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Opinion/Research

Progressing social prescribing: a recommendation for schemes involving link workers

New research by Kathryn B Cunningham and colleagues presents three key elements concerning the process of connection in indirect route social prescribing schemes (those involving link workers). Here, the authors summarise their findings ...

16 December 2022
7 mins read
Arts/Opinion/Research/Undergraduate

Primary care since John Fry: a research odyssey (The Royal Society of Medicine John Fry Prize winner)

The winning submission of the Royal Society of Medicine John Fry Prize by Salwa Ahmad.

9 November 2022
25 mins read
Clinical/News/Research

Research Paper of the Year 2021: relevant to training and beyond

The winners are in for the Research Paper of the Year award 2021! Carolyn A Chew-Graham and Helen Leach present the winners and stand outs from this year's awards, with reflection on the importance of primary care research for GP trainees working

6 July 2022
12 mins read
Research

BJGP Top 10 research — the most read articles published in 2021 

Tips for early cancer diagnosis, social barriers to healthcare access and the association between continuity and patient survival are among an exciting top ten BJGP research papers from 2021. Congratulations to Top 10 authors and all BJGP contributors in 2021!

21 January 2022
1 min read
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Research

Understanding patients’ knowledge of inhaler recycling

General practice is ideally placed to introduce changes to become more environmentally sustainable. Dr Vasumathy Sivarajasingam shows, with primary and secondary research, that increased awareness of inhaler recycling among patients and better signposting from primary care staff may be sorely needed.

8 October 2021
12 mins read
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Research

Ensuring diversity in patient and public involvement in research

patients and public are now more involved in research via PPI groups. But PPI members tend to be white, middle-class and retired. The National Institute for Health Research has published recommendations re diversity and inclusion in PPI groups. Danielle Nimmons and colleagues

29 September 2021
7 mins read
Opinion/Research

The GP crisis: demonised and demoralised

Frustrated. Exhausted. Burnt out. If we don’t support those working in primary care, the NHS as we know it will no longer exist.

27 September 2021
14 mins read
1
Research

Why GPs need to be involved in mental health research

We all know that research is not for "normal GPs" - we are all too busy. But are we right? Beatrice Shelley and colleagues say that being a practising GP and an active researcher are not as incompatible as one may think

31 May 2021
7 mins read
Research

Tackling pain with exercise – It’s Your Move

Evidence suggests that exercise is the most likely intervention to help people living with pain. Encouraging people with pain to exercise has always been considered a challenge. Chris Davis describes an innovative project that shows us how this can be done.

12 May 2021
5 mins read
Research

RCGP Research Paper of the Year 2019: Impact of COVID-19

The RCGP's annual Research Paper of the Year (RPY) award gives recognition to researchers who have undertaken and published an exceptional piece of research relating to general practice or primary care. Here, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Chair of the RPY, presents the three winning

5 November 2020
8 mins read
Opinion/Research

GPs can have a meaningful impact on funeral satisfaction

Advances in medicine have led to major improvements in end-of-life care. But when a patient dies should doctors be aware of any factors in funeral care that can help the relatives? Dr Sarah Jones, a doctor turned Funeral Director, and Dr Julie

3 November 2020
4 mins read
4
Clinical/Research

Are we safer cycling?

We know that cycling makes for a healthier commute for all, but GPs need evidence to help them allay patient's concerns if we are to incorporate active travel into our standard health promotion toolkit. Bethan Jones gives us the evidence.

19 October 2020
7 mins read
Clinical/Coronavirus/Research

End-of-life care during COVID-19: The central role of primary care must not be overlooked

It has been well reported that those in the community and end-of-life care have been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, but little attention has been given to GPs and district nurses working in end-of-life care and the positive stories they have

6 October 2020
6 mins read
Coronavirus/Research

Patient Access targets alone do not raise quality of care – time for the Welsh GMS Contract to reflect this

The Welsh government is introducing prescriptive guidelines regarding access to GPs. Susan Goodfellow and Gareth Thomas examine their wisdom, and explore possible alternatives.

29 September 2020
6 mins read
1
Research

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy — not just ‘morning sickness’

New research published in the BJGP from Professor Roger Gadsby and his team at the University of Warwick has highlighted how 'morning sickness' is not an appropriate term for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. Professor Gadsby suggests we need to "dump this

30 June 2020
2 mins read
1
Research

Putting methotrexate prescribing research into practice

New research published in the BJGP from Dr Ben Goldacre's team in Oxford found that 23% of GPs still prescribed different strength methotrexate tablets (10mg and 2.5mg) to the same person in the past year — against the safety advice. The clear

23 June 2020
4 mins read
1
Research

GP home visits: more evidence is urgently needed to inform debate

This article is written by Drs Sarah Mitchell, Sarah Hillman, David Rapley, and Professor Jeremy Dale from the Unit of Academic Primary Care based at Warwick Medical School. The general practitioner (GP) home visit has long been regarded core to general practice

3 December 2019
10 mins read
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Research

Living with breathlessness is hard

Dr Ann Hutchinson and Prof Miriam Johnson are researchers at the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the Hull York Medical School. They are on Twitter @AHutchinsonHull and @MJJohnson_HYMS We know that living with breathlessness can be very difficult for both patients

18 June 2019
6 mins read
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Research

Research priorities in primary care: ideas from the coal-face

Setting research priorities in primary care: a co-creation symposium to generate ideas from the coal-face Written by Victoria Tzortziou Brown, Clare Wilkinson, Kamal Mahtani, Geoff Wong, Azeem Majeed, Philip Evans, Thomas Round, and Roger Jones Background Although over 90% of patient contacts

11 September 2018
6 mins read
1
Research

The inaugural BJGP Research Conference gets off to a flying start

We were thrilled to host the inaugural BJGP Research Conference for primary care and family medicine last month.  We had speakers including Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, Prof Roger Jones, Dr Graham Easton, and Prof Pali Hungin.

15 April 2018
1 min read
Research

World Down Syndrome Day – improving primary care for everyone

World Down Syndrome Day is a celebration of some remarkable people and their families. They happen to be born with an extra chromosome. BJGP Open has published a paper on the management of long-term conditions for adults with intelllectual disability. It was a

21 March 2018
5 mins read
2
Research

Top 10 most read BJGP research articles published in 2017

These are the top 10 most read research articles based on full text downloads from bjgp.org in 2017. 1. Clinical relevance of thrombocytosis in primary care: a prospective cohort study of cancer incidence using English electronic medical records and cancer registry data

30 January 2018
9 mins read
1
Research

BJGP Open: adapting primary care for migrants

The aim of this paper was to provide some insight into how primary care is managing to offer care to migrants. In particular they were interested in looking at the challenges and the ways in which practices and practitioners were adapting to

16 February 2017
4 mins read
2
BJGP/Research

Top 10 most read BJGP research articles published in 2016

These are the top 10 most read research articles based on full text downloads from bjgp.org in 2016. 1. Overdiagnosis of asthma in children in primary care: a retrospective analysis.  http://bjgp.org/content/66/644/e152 Overdiagnosis of childhood asthma is common in primary care, leading to unnecessary

4 January 2017
5 mins read
Research

Happy birthday to the NSPCR

The NIHR School for Primary Care research has celebrated its 10th anniversary. Shortly after the National Institute of Health Care Research was established in 2006, with the aim of supporting applied health research for patient benefit, one of the first research Schools

24 November 2016
9 mins read
Research

How research is helping with GP wellbeing and informing performance at Feel It Festival

GPs work back-breaking hours, often in isolation. They make hundreds of decisions every day, sometimes without time to eat, drink or breathe. The fear of making a mistake or receiving a complaint is ever present.  GPs feel constantly under threat, overly scrutinised,

18 October 2016
5 mins read
Research

Altmetrics at the BJGP: a beginner’s guide

Unsure about altmetrics? Check out this video, less than three minutes long, that will give you an introduction. We’ve been using altmetrics at the BJGP for a while now. You can see them for each individual article by clicking on the ‘Info’

17 May 2016
1 min read
Opinion/Research

Qualitative research and the BJGP

Kath Checkland (@khcheck) is a GP and a Professor at the University of Manchester. She is a passionate advocate of the value of qualitative research, and is a member of the BJGP editorial board. On Saturday, the British Medical Journal published an

19 February 2016
9 mins read
Opinion/Research

SAPC Dangerous Idea: funding research through Kickstarter

Sarah Knowles (@dr_know) is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Her interests are mental health, applied health services research and patient and public involvement and engagement. Since 2012, the Society for Academic Primary Care has run a competition at their

12 February 2016
5 mins read
Research

Top 10 most read BJGP research articles published in 2015

These are the top 10 most read research articles based on full text downloads from bjgp.org. 1. Child obesity cut-offs as derived from parental perceptions: cross-sectional questionnaire. http://bjgp.org/content/65/633/e234 Parental perceptions and clinical definitions of child obesity are known to diverge; however, the

26 January 2016
8 mins read
Research

Altmetrics: now available for BJGP articles

The world of scholarly publishing is changing rapidly, partly in response to digital publication, and also with more focus on the dissemination and implementation of published research. Traditional bibliometrics, such as the impact factor, have been used to measure aggregated citation rates

8 June 2015
1 min read
Opinion/Research/Undergraduate

Seismic changes in GP teaching – where will the new GPs come from?

Alex Harding is a GP and academic based in Exeter. UK General Practitioners are the largest part of the medical workforce, deliver the most care and deliver this care highly effectively. Most people who have ventured abroad and talked about health are surprised

3 June 2015
5 mins read
1
Clinical/Research

Paracetamol, ethnic health inequalities, cerebral palsy, and pornography

Ahmed Rashid is an academic clinical fellow in general practice at the University of Cambridge. He writes the regular monthly column “Yonder” in the BJGP: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literature. Twitter: @Dr_A_Rashid

13 April 2015
6 mins read
Opinion/Research

Cannabis effects and future health policy

Roy Robertson is Professor of Addiction Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. The paper Cannabis, tobacco smoking, and lung function: a cross-sectional observational study in a general practice population was published in the BJGP this week. Access the full paper here. Cannabis

27 January 2015
3 mins read
Clinical/Research

URTI, menopause, universal health coverage, and chocolate cravings

Ahmed Rashid is an academic clinical fellow in general practice at the University of Cambridge. He writes the regular monthly column “Yonder” in the BJGP: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literature. Twitter: @Dr_A_Rashid

22 January 2015
7 mins read
Clinical/Research

Quality indicators for child health in the UK

Peter Gill is a paediatric resident at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford. Follow Peter on Twitter @peterjgill In the December 2014 issue of the British Journal

14 January 2015
7 mins read
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