Kate King
Head of Academic Military General Practice for Defence Medical Services.
Generalist at heart, so fingers in too many pies! RoyalNavy GP, MPH, GP trainer, doctoral student @KCMHR. Mum, wife, owned by cats. (she/her)
- Reposted by Kate KingSave the date! The BJGP Research & Publishing Conference 2026 will be coming to Bristol on 20th March 2026. Stay tuned for more details! #BJGPRC
- Reposted by Kate KingTraining GP practice teams to discuss poverty and support patients experiencing poverty-related mental distress increased understanding of causes of distress; helped avoid inappropriate prescribing; and enabled coordinated team support ➡️ doi.org/10.3399/10.3...
- I've been renovating a room in our #OldHouse. Gypsum off, lime on, limewashing this weekend. But I've also been upcycling old furniture. The cats seem impressed with the sideboard that's going in my study!
- Reposted by Kate KingThis moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
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- Doctoral thesis successfully defended. Huge thanks to @simondymond.bsky.social and Alan Finnegan for a great discussion of my thesis this morning. And to Dan @leightley.bsky.social, Nicola and Neil for the last few years of supervision! #PhDone #DoctorateDone #PhDChat
- Reposted by Kate KingI've been terrible for using Bluesky but going to make an effort! #Medsky - check out our latest paper in #BMJSRH: "Experiences of abortion in the UK Armed Forces: a cross-sectional survey." Give it a read and share your thoughts with us! @antonywillman.bsky.social @drkateking.bsky.social
- Thank you very much to all the BJGP Open readers who spent a bit of their time with our article. Number 2 in last year's most read!
- ⭐No 2 | BJGP Open Top Ten 2024⭐ Evaluating the potential of AI to produce high-quality discharge summaries ➡️ doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...
- I'm looking forward to the BJGP Research Conference on Friday. Anyone else going to be there? bjgp.org/conference-p... @bjgp.bsky.social @bjgpopen.bsky.social #BJGPRC
- Great to see this work in print. Hopefully adding to the evidence that we need to recognise there is a need for ongoing perimenopause management and support in the UK Armed Forces.
- Treating the perimenopause in UK Armed Forces | This qualitative study found continuing professional development was an important factor for Defence GPs' confidence in perimenopause care, with experiential learning particularly valued ➡️ doi.org/10.3399/10.3...
- Our latest paper is out in #BMJSRH. Currently open access so feel free to have a look and let us know what you think. srh.bmj.com/content/earl... @vkinkaid11.bsky.social @antonywillman.bsky.social
- If you're an early career researcher, or a wise guru of general practice research, come along and say hello!
- 📣Join us at the BJGP Research & Publishing Conference 2025 @ the Lowry Hotel, Manchester on Fri 21 March. Workshops, presentations, networking, and keynote speakers Kath Checkland and Rageshri Dhairyawan. Programme: rcgp.my.site.com/s/lt-event?i... Tickets: rcgp.my.site.com/s/lt-event?i... #BJGPRC
- Doctorate submitted on Wednesday. Now I'm a little uncertain what to do this weekend! I think I've forgotten what I'm supposed to do other than work
- Can I please ask #AutismBlueSky... The ADOS assessment... aren't they toads and not frogs? It's causing a lot of discussion in our house tonight!
- Is the cornish wafer the cheese biscuit selection of the strawberry creams in the Quality Street? #Cheese 🧀
- Is it just me or do the oscillations between love and hate swing ever more frequently as you get closer to the submission deadline? #PhDChat #PhD
- Reposted by Kate KingWhat are GPs' experiences with the recommendation text box in hospital discharge summaries? Results from a nationwide survey in Denmark ➡️ doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...
- In London for a meeting of the Defence Professors and have arrived far too early. I do like being able to get work done at the @rcgp.bsky.social members' lounge. It's very quiet here though!
- Been super busy (have a thesis to write) so turned my back on here for a while. Come back and #MedSky #GPSky have arrived!
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- Play buzzword bingo at the #RCGPAC during Wes Streeting's talk this morning. Credit to @drgandalf.bsky.social
- x.com/drgandalf52/... Play along with BuzzWord Bingo during Wes Streeting's talk this morning at the #RCGPAC
- Reposted by Kate KingNow freely available @bjgp.bsky.social for anyone to read. "Deprived practices require proper funding that considers differential health needs." @oohgpwales.bsky.social @helensalisbury.bsky.social #BJGP #primarycare
- Today started at 0345, for a workshop on women's health hosted by the Australians. Cats provided much hilarity by pouncing each other and play fighting just at the point I was speaking. Now onto the surgery for my NHS time. Fuelled by coffee today!
- Pleased to have been able to contribute and steer this article on the glass barriers faced by women in the Defence Medical Services. militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/earl...
- Been busy and come back to a load of new followers. Most of who appear to be bots. Sigh.
- Posting from @rcgp Council. #BreakingNews After some interesting discussion, Council voted to oppose Physician Assistants working in General Practice. Posting from @rcgp Council. www.rcgp.org.uk/News/physici... #PhysicianAssistants
- Early start to get to Chelmsford to see the team at Anglia Ruskin. Looking forward to nosing around the med school and talking all things military women's health!
- Back into teaching mode for me today with our #DefenceGPTrainees. A morning of consultation skills and now talking about high altitude medicine. Its cold, windy, dry (even with snow), there's less oxygen and electrical storms. I'm not sure why anyone likes mountains!
- Reposted by Kate KingThere’s a lot of NHS folk who’d like to see the end of GP partnerships because they can’t work with every practice being slightly different. Those same people just do not understand that that’s what makes general practice successful and efficient, designed around the community. 1/3
- Tell me you work in the NHS with a picture....
- I'd found about 80% of these people but it's great to get a few more GPs and GP researchers visible.
- Reposted by Kate KingFirst post here, working out how to use it! Seeing if I can pin this, a paper I am quite pleased with: www.maturitas.org/article/S037...
- What I really need Bluesky to do is let me have a list of people that I want to follow but who aren't here yet, and then notify me when they join so I can follow them! I keep searching for people and they're not here 😭
- Reposted by Kate KingThe scale and impact of #LongCOVID are revealed in a new paper from @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social in The Lancet. 📈1 in 50 affected in UK 👨👩👦👦 Impacts all ages, races and genders 📅 Can last years Want to cut your risk? 💪 Vaccines, masks & quick action are key! www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/the-sca...
- I was talking about writing a new GP book list with our registrars over dinner so this is well timed! Day 1 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books House of God by Samuel Shem. Old and dated in some respects, such vital relevance still now. I remain convinced it should be required reading for all Drs.
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- Lucy Easthope told the RCGP conference she would rock our world when she talked to us last year. She did indeed! The book has so many moments of truth and realisations. Definitely worth a read for anyone who hasn't read it yet!
