🧵 Thread Summary: Patient safety in actioning and communicating blood test results in primary care: a UK wide audit using the Primary care Academic CollaboraTive (PACT)🩸PACT - Primary care Academic CollaboraTive bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/13/3/e…

Pleased to share our new paper on the association between socioeconomic position and frailty. People with lower socioeconomic position had: - Higher prevalence of frailty - Earlier onset of frailty - Greater frailty progression Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.… 🧵👇

Our NIHR HSDR study (CLEAR) investigating positional choice for cervical screening starts tomorrow. Important to encourage more people from all communities to attend, by enhancing accessibility and acceptability. UWE Health Research Katrina Turner 💙 Lizzie Cottrell 💙 Jo Waller Bridgette Love

What a fantastic appointment. The brilliant Frances Mair. Huge congratulations from all of us at CAPC, Bristol 🎉

#Job: We have an exciting opportunity for a talented systematic reviewer or quantitative researcher with an interest in #EvidenceSynthesis & diagnostic research to work on an NIHR Health Technology Assessment looking at diagnosis of #CoeliacDisease. See: bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta…

Congratulations to Prof Alastair Hay, who has been elected Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Physicians. 🎉 The award is made to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to medical science, health services and/or clinical practice. ➡️bristol.ac.uk/primaryhealthc…

Please help find a missing doctor colleague Last seen in Colchester. Thought to have been in London

A desperate and plaintive plea for help from Jack’s devastated and devoted mum. Someone MUST know something, please share and spend some time recalling if you could hold the missing piece of the puzzle.

This is amazing news. Huge congratulations to you Dr Jo Hartland 🏳️‍⚧️🍉. 🎉🙌😃

Fantastic article. Great to see @ruthndwrites

Sleep well Charlie cat. You were so loved. Thanks for 14 years of love and friendship x

Just moved over to #Bluesky. Delighted to discover loads of people already there. 😃 See you on the other side… say ‘hi’ when you get there. bsky.app/profile/katrin…

Beta-blocker prescriptions for anxiety have increased, but they aren’t NICE recommended and there are safety concerns 💊 Our paper reports the reasons why GPs believe that beta-blockers have a role to play in anxiety management CAPC, Bristol ProfessorCarolynCG Katrina Turner 💙 NHS BNSSG ICB Clinical Effectiveness & Research 💙

IRIS+ trial is seeking two Clinical Leads in #Swansea and #Bolton! Join us in expanding support for women, children, young people and men affected by #DomesticAbuse. Please access to find out more: irisi.org/work-with-us CAPC, Bristol National Institute for Health and Care Research

I really do worry people have forgotten what Covid-19 was like for NHS staff. I went onto ICU wards and saw it myself. I spoke to staff broken by relentless death. Dr Kevin Fong testimony UK Covid-19 Inquiry needs to be heard:

Charlotte Archer Katrina Turner 💙 ProfessorCarolynCG CAPC, Bristol NHS BNSSG ICB Clinical Effectiveness & Research 💙 Listen to the audio interview with Dr Charlotte Archer on when and why GPs prescribe #BetaBlockers for #Anxiety bjgplife.com/183 Charlotte Archer Katrina Turner 💙 ProfessorCarolynCG CAPC, Bristol NHS BNSSG ICB Clinical Effectiveness & Research 💙 #PrimaryCare

Congratulations 🎉to @HazelEveritt Alexander Ford Matthew Ridd et al. on winning the Royal College of General Practitioners Research Paper of the Year award for their The Lancet paper showing that #amitriptyline can improve #IBS symptoms. News: bristol.ac.uk/primaryhealthc… Paper: thelancet.com/journals/lance… #PrimaryCare

A brilliant 9 minute film highlighting the importance of Deep End practices. So delighted we have one in #Bristol thanks to Polly Duncan and other CAPC, Bristol colleagues

Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/zcpv