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Victoria Tzortziou Brown

@victoriatb.bsky.social
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GP, @RCGP Vice Chair, Research & Innovation lead @NHS_NELondon, @FSEM_UK sports medicine @QMUL . May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. Views: mine

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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New analysis from The King's Fund shows many patients still struggle with NHS administration and communication. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-... This reflects what GPs see every day. Improving access requires making the system clearer and easier to navigate. @rcgp.bsky.social
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Still lost in the system: the urgent need for better NHS admin | The King's Fund
A year on from our December 2024 poll, our latest research shows no improvement in people’s experiences of NHS admin. NHS admin plays a central role in shaping how people experience and perceive the N...
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
General practice now accounts for 8.3% of NHS spend, a decade low www.hsj.co.uk/primary-care... If care is to shift into the community, a commitment to increased investment alongside transparent annual reporting on general practice funding at national and ICB levels is needed. @rcgp.bsky.social
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GP spend share at lowest point in a decade
The proportion of the NHS budget spent on general practice has fallen to its lowest point in at least 10 years, according to figures newly released by government.
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
On my way to Bournemouth for @LibDems conference where I will be meeting with MPs, advisors and stakeholders to promote the crucial role of GPs in the NHS and how we can build a sustainable future for general practice #LDConf @rcgp.bsky.social
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 28/08/2025
"Now is the time to ensure that the people who turn ambition into impact—the clinical academics—are not left behind." Read more on medical academics and the NHS 10 year plan, from our medical academic staff committee: www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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The UK is rapidly losing medical academics and without them the NHS 10 year plan is at risk
The upcoming NHS workforce plan is an opportunity to turn this shortage around, write David Strain and Jonathan Gibb In July 2025, the UK government launched two ambitious strategies with a shared v...
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 15/07/2025
Discontinuity of care was higher among younger adults, subgroups of males, urban residents, lower socioeconomic groups, those of "other" ethnicity, those who were unemployed, and patients with higher morbidity in this Danish cohort study doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare @trkristensen.bsky.social
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 16/07/2025
Small improvements in personal GP continuity, achievable in most practices, resulted in reductions in hospital admissions and emergency department visits ‪doi.org/10.3399/bjgp... @liu.se.bsky.social #PrimaryCare #Continuity #GeneralPractice
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Personal GP continuity improves healthcare outcomes in primary care populations: a systematic review | British Journal of General Practice
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Shared a summary of our research on workforce retention in Pulse Today: www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/guest-... Despite ongoing recruitment efforts, we're still losing fully qualified GPs at a worrying rate. Workforce data, including vacancy data, is crucial for addressing the retention crisis.
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
At the Congrès de la Médecine Générale in Paris presenting with @becksfisher.bsky.social and John Ford. We covered GP retention, workforce data, unequal GP distribution, lack of job opportunities. #sustainableGPcareers #addressingbottlenecks @rcgp.bsky.social @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Goodmorning @TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#Pulse365 conference, catching up with colleagues after closing speech on Workforce in general practice. With James Waldron and @jkaffash.bsky.social
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#TeamGP The Leng review of physician and anaesthesia associates has launched a survey of healthcare professionals. This will be open until the 30th March. It is important that we have good representation from general practice: consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/67b88983cde4... @rcgp.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk
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Survey - Independent review of physician associates and anaesthesia associates: survey of healthcare professionals
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Niro Siriwardena @nsiriwardena.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Recognising International Medical Graduates who may benefit from tailored support: PMQ in English language linked with significantly better chance of passing MRCGP; prequalification assessments help identify IMGs who may benefit from support @victoriatb.bsky.social www.wisegp.co.uk/teaching-and...
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MRCGP exam
WiseGP - Championing the clinical scholarship supporting the Knowledge Work of person-centred General Practice.
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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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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BJGP @bjgp.org · 26/02/2025
Patients mostly accept online test result access but want to know ‘what happens next’. Reliance on the NHS App for test communication is insufficient. Patient-centred communication methods are important for patient safety & clarity in delivering test results, & GP workload doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...
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Communicating blood test results in primary care: a mixed-methods systematic review | British Journal of General Practice
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Our study is officially published! For the first time, we have explored the association between the language of primary medical qualification and exam attainment, analysing data from over 28,000 candidates. bjgp.org/content/earl... @bjgp.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk @rcgp.bsky.social
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Our study is officially published! For the first time, we have explored the association between the language of primary medical qualification and exam attainment, analysing data from over 28,000 candidates. bjgp.org/content/earl... @bjgp.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk @rcgp.bsky.social
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Niro Siriwardena @nsiriwardena.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Language of primary medical qualification and differential MRCGP exam attainment: IMGs trained in countries with non-English as first language had lower odds of exam pass and exam scores across all exam components @victoriatb.bsky.social @bjgp.bsky.social bjgp.org/content/earl...
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Language of primary medical qualification and differential MRCGP exam attainment: an observational study
Background International medical graduates (IMGs) comprise more than half of GP registrars but are more likely to fail postgraduate assessments than UK graduates. Aim To assess whether there is an as...
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@nihr.bsky.social School for Primary Care Research upcoming Bitesize Impact Showcase Webinars #TeamGP -these are lunchtime sessions with short presentations of key findings from recent primary care research for those interested in attending.
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
At the first year celebration of the Health Equity Evidence Centre. Using machine learning and data insights to generate evidence that can influence policy. heec.co.uk #healthequity @becksfisher.bsky.social
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Nature @nature.com · 24/01/2025
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research go.nature.com/4gc0Bc5
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‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Interesting to see similar debates in accounting and medicine on training, the impact of technology and the future of the professions.
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
“policy needs to engage with more than the question of what the latest ‘efficiency fix’ (structural, technological, or otherwise) should be.” @oohgpwales.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @bjgp.bsky.social
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“We need to recognise that leadership is about how power is exercised—who benefits from decisions, whose voices are heard or silenced, and who sets agendas”
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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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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Our qualified doctors cannot find training places. The number of locally employed doctors, outside a training contract, has been increasing fast.
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/docu... Urgent action on workforce planning is needed. Such bottlenecks have significant financial implications and impact on staff morale.
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Goodmorning #TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/docu... Urgent action on workforce planning is needed. Such bottlenecks have significant financial implications and impact on staff morale.
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Kevin Fong @drkevinfong.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
editorial from @bmj.com and paper: Poor staff retention is associated with higher patient mortality. Have said it before & I’ll say it again. If you don’t care for the carers, they cannot care for their patients. www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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Niro Siriwardena @nsiriwardena.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Language of primary medical qualification and differential MRCGP exam attainment: an observational study. International Medical Graduates trained in countries with non-English first language significantly lower odds of all license exams pass & scores @victoriatb.bsky.social bjgp.org/content/earl...
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Language of primary medical qualification and differential MRCGP exam attainment: an observational study
Background International Medical Graduates (IMGs) are more likely to fail postgraduate assessments and comprise over half of GP trainees. Aim This study assessed whether there is an association betwee...
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 21/11/2024
High monthly turnover rates of nurses and senior doctors are associated with more deaths among patients admitted as emergencies to NHS hospitals in England, this new study finds @joemoscelli.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 15/11/2024
| @bjgpopen.bsky.social This review of 25 studies found that 92% provided strong evidence of an association between unexpected weight loss and undiagnosed cancer, and calls for updated guidelines reflecting recommendations tailored to age, sex and probability of diagnosis ➡️ doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 16/11/2024
I have now added #RCGP to the GP and Primary Care feed - as this place get busy I think the feeds will become more and more important to find the content we want. Hoping the RCGP will arrive properly soon... @victoriatb.bsky.social 😀 @drrowenachristmas.bsky.social
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“The public has strong views about guardrails on access to patient data…The most realistic solution may be to reform patient choice, offering clearer options about how people’s data are used and by whom. Any effort to dilute choice is likely to fail and further undermine trust.”
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
After a respectful and informed debate the RCGP council made decisions on physician associates’ role in uk general practice. www.rcgp.org.uk/representing...
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Goodmorning @teamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Goodmorning @TeamGP and all
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Victoria Tzortziou Brown @victoriatb.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Goodmorning @TeamGP and all
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