Trends and inequalities in Advice and Guidance versus direct referral in NHS primary care https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.25336644v1

“For me, pain is not just physical — it affects every part of life.”

Hear directly from people living with chronic pain in Your Voice Matters, a new short film co-produced with people who know pain best.

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVnD...

Parents of children 8 and up, your kids could help with our research and get paid!
The @campainstudy.bsky.social at @keeleuniversity.bsky.social is developing resources to help children and young people with pain, and the opinions of young people are essential to us!
Get in touch, deets in thread.

📣New pre-print
Do Children & Young People with Mental Health Conditions or Neurodiversity Experience Different Management for Musculoskeletal Pain?
🔗https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5370581

Greater healthcare use, different treatments & different referrals for those with co-occurring diagnoses

📣New pre-print
Trends of Advice & Guidance (A&G) in primary care
🔗https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.25.25336644

- A&G use increased 19x between 2015-2023
- Access inequity: higher use in older, white & less deprived
- Referrals at pre-COVID levels suggesting A&G isn't replacing traditional pathways

My first post 🎉
Join us @keeleuniversity.bsky.social Biostatistics Group & Health Care Data Research Network joint webinar
Tues 11 March 12-1pm
@alifahmi.bsky.social will be talking about his post-doc work using the OpenSAFELY platform evaluate antibiotic use & develop a knowledge support system