Adj Professor Karen Price

the sun shines brightly through the clouds in the blue sky ALT: the sun shines brightly through the clouds in the blue sky

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'

Private equity-backed GP chain a winner from Labor health spending The BGH Capital-owned medical centre operator ForHealth has been a big beneficiary of the government’s increased spending on Medicare and urgent care clinics.

Wow. Curious to hear what GPs and patients think about this?👇🏾
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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

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AMA launches 2025 Federal Election Platform calling for urgent health system reform The Australian Medical Association has launched its 2025 federal election platform, calling for immediate action to Modernise Medicare and lift our public hospitals out of logjam. The AMA is also seek...

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

Great work.

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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

Fairer funding for general practice in England: what’s the problem, why is it so hard to fix, and what should the government do? 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. This briefing, produced…

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

Oh that’s an elegant description!!

The enshittification of general practice It was Cory Doctorow, the author, who coined the term ‘enshittification’ when he used it to describe the evolution and, critically, the deterioration of tech platforms. In 2023 the American Dialect So...

The enshittification of uk general practice. (He’s talking about our paper!!) led by @oohgpwales.bsky.social
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“Rookie factor”: why healthcare workforce policy needs to embrace experience What price experience? I have been working across several safety critical industries for years and in terms of the approaches that these industries take to workforce issues there are some stark differ...

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

UQ Mythbusters: The 10,000 step count goal is made up – and wrong For years, fitness trackers and health gurus have pushed the idea that hitting 10,000 steps a day is the golden rule for staying fit. But is this really the best metric for daily movement?

The 10,000 step count goal is made up – and wrong.
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Depression and Menopause Taking a look at two recent papers

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?”

Australia has an ongoing GP shortage. Why can’t we just train more GPs? The number of GPs has actually increased in the past five years. But the number of full-time equivalent GPs has gone down.

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Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it? A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.

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”

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PHN review a waste of $2m: they’re not the problem - Medical Republic The $2m Boston Consulting Group PHN review is in danger of missing the elephant in the room: PHNs have never been run by DoHAC in the manner they were originally designed to be.

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Bad commissioning hacks by Australian health.

How not to engage in community services when managing political widgets on a spread sheet.

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Jessica's interests

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

How cities are reinventing the public-private partnership − 4 lessons from around the globe A new form of public-private partnership is reshaping urban landscapes: Community-centered, public-private partnerships, or CP3s.

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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.

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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.