In response to the demoralising articles in The Telegraph this week on the #gpcrisis DAUK GP Committee 💙 have lodged the following letter with IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) To add your signature to support ⬇️ Read the full letter here: forms.gle/fj4vuyGawDEa4E… #NHS Please share widely #FBNHS #TeamGP

ICYMI: "Surveys we have conducted show 60% of GPs have seen their mental health deteriorate significantly in the last year" Listen to @MartinRCGP tell MPs that the wellbeing of GPs must come first in the context of future #NHS reforms UK House of Commons

GPs and patients are on the same side over face to face appointments – but chronic GP shortages make it hard to guarantee safe care. Read our full response to the Daily Mail's campaign on face to face appointments, from @MartinRCGP - rcgp.org.uk/about-us/news/…

just wondering whether the Daily Mail realises their hatred of GP’s will trigger many more to leave the profession, and make an under resourced, understaffed service even worse?

'If they can turn you against firefighters and doctors, they can turn you against your own mum.' James O'Brien hits out at right-wing media for turning the debate over face-to-face GP appointments into an 'attack on doctors'. James O'Brien

Re-open surgeries !!!!!! On what planet you are living? We having been open throughout the pandemic

.Dominic Raab admits that GP appointments 'have returned to pre-pandemic levels' pulsetoday.co.uk/news/workload/…

Have I got this right? Sajid Javid wants GPs to provide more F2F appts, better telephone services, appointments on the day of patient's choice, even though.. .. we currently have 1900 *fewer* GPs than in 2015? Who does he think staffs the NHS? Unicorns? 🦄🦄🦄

"Sit down... you may be the prime minister of this country, but in this House, I'm in charge" Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle tells Boris Johnson "it's not 'Leader of the Opposition's Questions'" #PMQs bbc.in/30zyWQY

One in four NHS doctors tired to the point of impairment, survey finds theguardian.com/society/2022/j…

Academic writing is appropriately balancing the use of "moreover", "however", "therefore" and "furthermore".

*GMC National Survey* 67,000 UK trainees Nearly 2/3rds of trainees are at moderate or high risk of “burnout”. Alarming.

Every doctor I meet these days (Junior or Senior) is thinking about an exit stregety from the NHS. Meanwhile, NHS is working on wellbeing initiatives.

Mental Health Polypharmacy in Primary Care Patients pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38398271/

The multifaceted roles of GP trainers in guiding trainee transition to portfolio general practice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38533728/

De-prescribing in primary care: the clinical, ethical and psychological considerations pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38546783/

The importance of attentive primary care in the early identification of mild cognitive impairment: case series pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38711887/

UK general practice has moved from a GP-based approach to a multi-professional, team-based model. Our new article with Waseem Jerjes in Education in Primary Care discusses how we can prepare GP Registrars for this new way or working. tandfonline.com/eprint/ARSEUWJ… Taylor & Francis Research Insights

“General Practices have the best financial discipline in the health service as they cannot run up large deficits in the belief that they will be bailed out.” This comment in the Darzi Report illustrates one of the key facts about NHS general practice; that it keeps within budget.