Gavin Jamie
@qofdatabase.gpcontract.uk
GP, researcher, owner of the QOF Database website.
DownDetector is down. Now what?
December 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
DownDetector is down. Now what?
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Julian Costello Travel Bursaries
Opportunity for early career health & care informaticians to attend Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2026 in Genoa (25–28 May)
The PHCSG is offering up to three £1,250 travel awards in honour of Dr Julian Costello, a long-time PHCSG member.
tinyurl.com/4b5a59fj
Opportunity for early career health & care informaticians to attend Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2026 in Genoa (25–28 May)
The PHCSG is offering up to three £1,250 travel awards in honour of Dr Julian Costello, a long-time PHCSG member.
tinyurl.com/4b5a59fj
www.bcs.org
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Julian Costello Travel Bursaries
Opportunity for early career health & care informaticians to attend Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2026 in Genoa (25–28 May)
The PHCSG is offering up to three £1,250 travel awards in honour of Dr Julian Costello, a long-time PHCSG member.
tinyurl.com/4b5a59fj
Opportunity for early career health & care informaticians to attend Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2026 in Genoa (25–28 May)
The PHCSG is offering up to three £1,250 travel awards in honour of Dr Julian Costello, a long-time PHCSG member.
tinyurl.com/4b5a59fj
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💊🕶 ANDI BIOTIC IS BACK!
Andi enters a new era – we are back with our campaign on antimicrobial resistance, ahead of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week.
💊 Don’t take them for colds or flu
💊 Don’t save them for later
💊 Take as directed
Andi enters a new era – we are back with our campaign on antimicrobial resistance, ahead of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week.
💊 Don’t take them for colds or flu
💊 Don’t save them for later
💊 Take as directed
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
💊🕶 ANDI BIOTIC IS BACK!
Andi enters a new era – we are back with our campaign on antimicrobial resistance, ahead of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week.
💊 Don’t take them for colds or flu
💊 Don’t save them for later
💊 Take as directed
Andi enters a new era – we are back with our campaign on antimicrobial resistance, ahead of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week.
💊 Don’t take them for colds or flu
💊 Don’t save them for later
💊 Take as directed
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Not yet joined the Oxford-RCGP RSC? That's ok, bat-ter late than never🦇
Become a member practice and contribute vital pseudonymised patient data. Especially for the winter season.
orchid.phc.ox.ac.uk/surveillance...
#cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare #data #everylittlebathelps
Become a member practice and contribute vital pseudonymised patient data. Especially for the winter season.
orchid.phc.ox.ac.uk/surveillance...
#cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare #data #everylittlebathelps
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Not yet joined the Oxford-RCGP RSC? That's ok, bat-ter late than never🦇
Become a member practice and contribute vital pseudonymised patient data. Especially for the winter season.
orchid.phc.ox.ac.uk/surveillance...
#cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare #data #everylittlebathelps
Become a member practice and contribute vital pseudonymised patient data. Especially for the winter season.
orchid.phc.ox.ac.uk/surveillance...
#cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare #data #everylittlebathelps
How can we measure severity of Acute Respiratory Infections. Data has to be present and relevant. doi.org/10.1111/irv....
A Systematic Review of the Markers of Severity in Acute Respiratory Infections to Inform Primary Care Surveillance
Background Primary care computerised medical records (CMR) are used to report the incidence of acute respiratory infections (ARI) for public health surveillance. These systems could increase their u...
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
How can we measure severity of Acute Respiratory Infections. Data has to be present and relevant. doi.org/10.1111/irv....
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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
#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare #respiratorydisease
October 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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
#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare #respiratorydisease
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We are excited for #BestPracticeShow Birmingham 😊 Are you?
#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare
#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare
October 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We are excited for #BestPracticeShow Birmingham 😊 Are you?
#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare
#bestpracticeshow #birmingham #NEC #cihorg #oxfordrcgprsc #research #primarycare
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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
Why not drop by our panel session! 10:45-11:30 / 8th October
#oxfordrcgprsc #cihorg #bestpractice #birmingham #research #primarycare
October 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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
Why not drop by our panel session! 10:45-11:30 / 8th October
#oxfordrcgprsc #cihorg #bestpractice #birmingham #research #primarycare
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
September 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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...
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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
Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the British Computer Society joins BlueSky.
Give 'em a follow if this is your tribe.
#digitalhealth #medsky #medtwitter
September 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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
Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the British Computer Society joins BlueSky.
Give 'em a follow if this is your tribe.
#digitalhealth #medsky #medtwitter
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
September 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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
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!
September 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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!
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
September 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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
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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.
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.
September 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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.
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.
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
August 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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.
Hepatitis A vaccination rates in people with chronic liver disease are low in England. Important study and am glad to have been a small part of this. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Hepatitis A vaccination rates in people with chronic liver disease are low in England. Important study and am glad to have been a small part of this. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is what, in Yes Minister, they called a courageous decision. www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breakin...
Carr-Hill GP funding formula review announced as part of 10-year NHS plan
The upcoming 10-year plan for health will include a review of the Carr-Hill formula for GP funding, the Government has said.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This is what, in Yes Minister, they called a courageous decision. www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breakin...
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Granted I haven't read the articles yet so the moral issues here might be more complex than they seem... But I think Wired's mixed up the axes on its alignment chart 🫣
June 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Granted I haven't read the articles yet so the moral issues here might be more complex than they seem... But I think Wired's mixed up the axes on its alignment chart 🫣
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"I've got a brand new content harvester"
May 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
"I've got a brand new content harvester"
I have also presented a non-confectionary based paper on data quality in General Practice records. It turns out to be a hard problem. ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/... #MIE2025
IOS Press Ebooks - Targeted Interventions to Improve the Systematic Collection of Acute Respiratory Infection Clinical Data from Primary Care Computerised Medical Records
ebooks.iospress.nl
May 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I have also presented a non-confectionary based paper on data quality in General Practice records. It turns out to be a hard problem. ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/... #MIE2025
I am at #MIE2025 in Glasgow and one of my main educational contributions has been explaining Tunnocks Tea Cakes to colleagues from outside the UK.
May 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I am at #MIE2025 in Glasgow and one of my main educational contributions has been explaining Tunnocks Tea Cakes to colleagues from outside the UK.
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Multiple recent studies, including 3 impressive natural experiments, consistently show a link between Shingles vaccines and reduced dementia. This week a nationwide S Korea study added a reduction of cardiovascular events
My summary Table. More here on dementia erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...
My summary Table. More here on dementia erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...
May 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Multiple recent studies, including 3 impressive natural experiments, consistently show a link between Shingles vaccines and reduced dementia. This week a nationwide S Korea study added a reduction of cardiovascular events
My summary Table. More here on dementia erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...
My summary Table. More here on dementia erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...
Smoking cessation advice is well recorded because of #QOF but actual interventions don't seem any more frequent. link.springer.com/article/10.1... The indicator for smoking cessation advice in chronic disease has been removed for 2025-26.
May 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Smoking cessation advice is well recorded because of #QOF but actual interventions don't seem any more frequent. link.springer.com/article/10.1... The indicator for smoking cessation advice in chronic disease has been removed for 2025-26.
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in the GP contract has changed again this year. Quite a lot has been removed but getting full points will be harder than ever. My summary for Management in Practice. managementinpractice.com/practice-int...
QOF 2025/26 - key changes and how to maximise income
GP Dr Gavin Jamie provides an update on QOF for this year and provides tips for practices on achieving maximum points and income
managementinpractice.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in the GP contract has changed again this year. Quite a lot has been removed but getting full points will be harder than ever. My summary for Management in Practice. managementinpractice.com/practice-int...