PODCAST: BJGP INTERVIEWS
Episode 020: Domestic abuse among female doctors
We talk to GP, Dr Emily Donovan, about new research into the experience of domestic abuse by female doctors.
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Coronavirus articles
Cancer and Covid: Psychological considerations.
Patients being treated for cancer during the Covid-19 pandemic face a double challenge. Feryad Hussain talks us through the issues and suggests the best ways to help.
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The impact of COVID-19 on rheumatology referrals from general practice in England
COVID-19 is bad enough. And we know there will be a mountain of clearing up to do later. Richard Armitage tells us about the impact of the pandemic on rheumatology referrals from general practice in England.
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Long-COVID in Children – Parents and families’ perspectives need to be heard
There is a growing realisation that Long-COVID can also occur in children, with numerous physical symptoms and emotional consequences. NHS England now recognises that Long COVID in children needs urgent evaluation, and as GPs we need to help children and their parents as they search for answers to this new disease.
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A reflection on Vaccination
Louise Dubras reflects on Covid vaccination. We give more than a vaccine. We give hope. We also give a healing encounter, a touch that starts their return to being in the world.
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Despite Coronavirus, General Practice is still the best job in the world.
Perhaps Primary Care will after all become the restorers of ‘normality’. Whatever happens, we will still be here. We will still be listening; still validating lives. Emma Ladds reminds us why, despite Coronavirus, General Practice is still the best job in the world.
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More videos
Targeting treatment for depression with Target-D
Professor Jane Gunn discusses research into a self-administered tool for depression. This RCT showed that ‘Target-D’, a person-centred clinical prediction tool and e-health platform matching management options to prognosis, results in greater improvement in depressive symptoms at 3 months than usual care.
Read MoreChest X-ray for symptomatic lung cancer
Garth Funston talks about the role of chest X-ray in early lung cancer diagnosis and new research highlighting a potential source of delay of diagnosis.
Read MoreIdentifying people at risk of psychosis
Prof Stan Zammit and Daniela Strelchuk talk about people at risk of developing psychosis.
Read MoreMedia depictions of remote consulting in COVID-19
Prof Trish Greenhalgh and Gilly Mroz discuss findings from their study looking at how the media have portrayed remote consulting in different phases of the pandemic.
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Recent articles
The Julian Tudor Hart general practice prize for undergraduate students at St George’s University of London
2021 is the 50th anniversary of the publication in the Lancet of Julian Tudor Hart’s seminal article; ‘The inverse care law’. Melvyn Jones tells us about the general practice prize for undergraduate students at St George’s University of London named in Tudor Hart’s honour.
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Asking about suicide and self harm: moving beyond clinician discomfort
“I ask them – but I’m not asking them in a way that invites a ‘yes'” – It can be difficult to broach the subject of self-harm or suicidal thoughts during a consultation. After altering her practice since reading Ford et al’s recent study on clinician discomfort, Dr Claire Norman, GPST3, reflects on the real-life consequences of reframing those difficult questions.
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Medical school preparation courses promote equality of opportunity
Getting a place in medical school should be a matter of meritocracy. One’s socioeconomic background or personal connections should not affect it; there should be a level playing field. But how do we achieve this? Ishaq Miah, Farzeen Mahmood, Mahin Amir, Sagal Miré and Juwairiya Rehman, all 4th Year Medical Students from King’s, discuss the issues involved.
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Opinion
Push your buttons
Telephone consultations do not form lasting memories.
Telephone encounters may be more efficient and safer during the pandemic but but Judith Reeder argues that they are inferior to the interaction that occurs when you are able to share words and emotions face to face.
Clinical
Help with the day job
Non-biopsy diagnosis of coeliac disease: increased diagnosis and how dietitians can help
With the incidence rate of coeliac disease in the UK increasing four-fold between 1990 and 2011, it is essential that patients with coeliac disease continue to receive appropriate support and management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, Yvonne Jeanes et al. outline how dietitians can assist patients with coeliac disease, and provide resources for both patients and practitioners.
Innovation
Bright Ideas too
A lockdown opportunity to bring lifestyle medicine into the mainstream
Shireen Kassam and Laura Freeman have previously described the medical advantages of a plant based diet. Here they tell us about their own journey to start Plant Based Health Online, a commumity interest company that puts profits back into improving the health of families and communities.
Research
Get some evidence
RCGP Research Paper of the Year 2019: Impact of COVID-19
The RCGP's annual Research Paper of the Year (RPY) award gives recognition to researchers who have undertaken and published an exceptional piece of research relating to general practice or primary care. Here, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Chair of the RPY, presents the three winning articles with overviews of the research and comments from the lead authors.
Long Reads
Take a deeper dive
First Aid or Last Aid During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Helping Carers with Deciding Right.
Have some patients been receiving the wrong type of ‘aid’ when they became seriously unwell in the COVID-19 pandemic? Peter Nightingale explains the concept of "last aid" for dying patients.
International
Distant horizons
GP in crisis: how does European family medicine compare?
Mary McCarthy is a GP in Shrewsbury., She is on the GPC and is interested in comparative health...
Book Reviews and Arts
Film review: Bending the Arc
We might feel we have had a terrible year. Most of the world have had it much worse. Nathaniel Aspray reviews an inspirational film about the origins and early years of Partners In Health, an internationally renowned health charity.
Trainees and students
An innovative post in Clinical Genetics and General Practice
With the mainstreaming of genomics, GPs are likely to encounter genetic conditions more frequently. Samuel Edwards, a GPST1, shares their insights and skills gained while completing an innovative post in Clinical Genetics and General Practice.
News
General practice after Covid-19 – a call for articles.
BJGP Life is putting out a call for articles on the theme of "General Practice after Covid-19". BJGP Life will be accepting articles on this theme over the rest of this month. Do join in!
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