Gavin Jamie

A Systematic Review of the Markers of Severity in Acute Respiratory Infections to Inform Primary Care Surveillance Background Primary care computerised medical records (CMR) are used to report the incidence of acute respiratory infections (ARI) for public health surveillance. These systems could increase their u...

How can we measure severity of Acute Respiratory Infections. Data has to be present and relevant. doi.org/10.1111/irv....

Will John Milton finally get his name in the credits as "writer"?

Fall of the house of Usher

The 39 Steps

Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2025-2026 northern hemisphere influenza season Publications of the World Health Organization

Flu is all "fresh". The advice is updated every year by WHO. www.who.int/publications...

Did you catch our Understanding and reducing winter pressures from respiratory disease in primary care panel at #BestPracticeShow today? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare #respiratorydisease

We are excited for #BestPracticeShow Birmingham 😊 Are you?

#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare

@sellingamirror.bsky.social

I know this is far too late to make any difference, but I had always thought that the better term for what LLMs do is confabulation.

Will you be at #BestPractice this year?

Why not drop by our panel session! 10:45-11:30 / 8th October

#oxfordrcgprsc #cihorg #bestpractice #birmingham #research #primarycare

Memorising and heuristics got me through my exams!

Yes, digital ID cards will link up with porn verification system, Starmer confirms THE prime minister has confirmed that digital ID cards will indeed work in tandem with the age verification system which records all the filth you watch.

I really can't say this better than @thedailymash.bsky.social www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/yes...

I did wonder if daylight saving might increase births at the end of October (and less in the spring) but a squint at the charts does not seem to support this.
Also happy birthday. 🎈🎈🎈

I was slightly reassured that the AI messed up in the introduction and repeated itself.

[MI] SNOMED Code Usage in Primary Care, 2024-25 - NHS England Digital SNOMED Code Usage in Primary Care, 2024-25, England

Perhaps a niche dataset but if you are doing anything with primary care data it helps to know what is actually recorded in computerised medical records. #SNOMED 🩺💻 digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...

Pure filth!

Well hello, @phcsg.bsky.social
Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the British Computer Society joins BlueSky.
Give 'em a follow if this is your tribe.
#digitalhealth #medsky #medtwitter

Note for subs: *buy*

Getting a little more automated. The last piece of command line PHP has now been eliminated. Data mangling now in a combination of SQL, python, awk and a little sed.

I have put English #QOF data for the 2024-25 year up on the QOF Database website. As usual 10% of the work is the data itself and the rest is keeping up with organisational changes in the NHS. www.gpcontract.co.uk

Two bats in my video batbox.

Update on the bat. There are two of them! Thought there was something going on and they have posed for the camera today. If we keep up this daily doubling we will have over a quarter of a million bats by October!

Time for a little stretch and make yourself comfortable.

A black and white photograph of a bat roosting on a plastic mesh.

A bat has returned to my video bat box. It has been up there for about ten years before we noticed the first bat. Only stayed for a week then. @batconservation.bsky.social

YouTube video by Highland Sparkle NNN Politicians

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There is *no evidence whatsoever* that the Covid vaccine causes cancer in *anyone*.

I’m no royalist but I respect public figures’ right to privacy so won’t comment on the speculation around individual cases. I am horrified that other doctors have chosen to do so.

Effect of UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performance programme on quality of primary care: systematic review with quantitative synthesis Objective To systematically review the one and three year impact on quality of care of the introduction and withdrawal of financial incentives in the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performa...

Catching up on my reading. This is a careful systematic review showing increase in #QOF indicators when they received payment and decline when it stopped. www.bmj.com/content/389/... (photo is unrelated). GPs see the contract in transactional terms. Commissioners and policy makers vary.

Solar panels do not work well if stacked up in a pile and left on a road lay-by. (see photo)

Hepatitis A vaccination rates in people with chronic liver disease are low in England. Important study and am glad to have been a small part of this. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quite apart from the the sexism point is that the headline is the wrong way round. Surely the argument is that too many doctors are women. There is not a shortage of non doctor women.

Who knew that the end of staple would be a nail?