British Journal of General Practice

29/09/2025

BJGPLife: Bridging the gap: the role of a GP with an extended role in streamlining skin cancer referrals
https://bjgplife.com/bridging-the-gap-the-role-of-a-gp-with-an-extended-role-in-streamlining-skin-cancer-referrals/

27/09/2025

BJGPLife: Book review: Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us — and How AI Could Save Lives
https://bjgplife.com/book-review-dr-bot-why-doctors-can-fail-us-and-how-ai-could-save-lives/

26/09/2025

NEW ISSUE:
BJGP | October2025 | Volume 75 | Number 759
https://bjgp.org/content/75/759

Read the latest issue of BJGP on Cancer: anaemia and ethnicity in cancer incidences, management of symptoms, delusional infestation, and achieving universal . Plus, the NHS 10-year plan, End-of-life medications, and cancer-related symptoms. Also, the evolution of the receptionist role, consultation modality coding, scientific integrity in research, and ADHD: overdiagnosis or opportunity?

26/09/2025

BJGPLife: A song for the haunting season
https://bjgplife.com/haunting/

26/09/2025

The current organisation of care and lack of an acceptable language for complex difficulties means that patients’ needs continue to go unrecognised and ‘unseen’ in https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0818

25/09/2025

This scoping review found violence and abuse towards staff to be widespread, with long waiting times & unmet patient demands frequently cited as reasons.

Interventions were found to be underresearched

Background General practice is the gatekeeper to secondary care in many countries. This unique role may expose general practice staff to violence and abuse by patients and the public, yet violence and abuse in secondary care receives more attention than that in general practice. Existing reviews on....

25/09/2025

BJGP Editor, Dr Euan Lawson‬, shares editorial insights. Read the linked editorial, which demystifies key terms in metascience: P-hacking, HARKing, and QRPs; and listen to the full audio interview to hear more on journal impact and real-world applicability.

🎧 Listen to the podcast: https://www.bjgplife.com/212
📖 Read the editorial: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp25X742485
🎬 Watch the 1-minute video: https://youtu.be/JyjXipWvm6E

Read the editorial: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp25X742485 In this 1-minute video BJGP Editor, Dr Euan Lawson, explains: TRANSCRIPT The thing about QRPs, que...

25/09/2025

BJGPLife: Health Equity in a New Key: Reimagining Primary Health Care Through Justice
https://bjgplife.com/health-equity-in-a-new-key-reimagining-primary-health-care-through-justice/

25/09/2025

Those wishing to promote team-based family medicine should advocate for a balance of government investment and practice-level autonomy over development, supporting provider buy-in, community-appropriate innovation & responsiveness in care delivery

Background Primary care access is universally a critical health system concern. Decades of research shows that continuous, comprehensive, team-based care promotes greater access to promotional, preventive, and therapeutic care. In Canada, health system investments in team-based primary care models h...

24/09/2025

‘I think it is something that we do need more education about … so that people are actually doing it properly.’

Interviewees listed inconsistent diagnostic practices, unclear guidelines, and time constraints as challenges to effective management & measurement of postural hypotension in this qualitative study. The need for education, training & system-level support was emphasised https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.069

24/09/2025

BJGPLife: Information exchange, consciousness, and different worldviews in the consultation
https://bjgplife.com/information-exchange-consciousness-and-different-worldviews-in-the-consultation/