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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 20h

At a conference? Why not check the speaker against the Disclosure UK database? They might be paid thousands of pounds from the pharmaceutical industry. I think we can agree transparency is important - but I suspect many (?most) doctors don't know about it.

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Disclosure Search

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 8d

How do we keep GPs in the job? New research from Sophie Park.

www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/gp-work...

How can we keep GPs in the job? New review points to relationships, meaning, and learning

New research shows GP retention depends on how services are organised, not just individual resilience. Meaningful work, strong relationships, and learning cultures help GPs stay in post and deliver be...

www.phc.ox.ac.uk

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BJGP @bjgp.bsky.social · 13d

Listen to the full audio interview with BJGP Editor, @euanlawson.social‬, for editorial insights into journal impact and real world applicability.
www.bjgplife.com/212
#ResearchMethods #PrimaryCare #GPsky #Medsky

Inside the BJGP and editorial insights: Euan Lawson on the future of publishing and how to get published

Quickly and easily listen to BJGP Interviews for free!

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 15d

DM’d you David 👍

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 29d

My thoughts with the good people at @releasedrugs.bsky.social but also, especially, with the people who are being targeted by the far-right.

As they say “Solidarity is key when under attack…”

www.release.org.uk/blog/office-...

Our office was attacked

Release’s offices were subject to an attack over the weekend. Members of the right targeted our building between the 5th and 6th of September, painting a Cross of St George on the front of the premise...

www.release.org.uk

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Govt needs to go much further on private school reform if it wants to reach its goal of ‘smashing the class ceiling’

LSE British Politics and Policy blog @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · Sep 4

💡New! Taxing private schools won’t smash the class ceiling, argue
@aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Taxing private schools won’t smash the class ceiling - British Politics and Policy at LSE

Labour's abolition of VAT on private schools is mostly sympbolic. Its mission of "smashing the class ceiling" needs to focus on elite university admissions next.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · Sep 4

The story of how I met Enid Balint and two other remarkable psychoanalysts, but never became one myself. Just out @bjgp.bsky.social.

bjgplife.com/encounters-w...

Encounters with three remarkable women

"Although I knew so little about them at the time I met them, it now feels an extraordinary privilege to have encountered these three remarkable women." A slice of memoir from John Launer

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Aug 23

Nick Clegg - here he is, again, rationalising the staggering malignancy he has blithely facilitated. Austerity and its litany of deaths. Tuition fees and the disintegration of HE. Facebook and the tech bros. If there is a social ill or moral void seems we'll find him greasing the wheels.

‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures

When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?

www.theguardian.com

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Aug 23

Obviously most doctors respect confidentiality and there are important considerations around training/learning - but I think that is at the heart of it. They just don't frame it as the patient's story - doctors frame it as theirs.

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Aug 23

Been wrestling with this at the journal for years. My experience is that there is a deep rooted fundamental assumption amongst doctors that patients’ stories are theirs to share/tell.

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BJGP @bjgp.bsky.social · Aug 20

Read the issue dedicated to #QualitativeResearch, with an editorial from Prof. Carolyn A Chew-Graham‬ plus a celebration of qualitative research from @euanlawson.social‬ bjgp.org/content/75/755

British Journal of General Practice: 75 (755)

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Rebecca Henderson @rebecca-henderson.bsky.social · Jul 31

The review also found a lack of evidence about who is most likely to be missed, highlighting the need for more research to understand and prevent inequalities at this crucial point of care.

You can read the full paper here:

doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

#PalliativeCare #Research #GeneralPractice #BJGP

Equitable inclusion of patients with cancer on the palliative care register: a systematic review in primary care

Background GPs are instrumental to palliative care in the UK and most practices maintain a register of patients with palliative care needs. However, many people with incurable cancer who could benefit...

doi.org

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Jul 22

Let me help... Who?

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Helen Atherton @h-atherton.bsky.social · Jul 7

theconversation.com/what-people-...

What people really want from their GP – it’s simpler than you might think

Patients are being clear about what they want but nobody’s listening.

theconversation.com

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Brian @brianmackenna.bsky.social · Jun 27

Our paper on repeat prescribing duration is in this edition of @bjgp.bsky.social

doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

Lots of great articles beyond ours, including a thoughtful editorial from @euanlawson.social on co-proxamol

I'll write more next week !

BJGP @bjgp.bsky.social · Jun 27

BJGP | JULY 2025

The 'Prescribing' BJGP is online now, with articles on: Stopping HRT, Nitrofurantoin and long-term side effects, prescribing antidepressants and risk of postural hypotension, SMS intervention to support T2D self-management, and repeat prescriptions.

bjgp.org/content/75/...

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · Jun 25

Pretty sure more than 50 people will need this £10 graphic novel...

David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · Jun 1

Taking pre-orders for possibly the greatest book ever made:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/vintage-de...

#comics #book #books #zine #comicbook #selfpublishing #smallpress #illustration

Purple cover with title called Vintage. A blue in drawing of a wine bottle being thrown or tipped.
This may be the greatest cover to the greatest book ever made.

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Jun 25

51 people now. I’m in! 😀

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jun 24

‘Most drug users have to be coaxed into the Thistle, and treated carefully so that they come to trust the workers.’

@danigaravelli.bsky.social on the UK’s first legal controlled drug consumption room:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Dani Garavelli · ‘Bang! I was out’: On Drug Consumption Rooms

For some critics, providing a safe space to inject seems too much like enabling or endorsing drug taking. But for those...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Jun 23

Or being used the least Ben… sometimes it’s what is not being done that matters. One that springs to mind is methadone/buprenorphine for people who use drug/opioid dependence - and problems with prescribing it to them when admitted.

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Jun 22

Quite. It’s a rum affair when so little policy is directed towards addressing social determinants of health.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Jun 18

The impact factors for 2024 are published today - *sigh* - so this is a good moment to send people to the editorial I wrote last month about them, the BJGP, and QRPs/journalology. #primarycare #BJGP

bjgp.org/content/75/7...

Medical journalology and questionable research practices

The BJGP is the world’s leading journal in primary care and general practice. I’m happy to defend this assertion but the temptation is to reach for a metric to support the case. And of course, the obv...

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Jun 16

Proposed Roads to Freedom?

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Jun 12

Oh - that is such sad news @releasedrugs.bsky.social. I didn’t know Peter personally though had been on the occ meeting with him. He did remarkable meaningful work for people who use drugs - from a place of real compassion and he leaves a powerful legacy.

www.release.org.uk/blog/peter-k...

Peter Krykant

Photo by Nigel Brundson. It’s with a heavy heart that we share the news that Peter Krykant has passed away. Peter was an incredible campaigner for the rights of communities that use drugs. The opening...

www.release.org.uk

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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · Jun 4

Do think it's good - reducing utter dominance of cars - and, hopefully, will get normalised in the coming years. Would really help if there was more of an effort to tell people...

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