Publications: DR Dipesh Gopal

Gopal DP ( 2026 ) . Are fit notes fit for the 21st century? . The BMJ vol. 393 ,

Al-Haddad M, Gopal D, Rao M ( 2026 ) . What is in a name? Name bias and tackling health disparities . Heart

Monnery D, Law K, Gopal DP, Minton O, Calman L, Chamberlain C, Taylor S, Smith R et al. ( 2026 ) . Models, outcomes, barriers, and facilitators of supportive care in cancer: a scoping review . Supportive Care in Cancer vol. 34 , ( 4 )

Smyth N, Ahmad A, Begum S, Chaudhry A, Clark S, Wright A, Gimblett K, Ridge D et al. ( 2026 ) . Co‐Creating Publicly Available Resources to Increase Awareness of and Support for Long Covid Among Ethnic Minority Communities . Health Expectations vol. 29 , ( 2 )

Gopal DP, Newington L, Pattani S, Varghese KA, Yu G, Kadam U, Dorrington S, El-Osta A et al. ( 2026 ) . What is the future of the fit note? . British Journal of General Practice vol. 76 , ( 763 ) 56 - 57 .

Ettehad D, Mohammed H, Bailey JV, Schloss D, Walters K, Merriel SWD, Kinnaird W, Shaw G et al. ( 2025 ) . Barriers and facilitators to prostate cancer healthcare in Black men in the UK: from diagnosis to survivorship . Journal of Cancer Survivorship1 - 15 .

Monnery D, Gopal D, Law K, Chamberlain C, Calman L, Mawhinney M, Lewis T, Lister-Flynn S et al. ( 2025 ) . P-157 Models of enhanced supportive care in cancer: scoping review . Conference: Collaboration, service models & developmenta70.1 - a7a70 .

Walsh S, Sheppard J, Lister-Flynn S, Droney J, Calman L, Gopal D, Minton O, Chamberlain C et al. ( 2025 ) . UK Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (UKASCC) Enhanced Supportive Care (ESC) National Collaborative: Building a Community of Practice . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care vol. 16 , ( 1 )

Lotankar Y, Cheshire A, Ridge D, Chew‐Graham C, Smyth N, Knowles CR, Gopal D, Kingstone T et al. ( 2025 ) . Intersectionality and Long Covid: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Ethnic Minority Groups in the United Kingdom . Health Expectations vol. 28 , ( 5 )

Stewart J, Brain T, Engamba S, Woolford S, Gopal D, Mohamed H, Agrawal R, Duncan P et al. ( 2025 ) . The Primary care Academic CollaboraTive (PACT) Membership Consultation: future directions and priorities . British Journal of General Practice vol. 75 , ( suppl 1 )

Gopal DP, Guo P, Taylor SJC, Efstathiou N ( 2025 ) . Factors affecting cancer care delivery in primary care: a qualitative study . Family Practice vol. 42 , ( 1 )

Ridge DT, Broom A, Alwan NA, Smyth N, Kingstone T, Gaszczyk P ( 2024 ) . Medical ambivalence and Long Covid: The disconnects, entanglements, and productivities shaping ethnic minority experiences in the UK . Social Science & Medicine vol. 366 ,

Gopal D ( 2024 ) . General practice should tackle healthcare inequalities but not health inequalities . British Journal of General Practice vol. 74 , ( 748 ) 512 - 512 .

Dhairyawan R, Sowemimo A, Rao M ( 2024 ) . Tackling structural racism in health for London . The BMJ vol. 387 ,

Gopal DP, Taylor SJ, Guo P, Efstathiou N ( 2024 ) . ‘Picking up the pieces’: primary care practitioners’ experiences of cancer care reviews . BJGP Open vol. 9 , ( 1 )

Dyer S, Bhuiya A, Graves J, Siddique S, Tonkin A ( 2024 ) . Cancer care reviews: a guide for primary care . British Journal of General Practice vol. 74 , ( 745 ) 377 - 379 .

Smyth N, Ridge D, Kingstone T, Gopal DP, Alwan NA, Wright A, Chaudhry A ( 2024 ) . People from ethnic minorities seeking help for Long Covid: a qualitative study . British Journal of General Practice vol. 74 , ( 749 )

Donovan S, Chalder T, Gopal D, Khan I, Korszun A, Moschopoulou E, Ridge D, Robinson C et al. ( 2024 ) . Qualitative study of experience of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT+) amongst Survivors' Rehabilitation Evaluation after Cancer (SURECAN) trial participants and therapists: A protocol . NIHR Open Research vol. 3 ,

Ahmad TA, Dayem Ullah AZ, Chelala C, Gopal DP, Eto F, Henkin R, Samuel M, Finer S et al. ( 2024 ) . Prevalence of multimorbidity in survivors of 28 cancer sites: an English nationwide cross-sectional study . American Journal of Cancer Research vol. 14 , ( 2 ) 880 - 896 .

Willows TM, Gopal DP ( 2023 ) . Re-thinking the role of primary care in dementia prevention . British Journal of General Practice vol. 74 , ( 738 ) 13 - 13 .

Ahmad TA, Gopal DP, Chelala C, Dayem Ullah AZ, Taylor SJ ( 2023 ) . Multimorbidity in people living with and beyond cancer: a scoping review . American Journal of Cancer Research vol. 13 , ( 9 ) 4346 - 4365 .

O’Dowd EL, Merriel SWD, Cheng VWT, Khan S, Howells LM, Gopal DP, Brennan PM, Neal RD et al. ( 2023 ) . Clinical trials in cancer screening, prevention and early diagnosis (SPED): a systematic mapping review . BMC Cancer vol. 23 , ( 1 )

Ridge D, Pilkington K, Donovan S, Moschopoulou E, Gopal D, Bhui K, Chalder T, Khan I et al. ( 2023 ) . A meta-ethnography investigating relational influences on mental health and cancer-related health care interventions for racially minoritised people in the UK . PLOS ONE vol. 18 , ( 5 )

Gopal DP, Hunter M, Butler D, O'Donovan D, Kearney G ( 2023 ) . Trauma-informed care: what does it mean for general practice? . British Journal of General Practice vol. 73 , ( 730 ) 229 - 231 .

Smyth N, Alwan NA, Band R, Chaudhry A, Gopal D, Jackson M, Ridge D ( 2022 ) . Exploring the lived experience of Long Covid in black and minority ethnic groups in the UK: Protocol for qualitative interviews and art-based methods . PLOS ONE vol. 17 , ( 10 )

Gopal DP, Ahmad T, Efstathiou N, Guo P, Taylor SJC ( 2022 ) . What is the evidence behind cancer care reviews, a primary care cancer support tool? A scoping review . Journal of Cancer Survivorship vol. 17 , ( 6 ) 1780 - 1798 .

Leung R, Whittaker D, Izquierdo D ( 2022 ) . How can GPs get people moving more? . British Journal of General Practice vol. 72 , ( 719 ) 288 - 291 .

Ahmad T, Gopal D, Ullah AZMD, Taylor S ( 2022 ) . Multimorbidity in patients living with and beyond cancer: protocol for a scoping review .

Gopal DP, Douglass C, Wong S, Khan I, Lokugamage AU ( 2022 ) . Reflexivity, Cultural Safety, and improving the health of racially minoritised communities . The Lancet vol. 399 , ( 10335 ) 1581 - 1582 .

Bhanu C, Gopal DP, Walters K ( 2021 ) . Vaccination uptake amongst older adults from minority ethnic backgrounds: A systematic review . PLOS Medicine vol. 18 , ( 11 )

Dominic C, Sidhu A ( 2021 ) . ‘It’s like juggling fire daily’: Well-being, workload and burnout in the British NHS - A survey of 721 physicians . WORK A Journal of Prevention Assessment &amp Rehabilitation vol. 70 , ( 2 ) 395 - 403 .

Gopal DP, Beardon S, Caraher M, Woodhead C, Taylor SJ ( 2021 ) . Should we screen for poverty in primary care? . British Journal of General Practice vol. 71 , ( 711 ) 468 - 469 .

Gopal DP, Rao M ( 2021 ) . Re-thinking the inclusion of race in British hypertension guidance . Journal of Human Hypertension vol. 36 , ( 3 ) 333 - 335 .

Gopal DP, Issa R ( 2021 ) . What is needed for Universal Basic Income? . British Journal of General Practice vol. 71 , ( 710 ) 398 - 398 .

Gopal DP, Rao M ( 2021 ) . Playing hide and seek with structural racism . The BMJ vol. 373 ,

Gopal DP, Chetty U, O'Donnell P, Gajria C, Blackadder-Weinstein J ( 2021 ) . Implicit bias in healthcare: clinical practice, research and decision making . Future Healthcare Journal vol. 8 , ( 1 ) 40 - 48 .

Gopal DP ( 2020 ) . Gut feeling is changing in the post-coronavirus world . British Journal of General Practice vol. 71 , ( 702 ) 24 - 24 .

Gopal DP, Waqar S, Silverwood V, Mulla E ( 2020 ) . Race and racism: are we too comfortable with comfort? . BJGP Open vol. 4 , ( 5 )

Gopal D ( 2020 ) . 10 minutes . InnovAiT Education and inspiration for general practice vol. 13 , ( 10 ) 626 - 626 .

Gopal DP, Francis R ( 2020 ) . Does race belong in the hypertension guidelines? . Journal of Human Hypertension vol. 35 , ( 10 ) 940 - 941 .

Gopal DP ( 2020 ) . Non-COVID-19 general practice and our response to the pandemic . BJGP Open vol. 4 , ( 2 )

Gopal DP, de Rooij BH, Ezendam NP, Taylor SJ ( 2020 ) . Delivering long-term cancer care in primary care . British Journal of General Practice vol. 70 , ( 694 ) 226 - 227 .

( 2020 ) . BPOS Oral Presentations . Psycho-Oncology . vol. 29 , 3 - 9 .

Gopal DP, Mulla E ( 2019 ) . The GP crisis: a tale of two peaks . British Journal of General Practice vol. 70 , ( 690 ) 24 - 24 .

Gopal DP, Taylor SJC ( 2019 ) . Models and tools for those living with and beyond cancer . vol. 144 , Elsevier

Gopal DP ( 2019 ) . Viewpoint: Why I prescribe podcasts to my patients . British Journal of General Practice vol. 69 , ( 689 ) 621 - 621 .

Gopal DP, Toeg D ( 2019 ) . Pertussis (whooping cough) . The BMJ vol. 364 ,

Nair DB, Gopal DP ( 2018 ) . 21st century obstetrics: a 50-year-old nullip—walk in the park? . BMJ Case Reports vol. 2018 ,

Gopal DP, Lee C ( 2016 ) . Well-being Programs for Physicians and the Role of the “Doctors' Mess” . JAMA Surgery vol. 151 , ( 4 )

Singh D, Gopal DP ( 2016 ) . Acute non-traumatic gastrothorax: presentation of a case with chest pain and atypical radiologic findings . Medwave vol. 16 , ( 2 )

Halliwell-Ewen MJ, Lee C, Gopal DP ( 2015 ) . Deanery placement and the Situational Judgement Test . Advances in Medical Education and Practice vol. 6 , ( 0 ) 631 - 632 .

Gopal DP ( 2015 ) . Cardiovascular risk models for South Asian populations: a systematic review . International Journal of Public Health vol. 61 , ( 5 ) 525 - 534 .

Gopal DP, Lee C ( 2015 ) . A universal intercalated undergraduate management program: attraction or deterrent? . Advances in Medical Education and Practice vol. 6 , ( 0 ) 553 - 554 .

Gopal DP, Mackeith P ( 2015 ) . Intercalated degrees and research projects: building academic foundations . Medwave vol. 15 , ( 6 )

Gopal DP, Loganathan T, ST Yong E ( 2014 ) . CARDIO4 mnemonic for diagnosing Kawasaki disease . British Journal of Hospital Medicine vol. 75 , ( 5 ) 296 - 296 .

Gopal D ( 2012 ) . Undergraduate presentation‐based assessments . The Clinical Teacher vol. 9 , ( 6 ) 430 - 431 .

Gopal DP ( 2012 ) . Teaching and leadership opportunities for undergraduates: A cause for postgraduate worry? . Medical Teacher vol. 35 , ( 4 ) 338 - 338 .

Gopal DP, Khan I, Moschopoulou E, Donovan S, Chalder T, Taylor SJC . Can randomised control trial design identify the best way to use Twitter to disseminate research? (Preprint) .

O’Dowd EL, Merriel SW, Cheng VW, Khan S, Howells LM, Gopal DP, Roundhill EA, Brennan PM et al. . Clinical trials in cancer screening, prevention and early diagnosis (SPED): A systematic mapping review .