PODCAST: BJGP INTERVIEWS
Episode 045: Social prescribing and link workers in Deep End practices in Glasgow
Professor Stewart Mercer talks about how the implementation of social prescribing via a link worker programme has worked in Deep End practices in Glasgow and offers his expert thoughts on the evidence base in this area, the inverse care law and addressing the social determinants of health.
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Coronavirus articles
Nightingale House: our care home COVID-19 journey
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a particularly heavy toll on care homes in the UK. Two GPs share their own personal experiences working in this environment over the past year, and dive deep into the data.
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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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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
A new art gallery in Bournemouth provides an exhibition entitled “Big Medicine”
Time for a bit of mind bending together with a trip to the seaside? Nigel Masters reviews an exhibition entitled “Big Medicine” in the new art gallery in Bournemouth.
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The Dilemma of Civil Disobedience at a Time of Covid
My country was trying to cultivate the tree of democracy and freedom when on the 1 February 2021 the military coup took us back to the dark days of military rule …
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Join or die
John Frey updates us on the state of family medicine in the US as doctors have reacted to the Covid pandemic. A lot of it sounds familiar……….
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Opinion
Push your buttons
Every contact leaves a trace
In consultations there is an emotional “exchange” between the doctor and the patient. Usually the patient comes to see us in a state of anxiety, ill health, sometimes frustration and anger and then projects this onto the GP. The GP will then have to “absorb” these negative feelings. David Mummery reflects on how every consultation leaves a trace.
Clinical
Help with the day job
The metamorphosis of disease presentation
Making a diagnosis is like detecting the correct clues to solve a crime. But Samar Razaq reminds us that in general practice the crime scene seems to keep on changing......
Innovation
Bright Ideas too
Primary Care and Public Health Integration: Opportunities for Increased Community Health Advocacy
There is an important need for innovative alliances in the realms of public health and primary care, but how can we achieve this? Julia Darko gives us some key ideas.
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
A Lion in Winter: an old doctor’s experience of contemporary NHS care
Following David Zigmond's previous article he received a letter from a retired GP which has prompted this further reflection.
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
Book review: Saving Social Care by Neil Eastwood
The government has just announced a health and social care levy which is expected to raise £14bn a year. Of this, £1.8bn a year will go to social care. But will money alone fix the problems? Helen Burns reviews Saving Social Care by Neil Eastwood, and helps us to understand the issues involved.
Trainees and students
Improving Hand Hygiene in General Practice
Although the necessity of hand hygiene is well known, regular monitoring of technique compliance is required. Darshana Jeyaruban reflects on the result of her audit.
News
Paediatric respiratory viral infections post COVID restrictions; Be prepared
Data suggests that the interventions put in place to control the pandemic may have reduced the childhood population’s resistance to normal endemic diseases leading to a ‘build-up of susceptibility’. Roshni Mistry and James Hibberd warn us to be prepared for a possible rise in paediatric respiratory viral infections.
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