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Faecal immunochemical tests for colorectal investigation triage in #PrimaryCare were significantly less likely to be returned by younger patients, males, and people in more deprived and more ethnically diverse areas doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #FIT #GeneralPractice #Cancer @newcastleuni.bsky.social

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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He stayed for two hours drinking Portuguese wine and left at 9pm to return home to Tooting, south London. He claims not to remember anything more of the night until he arrived at his house injured and without his personal possessions, including confidential church papers. Witnesses, however, appear to have filled in the blanks. They say he ended up in Crucifix Lane, a largely deserted street next to railway arches near his cathedral, at 9.30pm where he clambered into a stranger's Mercedes and started throwing toys on to the road. Paul Sumpter, the car's owner, was playing pool in Suchard Bar when he heard his vehicle alarm go off. He ran outside and saw Mr Butler, dressed in his robes and a smart black over coat, sitting in the back seat throwing out the toys. Mr Sumpter said to him: "What are doing in my car?" Mr Butler replied: "I'm the Bishop of Southwark, it's what I do."

This popped up in my memories today. It’s got no less compelling over the last decade.

I don't know any ambassadors personally, but I have always pictured the profession as being rather conservative. Apparently I was mistaken.

What I really love is the chap who turned up with seven other members of his family to a tourist attraction, complaining about there being “large groups” of people there!

Police launch investigation into heart operation deaths at NHS hospital - BBC News Patients who died at Castle Hill Hospital near Hull may have suffered avoidable harm, documents suggest.

Pre-dates the statutory roll-out of the #MedicalExaminers service: TAVI mortality rate at the time (2020) was three times higher than the UK average

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Absolutely! PSA of course is far from perfect and could have been normal range, or maybe he didn’t report symptoms. Would have expected though that he would have had mpMRI at the drop of a hat though even for a borderline PSA. All very strange!

Was just thinking about this. With the regularity of his medicals, as well as the intense scrutiny of his health I am surprised this wasn’t picked up sooner (unless it was, and as you say this was behind his dropping out)

Big news for primary care: The Lancet Primary Care is launching!
As a GP and researcher, I’m excited to see our field get this kind of spotlight 💪
🎯 A new opportunity to promote excellent research in primary care.

#primarycare #clinicalresearch #generalpractice #physiotherapy

Link for webinar ⬇️

For years I thought it was “I’ve been leaving milk out…” and was sure this was a song about someone who loved hedgehogs a little too much!

donald trump is giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying daddy 's home . ALT: donald trump is giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying daddy 's home .

Gonna start imposing wild tariffs on all the specialists that come to the emergency dept. 20% for the surgeons, 10% for the medics, 50% for any ologist who thinks I’m their FY1. MAKE A&E GREAT AGAIN.

A poem designed to elicit a gut reaction…

Likewise in 1’ care. Sometimes what’s available changes day to day such that we are rewriting scripts which we have only just rewritten the day before!

You want to see an octopus riding a shark.

🎥: University of Auckland

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

While this is a very small study, and it is early days, this study published in Nature offers some positive news. Given the poor prognosis of pancreatic cancer and how tough it is to diagnose in the wild, positive findings like this are much needed.

Really good summary of the process, with timings importantly.

'I've waited seven weeks to give my dad a funeral' - BBC News Gemma Whysall says the new death certification process left her and her family in limbo for weeks.

This is disappointing reporting, *again*
A referral to the coroner will, of necessity, delay families. Nothing can move forward until their investigations conclude
The medical examiner service is not involved in that delay and yet here we are *again* in the firing line www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So it turns out that mini-palldoc’s perfect birthday is a Stalinist soviet themed day with era appropriate national anthem and posters. Am equal parts proud, enthralled, and nervous!

How this long-time councillor and MPP ended up in a homeless shelter After 30 years in politics, a former MPP and city councillor is now living in a homeless shelter. But after hearing his story, dozens of Lorenzo Berardinetti's former colleagues have rallied together ...

I wish more people would realize that struggling with poverty and homelessness is not a moral failure.

So many people look down on them for their struggles without realizing they're just one bad unforseen circumstance away from the same thing happening to them
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This is about marginalised groups (which will include undocumented immigrants, but also those with drug/alcohol dependence, mental health issues, homelessness) being able to equitably access basic healthcare. This is a good news story which has been dressed up specifically to stoke division!

It’s not A&E, it’s in one area, only and involves lots of other marginalised groups as well. It allows GPs to access same day 2’care review of patients whose usual access to healthcare is limited. What ever your views on migration and even if you don’t understand the public health benefits here.

I would imagine the “journalists” who wrote this may soon need some emergency treatment given quite how much they must have contorted themselves to get this perspective! In a shock to no-one, even the most basic research here shows that this is a very limited trial.🧵

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In the future you will be expected to pose for a photo next to the delivery to ensure the patient has been received and not just dumped by the roadside.

Can I just take the opportunity to sing the praises of district nurses. Cheerful, efficient, caring. They do a wonderful job. I don't know how we'd have coped without them.

Bod is out out Sat at a coffee shop looking out onto the street

It's always worth occasionally going into town on a Friday or Saturday night to remind yourself why you no longer go into town on a Friday or Saturday night.

#Humbug

Silent Night!

black and white photo of Marie Curie holding an Erlenmeyer flask. Mariah Carey's face superimposed on Marie Curie's face. The text along the bottom reads: "Mariah Curie, all i want for Christmas is 235U"

It's that time year @cosmicrami.com

Oh I like this…

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Would be good if they (the specialties) all agreed how they would handle this, especially as the use of A&G increases.