the authors’ prior track records and institutional prestige

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

Academic slang: I'm running a little behind = this was due in 2021 This shouldn't take too long = I'll finish in 2027

To demedicalise distress is not to delegitimise distress. One can honor, respect and care for profound suffering without labeling it as illness, pathology or disorder.

Just a reminder: All vaccines used in public health have been rigorously tested. Their benefits greatly outweigh their risks. While a few people have a medical reason for not taking vaccines, most people (and the population overall) will benefit. Doctors who claim otherwise are irresponsible.

www.medicalrepublic.com.au/the-mental-h... The privilege of most other ill-health conditions sits way above mental ill-health In reality we all need to look after our mental health remembering that mental health is also of the community Communities need to reflect how we support well-being of all

www.abc.net.au/news/health/... Life saving Naloxone. A new program of over the counter treatments saving lives.

The latest @nihr.bsky.social Alert is on the resource impacts of long waiting lists. In June, nearly 8 million people were waiting for #NHS treatment. The research reveals the hidden costs of waiting lists, and was supported by us and @bristolbrc.bsky.social. evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/people...

We've just flown over to Bluesky social! Please follow us for updates on all things WiseGP... 🦉Championing the expert generalist work of GPs 🦉Supporting GPs and their teams to manage complex problems and deliver whole person healthcare 🦉Reclaiming general practice @joannelreeve.bsky.social

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

Those who fail to study history... 🙄 All those greats of electromagnetic physics whose names are so familiar to us now- Faraday, Ampere, Maxwell, Hertz- were developing what was then known as NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 'Social science' IS science. 🤨

Currently at #HSR Not many GPs. Where are the generalists? 🤔🥰 Looking forward to the cross disciplinary discussions and research.

What a genuinely uplifting & magnficent story. The astounding achievements of medical science - saving lives globally 💉🧬🦠🦟 www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.medicalrepublic.com.au/marionette-m... Describing the compliance and business burdens of Australian General Practice. It’s almost as if non experts with power DO NOT understand the complex expertise of Generalism nested within a SYSTEM of sub specialties & allied health. It’s the main cog.

*Favourite. #WorldBollardAssociation

An interesting thread below A story of a twittering that became X-rated. Of media & its lamentable demise into click bait. Polarised politics Sadness & the slow rise of this place. Thanks to a generation of civil rights. Trust rising Humans heroically moving on past the hate to usefulness. Hope.