BJGP Interviews

PLAYER In this episode we speak to Dr Claire Friedemann Smith who is a senior researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford Paper: Building the case for the use of gut-feelings in cancer referrals: perspectives of patients referred to a non-specific symptoms pathway https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2021.0275 Despite the reported diagnostic utility for cancer of GPs’ gut f...

In this episode we speak to Professor Helen Snooks who is Professor of Health Services Research in the Medical School at Swansea University in Wales. Paper: Implementing emergency admission risk prediction in general practice: a qualitative study https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2021.0146 UK policy has incentivised use of risk prediction stratification in primary care to reduce emergency hospital admi...

In this episode we speak to Dr Lucy Martin who is a GP at Eve Hill Medical Practice in Dudley in the West Midlands. Paper: The professional resilience of mid-career GPs in the UK: a qualitative study https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2021.0230 In this study, GPs identify ‘good’ mid-career resilience and protective factors such as social support, which concurs with existing research. The novel contribut...

In this episode we speak to Dr Patrick Highton who is a Research Associate at the Diabetes Research Centre at the University of Leicester and also part of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands. Paper: Promoting physical activity through group self-management support for those with multimorbidity: a randomised controlled trial https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2021.0172 People with multi...

In this episode we speak to Dr Alex Walker who is an epidemiologist at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Paper: Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care: a federated analysis of 58 million patient records in situ using OpenSAFELY https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2021.0301 Early case definitions and clinical guidelines have been published to des...

In this episode we talk to Dr Hogne Sandvik who is a senior researcher at the National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen. Paper: Continuity in general practice as predictor of mortality, acute hospitalisation, and use of out-of-hours care: a registry-based observational study in Norway https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2021.0340 Continuity of care with a...

In this episode we talk to Professor Brendan C Delaney who is a GP partner and Chair in Medical Informatics and Decision Making at Imperial College London. Paper: Recommendations for the recognition, diagnosis, and management of long Covid: A Delphi study https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2021.0265 There is an urgent need to devise clinical pathways and guidance for long Covid (thought to affect 10% of...

In this episode we speak to Dr Thomas Round who is a GP in East London and NIHR doctoral research fellow. Paper: Cancer detection via primary care urgent referral and association with practice characteristics: a retrospective cross-sectional study in England from 2009/2010 to 2018/2019 https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2020.1030 There is considerable variation in the use of urgent suspected cancer refe...