PODCAST: BJGP INTERVIEWS
Episode 038: Summer 2021 Update
BJGP Editor, Euan Lawson, gives a quick summer update and invites you to get involved with the journal.
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Coronavirus articles
Freedom Day? Living with Covid
Boris Johnson tells us we have to “learn to live with Covid”. There is much talk of using “common sense” but Peter Toon reminds us this is not all that common and discusses some of the issues involved.
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Long COVID: Playing the Long Game
We might be tempted to think it’s the beginning of the end of the Covid19 pandemic. But it’s only the beginning of the beginning of the Long Covid pandemic. Carter Singh discusses the issues we need to face.
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Supporting people with long-COVID return to work
How can we support people with long-COVID to return to work? Ira Madan and colleagues review the current literature and guidance from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.
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The impact of Covid-19 on the travelling community in primary care.
The travelling community has historically struggled to achieve equal access to healthcare. They have a higher prevalence of disease, lower literacy rates, poor health education and are burdened with significant rates of poverty. So what does this mean during the current pandemic? Amanda Brickstock and James Daniels update us on what we need to know.
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Creating the ‘New different’
The pre-pandemic ‘old normal’ had been broken for a long time. Rather than seeking to develop a ‘new normal’ we should perhaps focus on creating a ‘new different’. ‘How?’, I hear you ask! Well …
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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
BJGP Life: call for summer articles
Summer time! Perhaps a moment to reflect? Get creative and share your thoughts – here are some suggestions for articles for BJGP Life.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients — it’s time to reconsider our attitudes
Dr Sooyoung Lee describes her own experience of the misunderstanding and dismissal of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) evidenced in primary care. Is it time to reconsider our attitudes?
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A proposal for health and social care
There is a cash crisis in the NHS and Social Care. As there has been for the last decade. Arthur Kaufman suggests that a government issue of Health & Social Care Bonds could raise a substantial amount of finance without imposing further burdens on taxpayers.
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Opinion
Push your buttons
Taking stock: Reflecting on recent changes to the way we deliver care home primary care to inform future practice.
NHS England-led changes to the way we deliver primary care to our care home residents were accelerated due to the Covid pandemic. Deirdre Walsh and Domini James report on their own local feedback.
Clinical
Help with the day job
Palliative care is increasing, but curative care is growing even faster in the last months of life.
The good news is that palliative care is reaching more people with cancer, organ failure and frailty and dementia, and is starting earlier. But Scott Murray and Jordi Amblas question why planned and emergency medical care continues to expand even more for these patients.
Innovation
Bright Ideas too
Quality Improvement in General practice during COVID-19
Everything in general practice seems to have changed in the last year or so. So do we manage that change, or do we just feel overwhelmed by it? Joanna Bircher and colleagues report how they used a QI model to develop services as everything around us changed.
Research
Get some evidence
Why GPs need to be involved in mental health research
We all know that research is not for "normal GPs" - we are all too busy. But are we right? Beatrice Shelley and colleagues say that being a practising GP and an active researcher are not as incompatible as one may think – a growing number of GPs are conducting research, and in so doing, they will be influencing clinical practice and guiding health policy.
Long Reads
Take a deeper dive
Listening to connect in the digital consultation
COVID-19 has accelerated the uptake of digital consultations. But rather than focus on form, perhaps our attention should fall to how the content of consultations has changed. Dr Clare Etherington and Dr Liliana Risi explore this in detail and suggest that 'digital warmth' should be all practitioners primary aim.
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
Let’s kill all the lawyers: If you prick me, do I not bleed?
Doctors face “triple jeopardy” - being pursued by the Civil Court for damages, the Criminal Court for negligence, and the GMC for fitness to practice. Alena Chong reviews a novel by Tim Howard, a fellow doctor, about what can happen when things go wrong.
Trainees and students
OSCE’S AND RACISM: REFLECTION FROM TWO MEDICAL STUDENTS
Two final year medical students share their experience of OSCEs, where they and their BME peers experienced differences in patient feedback and in general OSCE marks between themselves and their white counterparts. They make a plea for structural changes that will ensure fairness for all.
News
BJGP Life: call for summer articles
Summer time! Perhaps a moment to reflect? Get creative and share your thoughts - here are some suggestions for articles for BJGP Life.
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