Jake Matthews
@jakemat91.bsky.social
FY10 (GPST4 ACF) Birmingham UK.
Academia, Athletics and #MediCurious
#MedSky #GPSky
Academia, Athletics and #MediCurious
#MedSky #GPSky
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Jake Matthews
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· Nov 24
If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact?
#TeamGP #Academia #Publishing
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#TeamGP #Academia #Publishing
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If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. | Jake Matthews
If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact?
Lots of junior clinicians and academics ask about how to disseminate their work or how to choose what projects to do to ...
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July 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
If a paper is posted on the Net, but nobody reads it. Does it make an impact?
#TeamGP #Academia #Publishing
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#TeamGP #Academia #Publishing
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Medical Leadership Development for Military Trainees!
Initial leadership development needs assessment, ave time 2.1 mins. Help me help you!
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Initial leadership development needs assessment, ave time 2.1 mins. Help me help you!
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Defence Medical Leadership
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June 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Medical Leadership Development for Military Trainees!
Initial leadership development needs assessment, ave time 2.1 mins. Help me help you!
@defprofmilmeduk.bsky.social @drkateking.bsky.social @edbarn.bsky.social
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Initial leadership development needs assessment, ave time 2.1 mins. Help me help you!
@defprofmilmeduk.bsky.social @drkateking.bsky.social @edbarn.bsky.social
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‘There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’
So says the ever-insightful
@pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social
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So says the ever-insightful
@pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
NHS England has no idea about GPs
Reform will only happen when the organisation confronts how lamentably wrong-headed it has been.
www.newstatesman.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
‘There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’
So says the ever-insightful
@pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
So says the ever-insightful
@pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
What can big macs tell us about GP salaries around the world?
#TeamGP #primarycare #RCGPReg #bigmacindex
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Updated the Big Mac Index for GP salaries around the world in 2025.
If anyone is considering emigrating
#TeamGP #primarycare #RCGPReg #bigmacindex
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Updated the Big Mac Index for GP salaries around the world in 2025.
If anyone is considering emigrating
No 99: In 2025, Which Country Has the Best GP Salary Using the Big Mac Index?
Any long time readers of MediCurious ?
open.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What can big macs tell us about GP salaries around the world?
#TeamGP #primarycare #RCGPReg #bigmacindex
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Updated the Big Mac Index for GP salaries around the world in 2025.
If anyone is considering emigrating
#TeamGP #primarycare #RCGPReg #bigmacindex
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Updated the Big Mac Index for GP salaries around the world in 2025.
If anyone is considering emigrating
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Bit late to post this, but this story from last week based on our annual survey of locum GPs shows how the current jobs crisis is affecting locums. In England most are struggling to find work, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income www.gponline.com/locum-gps-st... #GPnews
Most locum GPs struggling to find work as jobs crisis devastates income
Most locum GPs in England are struggling to find work amid huge competition for jobs, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income, a survey has found.
www.gponline.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Bit late to post this, but this story from last week based on our annual survey of locum GPs shows how the current jobs crisis is affecting locums. In England most are struggling to find work, with many saying it has had a devastating impact on their income www.gponline.com/locum-gps-st... #GPnews
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Jake - New NIH is tip of ⛰️for what's coming. Consider SIGNING and amplifying this open declaration against exactly this kind of thing to #defendresearch? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship
This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research.
We ca...
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February 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Jake - New NIH is tip of ⛰️for what's coming. Consider SIGNING and amplifying this open declaration against exactly this kind of thing to #defendresearch? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Heidi Hi Patient. Is AI about to drastically reduce the need for a GP?
#TeamGP #RCGPReg #MediCurious #AI #MedSky
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#TeamGP #RCGPReg #MediCurious #AI #MedSky
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No 98: Heidi Hi Patient. How can the AI assisted HCA help you today?
Do you really need to see a doctor?
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February 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Heidi Hi Patient. Is AI about to drastically reduce the need for a GP?
#TeamGP #RCGPReg #MediCurious #AI #MedSky
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#TeamGP #RCGPReg #MediCurious #AI #MedSky
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#SundayReflection
What is passive and active academic freedom? Not something I have come across before.
#MedSky #AcademicSky
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What is passive and active academic freedom? Not something I have come across before.
#MedSky #AcademicSky
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Active and Passive Academic Freedom
Should the NIH consider Universities commitment to free expression as it gives out funds?
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February 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
#SundayReflection
What is passive and active academic freedom? Not something I have come across before.
#MedSky #AcademicSky
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What is passive and active academic freedom? Not something I have come across before.
#MedSky #AcademicSky
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“People just left because they just couldn’t cope with the stress.”
Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare
Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare
Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice | British Journal of General Practice
doi.org
February 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“People just left because they just couldn’t cope with the stress.”
Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare
Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare
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This is a really good podcast summary of changes in TERS funding and GP recruitment crisis
@gponline.bsky.social
This is a really good podcast summary of changes in TERS funding and GP recruitment crisis
@gponline.bsky.social
GP recruitment scheme faces axe, contract negotiations update, NHS planning guidance
<p>In this week’s episode the GPonline team discusses the future of the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERS) – an initiative to attract GPs to un...
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February 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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This is a really good podcast summary of changes in TERS funding and GP recruitment crisis
@gponline.bsky.social
This is a really good podcast summary of changes in TERS funding and GP recruitment crisis
@gponline.bsky.social
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Listen to BJGP Associate Editors discussing BJGP's Top 10 most read research published in the last year www.bjgplife.com/193
#BJGPTop10 #PrimaryCare @sammerriel.bsky.social l @drtomround.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social
#BJGPTop10 #PrimaryCare @sammerriel.bsky.social l @drtomround.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social
BJGP’s top 10 most read papers of 2024
Quickly and easily listen to BJGP Interviews for free!
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February 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Listen to BJGP Associate Editors discussing BJGP's Top 10 most read research published in the last year www.bjgplife.com/193
#BJGPTop10 #PrimaryCare @sammerriel.bsky.social l @drtomround.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social
#BJGPTop10 #PrimaryCare @sammerriel.bsky.social l @drtomround.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social
Collaboration request... #MedSky who can help?
I want to form a group of clinicians to persuade AccuRx to allow for "community collaboration" and sharing of templates more widely?
Pls like and share if you agree
#MediCurious #TeamGP #MedTech #collaboration
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I want to form a group of clinicians to persuade AccuRx to allow for "community collaboration" and sharing of templates more widely?
Pls like and share if you agree
#MediCurious #TeamGP #MedTech #collaboration
open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
No 97: A Love Letter to AccuRx and a Call to Action!
Please share user-made templates more widely.
open.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Collaboration request... #MedSky who can help?
I want to form a group of clinicians to persuade AccuRx to allow for "community collaboration" and sharing of templates more widely?
Pls like and share if you agree
#MediCurious #TeamGP #MedTech #collaboration
open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
I want to form a group of clinicians to persuade AccuRx to allow for "community collaboration" and sharing of templates more widely?
Pls like and share if you agree
#MediCurious #TeamGP #MedTech #collaboration
open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
Does anyone else love time saving, technology, @Accurx and @mdcalc ?
If so, please read and share.
I really want to see AccuRx embrace this small change that could lead to a grass-roots revolution in the use of objective patient surveys and tools.
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If so, please read and share.
I really want to see AccuRx embrace this small change that could lead to a grass-roots revolution in the use of objective patient surveys and tools.
open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
No 97: A Love Letter to AccuRx and a Call to Action!
Please share user-made templates more widely.
open.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Does anyone else love time saving, technology, @Accurx and @mdcalc ?
If so, please read and share.
I really want to see AccuRx embrace this small change that could lead to a grass-roots revolution in the use of objective patient surveys and tools.
open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
If so, please read and share.
I really want to see AccuRx embrace this small change that could lead to a grass-roots revolution in the use of objective patient surveys and tools.
open.substack.com/pub/medicuri...
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This post takes 5 mins to read. It's brilliant. She lays out how we should be learning from inquests and coroners reports.
And how she has developed a new website that automates the collection and reporting of the data.
It's inspiring
This post takes 5 mins to read. It's brilliant. She lays out how we should be learning from inquests and coroners reports.
And how she has developed a new website that automates the collection and reporting of the data.
It's inspiring
Transforming learning from avoidable deaths
Relaunching the Preventable Deaths Tracker
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February 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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This post takes 5 mins to read. It's brilliant. She lays out how we should be learning from inquests and coroners reports.
And how she has developed a new website that automates the collection and reporting of the data.
It's inspiring
This post takes 5 mins to read. It's brilliant. She lays out how we should be learning from inquests and coroners reports.
And how she has developed a new website that automates the collection and reporting of the data.
It's inspiring
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Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 full-time jobs
That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week.
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky
That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week.
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 full-time jobs
That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week.
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky
That's over 1,000 job cuts planned between Cardiff, Durham, and Newcastle in the space of a week.
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky
Everyone involved in healthcare in the UK should read this harrowing tale of how the MHRA Yellow Card Scheme did not work in this instance.
#TTE #MedSky #yellowcard
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#TTE #MedSky #yellowcard
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Reporting a Fatal Event to the Yellow Card System
A sorry saga of delay and impediment
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January 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Everyone involved in healthcare in the UK should read this harrowing tale of how the MHRA Yellow Card Scheme did not work in this instance.
#TTE #MedSky #yellowcard
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#TTE #MedSky #yellowcard
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The failure for GPs to find work after qualifying is unacceptable
Between 1/5 to 1/3 depending on year are not in any form of employment after qualifying
Training more GPs without providing practices the funding to employ them is a NHS England failure
digital.nhs.uk/supplementar...
Between 1/5 to 1/3 depending on year are not in any form of employment after qualifying
Training more GPs without providing practices the funding to employ them is a NHS England failure
digital.nhs.uk/supplementar...
January 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The failure for GPs to find work after qualifying is unacceptable
Between 1/5 to 1/3 depending on year are not in any form of employment after qualifying
Training more GPs without providing practices the funding to employ them is a NHS England failure
digital.nhs.uk/supplementar...
Between 1/5 to 1/3 depending on year are not in any form of employment after qualifying
Training more GPs without providing practices the funding to employ them is a NHS England failure
digital.nhs.uk/supplementar...
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Is this the modern-day NHS postcode lottery?
Where you live determines your access to General Practice—if not the access itself, then the type of access.
Can’t help thinking part of this is driven by inequitable funding via Carr-Hill formula.
Where you live determines your access to General Practice—if not the access itself, then the type of access.
Can’t help thinking part of this is driven by inequitable funding via Carr-Hill formula.
January 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Is this the modern-day NHS postcode lottery?
Where you live determines your access to General Practice—if not the access itself, then the type of access.
Can’t help thinking part of this is driven by inequitable funding via Carr-Hill formula.
Where you live determines your access to General Practice—if not the access itself, then the type of access.
Can’t help thinking part of this is driven by inequitable funding via Carr-Hill formula.
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There are 6322 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England
GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need, but still 31m appts/month
Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need, but still 31m appts/month
Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
There are 6322 Neighbourhood Health Centres in England
GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need, but still 31m appts/month
Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
GP Practices have lost 20% real terms funding since 2016, if they hadn’t they would be better able to provide the care patients need, but still 31m appts/month
Fund GP practices properly & they’ll do the rest @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
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Cardiovascular disease mortality has declined in many countries over the past decades.
For example, US cardiovascular disease death rates have declined 4x since 1950.
For example, US cardiovascular disease death rates have declined 4x since 1950.
January 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Cardiovascular disease mortality has declined in many countries over the past decades.
For example, US cardiovascular disease death rates have declined 4x since 1950.
For example, US cardiovascular disease death rates have declined 4x since 1950.
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Am trying to find funding for a couple of medical students to present their research at academic conferences. Uni funds limited. Any idea as to where I can try?
January 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Am trying to find funding for a couple of medical students to present their research at academic conferences. Uni funds limited. Any idea as to where I can try?
Resolution: Thou Shalt buy no more books until thy has finished the top shelf
January 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Resolution: Thou Shalt buy no more books until thy has finished the top shelf