Fiona Godlee on why she protested, knowing she would be arrested. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

GP 'laggards', supply induced demand and the rise of GP waiting lists - the unintended consequences of Wes Streeting's obsession with online access. bmj.com/cgi/content/...

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Good article. And very relevant to regulators of healthcare professionals www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

Shades of slash and burn DOGE policies which cost money rather than saved it. 'Fail to plan = plan to fail' is the irritatingly true mantra that springs to mind. Meanwhile any useful work ICBs should be doing is overshadowed as no one knows whether they'll have a job come January.

BJGPLife: Beautiful Lives: How we got learning disabilities so wrong, by Stephen Unwin bjgplife.com/beautif... #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

Safety first. Always.

Impassioned plea for more mixed-methods research (quant & qual) from @timharford.ft.com "The hard data is never as eloquent as a good story. Humboldt would measure the cactus but also sketch it; drag his barometer up a volcano, but spin a yarn about the epic climb." www.ft.com/content/d419...

If a bus arrives at a stop already full & there is a queue of people what should the driver do ? To me it seems like the answer in GP land is to create more queues & ask the driver to open the door. And if that doesn’t work it’s the driver at fault? Misunderstood? @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

Mortality rate is noticeably higher in Republican counties: www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop... They reap what they sow. #politics

In just under 9 months, Trump’s 2nd term has racked up 230 nationalist actions - 75% occurring in the past 3 months. From executive orders to mass detentions & political violence, the darkness is spreading. Can we hold the line? My latest Substack ⬇️ christinapagel.substack.com/p/nationalis...

So disappointing from Labour. One of the reasons the Oxford Bus Company supports the congestion charge is precisely because it will improve public transport, enabling buses to run faster and more on time, with potentially more routes. Stop cosying up to the angry libertarians, Labour.

Bonus late dahlia on our patio.

doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... My latest on new contract rules for GP - increasing access doesn't create capacity: if we have to attend to any and every question submitted online that's time we can't spend seeing patients face-to-face.

St Giles' Fair There are terrifying rides that swing you (definitely not me) 30 metres up and inches from historic buildings. I prefer the 'up and down horses' but mostly I love people watching and seeing the city transformed

The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

This is the coolest man in the UK. It's not even close.

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be? LADAPO: Absolutely not T: You didn't even do a projection? L: It's an issue of right & wrong

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard". youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."

If this doctor is a terrorist, then what is the IDF?

@endlessyesterday.bsky.social This reminds me of someone...

Fiona Godlee (previous editor of the BMJ) being arrested yesterday for her support for Palestine. She is a good and brave woman with a record of being on the right side of history.

There is *no evidence whatsoever* that the Covid vaccine causes cancer in *anyone*. I’m no royalist but I respect public figures’ right to privacy so won’t comment on the speculation around individual cases. I am horrified that other doctors have chosen to do so.

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.

🚨 Nigel Farage is in Birmingham today, where he'll be talking about Reform's plans to try to send torture survivors into the arms of their torturers. So here's a new billboard to show who has come out to back his new plan. 📍near Reform’s party conference, Birmingham

The finest response I've seen so far.

4 months ago, I became the first Senator to call for RFK Jr. to resign. Tomorrow, he will be on Capitol Hill. The question I would ask is simple: Will you accept personal responsibility for the children who have died and will die because of your vaccine conspiracy theories?

Nearly a million people marched against Brexit. Not front page news. 50 people gather outside a hotel. National news for weeks. "Fears of mass unrest", media says.

The letter raises deep concerns about the rise in hostility towards people seeking asylum in the county. It condemns the use of dehumanising language and the intimidation faced by asylum seekers living in local hotels.👇

Excellent news!

Funds for monitoring foodborne infections including listeria (primarily milk products), campylobacter and salmonella to be cut by CDC in move to reduce food safety by MAHA - which again, akin to environmental protections and vaccines being reduced will make Americans much less healthier 🧪

While the mainstream discussions are depressingly about *how* best to remove and stop immigrants, it’s a revolutionary act nowadays to say that immigration is actually a positive thing and an essential component of a thriving country, so please join me in doing so!

RFKJr is causing chaos with his disdain for scientific methods- after the CDC director would not endorse his directions for covid vaccines dramatically cutting access to the vax for many, the health dept announced her service was over 🧪🧵

A classroom of children dies every day in Gaza. Yet since the war started in October 2023, only 80 children have been granted visas to come to the UK. ✏️ @amreenqureshi.bsky.social writes about the need for a Gaza Family Visa Scheme 👇 www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-gaza-f...

In the UK under the Labour Party, colluding with genocide is not a crime. Having the words 'Palestine Action' on a t-shirt is.

Following the double attack on a hospital killing the sick, medics, rescuers and journalists amongst others and as people starve in Gaza, when will governments move beyond hollow condemnation?

#Israel has today murdered famous Palestinian veteran photojournalist Mariam Abu Daqqa in #Israeli occupied #Palestine 's #Gaza. تغطية صحفية: " ارتقاء الصحفية مريم ابو دقة بمجزرة الاحتلال بقصف مبنى بمجمع ناصر الطبي بخانيونس". www.instagram.com/p/DNxWXL-0BmH/ #BoycottIsrael #Journalism #News #Press

Summer of 1889: Inspired by the match girl's strike in the previous year, London's tailors and dockworkers join together in a general strike. The tailors demanded better pay, a 12 hour work day, a limit on overtime, and a 1 hour break for dinner and tea. They eventually won.

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The striking thing about these asylum hotel protests is how few people show up to most of them. Do a story on that please. On the prevailing “there but for the grace of God go I” mood.

The BMA and many others warned that this was coming, and now it is here. The UK government must act immediately to prevent widespread death in Gaza from hunger. This is entirely man-made and is intolerable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

It is worrying that instead of producing GPs who diagnose and manage patients well we will have GPs who will need to see the patient more times to arrive at the same result with consequences for morbidity.