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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What I've been pondering this month: dipeshgopal.substack.com/p/are-mental... ➡️ Should we tax the sugar in soft drinks? ➡️ Are mental health awareness campaigns good for society? ➡️ How can stop the world burning? ➡️ Do we need to change the way we fundamentally see health?

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Are mental health awareness campaigns good for society? And how can stop the world burning?

Should we tax the sugar in soft drinks?

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PACT - Primary care Academic CollaboraTive @gppact.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We are seeing some amazing recruitment figures for the Accessing Continuity study! Please sign up today if you haven’t already, and if you've already taken part, comment below to let us know how it went! www.gppact.org/accessing-co...

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BJGP @bjgp.org · 03/09/2026

Avoidable mortality The July 2026 LeDeR national report has important implications for GPs treating people with learning disabilities and autistic people. doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #BJGP #PrimaryCare #Research #LeDeR #AvoidableMortality #LearningDisabilities #Autism

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 03/09/2026

I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Even so, Denmark spends more on each person’s health, and people tend to reach hospital in better shape than those in the UK." @theconversation.com theconversation.com/denmark-vers...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The multitude of ways that jack up American healthcare costs (without improving outcomes) gift link wsj.com/health/healt...

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"The problems are immense, but the solutions are immense too." I loved this short documentary about botanist Hugh Wilson, who spent thirty years protecting and growing a forest in New Zealand. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZS...

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Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)

YouTube video by Happen Films

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Hilary Cottam @hilarycottam.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Next Monday 08 I will be talking about The Work We Need with the Joseph Centre of Dignified Work - come along - and snap up a reduced price book as a Christmas prezzie whilst you are with us www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-work-w...

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The Work we Need: A Conversation with Author Hilary Cottam

Join us at Agora London for a conversation with Hilary Cottam on how reimagining work can shape the kind of world we want to build together.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Polarisation in medicine: how can we better engage with people who disagree with us? buff.ly/yIvtfAs

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Polarisation in medicine: how can we better engage with people who disagree with us?

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

How can we make sense of a noisy, uncertain world? I’ve spent lots of time writing online about this topic, and speaking in person. So I thought it was time to combine the two… Excited to launch soon, thanks to support of TED Fellows. Subscribe now to stay updated: www.youtube.com/@adamjkuchar...

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Launching soon!

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 20/11/2025

Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse. NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers. Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Alejandra hopes that her work will be useful to medical students & others thinking of getting involved in #PrimaryCare research for the first time. 🔍 Many thanks to @drmollydineen.bsky.social @dipeshgopal.bsky.social @aesambe.bsky.social & Prof Debbie Sharp for their inspiring interviews. 🙏 #GPSky

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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

We have been so impressed with medical student, Alejandra Bonwick, who has thrown herself into her 2nd year student choice project & delivered a wonderful blog & podcast series on her interviews with @gppact.bsky.social academic GPs! 👏 🔗Blog: tinyurl.com/3w334uhm 🎙️Podcast: gppact.org/pact-podcasts

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

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The value of public R&D

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PACT - Primary care Academic CollaboraTive @gppact.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

PACT is continuing to evolve and we are recruiting new committee members for the period 2025-2028! 🙌 For further information, role descriptions and the application form, please see the recent news post on our website: gppact.org/news/pact-is...

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PACT is recruiting new committee members! — Primary care Academic CollaboraTive (PACT)

PACT is continuing to evolve and we are recruiting new committee members for the period 2025-2028! We have several exciting committee positions available and welcome applicants from all primary car...

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SAPC @sapc.ac.uk · 29/10/2025

SAPC ASM 2026, St Andrews, 24th - 26th June For further details : sapc.ac.uk/conference/2... #SAPC2026 #SAPC_ASM #PrimaryCare #AcademicMedicine #StAndrews

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

‘One of the strongest cases for harm is that time on these platforms is time away from nourishing interactions with other people.’ Great graph from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com showing that social media has become less social on.ft.com/4gP83eW

Social media has become less social Change in share of people reporting each reason for using social media (%)
Source: GWI
FT graphic: John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

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How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If @wesstreeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital We are the science museum! ➡️Electronic records since 1991 ➡️Online triage ➡️Ambient scribes ➡️SMS ➡️Online bookings ➡️Electronic prescribing ➡️Online referrals ➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown…. 1/x

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NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) @nihrspcr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed and validated ‘Ovatools’, a new clinical tool that could help GPs detect ovarian cancer earlier and improve outcomes cost-effectively: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-per... #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research @qmulprimarycare.bsky.social

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NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) @nihrspcr.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

📢 Join our free event on the GP Patient Survey (GPPS), Wed, 1 Oct 2025 10:00 - 15:30, featuring research highlights, a keynote from Dan Wellings (The King’s Fund) & Q&A with Ipsos. Register now: bit.ly/3JBiBC4 #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research @fbmh-uom.bsky.social

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Save your money. Studies show that tap water works just fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...

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Do You Need to Drink Electrolytes?

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Steve Everitt @steve-everitt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A randomized trial of ultraprocessed (UPF) vs unprocessed food: UPF led to impaired cardiometabolic & male reproductive health outcomes, including reduced testosterone, sperm count/motility, increased inflammation, increased BP, worse lipids. Independent of caloric load. www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Teaching is an important skill in medicine, yet many of us have come across some outstandingly bad teachers! Could we learn from the world of football? In healthcare, I’ve found that there’s a strong overlap between good clinicians & good teachers. #MedSky Link: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Throughout medical school and as teaching clinicians we are frequently reminded how the word doctor originates from the Latin docere—to teach. Teaching, for doctors, is considered an innate “competency,” genetically part of our DNA. Participation in teaching is a standard inclusion in the job description. Baked into this truism is a further expectation—that because we work as doctors, we can automatically teach others how to work as a doctor. This assumption about teaching is not necessarily endorsed outside medicine. Consider football for example, as an activity where everyone has an opinion on how they are trained. A talented footballer is not automatically considered a skilled coach. We can all think of examples here, both in football and in medicine, of skilled professionals who are not good teachers.

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BJGP @bjgp.org · 20/08/2025

Spotlight 30-sec preview on #QualitativeResearch: youtu.be/H4eRJ5Ev2jA Are you a qualitative researcher? BJGP outlines key theoretical concepts from Prof. @kathcheckland.bsky.social in this 30-min video youtu.be/FxvdAtJdhxk. Read this linked editorial, free till 31 August: bjgp.org/content/75/7...

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Qualitative research: key theoretical concepts – preview

YouTube video by BJGP

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Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 16/08/2025

The NHS waiting list - and whether it's going up or down - is viewed as a key indicator of whether the NHS is delivering for the public. But our latest analysis from Georgia Watson and Liz Fisher suggests that there is more to the numbers than meets the eye. #QualityWatch buff.ly/lFMeEL2

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Why is the planned care waiting list coming down and what does the data really tell us?

The waiting list for planned hospital care has plateaued and then come down over the past two years. In this QualityWatch analysis, Georgia Watson and Liz Fisher look at the factors affecting the…

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Explaining the risks of illness vs vaccine side effects @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social offers this nice example of measles vaccines in @plosglobalpublichealth.org article [Artwork by Fahim Akbar] journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It was only a matter of time before the 1st case report of chatGPT-mediated medical harm was published. I have had patients say strange things to me in clinic that further questioning revealed were a result of asking chatGPT, but thankfully nothing harmful (yes I’ve already texted it to chubbyemu)

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 18/07/2025

Among the range of symptoms experienced by those with long covid, cognitive and mental health concerns are especially common. This review provides an assessment of the nature, severity, and trajectory of neuropsychiatric long covid sequelae www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Junk food “avoids advertising regulation” with top level UK sports sponsorship www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Junk food “avoids advertising regulation” with top level UK sports sponsorship

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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Private Eye hits the nail on the head

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

"Buff gym-bros and 'biohackers' inject themselves on TikTok while telling their audiences that they should be on 'T' even if their doctor disagrees." More on bro science www.economist.com/united-state...

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American men are hungry for injectable testosterone

A legion of new health clinics are serving it up

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Dr Rebecca Goulding @rgouldinguom.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Great presentation by Polly Duncan on primary care for housebound patients. What factors are associated with being housebound / who is most likely to be housebound? How can health care services better support their patients who are housebound? #sapc2025 @capcbristol.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk

Polly Duncan on stage, presenting at SAPC

Final slide from Polly’s presentation, showing Alice, a housebound patient, and ways in which her care could have been better - better continuity, more time, MDT, training, patient-centred

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BJGP @bjgp.org · 28/05/2025

Patients registered at English general practices that arrange chest X-rays more often have improved #LungCancer survival and are diagnosed with earlier stage cancers doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #cancer #PrimaryCare

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Dr Georgina Hosang @drhosang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

💡Interesting to read the list of the 10 most cited papers ever 📊 (as reported by @nature.com). Number 9 is the Braun & Clarke paper on using #thematic analysis in #psychology ! @bpsofficial.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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These are the most-cited research papers of all time

Some studies have received hundreds of thousands of citations, Nature’s updated analysis shows.

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Alex O’Brien @alexobrienuk.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🚨 Signed book giveaway! 🚨 To celebrate the paperback release of The Truth Detective, I’m giving away three signed copies! Here’s how to enter: 1.Follow me and @souvenirpress.bsky.social 2. retweet this post Winners will be picked at random by May 7th. Good luck!

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Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan @drrageshri.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"for many diseases we may not have objective evidence. There may not be a diagnostic test, so doctors may have to rely on a patient's testimony, which is by its very nature subjective.”

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@drrageshri.bsky.social at @bjgp.bsky.social #bjgprc talks about her book 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing': www.hachette.co.uk/titles/rages...

Dr Dhairyawan presents her book at BJGP conference

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NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) @nihrspcr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Missed a session? Catch up now! All 4 episodes of our Bitesize Impact Showcase Series are available on YouTube. Watch and revisit the insights anytime! 🎥📺 🔗 bit.ly/4iNJ4sx #SPCR #PrimaryCareResearch #Webinar #YouTube

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Ana S. L. Rodrigues @ana-sl-rodrigues.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A most wonderful letter 🧪 Looked too perfect to be true, so I checked the source (einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol8-trans/34) - it is true! Originally in German. Additional historical context by @mariapopova.bsky.social here: www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/19/e...

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Dipesh Gopal @dipeshgopal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

What have I been reading this month? dipeshgopal.substack.com/p/dogs-and-n... Should ultra-processed food be limited in early childhood? Should we all get dogs? How do we improve neighbourhood health? Are 'medinfluencers' improving human health or just confusing everyone?

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Dogs and neighbourhoods

Should we limit sugar for young children?

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

“Research finds that active, intentional use of digital technologies is often benign or even beneficial. The behaviours that have taken off in recent years have been shown to affect our ability to process verbal information, attention, working memory and self-regulation” ftedit.ft.com/Ju3k/vrjeg652

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Have humans passed peak brain power?

Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Primary Care Research Centre - University of Southampton @uos-primarycare.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In October, the @nihrspcr.bsky.social hosted a masterclass on Plain English Summaries. One of our wonderful core public partners, John McGavin shared an excellent presentation on plain English Summaries. (Fun fact, it is the most watched masterclass!) Take a look 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-8...

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SPCR Masterclass | What Public Reviewers Look For (Part 1) - Plain English Summaries

YouTube video by NIHR School for Primary Care Research

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