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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · 2d

Will John Milton finally get his name in the credits as "writer"?

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · 4d

Fall of the house of Usher

The 39 Steps

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · 12d

Flu is all "fresh". The advice is updated every year by WHO. www.who.int/publications...

Publications of the World Health Organization

www.who.int

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · 12d

a man in a suit and tie is playing drums .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is playing drums .

media.tenor.com

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cihorg-ox.bsky.social @cihorg-ox.bsky.social · 14d

Did you catch our Understanding and reducing winter pressures from respiratory disease in primary care panel at #BestPracticeShow today? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare #respiratorydisease

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cihorg-ox.bsky.social @cihorg-ox.bsky.social · 14d

We are excited for #BestPracticeShow Birmingham 😊 Are you?

#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · 19d

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · 21d

I know this is far too late to make any difference, but I had always thought that the better term for what LLMs do is confabulation.

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cihorg-ox.bsky.social @cihorg-ox.bsky.social · 21d

Will you be at #BestPractice this year?

Why not drop by our panel session! 10:45-11:30 / 8th October

#oxfordrcgprsc #cihorg #bestpractice #birmingham #research #primarycare

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · 25d

Memorising and heuristics got me through my exams!

Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · 26d

I really can't say this better than @thedailymash.bsky.social www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/yes...

Yes, digital ID cards will link up with porn verification system, Starmer confirms

THE prime minister has confirmed that digital ID cards will indeed work in tandem with the age verification system which records all the filth you watch.

www.thedailymash.co.uk

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · 27d

I did wonder if daylight saving might increase births at the end of October (and less in the spring) but a squint at the charts does not seem to support this.
Also happy birthday. 🎈🎈🎈

Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 20

I was slightly reassured that the AI messed up in the introduction and repeated itself.

Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 20

Perhaps a niche dataset but if you are doing anything with primary care data it helps to know what is actually recorded in computerised medical records. #SNOMED 🩺💻 digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...

[MI] SNOMED Code Usage in Primary Care, 2024-25 - NHS England Digital

SNOMED Code Usage in Primary Care, 2024-25, England

digital.nhs.uk

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 18

Pure filth!

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Sep 16

Well hello, @phcsg.bsky.social
Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the British Computer Society joins BlueSky.
Give 'em a follow if this is your tribe.
#digitalhealth #medsky #medtwitter

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 15

Note for subs: *buy*

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 14

Getting a little more automated. The last piece of command line PHP has now been eliminated. Data mangling now in a combination of SQL, python, awk and a little sed.

Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 14

I have put English #QOF data for the 2024-25 year up on the QOF Database website. As usual 10% of the work is the data itself and the rest is keeping up with organisational changes in the NHS. www.gpcontract.co.uk

NHS England - QOF Database

All of the data published about the Quality and Outcomes framework in the UK

www.gpcontract.co.uk

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 13

Update on the bat. There are two of them! Thought there was something going on and they have posed for the camera today. If we keep up this daily doubling we will have over a quarter of a million bats by October!

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 12

Time for a little stretch and make yourself comfortable.

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 12

A bat has returned to my video bat box. It has been up there for about ten years before we noticed the first bat. Only stayed for a week then. @batconservation.bsky.social

A black and white photograph of a bat roosting on a plastic mesh.

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Sep 11

youtu.be/k9b7wmRsy9g?...

NNN Politicians

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Sep 6

There is *no evidence whatsoever* that the Covid vaccine causes cancer in *anyone*.

I’m no royalist but I respect public figures’ right to privacy so won’t comment on the speculation around individual cases. I am horrified that other doctors have chosen to do so.

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Gavin Jamie @qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk · Aug 25

Catching up on my reading. This is a careful systematic review showing increase in #QOF indicators when they received payment and decline when it stopped. www.bmj.com/content/389/... (photo is unrelated). GPs see the contract in transactional terms. Commissioners and policy makers vary.

Effect of UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performance programme on quality of primary care: systematic review with quantitative synthesis

Objective To systematically review the one and three year impact on quality of care of the introduction and withdrawal of financial incentives in the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performa...

www.bmj.com

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