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BJGP @bjgp.org · 30/07/2025

Save the date! The BJGP Research & Publishing Conference 2026 will be coming to Bristol on 20th March 2026. Stay tuned for more details! #BJGPRC

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

... a simple thing such as the GP ordering urgent blood tests, but not realising that the next available appointment was 2 weeks away. I intervened and they happened the next day. The AML diagnosis came the same day as the blood tests.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I don't have any recommendations for literature but I've of the hardest things was striking the balance between being the awkward relative and trusting a system that I know can work brilliantly but is stretched to capacity....

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BJGP Open @bjgpopen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Training GP practice teams to discuss poverty and support patients experiencing poverty-related mental distress increased understanding of causes of distress; helped avoid inappropriate prescribing; and enabled coordinated team support ➡️ doi.org/10.3399/10.3...

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I've been renovating a room in our #OldHouse. Gypsum off, lime on, limewashing this weekend. But I've also been upcycling old furniture. The cats seem impressed with the sideboard that's going in my study!

A bright pink sideboard with open doors showing two cats crouched on shelves one above another.

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On a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

One problem with ‘AI v Doctor’ diagnostic studies is that most diagnoses are either obvious or emergent (ie have an unfolding-over-time dimension in which an ongoing clinician-patient relationship can prove crucial). Also, the most important things a GP knows are a) whether to refer and b) to whom.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Doctoral thesis successfully defended. Huge thanks to @simondymond.bsky.social and Alan Finnegan for a great discussion of my thesis this morning. And to Dan @leightley.bsky.social, Nicola and Neil for the last few years of supervision! #PhDone #DoctorateDone #PhDChat

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Victoria Kinkaid @vkinkaid11.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I've been terrible for using Bluesky but going to make an effort! #Medsky - check out our latest paper in #BMJSRH: "Experiences of abortion in the UK Armed Forces: a cross-sectional survey." Give it a read and share your thoughts with us! @antonywillman.bsky.social @drkateking.bsky.social

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Thank you very much to all the BJGP Open readers who spent a bit of their time with our article. Number 2 in last year's most read!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I shall definitely do that Rebecca! Clearly both have overlap with my military area of interest.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I'm looking forward to the BJGP Research Conference on Friday. Anyone else going to be there? bjgp.org/conference-p... @bjgp.bsky.social @bjgpopen.bsky.social #BJGPRC

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Wow! No corrections! Impressive stuff. Congratulations Dr Dakin!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Great to see this work in print. Hopefully adding to the evidence that we need to recognise there is a need for ongoing perimenopause management and support in the UK Armed Forces.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If you're an early career researcher, or a wise guru of general practice research, come along and say hello!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Thank goodness for Oliver Bonas at Euston. Now we just need an M&S for emergency tights!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Doctorate submitted on Wednesday. Now I'm a little uncertain what to do this weekend! I think I've forgotten what I'm supposed to do other than work

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ALT: a woman says what am i supposed to do in a snl advertisement

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Can I please ask #AutismBlueSky... The ADOS assessment... aren't they toads and not frogs? It's causing a lot of discussion in our house tonight!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I usually give it a bit longer cos I'm stubborn and know sometimes they get better... But also, life's too short so move on.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Is it just me or do the oscillations between love and hate swing ever more frequently as you get closer to the submission deadline? #PhDChat #PhD

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a woman adjusts her hair with the hashtag #absentia on the bottom

Alt: A woman grabs her head as a sign of overwhelm.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Yes. Now downstairs. More space to work, some computers, booths for meetings and more comfy chairs.

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BJGP Open @bjgpopen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

What are GPs' experiences with the recommendation text box in hospital discharge summaries? Results from a nationwide survey in Denmark ➡️ doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Noooo! I can't cope with TNR anymore! Got to be arial, or calibri at a push. Years of defence writing means Arial 11 pt is ingrained in my whole being.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Not needed! Tea, coffee, mocha etc, fresh flavoured water, bottles of cold water in the fridge, nibbles and fruit all available here. And there's a handful of coffee shops and restaurants within 2 min walk.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In London for a meeting of the Defence Professors and have arrived far too early. I do like being able to get work done at the @rcgp.bsky.social members' lounge. It's very quiet here though!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Play buzzword bingo at the #RCGPAC during Wes Streeting's talk this morning. Credit to @drgandalf.bsky.social

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

x.com/drgandalf52/... Play along with BuzzWord Bingo during Wes Streeting's talk this morning at the #RCGPAC

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

You've just given me flashbacks to being stranded in Glasgow and not being able to get home. Hopefully Liverpool is kinder to us. See you around the conference!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Waves! I'm here too and similarly overwhelmed so mostly wandering aimlessly and bumping into people I only ever see at conference.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

I'm shocked (but sadly not surprised) that this needed to be written! I highly recommend Emma Dabiri's book

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 27/09/2024

Now freely available @bjgp.bsky.social for anyone to read. "Deprived practices require proper funding that considers differential health needs." @oohgpwales.bsky.social @helensalisbury.bsky.social #BJGP #primarycare

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Today started at 0345, for a workshop on women's health hosted by the Australians. Cats provided much hilarity by pouncing each other and play fighting just at the point I was speaking. Now onto the surgery for my NHS time. Fuelled by coffee today!

Pic of me ready to start morning surgery.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

I'm doing my best shouting about this place.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Waves! At least 3 of those GPs are ones I persuaded to join BlueSky!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Posting from @rcgp Council. #BreakingNews After some interesting discussion, Council voted to oppose Physician Assistants working in General Practice. Posting from @rcgp Council. www.rcgp.org.uk/News/physici... #PhysicianAssistants

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Early start to get to Chelmsford to see the team at Anglia Ruskin. Looking forward to nosing around the med school and talking all things military women's health!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

True. Still not appealing to me though! I'll stick to sea level.

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Oooh, I loved Theme Hospital and have never found a decent replacement. I shall seek out this game. Thank you!

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Kate King @drkateking.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Back into teaching mode for me today with our #DefenceGPTrainees. A morning of consultation skills and now talking about high altitude medicine. Its cold, windy, dry (even with snow), there's less oxygen and electrical storms. I'm not sure why anyone likes mountains!

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Craig Nikolic @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 06/09/2024

There’s a lot of NHS folk who’d like to see the end of GP partnerships because they can’t work with every practice being slightly different. Those same people just do not understand that that’s what makes general practice successful and efficient, designed around the community. 1/3

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