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Jake Matthews

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FY10 (GPST4 ACF) Birmingham UK. Academia, Athletics and #MediCurious #MedSky #GPSky

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact? #TeamGP #Academia #Publishing www.linkedin.com/posts/jake-m...
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If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. | Jake Matthews
If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact? Lots of junior clinicians and academics ask about how to disseminate their work or how to choose what projects to do to ...
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Oliver O’Sullivan @ollieosul.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Medical Leadership Development for Military Trainees! Initial leadership development needs assessment, ave time 2.1 mins. Help me help you! @defprofmilmeduk.bsky.social @drkateking.bsky.social @edbarn.bsky.social www.surveymonkey.com/r/B7DKYHL
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
‘There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’ So says the ever-insightful @pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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NHS England has no idea about GPs
Reform will only happen when the organisation confronts how lamentably wrong-headed it has been.
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
What can big macs tell us about GP salaries around the world? #TeamGP #primarycare #RCGPReg #bigmacindex open.substack.com/pub/medicuri... Updated the Big Mac Index for GP salaries around the world in 2025. If anyone is considering emigrating
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No 99: In 2025, Which Country Has the Best GP Salary Using the Big Mac Index?
Any long time readers of MediCurious ?
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Emma Bower @emmabower.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Bit late to post this, but this story from last week based on our annual survey of locum GPs shows how the current jobs crisis is affecting locums. In England most are struggling to find work, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income www.gponline.com/locum-gps-st... #GPnews
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Most locum GPs struggling to find work as jobs crisis devastates income
Most locum GPs in England are struggling to find work amid huge competition for jobs, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income, a survey has found.
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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Jake - New NIH is tip of ⛰️for what's coming. Consider SIGNING and amplifying this open declaration against exactly this kind of thing to #defendresearch? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship
This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Heidi Hi Patient. Is AI about to drastically reduce the need for a GP? #TeamGP #RCGPReg #MediCurious #AI #MedSky open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
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No 98: Heidi Hi Patient. How can the AI assisted HCA help you today?
Do you really need to see a doctor?
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
#SundayReflection What is passive and active academic freedom? Not something I have come across before. #MedSky #AcademicSky open.substack.com/pub/sensible...
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Active and Passive Academic Freedom
Should the NIH consider Universities commitment to free expression as it gives out funds?
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Anyone not joined #Whoop yet and want a free month? Get a free WHOOP 4.0 and one month free when you join with my link: join.whoop.com/4F5621
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 13/02/2025
“People just left because they just couldn’t cope with the stress.”  Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare
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Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice | British Journal of General Practice
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
castbox.fm/app/castbox/... This is a really good podcast summary of changes in TERS funding and GP recruitment crisis @gponline.bsky.social
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GP recruitment scheme faces axe, contract negotiations update, NHS planning guidance
<p>In this week’s episode the GPonline team discusses the future of the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERS) – an initiative to attract GPs to un...
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 04/02/2025
Listen to BJGP Associate Editors discussing BJGP's Top 10 most read research published in the last year www.bjgplife.com/193 #BJGPTop10 #PrimaryCare @sammerriel.bsky.social l @drtomround.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social
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BJGP’s top 10 most read papers of 2024
Quickly and easily listen to BJGP Interviews for free!
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Collaboration request... #MedSky who can help? I want to form a group of clinicians to persuade AccuRx to allow for "community collaboration" and sharing of templates more widely? Pls like and share if you agree #MediCurious #TeamGP #MedTech #collaboration open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
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No 97: A Love Letter to AccuRx and a Call to Action!
Please share user-made templates more widely.
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Does anyone else love time saving, technology, @Accurx and @mdcalc ? If so, please read and share. I really want to see AccuRx embrace this small change that could lead to a grass-roots revolution in the use of objective patient surveys and tools. open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
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No 97: A Love Letter to AccuRx and a Call to Action!
Please share user-made templates more widely.
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/preventa... This post takes 5 mins to read. It's brilliant. She lays out how we should be learning from inquests and coroners reports. And how she has developed a new website that automates the collection and reporting of the data. It's inspiring
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Transforming learning from avoidable deaths
Relaunching the Preventable Deaths Tracker
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 full-time jobs That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week. #UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky
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Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
open.substack.com/pub/insideme... #InsideMedicine with Atul Gawande on USAID stop order
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Live impromptu chat with Dr. Atul Gawande.
Instead of a phone call, we went Live on Instagram. On the docket: What the halt in US foreign aid means *immediately*.
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Everyone involved in healthcare in the UK should read this harrowing tale of how the MHRA Yellow Card Scheme did not work in this instance. #TTE #MedSky #yellowcard open.substack.com/pub/trustthe...
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Reporting a Fatal Event to the Yellow Card System
A sorry saga of delay and impediment
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The failure for GPs to find work after qualifying is unacceptable Between 1/5 to 1/3 depending on year are not in any form of employment after qualifying Training more GPs without providing practices the funding to employ them is a NHS England failure digital.nhs.uk/supplementar...
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Anish K Patel @anishkpatel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Is this the modern-day NHS postcode lottery? Where you live determines your access to General Practice—if not the access itself, then the type of access. Can’t help thinking part of this is driven by inequitable funding via Carr-Hill formula.
https://www.cogora.com/cogora-general-practice-workforce-white-paper/
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
There are 6322 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need, but still 31m appts/month Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 23/01/2025
Cardiovascular disease mortality has declined in many countries over the past decades. For example, US cardiovascular disease death rates have declined 4x since 1950.
Line charts showing decline in cardiovascular disease death rate since 1950 in the US, France, UK and Italy.
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Rebecca Payne @oohgpwales.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Am trying to find funding for a couple of medical students to present their research at academic conferences. Uni funds limited. Any idea as to where I can try?
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#MedTech #AI question for #MedSky ... Why hasn't #PUBMed or the journal publishers produced closed system AI LLM based on their journals and papers yet? Like #Google #Notebook but with all the articles full loaded.
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Resolution: Thou Shalt buy no more books until thy has finished the top shelf
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
bjgp.org/content/75/7... @bjgp.bsky.social Great article by Dr Evans. I'd never heard of the book Medical Nemesis but he explains it well and certainly provokes some thoughts about the limits of modern medicine
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Ivan Illich’s Medical Nemesis at 50
This year sees the 50th anniversary of the publication of Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health by Ivan Illich,1 a book that has had the same impact on the language of health care as George Orw...
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
If you want to study statins, then you need to start with the key studies, listed here: medicurious.substack.com/p/no-96-why-...
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
bsky.app/profile/jake... Huge thread, listing summary of major papers, trials and reviews of #statins and #primaryprevention Tried something new. Using BlueSky as a notepad. Is this useful for #MedEd and #EBM ?
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This 4 part series is genuinely fascinating, impressive and slightly scary. Almost real life sci fi open.spotify.com/episode/41qS...
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Part Three: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Being unwell is hugely challenging, it’s hard enough without the Govt making it harder 7% fewer GPs with 20% less funding (£/patient) to provide care Closing local pharmacies & big chains leaving (Lloyds) 111 directs you back somewhere else Hospitals blocked & fewer beds Ask MPs for better #Medsky
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The Power of Vitamin D: Is the Future in Precision Nutrition through Personalized Supplementation Plans? Open Access www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16...
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
No 95: The Best of #MediCurious 2021-24 #MedEd #TeamGP#MedSky The top 10-15 most popular articles so far... open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Books for the new year. The cartoons are to help my son learn to read ... not for me at all 😉
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE - COLLAPSE UK population ⬆️7% - 2012-24 ❌GPs ⬇️ 7% ❌District nurses ⬇️42% ❌Health Visitors ⬇️30% ❌Learning Disability Nurses⬇️23% ❌School Nurses⬇️25% ❌Nursing home beds ⬇️ 12% ❌Residential Care home beds ⬇️16% ❌Social care cuts Fund not reform! @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Ppers with funnier titles get more citations "Jokes sometimes find their way into academic papers. “One place where we often see humour is in titles, but there’s a very small amount of literature about whether this is a good idea,” says lead author Stephen Heard www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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You must be joking: funny paper titles might lead to more citations
After controlling for importance, analysis finds that papers with funnier titles get more citations. But some researchers question these results.
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The JUPITER trial. Published in 2008. One of the few studies that shows a significant mortality benefit (CVD and all cause) with a statin. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Rosuvastatin to Prevent Vascular Events in Men and Women with Elevated C-Reactive Protein | NEJM
Increased levels of the inflammatory biomarker high-sensitivity C-reactive protein predict cardiovascular events. Since statins lower levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein as well as choles...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/07/2023
CONCLUSION: Many of us have foundational media - stories that are at the core of who we are as a person. For a lot of us, Discworld is our foundation. I'm a better person today because I read these books. I hope those of you discovering it for the first time have a similar experience. FIN
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/07/2023
DO YOU LIKE GOTH SHIT? Start with Mort, the first of the Death books. DO YOU LIKE DRAGONS? Start with Guards! Guards! the first of the Watch books. DO YOU LIKE ANTITHEISM? Start with Small Gods, a standalone skewering of organized religion. From there, follow this guide to find your next book.
The Discworld Reading Order Guide 3.0
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/07/2023
DISCWORLD IS HUMANIST: as a lifelong atheist, I trace a lot of my moral code back to reading Discworld. In the words of his friend Neil Gaiman, Pratchett was a deeply angry man, "and that anger, it seems to me, is about Terry's underlying sense of what is fair and what is not"
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Minimalist and lifestyle, or maximalist and mounjaro? Another great post from #sensiblemedicine open.substack.com/pub/sensible...
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Do you like #MedEd or #peerreview ? How about #EBM and learning the scientific method by critiquing large famous studies? This review by @sensiblemedicine is a brilliant educational piece and is a great example of how we should do it. Clopidogrel V ticagrelor open.substack.com/pub/sensible...
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Is One of the Most Popular Cardiac Drugs Better than its Generic Competitor?
The British Medical Journal has reignited a 14-year debate regarding the antiplatelet drug ticagrelor (Brilianta) and PLATO trial
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Twelve questions to ask your doctor for better brain health in the new year "Factors that may protect brain function and practical approach to screening assessments" Open Access www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
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Rebecca Payne @oohgpwales.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
www.tristandc.com/jobs/news-20... how does a GP get anaesthesics experience? #tempted
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Job Vacancy: General Practitioner with Anaesthetics Experience
The Government of Tristan da Cunha is seeking to fill the role of General Practitioner on its Medical Officer Rota during 2025.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 23/12/2024
You may have heard that it took a long time for penicillin to be scaled up. What about other antibiotics? How long did it take for them to be mass produced and introduced clinically, after they were discovered? I created a visualization of this here:
A timeline titled "Antibiotics: time from discovery to introduction" shows when each antibiotic drug class was first discovered versus first available for medical use. Data: Hutchings, Truman, Wilkinson (2019). Created by Saloni Dattani for Our World in Data.
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The graphic is a good summary for blast injuries. Hopefully not something you ever need to know but probably a useful "1-pager" to keep in case of emergencies. A HALO event = High Acuity, Low Occurence = rare and deadly.
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Associations of the ‘weekend warrior’ physical activity pattern with all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality "Even busy adults could benefit from taking part in one or two sessions of exercise per week" bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/7...
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Associations of the ‘weekend warrior’ physical activity pattern with all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality: the Mexico City Prospective Study
Objectives The objective was to investigate the benefits of the ‘weekend warrior’ physical activity pattern in Latin America, where many people take part in high levels of non-exercise physical activi...
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Does it all come back to being "anti-inflammatory"? Buzz word of Internet bro science for the last few years.
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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
#ARCadvent day 2️⃣3️⃣: A pioneering test proven to speed up the diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder #ADHD in children is now being used by the #NHS. A collaboration between @arc-em.bsky.social, Qbtech, NIHR MindTech, @healthinnovation-em.org.uk & more arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/east-mi...
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#ARCadvent
Top ARC stories of the year
Day 23
ADHD assessment technology adopted by the NHS
Main image: A child using QbTest
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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I really hope this works in phase 3. Just imagine if we rally can prevent prostate cancer with a daily omega 3 capsule?
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STITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today · 22/12/2024
A year on a high omega-3, low omega-6 diet significantly reduced prostate cancer cell proliferation in men on active surveillance. by Aronson WJ, Grogan T (...) Henning SM et 8 al. in J Clin Oncol #MedSky 📖 read the article: ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.24.006…
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