1/ I need to share how bleak Primary Care is. I’m a partner in my surgery and last summer, the CQC rated us as Inadequate and placed us into special measures. #PrimaryCareCrisis ... General Practice

Thank you everyone for your support. I was due to meet out local MP Andrew Lewer MP today, but he had to cancel, to visit Northampton General Hospital 💙 with Victoria Atkins today (I didn’t get the email). So we are rescheduling for next week. We need our MPs to get this, and help us here!

Emily Fletcher Sapcuk Cardiff University APEx John Campbell Dr Jane R Smith Dr Luke Mounce Dr Bethan Treadgold Bangor University CAPC, Bristol Queen Mary University of London Primary Care Research Centre OxPrimaryCareSci Molly Dineen Kerry Hood (she/her) I really enjoyed your brilliant presentation Emily and the Phocus session left me with a spring in my step!

Visiting jlp Bristol. Trouble keeping up with my grandsons appetite for scones cream and jam. Not much left for ‘pa’😀

Are you a medical professional? Please take action by putting your name on the open letter in support of Caroline Ansell MP’s amendment to reduce the abortion time limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks: righttolife.org.uk/medicalletter

‘There are thousands of people every year in the UK who die without access to good #palliativecare … Rather than saying “lets change the [ #assistedsuicide ] law”, we should say “well what went wrong there, how can we make that better.”’

—GP Dr Mark Pickering on BBC Breakfast

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Julia Hiscock

I'm one of those constituents blocked by my own MP for pointing out uncomfortable truths.

But I understand Simon Jupp's protesting loudly once again that he's holding SWW to account.

I'll just leave this here 👇

#sewage #sewage dumping #rivers #seas

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Another day another GP surgery shuts.

The government and NHS E are forcing this to happen.

They don’t want GPs left in primary care

When you go to the ‘GPs’ you will see anyone BUT a GP

I’ve sent this glorious screenshot from RoyalCollegeObsGyn to my buddies not on SoMe only just waking up to PA’s

Cue outrage and hilarity 🤡

It perfectly captures the complicity & stupidity of the colleges cheerleading this half baked plan

Reputations will not survive this!

I can’t think of anything polite to say about this but are we really going down this route GMC The BMA Royal College of Physicians RCGP Junior Doctors

We've had 5000 days of Tory Rule today 😳 I've done some maths
🔹Since May 2010, the
NATIONAL DEBT HAS INCREASED,
on average,
by a staggering
£380 MILLION A DAY
- EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR #5000DAYS

Which begs the question....
Where has all our money gone?

I wouldn't trust the…

Professor Richard Neal is confident that Multi-Cancer Early Detection tests (MCEDs) are the future of primary care cancer diagnostics.

Read more about GP Richard Neal 🇪🇺 and the NHS-Galleri® trial in our latest edition of GP Frontline. ➡️ rcgp.org.uk/gp-frontline/w… #TeamGP

Milei's 2024 Davos talk, directly translated to English by AI (by heygen), in his own accent. Better than the dubbed version imo.

It doesn't stop there. We have had deaths associated with PAs, following missed diagnoses like blood clots in the lung or torn blood vessels from the heart. In the case of Emily Chesterton, who died from a blood clot misdiagnosed as anxiety by a PA, the coroner ruled she likely..

Check out Professor Philip Evans' article in the BMJ journal entitled 'The challenge of improving relational continuity in general practice' tinyurl.com/y6s22rnz APEx, University of Exeter Faculty of Health & Life Sci, Exeter Med School

Congrats and Tx Joanne Reeve and WiseGP SAPC team for useful and helpful material re #academicgp centres in UK APEx

Details of over 40 SAPC sites across the UK leading primary care research and scholarship. Hugely important part of the team as we all work to reclaim general practice bjgplife.com/reclaiming-gen…

Christmas Greetings! Hope you might enjoy this great Christmas song youtu.be/-tYm7bHOP1Y?si…