Talking to patients about diet, smoking or alcohol is common for GPs. 🥗🚭 But is guidance on how to have these conversations evidence-based?
New systematic review in @bmc.springernature.com from a team including @charlottealbury.bsky.social & @jlivbanks.bsky.social suggests often not 🤔
Bertie’s having a whale of a time with his stocking gifts. 🎁
Delighted our paper is out in Social Science & Medicine 🎉
We examine how weight-loss advice is delivered, showing how linguistic framing shapes patient engagement and may reduce weight stigma.
Grateful to my co-authors @charlottealbury.bsky.social and Miriam Meyerhoff
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Is behaviour change communication guidance for primary care professionals evidence based?
Important findings from our new systematic review 🔓👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@jlivbanks.bsky.social
@iscaupdates.bsky.social #ConversationAnalysis #ClinicalCommunication
In our new open access systematic review, led by Dr Binh Ta, we translate evidence from linguistics on empathy communication into useable recommendations for practitioners
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@rachaeldrewery.bsky.social @calvirgi.bsky.social
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
If you work in communication and primary care then please do consider submitting original research to BMC primary Care's “Communication in Primary Care” Collection. I’m delighted to guest edit this collection alongside Prof Russel Rothman, and we’ll be accepting submissions until 30th July 2026 👇
Six healthcare workers, including four doctors, have been found not guilty of criminal damage after breaking windows at the offices of JP Morgan, which they claimed was ‘an act of care’.
Read the full article 👇
A pleasure to examine Dr Bradley Furlong’s PhD thesis last year at @memorialu.bsky.social primary care research unit, & great to see important publications resulting from his thesis looking at the effectiveness of patient education materials on low back pain
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Patients have unhelpful beliefs about low back pain (LBP), which are associated with worse outcomes. Education may modify these beliefs, but patients …
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Liliia Bespala
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
Charlotte Albury
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The BMA
Also very cool: a study from 2024 found that in Scottish women fully vaccinated with the HPV vaccine in 2008, *no* cases of cervical cancer have been found. Not a single one. 100% success rate.
Co-author: "It is [now] possible to make cervical cancer a rare disease.”
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A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is
