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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

BMA GP Referendum DONE ✅ ⏳Now the waiting game from Civica to check the data. 🙏In this window we want to THANK YOU for taking the effort to vote and use your voice. We are proud to represent you. GPCEngland meets tomorrow to determine next steps. Watch this space… 👀

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

BMA GP REFERENDUM ⏰Closes TODAY 12 Noon ⏰ Have you voted yet? Yesterday saw 2,986 votes cast - the highest daily total since the referendum opened Turnout: 49.38% 🫸 ONE FINAL PUSH 🫷 📱Open yesterday’s BMA SMS 👉Click vote on your unique link ⏰ It takes 5 seconds

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

GP REFERENDUM ⚠️ Last 4️⃣8️⃣ Hours To Vote⚠️ 0️⃣2️⃣Days Left ⏰Closes Weds 12 Noon ⏰ Every. Single. Vote. Counts. 🗳️ Search inbox & junk for bma@cesvotes.com🔎 ❌ No link? Email GPcontract@bma.org.uk now- do not delay! 📖 Info on campaign: bma.org.uk/GPContract @BMA_GP

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Campaigning on the future of General Practice

It saddens us to confirm that the profession entered dispute with the Government on 1 October 2025 over its broken promises relating to GP contract renewal and investment and the 2025/26 GP contract c...

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Thanks to @bmj.com & & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social for having me on the podcast: bit.ly/4t1BjVR Our final new contract webinar is Weds lunchtime 12-1.30 Head to BMA.org.uk/GPcontract to register & don’t forget to vote in the GP referendum - it’s your decision re: the 26/27 contract

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Campaigning on the future of General Practice

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Podcasts! This week: GP Online’s Talking General Practice: open.spotify.com/episode/6jwi... Today: eGPlearning with Andy & Gandhi www.youtube.com/live/-UMwjgk... Next week: BMJ with Kamran Abbasi Week after: Medics Money with AISMA’s Andy Pow and Dr Tommy Perkins

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Dr Katie Bramall on why the new GP contract is unsafe and how GPs can fight back

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Dr Hussain Gandhi @drgandalf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Join Andy and @drgandalf.bsky.social of eGPlearning AND GPCE chair Dr @drkatie.bsky.social to hear how the GP contract will affect you in primary care and what you can do about it. Live from 11am Sat 7th March here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UMw...

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This sums up the new ‘imposed’ GP contract @drkatie.bsky.social clearly tells @gponline.bsky.social what the problems are I will add it’s less than £1.50 per patient per year extra funding GP practice need £40-£50 to return to 2016 funding

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

As ever, thanks to Emma for having me on the podcast Listen also on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6jwid6… Then go and VOTE in the referendum @BMA_GP

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

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OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.

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drcarolinegp.bsky.social @drcarolinegp.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Our practice gets a minimum average of 44 online queries an hour on a Monday. 31 an hour the rest of the week We don’t have the resourcing to cope with this unless we cancel all other work. In the past two weeks we have had two sick babies put through on admin form. Despite our website saying don’t

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

GPs have done all they can to keep patients safe and provide as much as possible 1.4million people will consult today Compare this with 67,000 in A&E The reason for the concerns is we have a capacity problem & a funding crisis The 8 am rush (it’s bad) will be replaced by the GP waiting list (worse)

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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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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Equally true: @TheBMA warns Secretary of State the NHS will die, should Labour lose the next election, because they refused to work with Drs & imposed unevidenced top-down reforms & dangerous contracts risking patient safety… theguardian.com/society/2025/s… @BMA_GP @rcgp @TheDA_UK

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Newsnight last night. I had more to say but it wasn't easy. We already have Neighbourhood health centres - they are called GP surgeries. Invest in GP - we know it works if funded properly youtu.be/mDEDXFQfqIk?...

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Helen Salisbury Newsnight July 2025

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

For GPs, focus is always on maintaining patient trust in how their confidential data is handled We were not aware that GP data, collected for Covid-19 research, was being used to train an AI model, “Foresight”….

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Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NEW REPORT: How does patient satisfaction with general practice vary in England? And what do patients value in their practice? We find that patients prefer: - More GP partners - More GP appts - More F2F appts - Smaller list sizes Other findings👇 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

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General practice across England | Institute for Government

What does patient satisfaction across England tell us about GPs surgeries' performance?

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Science affords us the luxury of forgetting the impact of infectious diseases - In the 1st half of the 19th century 40-50% of children in US did not make it past the age of 5 - TB killed 1 in 7 people in US and Europe - smallpox killed 80% of infected children theconversation.com/infectious-d...

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Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

@drkatie.bsky.social was great on R4 Today (7.50 if you missed it) We want not just to stop practices closing but to improve the service they can offer to patients (timely access to a GP they know) and this will cost more than is currently on the table - but it's a start.

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Doctors in Unite @doctorsinunite.com · 21/12/2024

A great explainer from GPCE chair @drkatie.bsky.social on exactly what is at stake with the upcoming negotiations for the new General Practice contract. From 11:24 on Matt Frei's LBC show today 👇 www.globalplayer.com/live/lbc/lon...

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LBC London - Listen Live | Global Player

Leading Britain's Conversation. Access your favourite LBC shows now!

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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

“Replacing the Carr-Hill formula with a needs-based formula is the best and most sustainable way to make general practice funding more equitable.” @becksfisher.bsky.social @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @rcgp.bsky.social @drkatie.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Can’t get an appt with a GP? Yet there are 1000s of GPs out of work or struggling to find work NHS England have cut the equivalent of 2 full-time GPs in funding from an average practice, whilst funding ‘additional’ roles via ARRS £2bn cut in real term Not additional then🤷🏻‍♂️ youtu.be/tI69wqP1_3g?...

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Over 80% of locum GPs in England are struggling to find work

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

If you've been wondering where I went: my team in Oxford (60 of us!) build beautiful tools for NHS data. We help researchers work on the whole nation's GP records while protecting - provably - everyone's privacy. It's big potatoes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...

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OpenSAFELY in a nutshell

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Let me help you Wes Streeting @teamlabouruk.bsky.social GP partnerships are providing 5m more appointments a month compared to 2019 30million half the population 2million is the total A&E attendances a month End the partnership model & I can guarantee A&E waits will double/treble 📌 this post

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is so important & fits the priorities of DHSC & Wes Streeting with digital>analogue Digital transformation is too important We must GIRFT! @DavidGWrigley @BMA_GP @bengoldacre @rcgp @DrMarkColey @marcus_baw @medConfidential @Patient_Data @LabourTogether

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

🍁Thoughts re yesterday’s Autumn Statement 📱I spent time on the phone to @SKinnock yesterday afternoon. @DrPhilBanfield did the same with @wesstreeting 1/8

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

omg the Telegraph actually did it

Telegraph cartoon showing Starmer walking a tightrope balancing the twin weights of 'tax' and 'promises'

The Day Today pisstake political cartoon showing a politician walking a tightrope balancing the twin weights of 'weight of public opinion' and 'backbench discord'

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Dr Jo Maher NHS GP @drjomaher.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Fridges full of flu vacs! we have no way of storing RSV vac too, comes in a big pack & without buying more fridges, dongles to monitor etc = 💰we don’t have. also think giving before flu will confuse people. If NHSE want us to do more work, need more human & equipment resources @drkatie.bsky.social

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Zayn Hassn @zaynhasn.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

@drkatie.bsky.social great work as per on bbc radio 4 this morning to in response to health secretary’s strange sabre-rattling comments and highlighting existential crisis of general practice

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Stefan Marciniak @profmarciniak.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Agreed. @drkatie.bsky.social gave a calm, sensible, fact-filled reply Would like to hear similar tone from Health Secretary. Still time to correct if he now feels he misspoke Well worth a listen (from 1:34 into the programme): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Today - 13/09/24 - Justin Webb and Mishal Husain - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

You don't have to go through tough times alone Today marks World Suicide Prevention Day 1 in 4 GPs know another who’s died from suicide My own GP took his life in 2021 Please reach out to your LMC, use @BMA_GP support & @NHSPracHealth or one of these:

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Salutary case from HMCoroner South Manchester regarding a tragic preventable death Hope PFDR will arise judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl… Why at scale APMS providers operating digital-first cost-saving models is dangerous. A sad but inevitable example #GPSky

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

This is now verging on the criminal. Thames Water has racked up £15 billion in debt while dumping sewage in water courses and ramping up payments to directors and shareholders. The absolute failure of privatisation.

Chart showing Thames Water’s rapidly rising debt since privatisation

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 31/08/2024

It's a bit rich Oasis saying don't resell tickets for profit when they've made a career doing that with Beatles songs.

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Ankit Kant @handle.invalid · 27/08/2024

Over the last week, I have had 7 referrals rejected. Every single one proudly states that the GP should manage the patient in the community. Not a single one tells me who has made this decision. This might seem like a little thing but from my point of view it is huge.

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Mary Dixon-Woods @marydixonwoods.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

The challenge is to secure the social licence for using people's data in this way. The need to do this and the work involved is often under-appreciated. jme.bmj.com/content/41/5...

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Mary Dixon-Woods @marydixonwoods.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

This is the challenge I think. Having all the right governance d in place is necessary but not sufficient for the social licence.

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

I interviewed Jess Phillips, who I think is an excellent human being, about violence against women and girls, that Election Night, and how Joe Lycett told her she'd won: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

x.com/explosiveene... This needs wider dissemination. Apologies for the link to the other place. On leave else I’d CTRL+C/CTRL+V…

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Thank you Mary - this is extremely comprehensive.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I think it was Barack Obama joining that made Twitter seem like a real institution. Now, 15-odd years later, society has moved on and it takes a real giant of culture to give a platform its champagne-smashing moment. Blue Sky UK is launched. Welcome back, @nigella.bsky.social

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Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Amen! Has to be in the top five best albums of all time.

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Did you know that hospital care assistants across England are striking? While doctors have dominated headlines, the lowest paid staff have been battling trusts who havr underpaid them for years. "We just want the money we are owed" Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/5041...