BJGP Top 10 research most read and published in 2025

This episode, we have a round table discussion with the editorial team of Sam Merriel, Tom Round and Nada Khan. This collection of the BJGP’s top 10 research most read and published in 2025 brings together high-profile primary care research and clinical innovation.

And here are the top 10 most read papers of 2025:

10

Adoption of clinical pharmacist roles in primary care: longitudinal evidence from English general practice

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0320

9

Factors affecting prostate cancer detection through asymptomatic prostate-specific antigen testing in primary care in England: evidence from the 2018 National Cancer Diagnosis Audit

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0376

8

Paramedic or GP consultations in primary care: prospective study comparing costs and outcomes

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0469

7

What patients want from access to UK general practice: systematic review

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0582

6

Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0322

5

Antidepressants and risk of postural hypotension: a self-controlled case series study in UK primary care

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0429

4

Challenges to quality in contemporary, hybrid general practice a multi-site longitudinal case study

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0184

3

Low-dose amitriptyline for irritable bowel syndrome: a qualitative study of patients’ and GPs’ views and experiences

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0303

2

Artificial intelligence for early detection of lung cancer in GPs’ clinical notes: a retrospective observational cohort study

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2023.0489

1

Effectiveness of low-dose amitriptyline and mirtazapine in patients with insomnia disorder and sleep maintenance problems: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in general practice (DREAMING)

https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0173

Transcript

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Speaker A

00:00:00.480 - 00:01:27.500

Hello and welcome to the BJGP Top 10 podcast.

So this is where we take a closer look at the most read research papers in the BJGP in 2025 and just have a discussion about what they mean for day to day general practice. I'm Nada Khan, one of the associate editors of the Journal.

And in today's episode we'll be exploring some of the themes that really captured attention with the readership, I suppose. And we'll be talking about things like consultation compl complexity and workload pressures.

Some work around diagnostic uncertainty and how to look, look after people with multimorbidity.

And I think we're going to have a discussion a bit more, not just about what these papers found, but maybe a bit about why they resonated and maybe give a bit of editorial feedback around that. And because it's a conversation here between three clinicians as well.

And I'll go around and introduce everyone in a minute, maybe a bit about what they add to the conversations we're already already having in practice and where the gaps still are. And I guess with that we'll be keeping it grounded in the messy reality of today's general practice as well.

So I've introduced myself and I'm joined here by Tom Round and Sam Merrill, who are both also associate editors of the bjgp. But I'll go to Tom first. So, yeah, tell us a bit about who you are and how is your day going?

Speaker B

00:01:27.720 - 00:01:59.550

Great, Nada. Thanks for having me.

So, Dr. Tom Rand, I'm a GP in northeast London and an academic clinical lecturer at King's College, interested in early disease and cancer detection and also health inequality. So, yeah, pretty good. Like everyone, I've got a mild cold at the moment.

I think exactly the same last year when we did this podcast, winter cold season. So I think we're all sort of feeling that a little bit in primary care with flus and other things and staff, you know, so otherwise good.

Looking forward to having really interesting discussion about these papers which are really fascinating and give a real broad breadth of what we do in general practice.

Speaker A

00:02:00.420 - 00:02:07.940

Great. And Sam, we'll go to you and you have some really exciting