Not long now!!!🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️😬

I will be one of thousands of people taking to the streets to #RunforRob today. Looking forward to the Leeds community coming together and raising money for some fantastic causes. Good luck everyone taking part! justgiving.com/fundraising/t-…

Reflecting on a recent conversations ‘Only one medical graduate in a ‘London Med School cohort is looking to be a GP’ ‘The medical school programme in a northern Uni is looking to reduce GP input’ Failure or blindness to #NHS reliance on GPs is a disaster WE HAVE A PROBLEM 👇🏻

NEW: GMC National Training Survey Results are now out.💡 Main headline: Quality high despite major stress, but burnout at highest level yet 🔥 Let's dive in... 🧵 #medtwitter #MedEd

**Attention GPNs in Leeds & Wakefield** We still have spaces on our GPN Development Fellowship which has sessions to aid you to pinpoint your capabilities, career interests and develop a clear sense of the ways in which you can progress your career! Info⬇️ nhs.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/msteams_…

👀 Fancy working with me and ⁦alison cracknell⁩ ⁩ in the Future Leadership Programmw to learn more about leadership, quality improvement and helping us improve delirium care across one of the biggest trusts in the country? yorksandhumberdeanery.nhs.uk/recruitment/fu…

#Exercise is an effective treatment for depression, with walking or jogging, yoga, and strength training more effective than other exercises, particularly when intense, finds this new study. Includes a visual abstract summarising key findings Michael Noetel🔸 bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Unsurprisingly, these same ICBs have the highest concentration of GP surgeries serving mostly socioeconomically disadvantaged patients. 2/

parkrunners inspire each other!😀 🤝Pass it on! Thank you Mwidimi Ndosi for your sponsorship Here's the message you sent 5 years ago about #parkrun! If, like Mwidimi, you #loveparkrun & would like to sponsor me, you'll get a shout out too! 👉🏼justgiving.com/page/ailynforp… #ukrunchat #runr

Join alison cracknell Anna Winfield and other team members talking about our experience of supporting care homes with QI. Please share with colleagues who may be interested Alison Iliff Alec Tinker Sarah De Biase

The Conservatives, Department of Health and Social Care & NHS England have decided, rather than being the ‘stepping stone’ year to signal safety, stability, and hope - 2024 will instead signal reduced patient access to GP services as well as likely closures of GP practices across the country. 🧵👇

take note people on here who say "there are no GP appointments" more than there have ever been, with fewer GPs than a decade ago and UK GPs seeing twice as many patients as counterparts in other high income nations And average patient on GP list having 6 appointments a year

A post on unfunded, and underfunded work in primary care. Last year I did some analysis on LES schemes and freebies practices do, it wasn't exhaustive. 10 non-core things like phlebotomy, ECG, B12 etc that aren't funded in our area. I revisited it today, some rough searches

🎗️ We’re encouraging more people in Leeds to take part in cancer screening. Read our Cancer Care Coordinator, Claire’s experience with cervical screening and understand the importance of early detection. 👉 Read Claire’s Story Here - leedsgpconfederation.org.uk/2023/10/13/a-d… #CervicalScreening

some talk of difficulties following referral in accessing diagnostic services at #WYLeDeR. Is the shift from 2ww to 28 days to diagnosis target an opportunity to facilitate more reasonable adjustments and make that first hospital appointment a better experience/reduce DNA rate.

It’s parkrun day! Come and join us for 5k of running, walking, jogging or volunteering among friends you’ve not yet met. All are welcome and parkrun is free of charge. Simply sign up for a barcode on our website (& bring it!) then turn up for briefings at 8.50am. See you soon.

GPs are being asked to open up online consultation software from 8am-630pm Mon-Fri from 1/10/25. No flexibility from NHS England Department of Health and Social Care Wes Streeting around suspending it if completely overwhelmed or staff sickness limits capacity. Patient safety will be compromised by this..

General Practice have articulated our concerns professionally & in good faith GPs have been labelled “laggards” & “blockers of progress” despite eRS; EPS; GPSoC; GPC-UR read access; 99% surgeries on cloud-based telephony; & access higher than any point in 77 yr Hx of NHS: 1.5m pts/day

NHS England According to this data 💥5,967 (over 96%) of practices in England have at least one online consultation system   💥5.1 million patient online submissions occurred in August 💥3.5 million clinical, the rest admin (For context every A&E nationwide offers 67,000/day) 3/x

Imagine creating a system where hospitals are paid to do less, meanwhile GPs get paid less to do more…with patients ultimately losing. Oh wait, that is the system. And the government then post Drake memes implying they are on the side of patients.