When we meet as a Deep End Canberra group, we often talk about Centrelink and how we can better support patients living in poverty. This quote from the Anti-Poverty Week report rings true with what we see for patients living in the deep end. #HealthEquityMatters

Our website has launched 🚀 Check us out online to find out who we are, what we do, and keep up to date with local GP research via our blog bit.ly/3TA4kVQ

Thank you Melissa Sweet for inviting us to host the tweet chat this week. If you are interested in how general practice is delivered in the most disadvantaged communities, come along and follow us Deep End Canberra

I just wrote a Action Network letter: Call on the Federal Government to vote YES on Nuclear Weapon Ban at the UN. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/vote-y…

Can we do an appreciation thread for GP clinics (nurses, docs, reception) around Australia? Morale is a bit low, right now, and it would be nice to see primary care celebrated. #istandwithGPs #highvaluecare I'll pop a couple of shout outs below. Can you add some, too?

Thank you Melissa Sweet for compiling our tweet-week into a fantadtuc blog! It captures the heart of what the Deep End is all about ❤️ croakey.org/take-a-dive-in… Deep End GP Scotland Deep End East of England Deep End GP Notts Deep End NENC Deep End Ireland Deep End GP YH graham watt

Just a reminder that when the March Budget was handed down, people in the Northern Rivers region of NSW were again evacuating their homes amid rising floodwaters. To be worthy of its name, #WellbeingBudget2022 must address climate equity matters croakey.org/federal-budget…

Take a dive – into the Deep End’s work tackling health inequalities via Dr Liz Sturgiss of Deep End Canberra while guest tweeting for #LeadOnNCDs croakey.org/take-a-dive-in… #HealthEquityMatters #GeneralPractice

🧵 The Deep End GP Pioneer Scheme: a qualitative evaluation. New paper by safiya noor dhanani and David Blane in Aus J Primary Health publish.csiro.au/py/pdf/PY22162

“Key ingredients” were: - extra clinical capacity ✅ - releasing time of experienced GPs for service development ✅ - protected time for GP fellows for tailored learning ✅ - peer support & mentorship ✅ - sharing learning within & between practices ✅ - shared values ✅

Good points Melissa. On the National Health and Climate Strategy, how’s it shaping up? via Croakey News croakey.org/on-the-nationa…

Deep End International Bulletin No 8. Reports from 14 projects in 8 countries. Bringing Hope, Kindness, Joy and Inclusivity (HT @austinoc_austin) for these cold, dark days... gla.ac.uk/media/Media_90…

Feel inspired by Deep End GP Scotland work from all around the world 🌟🌟🌟

This systematic review identified a number of effective behaviour change tools for priority patient populations doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2… Lauren Ball Dr Liz Sturgiss Dr Bryce Brickley Alex Clark

Can we screen for unstable housing and homelessness in healthcare settings? We would love to talk to general practice nurses, allied health clinicians, practice managers, and reception staff about their experiences of screening (or not!) for homelessness.…lnkd.in/giUK7FBs

Great column by Dr Tim - also say hello on Blue Sky & Mastodon in The Medical Republic where he talks about how he and Dr Liz Sturgiss have set up a brand new Specific Interests Network on Poverty and Deprivation. The health of all patients depends on the circumstances in which they live. medicalrepublic.com.au/support-for-gp…

A new episode of TMR's Tea Room #podcast is now online ... Supporting GPs caring for deprived patients ... with Dr Dr Tim - also say hello on Blue Sky & Mastodon and Dr Dr Liz Sturgiss ... hosted by CateSwannellHSD ... medicalrepublic.com.au/supporting-gps…

A new episode of TMR's Tea Room #podcast is now online ... Supporting GPs caring for deprived patients ... with Dr Dr Tim - also say hello on Blue Sky & Mastodon and Dr Dr Liz Sturgiss ... hosted by CateSwannellHSD ... medicalrepublic.com.au/supporting-gps…

‘My biggest challenge has always been to make my work financially viable. The situation is now more challenging than ever’: RACGP Fellow Dr Kate Walker on how the system makes difficult clinical work even harder. bit.ly/3TDW3Bo

Terrible to read that Hobart Pl GP is closing its doors. We cannot afford to lose anymore practices in the ACT. And we shouldn’t have lost this one. We already have the lowest proportion of GPs in the country, and people are waiting canberratimes.com.au/story/8133115/…