Recent additions
2022
December
November
- DEEP END REPORT 40 Cost of living crisis
Summary | Full report - The challenges of reducing risk and severity of CVD in deprived communities
Dr Hamish Foster presented at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on 17 November 2022 - The Scottish Deep End Project: what has it meant for us?
Dr Carey Lunan presented at the launch of Deep End Wales on 24 November 2022
August
July
- DEEP END REPORT 39 Prison health
Summary | Full report - Deep End International Bulletin No 7
April
- Deep End Project end of year report (Apr 2021–Mar 2022)
Dr Carey Lunan and Dr David Blane - Resources from Deep End Third Medical Student Conference (Apr 2022)
March
- The human cost of the energy crisis: challenges we face and options for change
Dr Carey Lunan presented at the annual Energy Action Scotland conference in March 2022 - Learning from the Scottish Deep End Project
Keynote talk delivered by Dr David Blane at the annual conference of the Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland (AUDGPI) and the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) - Julian Tudor Hart: a general practitioner for the world
Talk delivered by Prof Graham Watt on 03 March 2022, the third in series of talks about Dr Julian Tudor Hart – family doctor, scientist, writer, philosopher, artist, social advocate and community activist
February
- Dr Carey Lunan delivered a session on "Addressing the Inverse Care Law in Scotland’s most deprived communities" at a farewell plenary for Dr Neil Hamlet, public health consultant in Fife (February 2022)
- Ciftci, Y. and Blane, D. N. (2022) Improving GP registration and access for migrant health. British Journal of General Practice, 72(715), pp. 56-57. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp22X718301)
January
- Dr Carey Lunan, Dr Lynsay Crawford and Ms Claire Stevens (Chief Exec Voluntary Health Scotland) ran a joint evening learning event through University of Glasgow on Health Inequalities and Covid 19, hosted by David Blane (January 2022)
Deep End general practice during COVID-19 (Carey Lunan)
Undergraduate teaching during COVID-19 (Lynsay Crawford)
COVID-19 inequalities: the impact and response from Voluntary Health Scotland (Claire Stevens) - GP workforce analysed by deprivation (Carey Lunan and Stewart Mercer)
Report | Slides | Public Health Scotland analysis
2021
December
- Albanese, A., Blane, D. N. and Williamson, A. E. (2021) Mental health in context: structural vulnerability and support in primary care. British Journal of General Practice, 71(713), pp. 565-567. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp21X717965) (PMID:34824078)
- Patterson, D. and Blane, D. N. (2021) Training for purpose – a blueprint for social accountability and health equity focused GP training. Education for Primary Care, 32(6), pp. 318-321. (doi: 10.1080/14739879.2021.1966652) (PMID:34486945)
- CPG Health Inequalities: Responses to the inverse care law in Scotland
Dr David Blane was a speaker at the Voluntary Health Scotland Health Inequalities Cross Party Group on 06 December 2021 - 2021 newsletter and quarterly updates to Deep End Steering Group meetings
- Dr Carey Lunan was part of the panel for this year’s Edinburgh Medical Debate (06 Dec 2021), presenting a primary care perspective on "Surviving Covid-19: the future of the NHS"
- CONFERENCE REPORT 50 years of the inverse care law (May 2021)
- Deep End International Bulletin No 6
November
- Dr Carey Lunan was part of the debate for the Leaders in Healthcare Conference 2021 (11 Nov 2021): The Great Debate Part 2: General Practice and the Public Pandemic Perception
- DEEP END REPORT 38 Climate change and health inequalities
Summary | Full report
October
- Addressing inequalities in our everyday work: learning from the Scottish Deep End Project
Talk delivered by Dr Carey Lunan [starts at 1.08.28] at "Working together to address health inequalities" BMA Conference, October 2021
August
- GPs and staff face abuse, workforce figures and health inequalities [podcast]
GP Online speaks to Dr Carey Lunan and Dr David Blane about how they are trying to tackle health inequalities and what other practices can learn from their work - Health inequalities in Scotland and how the Deep End Project aims to balance them [podcast]
Scotland compares very poorly with other countries in Europe and even within the UK when it comes to health inequalities, but why? In S03E02 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Tea and Talk Podcast, RSE Chief Executive Rebekah Widdowfield talks to Professor Graham Watt CBE FRSE about the reasons and possible answers.
July
- Williamson AE, McQueenie R, Ellis DA, McConnachie A, Wilson P (2021) ‘Missingness’ in health care: Associations between hospital utilization and missed appointments in general practice. A retrospective cohort study. PLoS ONE 16(6): e0253163.
June
May
- The exceptional and equitable potential of family practice
Keynote address given via Zoom by Professor Graham Watt at the Annual Leaders Forum of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, May 2021
April
- Learning from the Scottish Deep End Project
Talk given by Professor Graham Watt at a session on "Social Inequality and Health" at the annual meeting of the College of the Norwegian Medical Association, coordinated virtually from Oslo on 20 April 2021 - DEEP END REPORT 37 COVID-19 vaccine deployment for marginalised groups in Scotland
Summary | Full report
January
- Deep End Zoom Meeting 2 (January 2021)
Report on meeting of international Deep End colleagues (Scotland, Ireland, England, Belgium, Australia, Canada, US) - Key lessons from 10 years of the Scottish Deep End GP project
Slides from webinar with Deep End NW London group by Dr Anne Mullin and Dr David Blane (September 2020)
2020
November
- Govan SHIP Project
- Govan SHIP report and evaluation (June 2020)
- Govan SHIP report appendices
- Govan SHIP infographics
- CONTACTS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Dr John Montgomery Project GP Lead john.montgomery@nhs.scot
Vince McGarry Project Manager vince.mcgarry@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
- Deep End International Bulletin No 4
October
- COVID-19, homelessness and implications for end of life care
Presentation by Dr Andrea Williamson to Marie Curie Homelessness and End of Life Care Summit, 28 October 2020
September
- GPs at the Deep End [video]
Three academic GPs and members of the Deep End group talk about the importance and value of the group, ahead of the UofG Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement Awards 2020
August
- Health inequalities in Scotland: a GP view
This account from a frontline GP, Dr Catriona Morton, reflects on the experience of a professional lifetime in practices serving socio-economically deprived populations. It refers to the evidence base, is a call to action, and offers pragmatic solutions and recommendations for resource distribution. The paper is rooted in the current Scottish General Practice architecture, unapologetically using that, and Edinburgh-based approaches, as case studies. It is a document of its place and time: it will achieve its purpose if colleagues feel free to use it as a resource to change things for the better, in the service of our patients.
July
- Deep End Zoom Meeting 1
Brief summary of the first Deep End International Zoom Meeting held on 09 July 2020 and exploring the shared agenda of Deep End Projects
June
- Ashwell, G., Blane, D. , Lunan, C. and Matheson, J. (2020) General practice post-COVID-19: time to put equity at the heart of health systems? British Journal of General Practice, 70(697), p. 400. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp20X712001) (PMID:32732207)
- Deep End International Bulletin No 3
- DEEP END REPORT 36 General Practice in the time of COVID-19
Summary | Full report
May
- How primary care has adapted to new ways of working during the COVID-19 pandemic
Vlog by Glasgow GP Dr Maria Duffy (08/05/2020) - Poverty, health and COVID-19: emerging lessons in Scotland
Dr Anne Mullin participated in this webinar hosted by Poverty Alliance with Dr Gerry McCartney, Head of the Public Health Observatory, Public Health Scotland and Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health, University of Edinburgh - Rizwan Din, Colette Montgomery Sardar, Graeme Bryson, Vince McGarry Evaluation of the impact of pharmacist polypharmacy reviews within the Govan Social and Healthcare Integration Partnership (SHIP) Project The Pharmaceutical Journal 12 May 2020
April
- Delivering Opioid Substitution Treatment in Edinburgh during COVID-19 [BBC News, 27/04/2020]
Dr John Budd talks about innovative work in the Edinburgh Access Practice during the COVID-19 pandemic with patients prescribed Methadone - Allyson M Pollock, Luke Clements, Louisa Harding-Edgar Covid-19: why we need a national health and social care service BMJ 2020 369
Editorial on the need for a fully integrated health and social care system
March
- The story of GPs at the Deep End - primary care serving areas of socioeconomic deprivation [video]
- Martina Zeitler, Andrea E Williamson, John Budd, Ruth Spencer, Anton Queen, and Richard Lowrie Comparing the Impact of Primary Care Practice Design in Two Inner City UK Homelessness Services Journal of Primary Care and Community Health 2020 11, 1-13
February
- Andrea E Williamson, Ross McQueenie, David A Ellis, Alex McConnachie and Philip Wilson General practice recording of adverse childhood experiences: a retrospective cohort study of GP records BJGP Open 18 February 2020
This research shows that recording of ACEs is very sparse in the GP record. There is nevertheless an association between any recorded ACE and the likelihood of missing GP appointments. - RCGP Inequality Scale Sub-Group Report
This short report reflects on the historic and current barriers to implementing interventions in general practice at scale that reduce health inequalities. It was produced as an informative piece for a larger meeting on health inequalities that was hosted by RCGP in Scotland. - Population Health Joint Working approach in Clyde Gateway
Video and podcast by Public Health Reform
January
- DEEP END REPORT 35 Plans for advocacy and engagement by the Scottish Deep End Project
Summary | Full report - The Scottish Deep End Project: 10 years on Professor Graham Watt