13. Using the GP Evidence website with Dr Julian Treadwell

Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Dr Julian Treadwell, an academic GP who has developed the absolutely fabulous resource GP Evidence.

Julian has worked for many years in UK General Practice and is keenly interested in polypharmacy, multiple long-term conditions and evidence-based practice. He developed the website GP Evidence which provides easily accessible and understandable information on the benefits and harms of treatments for long-term conditions. He has additional roles with NICE as a moderator of their GP Reference Panel, was a founding member of the Royal College of General Practitioners standing group on Overdiagnosis (see below if you want to join) and is an associate editor of the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin.

PrescQIPP resources mentioned in this episode:

• PrescQIPP webinar March 2023: Making evidence understandable - why you need to use GP Evidence.
• PrescQIPP Clinical Masterclass 25th February 2025:  The GP Evidence website: user-friendly clinical evidence to support shared decision making about treatments for long-term conditions.

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

• GP Evidence website
• Do clinicians overestimate benefits and underestimate the risks of treatments? BJGP Open - GPs’ understanding of the benefits and harms of treatments for long-term conditions: an online survey
• NICE Shared decision making guideline and eLearning:
  Shared decision making NICE guideline [NG197]
  Shared decision making eLearning package
• Seminal paper by Gabbay and Le May (and their updated book as reviewed by Trish Greenhalgh)
  Original BMJ paper from 2004 - Evidence based guidelines or collectively constructed “mindlines?” Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care
  Mindlines: making sense of evidence in practice, John Gabbay and Andrée le May, BJGP 2016
  Knowledge Transformation in Healthcare: Putting Mindlines to Work edited by John Gabbay and Andrée le May

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