Out today in BMJ Quality & Safety our paper on quality and safety of locum doctor practice led by Jane Ferguson. Key messages for organisations on how they use locums. Full paper open access at qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/…

📍 A must-read for our members! We've summarised findings here: nasgp.org.uk/gp-locum-work/…

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Thanks to Sean Gavan Garima Dalal Christos Grigoroglou for delivering lightening talks at today's Divisional research showcase.

Locums: national survey responses reveal concerns about the robustness of arrangements for locum working, and the impact of these on the quality and safety of patient care doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2… Kieran Walshe Gemma Stringer Tommy Allen Christos Grigoroglou Evan Kontopantelis

Are you or someone you know a patient who has been treated in both an NHS and independent hospital? We are interviewing people with those experiences for a new research project. More info at researchforthefuture.org/studies/interf…. Please do share/forward/RT!

Our new paper on the use of locum doctors in NHS Trusts is published today
BMJ_Open. Locum use was stable and low at 4% of total medical staffing but there were large variations across different trusts and areas. full paper @ bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/6/e…
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New work by Alex Hodkinson Maria Panagioti Σalwa Zghebi Evan Kontopantelis Medication Safety ProfessorCarolynCG published today in The British Journal of General Practice

'The association of strong #opioids and #antibiotics prescribing with general practitioner #burnout '

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Together with our friends HOPE at UoM we are pleased to be hosting the Winter 2023 HESG HESG, from Wednesday 11th to Friday 13th January. Thanks to HESG Sheffield 2022 for setting the organising bar so high & more details to come soon! #HESG23

New paper: #clinicalcode usage of 18 conditions in UK #PrimaryCare using @CPRD #BigData Evan Kontopantelis Christos Grigoroglou Brian McMillan Rosa Parisi Prof Reeves & Prof Ashcroft UoM Primary Care BMJ_Open NIHR School for Primary Care Research Special thanks to Dr Springate bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/7/e…

Our new open access paper on Locum GP use in the NHS is out today The British Journal of General Practice. We used routinely collected data to explore variation in their use, their characteristics and also drivers of higher locum use. full paper @ bjgp.org/content/early/… NIHR Research HealthEcon_MCR

Research on #locum #doctors in England shows they make up 3.3% of the GP workforce, with predictors of higher use explained in this 1-minute video. Read the research: doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2…

Christos Grigoroglou Tommy Allen Kieran Walshe Evan Kontopantelis Jane Ferguson

Our op.access IPD meta-analyses is now available
General Hospital Psychiatry.We collected data from 28 international RCTs to examine CC effects on suicidal ideation. CC w/ psychol intervention was the most effective model,specially for older pat @nihrspc UoM Primary Care
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33915444/

Looking for care home residents, family members, care home staff and healthcare staff for 1-hour remote interviews to help us improve care transitions to/from hospitals @PSTRC_GM ENRICH GMCVO Research for the Future @GM_HSC @ARC_GM
Safer Salford @SalfordCCG
Healthwatch Salford

👏Congratulations, just out - new NIHR Alert from research conducted by colleagues at the University of Manchester UoM Primary Care Alex Hodkinson Evan Kontopantelis Maria Panagioti Christos Grigoroglou

The first paper of my PhD has been published today!

We found that the most deprived areas in the North had more than 3 times higher #opioid prescribing than the most deprived parts of London.
#northsouthdivide #AcademicTwitter NIHR School for Primary Care Research @PSTRC_GM

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Research Fellow post working on social cohesion and health HOPE at UoM with Luke Munford Evan Kontopantelis Rita Santos Christos Grigoroglou Maria Panagioti Tarani Chandola James Evans

Deadline 22 November

*Job advert*

Interested in the links between health and social and economic outcomes? Particularly at geographical place level?

Want to work in a fun research intensive team? HOPE at UoM

Please consider applying to come and work with us: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…