"The problems are immense, but the solutions are immense too."
I loved this short documentary about botanist Hugh Wilson, who spent thirty years protecting and growing a forest in New Zealand.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZS...
Next Monday 08 I will be talking about The Work We Need with the Joseph Centre of Dignified Work - come along - and snap up a reduced price book as a Christmas prezzie whilst you are with us www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-work-w...
Polarisation in medicine: how can we better engage with people who disagree with us? buff.ly/yIvtfAs
How can we make sense of a noisy, uncertain world?
I’ve spent lots of time writing online about this topic, and speaking in person. So I thought it was time to combine the two…
Excited to launch soon, thanks to support of TED Fellows.
Subscribe now to stay updated: www.youtube.com/@adamjkuchar...
Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
Alejandra hopes that her work will be useful to medical students & others thinking of getting involved in #PrimaryCare research for the first time. 🔍
Many thanks to @drmollydineen.bsky.social @dipeshgopal.bsky.social @aesambe.bsky.social & Prof Debbie Sharp for their inspiring interviews. 🙏
#GPSky
Alejandra Bonwick
We have been so impressed with medical student, Alejandra Bonwick, who has thrown herself into her 2nd year student choice project & delivered a wonderful blog & podcast series on her interviews with @gppact.bsky.social academic GPs! 👏
🔗Blog: tinyurl.com/3w334uhm
🎙️Podcast: gppact.org/pact-podcasts
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
PACT is continuing to evolve and we are recruiting new committee members for the period 2025-2028! 🙌
For further information, role descriptions and the application form, please see the recent news post on our website:
gppact.org/news/pact-is...
SAPC ASM 2026, St Andrews, 24th - 26th June
For further details : sapc.ac.uk/conference/2...
#SAPC2026 #SAPC_ASM #PrimaryCare #AcademicMedicine #StAndrews
Social media has become less social Change in share of people reporting each reason for using social media (%) Source: GWI FT graphic: John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch
‘One of the strongest cases for harm is that time on these platforms is time away from nourishing interactions with other people.’
Great graph from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com showing that social media has become less social
on.ft.com/4gP83eW
How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
If @wesstreeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital
We are the science museum!
➡️Electronic records since 1991
➡️Online triage
➡️Ambient scribes
➡️SMS
➡️Online bookings
➡️Electronic prescribing
➡️Online referrals
➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown….
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Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed and validated ‘Ovatools’, a new clinical tool that could help GPs detect ovarian cancer earlier and improve outcomes cost-effectively: https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-personalised-risk-score-could-improve-ovarian-cancer-detection #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research @qmulprimarycare.bsky.social
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed and validated ‘Ovatools’, a new clinical tool that could help GPs detect ovarian cancer earlier and improve outcomes cost-effectively: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-per...
#SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research
@qmulprimarycare.bsky.social
📢 Join our free event on the GP Patient Survey (GPPS), Wed, 1 Oct 2025 10:00 - 15:30, featuring research highlights, a keynote from Dan Wellings (The King’s Fund) & Q&A with Ipsos. Register now: https://bit.ly/3JBiBC4 #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research @fbmh-uom.bsky.social
📢 Join our free event on the GP Patient Survey (GPPS), Wed, 1 Oct 2025 10:00 - 15:30, featuring research highlights, a keynote from Dan Wellings (The King’s Fund) & Q&A with Ipsos. Register now: bit.ly/3JBiBC4
#SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research
@fbmh-uom.bsky.social
Save your money. Studies show that tap water works just fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
A randomized trial of ultraprocessed (UPF) vs unprocessed food: UPF led to impaired cardiometabolic & male reproductive health outcomes, including reduced testosterone, sperm count/motility, increased inflammation, increased BP, worse lipids. Independent of caloric load.
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
Throughout medical school and as teaching clinicians we are frequently reminded how the word doctor originates from the Latin docere—to teach. Teaching, for doctors, is considered an innate “competency,” genetically part of our DNA. Participation in teaching is a standard inclusion in the job description. Baked into this truism is a further expectation—that because we work as doctors, we can automatically teach others how to work as a doctor. This assumption about teaching is not necessarily endorsed outside medicine. Consider football for example, as an activity where everyone has an opinion on how they are trained. A talented footballer is not automatically considered a skilled coach. We can all think of examples here, both in football and in medicine, of skilled professionals who are not good teachers.
Teaching is an important skill in medicine, yet many of us have come across some outstandingly bad teachers!
Could we learn from the world of football?
In healthcare, I’ve found that there’s a strong overlap between good clinicians & good teachers.
#MedSky
Link:
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Spotlight 30-sec preview on #QualitativeResearch: youtu.be/H4eRJ5Ev2jA
Are you a qualitative researcher? BJGP outlines key theoretical concepts from Prof. @kathcheckland.bsky.social in this 30-min video youtu.be/FxvdAtJdhxk. Read this linked editorial, free till 31 August: bjgp.org/content/75/7...
The NHS waiting list - and whether it's going up or down - is viewed as a key indicator of whether the NHS is delivering for the public.
But our latest analysis from Georgia Watson and Liz Fisher suggests that there is more to the numbers than meets the eye.
#QualityWatch
buff.ly/lFMeEL2
Explaining the risks of illness vs vaccine side effects
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social offers this nice example of measles vaccines in @plosglobalpublichealth.org article [Artwork by Fahim Akbar]
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
It was only a matter of time before the 1st case report of chatGPT-mediated medical harm was published. I have had patients say strange things to me in clinic that further questioning revealed were a result of asking chatGPT, but thankfully nothing harmful
(yes I’ve already texted it to chubbyemu)
Among the range of symptoms experienced by those with long covid, cognitive and mental health concerns are especially common.
This review provides an assessment of the nature, severity, and trajectory of neuropsychiatric long covid sequelae
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Junk food “avoids advertising regulation” with top level UK sports sponsorship
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Private Eye hits the nail on the head
"Buff gym-bros and 'biohackers' inject themselves on TikTok while telling their audiences that they should be on 'T' even if their doctor disagrees." More on bro science
www.economist.com/united-state...
Polly Duncan on stage, presenting at SAPC
Final slide from Polly’s presentation, showing Alice, a housebound patient, and ways in which her care could have been better - better continuity, more time, MDT, training, patient-centred
Great presentation by Polly Duncan on primary care for housebound patients. What factors are associated with being housebound / who is most likely to be housebound? How can health care services better support their patients who are housebound? #sapc2025 @capcbristol.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk
