Health Sec Steve Barclay confronted by angry member of public over beleaguered ambulance service: “Twelve years. You’ve done bugger all about it”.

Our committee is ALL CHANGE. Applications our now open to apply for our committee: sites.google.com/nihr.ac.uk/pac… ANYONE in primary care is welcome. 😊 Want to change primary care and primary care research for the better? We need YOU. 🫵🏼 🏁 DEADLINE: 2⃣0⃣ November 2022 (25 days)

**APEx SPCR Spotlight** Click to find out more about Sarah Moore and her NIHR School for Primary Care Research Wellcome Clinical PhD Research Fellowship plans, here: bit.ly/3TQezpy

NEW DATA: Inequalities in GP distribution remain as wide as ever. Over the past 7 years, practices in rich areas have gained on 1 day/wk of GP time, but practices in poor areas have lost 1.5 days/wk. Commissioned by BBC Newsnight #healthinequalities phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/research/r…

Thanks to ⁦The Guardian⁩ for taking the time to report the reality of what’s happening to our NHS theguardian.com/society/2022/d…

Doctors stand with nurses to save our nhs #NursesStrike #NHSStrikes

Thanks for keeping this in the headlines ⁦The Guardian⁩ - prizes for ideas to make the government sit up and take notice… theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

'It feels a bit like a dangerous game of hot potato – who is going to be left holding the sick patient?' Thanks to @nadafkhan for another thoughtful piece on a very hot topic Put a cap on it – safe workload levels in general practice bjgplife.com/put-a-cap-on-i… via @The British Journal of General Practice

ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Calling all NHS workers 😀 You can now have FREE access to the Body Coach App 💪 Apply here bit.ly/3SzVkkn (you will need an NHS email to register) 💙 Please RT to help let others know 🙏🏼

Look, I know it’s a little thing in the grand scheme, but — ⁦every Superdrug⁩ pharmacy now offers recycling points for medicine blister packs, which otherwise end up in landfill in their millions. Bag them up, take them in every month or two. Easy. Pls RT/spread the word.

Looks like this day at work is about to get a whole lot more exciting… ⁦University of Exeter⁩ ⁦APEx (also on Blue Sky)⁩

New paper on variation in blood test use by symptom presentation in patients subsequently diagnosed with cancer (link: doi.org/10.3390/cancer…). I am grateful for the support from Greg Rubin Gary Abel Ruth Swann Sean McPhail Sarah Moore YoryosLyratzopoulos CanTest John

Great intro to NIHR School for Primary Care Research trainees event here in sunny Exeter from Emma Pitchforth - looking forward to an interesting 2 days!