Jake Matthews

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If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. | Jake Matthews If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact? Lots of junior clinicians and academics ask about how to disseminate their work or how to choose what projects to do to ...

If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact?

#TeamGP #Academia #Publishing

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Dr malcolm kendrick has said very similar things.

Ivor Cummins is not medical. But he is quite a smart guy who seems to have read an analysed a lot of the literature on statins.

I'm not saying he is right but it's good to know both sides of the argument.

NHS England has no idea about GPs Reform will only happen when the organisation confronts how lamentably wrong-headed it has been.

‘There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’
So says the ever-insightful
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No99b: Can AI make searching GP jobs around the world easier to find and compare? The international market for doctors (GPs and Family Medicine) is complicated.

Can AI help with the GP job crisis in the UK?

Can it simplify the international jobs market?
What do you think?
#TeamGP #RCGPReg #MedSky #jobs

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No 99: In 2025, Which Country Has the Best GP Salary Using the Big Mac Index? Any long time readers of MediCurious ?

What can big macs tell us about GP salaries around the world?

#TeamGP #primarycare #RCGPReg #bigmacindex

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Updated the Big Mac Index for GP salaries around the world in 2025.

If anyone is considering emigrating

Most locum GPs struggling to find work as jobs crisis devastates income Most locum GPs in England are struggling to find work amid huge competition for jobs, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income, a survey has found.

Bit late to post this, but this story from last week based on our annual survey of locum GPs shows how the current jobs crisis is affecting locums. In England most are struggling to find work, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income www.gponline.com/locum-gps-st... #GPnews

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

Jake - New NIH is tip of ⛰️for what's coming. Consider SIGNING and amplifying this open declaration against exactly this kind of thing to #defendresearch? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

No 98: Heidi Hi Patient. How can the AI assisted HCA help you today? Do you really need to see a doctor?

Heidi Hi Patient. Is AI about to drastically reduce the need for a GP?
#TeamGP #RCGPReg #MediCurious #AI #MedSky

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Active and Passive Academic Freedom Should the NIH consider Universities commitment to free expression as it gives out funds?

#SundayReflection

What is passive and active academic freedom? Not something I have come across before.

#MedSky #AcademicSky

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Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice | British Journal of General Practice

“People just left because they just couldn’t cope with the stress.” 

Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare

GP recruitment scheme faces axe, contract negotiations update, NHS planning guidance <p>In this week’s episode the GPonline team discusses the future of the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERS) – an initiative to attract GPs to un...

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This is a really good podcast summary of changes in TERS funding and GP recruitment crisis

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BJGP’s top 10 most read papers of 2024 Quickly and easily listen to BJGP Interviews for free!

Listen to BJGP Associate Editors discussing BJGP's Top 10 most read research published in the last year www.bjgplife.com/193

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Does anyone else want to collaborate on this project?

Sharing templates more widely and ideally getting every useful tool and score from MDCalc and on to AccuRx.

No 97: A Love Letter to AccuRx and a Call to Action! Please share user-made templates more widely.

Collaboration request... #MedSky who can help?

I want to form a group of clinicians to persuade AccuRx to allow for "community collaboration" and sharing of templates more widely?

Pls like and share if you agree

#MediCurious #TeamGP #MedTech #collaboration

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No 97: A Love Letter to AccuRx and a Call to Action! Please share user-made templates more widely.

Does anyone else love time saving, technology, @Accurx and @mdcalc ?

If so, please read and share.

I really want to see AccuRx embrace this small change that could lead to a grass-roots revolution in the use of objective patient surveys and tools.

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Transforming learning from avoidable deaths Relaunching the Preventable Deaths Tracker

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This post takes 5 mins to read. It's brilliant. She lays out how we should be learning from inquests and coroners reports.

And how she has developed a new website that automates the collection and reporting of the data.

It's inspiring

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 full-time jobs

That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week.

#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky

Live impromptu chat with Dr. Atul Gawande. Instead of a phone call, we went Live on Instagram. On the docket: What the halt in US foreign aid means *immediately*.

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#InsideMedicine with Atul Gawande on USAID stop order

Yes. That is a big concern of mine as well. Hopefully with recent deaths being in the media maybe the MHRA will pay closer attention 🤞🤞🤞

I suspect you may be right that they are overwhelmed.

Doesn't fill you with confidence in our system though does it?

Especially when we know the yellow cards actually sent are the tip of the iceberg and less that 5% (?) Of potential reactions.

Reporting a Fatal Event to the Yellow Card System A sorry saga of delay and impediment

Everyone involved in healthcare in the UK should read this harrowing tale of how the MHRA Yellow Card Scheme did not work in this instance.
#TTE #MedSky #yellowcard

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The failure for GPs to find work after qualifying is unacceptable

Between 1/5 to 1/3 depending on year are not in any form of employment after qualifying

Training more GPs without providing practices the funding to employ them is a NHS England failure

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https://www.cogora.com/cogora-general-practice-workforce-white-paper/

Is this the modern-day NHS postcode lottery?

Where you live determines your access to General Practice—if not the access itself, then the type of access.

Can’t help thinking part of this is driven by inequitable funding via Carr-Hill formula.

I know lots of GPST3 looking for work.

Only 1 person I know has taken up an ARRS role.

There are 6322 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England

GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need, but still 31m appts/month

Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

Line charts showing decline in cardiovascular disease death rate since 1950 in the US, France, UK and Italy.

Cardiovascular disease mortality has declined in many countries over the past decades.

For example, US cardiovascular disease death rates have declined 4x since 1950.

When I was a student I emailed a few different conference organisers and was able to get free places. Don't ask, don't get.
Is the work relevant to any particular charities who might support it?