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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.

The body which handles NHS pensions is struggling to process applications on time after a 50 per cent increase in retirements from the service. Liz Truss Rishi Sunak you best ask why? BMA Pensions Committee Dr Tony Goldstone Dr Luke Evans MP Sir Liam Fox

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.

The NHS is lowering the bowel cancer screening age in England from 60 years to 50 years with the aim of detecting cancer at an earlier stage. The change involves sending home-testing kits which can identify signs of bowel cancer before symptoms appear to people aged 50 to 52.

I was explaining to a student how we did literature searches in the 1980s and 1990s when I was a student and then a junior doctor and junior researcher. We had to look up articles in a printed copy of Index Medicus, and then pushed a trolley around the library to collect the

My new article in @JpatientSafety with Waseem Jerjes discusses missed appointments. These are an often overlooked patient safety concern that disrupts continuity of care, delays treatment, and increases the risk of adverse health outcomes. journals.lww.com/journalpatient…

There is a global shortage of primary physicians. But the solution is not to use people without medical qualifications such as physician assistants or associates to fill the gap. Patients deserve physician-led care delivered by full trained doctors whatever country they live in.

I sometimes hear calls to remove “simpler cases” from the patients doctors manage; thereby allowing them to focus on complex patients and practise at the “top of their licence”. But for doctors, seeing an unending stream of complex patients is professionally very challenging.

One of the changes we need in medicine in the UK is to make the GMC more responsive to doctors. In recent decades, the GMC has increasingly begun to act as an arm of the government and the NHS, ignoring the views of doctors, and not acting as a truly independent regulator.

GPs are managing an increasing number of people with ADHD but a lack of resources, training and support raises concerns over the potential misuse of stimulant drugs. The article from Waseem Jerjes and myself discusses how these risks can be reduced. frontiersin.org/journals/medic…

If the GMC had better leaders, they never would have agreed to take on the registration and regulation of PAs and AAs. It’s turning out to be very challenging for the GMC with multiple court cases and complaints. Whatever the government paid the GMC, it wasn’t worth it.

The funding challenges faced by medical trainees are more than just the cost of professional examinations or membership fees. They are symptoms of a broader failure to treat medical training as an investment in the healthcare system's future. frontiersin.org/journals/medic…

Many of the current plans for NHS primary care in England (e.g. Pharmacy First and the use of PAs) were made when there were shortages of GPs and so alternative care pathways had to be devised. We now have many more GPs looking for work and it’s essential to rethink these plans.