Professor Donald Li, President of WONCA and a GP in Hong Kong, talks about the current situation in Hong Kong and the challenges ahead. There have been almost no new cases, excluding imported disease, in recent weeks but 14 day...

Dr Giri Madhavan and Emma Reading talk about consulting with people who have learning difficulties and adapting to the use of video consultations.

Dr Gordon Macdonald suggests practices with significant numbers of elderly patients should be considered as “Far End” practices to address the important challenges in this population.

Professor Michael Kidd is a GP and Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Australia. He talks about their response to COVID-19 including the early decision to close their border and lockdown. They have tested a million people (4% of the population) and the number of COVID cases and deaths have remained very low.

Dr Nick Hopkinson is a respiratory physician from the Royal Brompton, London, and Medical Director of ASH and he joins Domhnall to talk about COVID-19 and smoking. The research suggests smokers are more likely to get symptoms and die due to COVID-19. He also talks about asthma and passive smoking.

Mark Cucuzzella is Professor of Family Medicine in West Virginia where African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Mark talks about this work in the hospital and he is mindful of the need to keep “humanity and personal relationships” in clinical contacts.