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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Jul 20

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Jul 20

If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact?

#TeamGP #Academia #Publishing

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If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. | Jake Matthews

If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact? Lots of junior clinicians and academics ask about how to disseminate their work or how to choose what projects to do to ...

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Oliver O’Sullivan @ollieosul.bsky.social · Jun 6

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 24

Dr malcolm kendrick has said very similar things.

Ivor Cummins is not medical. But he is quite a smart guy who seems to have read an analysed a lot of the literature on statins.

I'm not saying he is right but it's good to know both sides of the argument.

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · Feb 22

‘There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’
So says the ever-insightful
@pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social
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NHS England has no idea about GPs

Reform will only happen when the organisation confronts how lamentably wrong-headed it has been.

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 22

Can AI help with the GP job crisis in the UK?

Can it simplify the international jobs market?
What do you think?
#TeamGP #RCGPReg #MedSky #jobs

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No99b: Can AI make searching GP jobs around the world easier to find and compare?

The international market for doctors (GPs and Family Medicine) is complicated.

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 21

What can big macs tell us about GP salaries around the world?

#TeamGP #primarycare #RCGPReg #bigmacindex

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Updated the Big Mac Index for GP salaries around the world in 2025.

If anyone is considering emigrating

No 99: In 2025, Which Country Has the Best GP Salary Using the Big Mac Index?

Any long time readers of MediCurious ?

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Emma Bower @emmabower.bsky.social · Feb 20

Bit late to post this, but this story from last week based on our annual survey of locum GPs shows how the current jobs crisis is affecting locums. In England most are struggling to find work, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income www.gponline.com/locum-gps-st... #GPnews

Most locum GPs struggling to find work as jobs crisis devastates income

Most locum GPs in England are struggling to find work amid huge competition for jobs, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income, a survey has found.

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · Feb 16

Jake - New NIH is tip of ⛰️for what's coming. Consider SIGNING and amplifying this open declaration against exactly this kind of thing to #defendresearch? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship

This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 16

Heidi Hi Patient. Is AI about to drastically reduce the need for a GP?
#TeamGP #RCGPReg #MediCurious #AI #MedSky

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No 98: Heidi Hi Patient. How can the AI assisted HCA help you today?

Do you really need to see a doctor?

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 16

#SundayReflection

What is passive and active academic freedom? Not something I have come across before.

#MedSky #AcademicSky

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Active and Passive Academic Freedom

Should the NIH consider Universities commitment to free expression as it gives out funds?

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 15

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BJGP @bjgp.bsky.social · Feb 13

“People just left because they just couldn’t cope with the stress.”

Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare

Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice | British Journal of General Practice

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 9

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This is a really good podcast summary of changes in TERS funding and GP recruitment crisis

@gponline.bsky.social

GP recruitment scheme faces axe, contract negotiations update, NHS planning guidance

<p>In this week’s episode the GPonline team discusses the future of the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERS) – an initiative to attract GPs to un...

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BJGP @bjgp.bsky.social · Feb 4

Listen to BJGP Associate Editors discussing BJGP's Top 10 most read research published in the last year www.bjgplife.com/193

#BJGPTop10 #PrimaryCare @sammerriel.bsky.social l @drtomround.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social

BJGP’s top 10 most read papers of 2024

Quickly and easily listen to BJGP Interviews for free!

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 9

@dauk-gp.bsky.social @gppact.bsky.social @gponline.bsky.social
@wisegpcouk.bsky.social
@sapc.ac.uk
@accurx.bsky.social

Does anyone else want to collaborate on this project?

Sharing templates more widely and ideally getting every useful tool and score from MDCalc and on to AccuRx.

Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 9

Collaboration request... #MedSky who can help?

I want to form a group of clinicians to persuade AccuRx to allow for "community collaboration" and sharing of templates more widely?

Pls like and share if you agree

#MediCurious #TeamGP #MedTech #collaboration

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No 97: A Love Letter to AccuRx and a Call to Action!

Please share user-made templates more widely.

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 8

Does anyone else love time saving, technology, @Accurx and @mdcalc ?

If so, please read and share.

I really want to see AccuRx embrace this small change that could lead to a grass-roots revolution in the use of objective patient surveys and tools.

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No 97: A Love Letter to AccuRx and a Call to Action!

Please share user-made templates more widely.

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Feb 8

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This post takes 5 mins to read. It's brilliant. She lays out how we should be learning from inquests and coroners reports.

And how she has developed a new website that automates the collection and reporting of the data.

It's inspiring

Transforming learning from avoidable deaths

Relaunching the Preventable Deaths Tracker

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jan 28

Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 full-time jobs

That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week.

#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs

Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Jan 26

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#InsideMedicine with Atul Gawande on USAID stop order

Live impromptu chat with Dr. Atul Gawande.

Instead of a phone call, we went Live on Instagram. On the docket: What the halt in US foreign aid means *immediately*.

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Jan 25

Yes. That is a big concern of mine as well. Hopefully with recent deaths being in the media maybe the MHRA will pay closer attention 🤞🤞🤞

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Jan 25

I suspect you may be right that they are overwhelmed.

Doesn't fill you with confidence in our system though does it?

Especially when we know the yellow cards actually sent are the tip of the iceberg and less that 5% (?) Of potential reactions.

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Jake Matthews @jakemat91.bsky.social · Jan 25

Everyone involved in healthcare in the UK should read this harrowing tale of how the MHRA Yellow Card Scheme did not work in this instance.
#TTE #MedSky #yellowcard

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Reporting a Fatal Event to the Yellow Card System

A sorry saga of delay and impediment

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · Jan 25

The failure for GPs to find work after qualifying is unacceptable

Between 1/5 to 1/3 depending on year are not in any form of employment after qualifying

Training more GPs without providing practices the funding to employ them is a NHS England failure

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