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BJGP Research & Publishing Conference 2025
Join us at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester on Friday 21 March for a day filled with presentations, keynote speakers: Kath Checkland and Rageshri Dhairyawan, and plenty of networking.
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Conference Workshops:
🔹 Write for Life! –Andrew Papanikitas
🔹 Peer Review: past, present, future –Nada Khan, Thomas Round and Samuel Merriel
🔹 Building a career in academic general practice: The Dos and Don'ts –Hajira Dambha-Mille and Dr Alex Burrell
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BJGP Research & Publishing Conference 2025
Lowry Hotel, Manchester
Friday 21 March 2025
The Programme is looking good!
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In #PrimaryCare patients with type 2 #Diabetes, DiabeText (personalised text messaging intervention) successfully improved quality of life, diabetes self-management, and self-reported medication adherence doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.02… @NachoRicci @idisbaib
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BJGPLife: Yonder: Antidepressant follow-up, NHS app use, sore throats in community pharmacy, and dementia and anticholinergics
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Cancer survivors’ quality of life improves with detailed generic NHS online support, but bespoke digital support provides better longer term global and symptom management, with substantially lower NHS costs doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2023.02… @UoS_PrimaryCare #PrimaryCare #Cancer
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ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) is supported by patients and GPs in #PrimaryCare, but systemic and contextual challenges need to be addressed for successful implementation doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.02… @warwickmed @uniofwarwick
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Preconception care: routinely collected UK #PrimaryCare data provides valuable information on patients’ medical, behavioural, and social risks to guide preconception care and future research doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.00… @D_Schoenaker @UoS_PrimaryCare
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“Everyone has heard of it, but no one knows what it is”
This qualitative study explored patient understandings of herpes zoster. #PrimaryCare practitioners should be aware of the broad spectrum of patient knowledge doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.00… @drsophierees @JonBanks10 #Shingles
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BJGPLife: Using AI to improve skin cancer detection in primary care: the vision and barriers
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BJGPLife: What do I say next? Everyday mental health conversation in primary care: a practical guide by Sophie Jadwiga Ball and Liz Moulton
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BJGPLife: How far have family doctor organisations around the world progressed in protecting planetary health?
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Challenges to quality in modern, hybrid practice
Hybrid general practice can contribute to fragmenting care. Understanding of the trade-offs of will help with providing the best care for patients.
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Hybrid general practice fragments care and presents risks to patients and general practice’s core values which should be urgently addressed according to new research from @trishgreenhalgh @oohgpwales doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.01…
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January 2025 issue: 'The enshittification of general practice', communicating prognosis, ARRS, ‘Flattened, fattened, and forgotten’ - antipsychotic management, and earlier diagnosis of lung cancer. Plus personal continuity, machine learning, and AI
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Paper safety-netting advice most effectively reduced antibiotic prescribing, consumption, and reconsultations in acutely ill children compared with usual care and other safety-netting methods doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.01… @RubenBurvenich @jan_verbakel #PrimaryCare #Prescribing
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Older men with new-onset fatigue are relatively likely to have an undetected cancer, compared to other cohorts.
Figure: 1-year disease risk in men bjgp.org/content/early/2024/… @BexKWhite @MattBarclay89 @Glyratzopoulos @UCL_BSH @UCL_IHI @BrianDNicholson @SpirosDenaxas @DrMeenaRafiq
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Approximately 41,000 appointments are required for children and young people with otorrhoea presenting to primary care in the UK each year costing £1.9 million, with children aged <2 years suffering most frequently doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.00… @RMCHosp @POSt_EarStudy #PrimaryCare
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