"Every time you see a new GP it is like starting from the beginning again"
Primary care patients in Scotland described wanting face-to-face consultations and #Continuity of care with their GP in this #Qualitative study https://t.co/oLpzLqecW7 @Stewmercer@_davidhen#PrimaryCare
"I can’t imagine how hard it must be to trust anyone given what my patients have been through."
In the second of a two-part series shadowing doctors working in the most deprived communities in Scotland I joined @dnblane in his Glasgow practice. The complexity was overwhelming.
🧵A long thread on last week's report on adolescent drinking from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. I have many questions...🧵
TLDR: There's a good chance the trends are spurious and we should be cautious about claims English children are drinking more
PhD studentships funded by @CRUKScotland working on long-term care for people living with cancer supervised by @ElizabethLemm Prof Peter Hall and me. Find out more at: https://t.co/7yHk2EEUAE #careaboutcare
New report on the inverse care law in Scottish general practice, produced by @dnblane@careylunan@Stewmercer and colleagues which we have funded.
Find out about the inequalities facing Scottish primary care and what needs to happen to address them ⬇️
https://t.co/xQCkUzpLhq
@nickbailey37 @JamesRWithers @thetimes tbf there was an accompanying opinion piece that made that point exactly. Affluence is the biggest link to success, but we can dig deeper
https://t.co/2Kc4zmPWGz
No escaping the big, depressing NHS story today. But the British Social Attitudes research finds that satisfaction with #socialcare is even lower than for the NHS. There’s also new data e.g. about the amount of contact the public has with social care. A thread >>>
Some local authorities really need to publish their criteria for nursing care funding...twice in a week I've heard of people being told they don't qualify for nursing care because they present better than on admission (⬇️ falls, weight ⬆️, distress ⬇️) BECAUSE of nursing care! 🤬