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Helen Reid

@helenreid.bsky.social
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Professor of GP and Medical Education at QUB | Cancer Focus trustee | Belfast transplanted Manxie | happiest in the hills | pragmatic optimist, mostly

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 13/06/2025
"We’re training highly skilled generalists, encouraging them into a specialty we claim to value, only to tell them that there’s no work for them once they arrive." Rammya Mathew writes on trained, qualified GPs being left unemployed www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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Helen Reid @helenreid.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Themes absolutely don’t emerge in quali research @bjgp.bsky.social - these badges a favourite gift from one of our postgrad researchers!
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Helen Reid @helenreid.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Fabulous example of #inclusiveresearch with fascinating insights. Thanks team
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Helen Reid @helenreid.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
How did I not know baby spiders are called ‘spiderlings’? Brilliant new word thanks @nicholaraihani.bsky.social
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Helen Reid @helenreid.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We are all made of stories
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Nigel Hart @nigelhart.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Inviting you all to the Annual Scientific Meeting of Academic General Practice Ireland in Belfast on 7th-8th March 2025 Theme: “Renewing Vision” For more information and to register: tinyurl.com/2jwc6zsx @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Helen Reid @helenreid.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
www.bmj.com/content/388/... - loving this conceptualisation of a ‘meta-question’. Thanks @johnlauner.bsky.social for challenging me to think both about my own consultations, and how we talk about them with learners
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John Launer: Taking the temperature of the consultation
Most of us have favourite questions that we like to ask when consulting with patients or that we’re fond of teaching to medical students and resident doctors. One popular question many GPs teach their...
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Prof Jenny Johnston @profjennyj.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Delighted to see this in print and #openaccess. Proud to have co-authored ch 5 'Hidden Legacies of the Troubles: Post-conflict Pedagogy as Resistance in Northern Irish Medical Education' with @helenreid.bsky.social and Dr Mairead Corrigan #criticalpedadogy #decolonisingcurricula #reparativepedagogy
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Caroline Mitchell @dclovesgp.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
#GP #PrimaryCare The UK Carr-Hill GP funding formula is unfair. The widening mismatch between funding & health need lets down vulnerable, disadvantaged patients and overloads their practitioners who are trying to do more and more with less and less. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/fai...
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Fairer funding for general practice in England: what’s the problem, why is it so hard to fix, and what should the government do?
General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation. This briefing, produced i...
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Helen Reid @helenreid.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
bjgp.org/content/75/7... For a lover of both words and General Practice (still holding hope for a transformed future) this was a seriously good read. Thanks @euanlawson.social - and @oohgpwales.bsky.social for the fabulous research
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The enshittification of general practice
It was Cory Doctorow, the author, who coined the term ‘enshittification’ when he used it to describe the evolution and, critically, the deterioration of tech platforms. In 2023 the American Dialect So...
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