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BJGPLife: Kieran Sweeney Prize winner 2025: The GP model for delivery of Primary Care is outdated for the society in 2025
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OUT NOW: BJGP | Continuity & Access: what #patients want from access, the GP partnership model, and improving general practice #AppointmentBooking, plus, transformation in Scotland, Community Interest Companies, #CaudaEquinaSyndrome, and the financial erosion of the GP role.

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BJGPLife: In summer!
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Physicians report taking the concerns of parents with several children more seriously than those raising a first child in this #Qualitative study, which investigated factors influencing physicians' assessment of parental concerns. 

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BJGPLife: A GP at 10: An invitation to celebrate public service
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#GeneralPractice staff reported barriers to #Chlamydia testing in #PrimaryCare & proposed interventions to improve care delivery:
• Training/education
• Persuasive materials (i.e posters)
• Incentives (i.e financial)
• Environmental restructuring (i.e computer reminders)
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Save the date! The BJGP Research & Publishing Conference 2026 will be coming to Bristol on 20th March 2026. Stay tuned for more details! #BJGPRC

BJGPLife: Book review: Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity
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The equitable recognition of palliative care needs in #PrimaryCare settings was rarely considered in studies included in this #SystematicReview

Greater understanding of the extent and nature of inequities in recognising such needs is required doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @rebecca-henderson.bksy.social

"Ensuring patients have a clear understanding of who is providing their care is critical to fostering trust"

Victoria Tzortziou Brown and colleagues examine the implications of the failure to identify healthcare staff roles in EHRs, and suggest ways to address these failures doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

BJGPLife: The Planned Treatment Scheme (S2 funding): an alternative to long NHS waiting lists or private care
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BJGPLife: The absurdity of GP funding in Wales
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BJGPLife: Eating animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
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BJGPLife: Long Covid and the body: can we move beyond judgements?
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BJGPLife: Your brain on ChatGPT – one for the journal club!
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BJGPLife: Samples (poem)
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Long-term nitrofurantoin use: risks and alternatives in general practice

Awareness of drug-induced pulmonary disease and hepatotoxicity from Nitrofurantoin use, leading to severe morbidity, is crucial for detection and discontinuation. doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

BJGPLife: On not being paternalistic
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BJGPLife: Between inner sound and spoken word: Reflections on jazz, silence, and the unfolding art of the consultation
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BJGPLife: The clinician’s narrative and the patient’s narrative are ontologically equivalent
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A major implementation gap remains between Scottish Government’s policy ambitions to address health inequalities and sustainable delivery.

This study found out of 20 interventions only two — community link workers and welfare advisers — had received ongoing funding doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

BJGPLife: On a knife edge in Scotland – A view from the deep end
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People with lived experience of #ADHD and healthcare professionals want better healthcare information about ADHD in #GeneralPractice, such as coproduced resources to support understanding and self-management; digital resources can be cost-effective & accessible doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare

"If numbers of GP partners fall much further, there will not be enough of them left to keep the partnership model functioning."

RCGP Chair, Kamila Hawthorne, & colleagues ask: how can we retain the benefits of the GP partnership model while evolving to meet new challenges? doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

BJGPLife: A poem: Heart failure.
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Small improvements in personal GP continuity, achievable in most practices, resulted in reductions in hospital admissions and emergency department visits ‪doi.org/10.3399/bjgp... @liu.se.bsky.social #PrimaryCare #Continuity #GeneralPractice

Discontinuity of care was higher among younger adults, subgroups of males, urban residents, lower socioeconomic groups, those of "other" ethnicity, those who were unemployed, and patients with higher morbidity in this Danish cohort study doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare @trkristensen.bsky.social

BJGPLife: Should we be bothered that we are losing a QOF indicator for people with SMI?
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BJGPLife: ADHD – Overdiagnosis or Opportunity?
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BJGPLife: From Error to Ethics: Five essential lessons from teaching clinicians in trouble
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