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We are the BJGP - the British Journal of General Practice. We publish primary care research + comment to serve the international community. Editor: @euanlawson.social here on Bluesky. BJGP: bjgp.org | BJGPLife: bjgplife.com

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Increased GP training and awareness of mood symptoms associated with #Perimenopause, along with patient education, could lead to a more proactive and tailored approach to improve management of these #MentalHealth symptoms in #PrimaryCare doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @capcbristol.bsky.social

08.10.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: Are we judging GP registrars on their outfits?
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#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine

08.10.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"We're all just doing our own thing and fumbling our way through ..."

Interviews with #PrimaryCare practitioners highlighted the complexity in managing people experiencing #Distress, which is distinct from #Depression and #Anxiety doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @uos-primarycare.bsky.social

08.10.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGP Research & Publishing Conference 2026: πŸ“† 5 days to submit your research and present at next year’s flagship research and publishing conference. Submit an abstract by Midnight on Sunday 12 October.
Submit Abstract: app.oxfordabstracts....
#BJGPRC #CallForAbstracts #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice

07.10.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: Episode 214: Receptionists reimagined: How online services are transforming the GP front desk
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#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine

07.10.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Receptionists reimagined: How online services are transforming the GP front desk - BJGP Interviews

Listen to the audio interview with @steph-stockwell.bsky.social on the evolution of the GP receptionist role bjgplife.com/214 @h-atherton.bsky.social‬ @randeurope.org‬ @uos-primarycare.bsky.social‬ #GPreceptionists #receptionists #PrimaryCare #GP

07.10.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Evolution of the GP receptionist role
Read the research: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0677 In this 1-minute video Dr Stephanie Stockwell explains: TRANSCRIPT During these observations, I not... Evolution of the GP receptionist role

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GP receptionists: read how online services are evolving the #GPreceptionist role doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @steph-stockwell.bsky.social @h-atherton.bsky.social‬ @randeurope.org‬ @uos-primarycare.bsky.social #PrimaryCare #GP

07.10.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: The anxiety engine
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06.10.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: Book review: The RCGP Curriculum: Being a General Practitioner and The RCGP Curriculum: Topic Guides
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04.10.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Present your research at the BJGP Conference! Submit your abstract by Sunday 12 October 2025
➑️ bjgp.org/conference

#BJGPRC 2026 will take place at the DoubleTree Hilton Bristol City Centre on 20 March 2026. See you there!

03.10.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: Mutual mentorship: A hidden strength in general practice
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03.10.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10 days left to share your work - Don't miss out! Present at next year’s flagship research and publishing conference. Submit an abstract by Midnight, Sunday 12 October
Find out more: bjgp.org/conference
Submit: app.oxfordabstracts....
#BJGPRC #CallForAbstracts #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice

03.10.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: Complexity, demand, and those little white spots
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01.10.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Menopausal symptoms from hormone receptor positive breast cancer treatment Quickly and easily listen to BJGP Interviews for free!

Listen to the audio interview with Dr Sophie McGrath on #menopause symptoms from #BreastCancer treatment
www.bjgplife.com/213
#HRT#PrimaryCare

30.09.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Menopausal symptoms from breast cancer treatment
YouTube video by BJGP Menopausal symptoms from breast cancer treatment

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Discontinuation of potentially lifesaving endocrine therapy occurs in 30% of patients with hormone-receptor positive #BreastCancer due to #menopause like symptoms. This analysis provides symptom and treatment management options
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#HRT #PrimaryCare

30.09.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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October 2025 InnovAiT: GP training special The October issue of InnovAiT focuses on GP training.Β  Crafting success: personal development plans in GP training What to learn after exams:Β aΒ comprehensive guide for GP registrars Remote consulti…

October 2025 InnovAiT: GP training special rcgpinnovait.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/o...

30.09.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From hospital to community? The good, the bad, and the ugly of the 10-year plan to move care to the community Labour’s 10-year health plan for England, published on 3 July, set out three strategic shifts β€” from hospital to community, sickness to prevention, and analogue to digital. This editorial focuses on the first β€” shifting care from hospital to community β€” and considers its implications for ge...

Writing for @bjgp.bsky.social​​ colleagues focus on the 10-Year Health Plan's shift from hospital to community and consider its implications for general practice, drawing on existing evidence to explore the good, the bad and the potentially ugly.

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29.09.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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BJGPLife: Episode 213: Menopausal symptoms from hormone receptor positive breast cancer treatment
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#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine

30.09.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: Bridging the gap: the role of a GP with an extended role in streamlining skin cancer referrals
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29.09.2025 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: Book review: Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us β€” and How AI Could Save Lives
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#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine

27.09.2025 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW ISSUE:
Read the latest issue of BJGP on Cancer: anaemia and ethnicity in cancer incidences, management of #menopausal symptoms, delusional infestation, and achieving universal #PalliativeCare. Also, the NHS 10-year plan, #oesophagogastric cancer-related symptoms and ADHD.
bjgp.org/content/75/...

26.09.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: A song for the haunting season
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#GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine

26.09.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The current organisation of care and lack of an acceptable language for complex #MentalHealth difficulties means that patients’ needs continue to go unrecognised and β€˜unseen’ in #PrimaryCare doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

26.09.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

BJGP in the News: Violence and abuse towards general practice staff by patients and the public: a scoping review
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25.09.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Violence and abuse towards general practice staff by patients and the public: a scoping review | British Journal of General Practice

This scoping review found violence and abuse towards #GeneralPractice staff to be widespread, with long waiting times & unmet patient demands frequently cited as reasons.

Interventions were found to be underresearched doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @violenceprevention.bsky.social @shihningchou.bsky.social

25.09.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside the BJGP and editorial insights: Euan Lawson on the future of publishing and how to get published Quickly and easily listen to BJGP Interviews for free!

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

25.09.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Inside the BJGP and editorial insights
YouTube video by BJGP Inside the BJGP and editorial insights

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BJGP Editor, @euanlawson.social‬, shares editorial insights. Read the linked editorial which demystifies key terms in metascience: P-hacking, HARKing, and QRPs.
doi.org/10.3399/bjgp... #ResearchMethods #PrimaryCare #GPsky #Medsky

25.09.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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BJGPLife: Health Equity in a New Key: Reimagining Primary Health Care Through Justice
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25.09.2025 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Grassroots development of interprofessional primary care teams: a qualitative study in Canadian family practices | British Journal of General Practice

Those wishing to promote team-based family medicine should advocate for a balance of government investment and practice-level autonomy over development, supporting provider buy-in, community-appropriate innovation & responsiveness in care delivery doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @mcmasterfammed.bsky.social

25.09.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Practitioners’ views on the measurement and management of postural hypotension in general practice: a qualitative inquiry | British Journal of General Practice

β€˜I think it is something that we do need more education about… so that people are actually doing it properly.’

The need for education, training & system-level support was emphasised doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @chrisellesclark.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @apexcomms.bsky.social @katrinaturner.bsky.social

24.09.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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