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Lucy Potter

@drlucypotter.bsky.social
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Academic GP in Bristol- Inclusion Health/ Deep End GP. Improving access to General Practice for AND WITH people with severe and multiple disadvantage. She/ her. orcid.org/0000-0001-5380-5361

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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
10 key insights to better support families through UK care proceedings have been published in a new NIHR-funded report led by CAPC & @arc-west.bsky.social researchers. 👉Read the news: tinyurl.com/3t9c6ju4 @nihrspcr.bsky.social @bnssgresearch.bsky.social @nihrsphr.bsky.social @nihrsscr.bsky.social
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2026: 10 key insights to better support families through care proceedings | Centre for Academic Primary Care | University of Bristol
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🚨Just one week to go till our next webinar🚨on: 'Improving mental health in primary care: novel psychological and pharmacological interventions'. Details below. ⬇️ See you there! 😊 @nihrspcr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk @bnssgresearch.bsky.social @bristolhealthp.bsky.social @onecaregpfed.bsky.social
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🩺Today is the FIRST #NHS Domestic Abuse Awareness Day (10 December).🩺 👩‍⚕️This important initiative acknowledges the high rates of DA among healthcare professionals & the support they need. Research by Sandi Dheensa & colleagues has informed the campaign. 👉 tinyurl.com/2nwu758s #NHSDAAD #16Days
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Training on grief and bereavement in #primarycare #CPD
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
FREE resource for workplaces to become safe spaces for those experience #domesticviolence and #sexualviolence. Great videos!
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"One question, examining the human cost, should guide us: does a collaboration risk complicity in genocide or crimes against humanity?" www.bmj.com/content/391/... Medicine’s reckoning with genocide and crimes against humanity
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Such a supportive group and event, thank you @nihrspcr.bsky.social!
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
How can this not be our business? The impact of the arms trade on health
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Experts urge the medical profession to confront the global arms industry. In a new @bmj.com series uncovering the role of the arms trade in health, Mark Bellis, Gene Feder & colleagues call for greater scrutiny of its health-harming activities & relationship with governments. tinyurl.com/yc5mu9xb
Miltary equipment on display at an international arms fair. Text overlay: 'Harms industry'. Caption: The BMJ Series on the arms industry and health. bmj.com/collections/arms-industry-health.
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"Team Harm Reduction is a great example of what can happen when science, lived experience, and compassion come together."- inspiring stuff!
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The part we can (should) play in General Practice in responding to violence against women and girls- a useful summary of what we know and can do ⬇️
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Dr Richard Ma PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🕺⚕️🩺🎓 @richard-ma.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Are you a healthcare professional in the UK caring for people living with HIV aged over 50? What are the important issues for you & your patients? We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...
Survey header with University of Bristol logo.

Have your say to improve the care of people aged over 50 living with HIV in the UK


We are looking for research ideas to improve health and care for people aged over 50 living with HIV in the UK.

This is a survey for people with HIV aged over 50, their carers, and healthcare professionals involved in their care.
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NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) @nihrspcr.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📣 Calling all UK undergraduate medical students! Win a funded place at the @sapc.ac.uk Annual Scientific Meeting by entering the @nihrspcr.bsky.social George Lewith competition! 🎓 🔗 Find out more: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel... 🗓️ Deadline: 12noon, 25 April 2025 #medicalstudents #PrimaryCare
📣 Calling all UK undergraduate medical students! Win a funded place at the @sapc.ac.uk Annual Scientific Meeting by entering the @nihrspcr.bsky.social George Lewith competition! 🎓

🔗 Find out more: https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-development/GL
🗓️ Deadline: 12noon, 25 April 2025

#medicalstudents #PrimaryCare
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 01/04/2025
People experiencing homelessness have high mortality and morbidity from preventable or treatable conditions. This article explores the health impacts of homelessness and practical considerations for clinicians providing care. Includes an infographic www.bmj.com/content/388/...
An infographic on homelessness
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Lockdowns are terrible. So are deadly pandemics. @chrischirp.bsky.social tells it straight. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...
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We are learning the wrong lessons from lockdown
And unless we learn the right ones, we risk making the same mistakes in a new pandemic
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Susannah Fleming @susannahfleming.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Great plenary from @drlucypotter.bsky.social at #swsapc2025oxford Really eye opening on the barriers faced by people with severe and multiple disadvantages, and more importantly, what changes can improve access.
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“Improve opportunities for prevention by improving access to primary care for people in inclusion health groups”- great to connect with others at @pathwayuk.bsky.social also striving for this #InclusionHealth2025
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Pathway @pathwayuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Brilliant session on assessing and commissioning for varying needs, with insights from around the nations, including @deeoconnell.bsky.social @lisamareebyrne.bsky.social. The common thread? The need for compassionate and genuine coproduction of services. #HealthInclusion2025
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
An exciting couple of days ahead @pathwayuk.bsky.social! Great looking programme, excited to get stuck in and re-connect 😁
Conference programme, coffee and breakfast on a train
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Supportive, inspirational leadership. Thank you @katrinaturner.bsky.social!
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Caroline Mitchell @dclovesgp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Novel insights from our first paper published sharing our qualitative #PrimaryCare research undertaken with Community Research Link Workers- 2 of whom were bilingual. Their involvement was transformative- they led recruitment, facilitation of focus groups and co-analysed the results.
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Understanding women from ethnic minorities’ perspectives about contraception in the UK: a qualitative study using a participatory action research approach with community research link workers
Background Contraception has revolutionised women’s health, enabling planned pregnancies and improved outcomes for mothers and babies. However, disparities exist in rates of unintended pregnancies and...
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Why is naloxone training not part of Basic Life Support? Historical? Prejudice? Or am i missing something? #harmreduction #naloxonesaveslives
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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Congratulations to @charlotte-archer.bsky.social whose paper on why GPs prescribe beta-blockers for anxiety is #4 in the @bjgp.bsky.social top 10 papers of 2024! 🎉 Read the paper ⬇️ #PrimaryCare #GPSky @bristolbrc.bsky.social
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Lucy Potter @drlucypotter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Academic GP in Bristol Focus: Inclusion Health in #PrimaryCare *Improving access to general practice for and with people with SMD doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... *Trauma-informed co-production doi.org/10.1111/hex.... *Access to healthcare for street sex workers in the UK doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Colourful poster saying You belong with lush plants around it
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