How do we keep GPs in the job? New research from Sophie Park. www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/gp-work...

Listen to the full audio interview with BJGP Editor, @euanlawson.social‬, for editorial insights into journal impact and real world applicability. www.bjgplife.com/212 #ResearchMethods #PrimaryCare #GPsky #Medsky

My thoughts with the good people at @releasedrugs.bsky.social but also, especially, with the people who are being targeted by the far-right. As they say “Solidarity is key when under attack…” www.release.org.uk/blog/office-...

The Govt needs to go much further on private school reform if it wants to reach its goal of ‘smashing the class ceiling’

The story of how I met Enid Balint and two other remarkable psychoanalysts, but never became one myself. Just out @bjgp.bsky.social. bjgplife.com/encounters-w...

Nick Clegg - here he is, again, rationalising the staggering malignancy he has blithely facilitated. Austerity and its litany of deaths. Tuition fees and the disintegration of HE. Facebook and the tech bros. If there is a social ill or moral void seems we'll find him greasing the wheels.

Read the issue dedicated to #QualitativeResearch, with an editorial from Prof. Carolyn A Chew-Graham‬ plus a celebration of qualitative research from @euanlawson.social‬ bjgp.org/content/75/755

The review also found a lack of evidence about who is most likely to be missed, highlighting the need for more research to understand and prevent inequalities at this crucial point of care. You can read the full paper here: doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PalliativeCare #Research #GeneralPractice #BJGP

Our paper on repeat prescribing duration is in this edition of @bjgp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... Lots of great articles beyond ours, including a thoughtful editorial from @euanlawson.social on co-proxamol I'll write more next week !

Pretty sure more than 50 people will need this £10 graphic novel...

‘Most drug users have to be coaxed into the Thistle, and treated carefully so that they come to trust the workers.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the UK’s first legal controlled drug consumption room: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

The impact factors for 2024 are published today - *sigh* - so this is a good moment to send people to the editorial I wrote last month about them, the BJGP, and QRPs/journalology. #primarycare #BJGP bjgp.org/content/75/7...

Oh - that is such sad news @releasedrugs.bsky.social. I didn’t know Peter personally though had been on the occ meeting with him. He did remarkable meaningful work for people who use drugs - from a place of real compassion and he leaves a powerful legacy. www.release.org.uk/blog/peter-k...

Let's never forget eh? "Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life." (Gift article: so no paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

politicians often say that there’s no point in being idealistic because you can only do things when you are in power. But now they’re in power. But not doing the things that Labour supporters want. Hey guys, you won! Stop appeasing the opposition

This is also a good read for those of us who read a great deal of research, because many forms of p-hacking can be seen with a careful read of methodology and analysis...

Our new paper! With @oohgpwales.bsky.social Digital Maturity: Towards a Strategic Approach We propose a simpler, more practical way of assessing the digital maturity of healthcare organisations, and argue that support should be tailored the organisation’s maturity level. bjgp.org/content/bjgp...

I’m giving the Edith Pechey lecture in Leeds tomorrow (6th May) at 5.30 pm UK time on how digitalisation increases health inequities. Join in person (from 4.30 for drinks) or online from 5.30). medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/eve... medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/faculty-/eve...

Labour need to say over and over again that Reform want to abolish the NHS. They are not your friend.

I can't comment on the validity of the claims made by Patrick Galbraith in his new book or the counter claims made by the campaign group @righttoroam.bsky.social but this rebuttal letter from them is a masterclass in how to stay objective, focused & rational. www.righttoroam.org.uk/patrick-galb...

I keep my own wee list of books that are ‘Not Yet Published’. Love it when they roll around and, excitingly, tomorrow will bring us @rutgerbregman.com’s new book Moral Ambition which could be the perfect book for these times. Is there a (German) word for this ‘book anticipation’ feeling? 💙📚

Working out of hours GP today and called up to sort an ambulance for a patient needing admission. Was asked: are they ‘bariatric’? Took me a moment to realise what was meant - not helped by me immediately thinking ‘barometric’.

Hannah Fry on the BBC’s One Show just telling a story about a chicken - she was quick to reassure us that the chicken not hurt in any way. Heaven forfend. We kill something like 1.1 billion chickens every year in the UK. We really do have some weird social norms around animals.

@thegreenrunners.bsky.social I might be going mad - but has your 'Become a member' page lost its link to join? There are links to a couple of articles but otherwise there seems to be nowt else... thegreenrunners.com/become-a-mem...

This early career summer school is going to be amazing - (and not just because you’ll get the chance to hear about robots!( www.bangor.ac.uk/events/healt...

Themes absolutely don’t emerge in quali research @bjgp.bsky.social - these badges a favourite gift from one of our postgrad researchers!

Highlights from the BJGP Research & Publishing Conference. Full review in the linked podcast #BJGPRC #PrimaryCare @nadakhan.bsky.social bjgp.org/conference

The April issue of the BJGP is now out. My Briefing 'Resisting in the liminal space' attempts, in under 500 words, to go from liminal spaces to Gramsci to political resistance. I may have over-reached... @bjgp.bsky.social

At the Congrès de la Médecine Générale in Paris presenting with @becksfisher.bsky.social and John Ford. We covered GP retention, workforce data, unequal GP distribution, lack of job opportunities. #sustainableGPcareers #addressingbottlenecks @rcgp.bsky.social @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk

200 episodes! Well done Nada - great achievement and you are a fabulous host 😀 #primarycare #BJGP

We talk all things vulval lichen sclerosus with Dr Louise Clarke here for the 200th @bjgp.bsky.social podcast 🎉 Listen here for clinical tips for #primarycare 👉 bjgplife.com/episode-200-...

And we're off @bjgp.bsky.social @euanlawson.social #bjgprc

Just trialled for 2 weeks muting all mentions of Trump/Musk/Vance in text/tags - can highly recommend it. Can keep current via other sources - but being intentional and shutting off the firehose here has stopped other content getting drowned out. Thanks @devezer.bsky.social for suggesting!

My thoughts on why compassionate care and moral distress in #primarycare matters. What's the cost to clinicians and to patients? Read here 👉https://bjgplife.com/moral-distress-and-compassion-fatigue-the-cost-and-value-of-caring/ @apexcomms.bsky.social @bjgp.bsky.social

New to BlueSky I'm a doctor who is passionate about developing and implementing responsible and meaningful innovation to help people. Looking forward to connecting on health technology, medicines, science, research, the environment, wildlife and running. #PharmaceuticalMedicine #WomeninSTEM

Meaningful community engagement: a Deep End perspective doi.org/10.3399/bjgp...

Is it churlish to harrumph a bit after this gift? What we need is land reform/restoration based on “well-crafted public policy” (as @andy-wightman.bsky.social notes at the foot of this piece). Waiting for ultra-high-worth bods to grow a conscience and gift it to the likes of SWT ain’t the answer.

Funded PhD opportunity looking at barriers to accessing physical health services in people experiencing psychosis and bipolar mood states. Please get in touch if you’d like any more information. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fossil fuel firms are using slavery's playbook, arguing that change needs to be slow and gradual. Find out why we need disruptive movements like @xrglobal.bsky.social @just-stopoil.bsky.social to challenge this in my new TED talk Lessons from History for a Better Future www.ted.com/talks/roman_...

Really looking forward to speaking at this conference next month!

Final version of our new paper is ready to download, should you be interested in TECHNOSTRESS, TECHNOSUFFERING and its impact on staff relations in healthcare organisations. Shout out to lead author Fran Dakin! #medsky #digitalhealth bjgp.org/content/earl...

Today is paperback publication day for Limitarianism! 🥳 I've always really disliked hardbacks - they take up too much space. On the other hand, paperbacks have smaller prints - often not good for older people. So, as always, #diversity is a good thing, in this case diversity in formats :)

There are around 10k private school kids in Edinburgh. 51 have moved to state schools in January. As I've repeatedly said the effects of VAT on fees are going to be minimal. www.thetimes.com/article/ab42...

Good week to re-up this - delighted to see the Glasgow drug consumption room getting attention. Wrote this essay for @newhumanist.bsky.social in 2023 - covers some background on a harm reduction philosophy and the UK’s leading role in the 80s, though we have since fallen woefully behind.

yup, that’s the distinguished scientist Elon Musk FRS @royalsociety.org

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations: