James Taylor at Armadillo Glasgow - superb! Voice is still there! Nicely laid back. Just finished set with Carole King's "up on the roof"

Freedom from Want - great lecture by Darren McGarvey in Glasgow #Reith. Well worth a second listen. The need for individuals to take charge of their own lives. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Looking forward to the International Conference on Academic Medicine in Quebec City next month!

This has been a ‘priority’ for as long as I remember, and always seems to be 2 years away… It’s not good for patients, for practices or for the environment and the delay doesn’t engender faith in any more complex IT projects

Great concert tonight BelfastTrad with the amazing John Doyle (guitar), David Power ( pipes), Finn Moore (small pipes) Cathal O'Currain (fiddle +) Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (concertina) and Lorraine Ni Bhrain (voice and flute)!

#Belfasttradfest

Beautiful 4 part harmony from "Landless" at the Empire #Belfasttradfest

Superb virtuoso performances from Mike McGoldrick (flute), John McCusker (fiddle)and John Doyle (guitar). Well done #Belfasttradfest

With Greg McClure at his 500th parkrun #parkrun at Waterworks Belfast. Well done Greg!

Day 1 boat building course. Michael working hard

Day 2 (Geordie Accent) starting to look like a boat!

Boat nearly finished

Boat wrapped up and waiting for the ferry home!

Just finishing Boston parkrun on Saturday at Jamaica Pond

Jamaica pond - gorgeous setting for Boston parkrun

With Orlagh at John Harvard's statue. - (not actually John Harvard but the grandson of a former president of the college!)

With Orlagh tonight at the Queen Concert TD Garden arena Boston

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… If you’re in secondary care and you think this doesn’t affect us then you’re on a different planet. Underfunded primary care will cause the health service to rot from the inside. We’re in this together Ursula Mason Alan Stout

Assisted dying bill introduced to parliament today. Exactly 24 years ago we published a paper which surveyed the then attitudes of Northern Ireland GPs. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/insta… At that time 78% of GPs said they would not wish to be involved in physician assisted suicide.

Well said Alan Stout on Sunday Politics this afternoon. Important for our patients to fully understand the multiple jeopardies threatening the very survival of general practice.