BJGP Life – Page 10

Were you Dad’s Doctor?

When does a GP attend a patient’s funeral? Emma Ladds writes about how it is such a privilege to be a family doctor, and about grief when losing a patient.

11 September 2024

4 mins read

Podcast·Videos

Episode 180: Early intervention in psychosis and overcoming the lost connection in general practice

In this episode, we discuss early intervention in psychosis services and primary care.

10 September 2024

1 min read

Opinion

General practice should tackle healthcare inequalities but not health inequalities

"If we focus on using a healthcare service to improve health outcomes we cannot be surprised when our health worsens or our staff become overwhelmed. Imagine putting the hopes of a nation winning a football match on a tired and injured goalkeeper

9 September 2024

4 mins read

BJGP Long Read·Clinical

Is pre-eclampsia the new Cinderella of cardiovascular disease? Or should that be Rose (of Titanic fame), given that pre-eclampsia may be an iceberg waiting to be hit?

What can we do in primary care to prevent cardiovascular complications of pre-eclampsia? Rebecca Wheater provides a number of suggestions ...

6 September 2024

5 mins read

Podcast·Videos

Episode 179: Taking a trauma-informed care approach in women’s health

In this episode, we talk to Jen MacLellan about a trauma-informed approach to women's health.

3 September 2024

1 min read

Opinion·Stories

Archery, noodles and general practice

Appeals to tradition represent a desire to preserve the evanescent, to build a clear narrative that tells us who we are and how we should go about things, even if its historical basis is shaky. We project our thinking onto ... general

2 September 2024

3 mins read

1

Book review·Opinion

Book review: The Lady’s Handbook for her Mysterious Illness

The author tells us that 'mysterious illnesses' are complex and complicated, very individual, definitely not in the patient's head (though attention to one's psyche can be beneficial), but in her body, and, importantly, in the culture she lives in...

31 August 2024

4 mins read

1

AiT·Arts·Opinion

A farewell to hospital medicine

Fraser Barratt says a lyrical farewell to hospital medicine as he moves into the community for the final phase of GP training

29 August 2024

1 min read

1

Opinion

A democratic deficit in healthcare

Can we design a healthcare system that is safer, fairer and more sustainable, without patient representation?

28 August 2024

2 mins read

1

Podcast·Videos

BJGP interviews summer break

We're on a summer break until 3 September 2024.

27 August 2024

1 min read

Book review

Book Review: Just a GP Diaries from a Career in General Practice by Denis Pereira Gray

Anyone currently working in general practice who is, or aspires to be, an effective influencer should read this to learn what it takes to make the changes to improve health care. It also explains what has often been lost from the institutional

26 August 2024

3 mins read

1

Bright Ideas and Innovation·News

The Ealing Domestic Abuse Initiative: A success story

The Ealing Borough Primary Care Team has implemented measures to address DA, aiming to raise awareness and dismantle stigma among staff and patients. Vasumathy Sivarajasingam shares insights from the Ealing approach.

23 August 2024

4 mins read

AiT·Bright Ideas and Innovation·Clinical

Minimising health disparities in dermatology through cultural competence

Hana MO Elhassan argues we should minimise health disparities through cultural competence. A good starting point is developing better awareness of common skin and hair care practices within various ethnic minority populations, and appreciating their clinical significance.

22 August 2024

3 mins read

Arts·Stories

A room with a view to die for

Sophy Wollaston offers a lyrical journey from doctor to patient and from community to hospital... and back again

21 August 2024

5 mins read

1

Podcast·Videos

BJGP interviews summer break

We're on a summer break until 3 September 2024.

20 August 2024

1 min read

AiT·BJGP Long Read·Opinion

In conversation with a new GP

Newly-qualified GP John McCullough seeks wisdom from established GP and rural medicine lecturer Tim Sanders. It feels like a tough time to enter General Practice – has it always been this way?

19 August 2024

3 mins read

1

BJGP Long Read

Key findings of the Appleby review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust

The Appleby review is ostensibly a response to claims made on social media that there has been a substantial increase in suicide rates in current and recent patients of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.

16 August 2024

3 mins read

BJGP Long Read·Opinion·Undergraduate

AI: A plausible prospect or distant delusion in primary care?

"I asked ChatGPT to write me 100 words on the potential uses of AI in UK general practice, and it instantaneously churned out the above. I am simultaneously amazed and terrified!" Paul McNamara ponders the role of AI in his professional lifetime.

15 August 2024

4 mins read

BJGP Long Read·Opinion

Wagging the dog

The inappropriate transfer of work from secondary care in particular is a well-recognised problem which seems difficult to address. Ben Hoban wonders if this reflects a broadly political change in the goals of British healthcare.

14 August 2024

4 mins read

Podcast·Videos

Episode 178 – How to communicate breast cancer risk in women taking HRT with a family history of breast cancer

In this episode, we talk to Professor Clare Turnbull about HRT risk and a family history of breast cancer.

13 August 2024

1 min read

Clinical·Research

Yonder: prescribing cascades, teacher wait time, online services for mental health conditions, community DVT pathways

Yonder looks at prescribing cascades, teacher wait time, online services for mental health conditions, community DVT pathways

12 August 2024

3 mins read

Opinion

Reflecting on the recent racist riots

Carter Singh reflects that we need to address the underlying cause of the racism, hatred, polarisation and intolerance that is now brimming over the edges into everyday life.

10 August 2024

2 mins read

1

Arts

Family values: reflections on heritage at the 60th Venice Biennale

The 60th Venice Biennale hidden among the palazzi, churches, and gardens of this beautiful city reflects what is means to be ‘Foreign’. With a global backdrop of multifarious crises concerning movement across countries, nations, territories, and borders, this would seem a pertinent

9 August 2024

3 mins read

BJGP Long Read

Regression to ‘barefoot’

"Non-medically qualified practitioners of medicine are not new. One may look at two spectacular examples of the contribution by these colleagues, Hamilton Naki and Mamitu Gashe ..."

7 August 2024

7 mins read

Podcast·Videos

Episode 177 – The problem with defining GP work in terms of sessions – a study of trends in GP working hours and intensity

In this episode, we talk to Dr Joe Hutchinson about how the problems with defining a GP's work in sessional terms.

6 August 2024

1 min read

BJGP Long Read·Opinion

Regarding General Practice: An appeal to the new UK Government

Peter Toon and colleagues call on the new UK government to re-evaluate the market-driven ethos in which the NHS has been managed. Is a new GP Charter overdue?

5 August 2024

4 mins read

6

Book review·Opinion

Not the End of the World. How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie

Hannah Ritchie takes a clear-eyed view to understand how we got where we are, what the real problems are, and what we should be doing to build a truly sustainable world. Throughout Ritchie supports her arguments with evidence and data. Terry Kemple

3 August 2024

3 mins read

1

BJGP Long Read·Opinion

Are the English Integrated Care Boards subject to unjustified cost pressures?

Here, Rodney Jones looks at the allocation formulae that distribute money and resources to England’s Integrated Care Boards. He examines the hidden assumptions behind the formulae and asks why nearness to death has never been incorporated into the calculations.

2 August 2024

4 mins read

2

Clinical·Opinion

Endometriosis – findings from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) review has recently published a review of the quality of care provided to people diagnosed with endometriosis. What can we learn from this report, and what can GPs do differently to improve

1 August 2024

7 mins read

BJGP Long Read·Opinion

Cybersecurity and all that… (reflections on the Crowdstrike outage)

The whole of modern general practice in the UK rests on both the electronic healthcare record and networked services for requests and results. Brendan Delaney reflects on the Crowdstrike outage of July 19th 2024

31 July 2024

3 mins read

Podcast·Videos

Episode 176 – Link workers for social prescribing: the inverse care law and identifying areas of higher need

In this episode, we talk to Anna Wilding about how the social prescribing link worker scheme is being rolled out.

30 July 2024

1 min read

BJGP Long Read·Opinion

A bitter pill to swallow: The rising use of street valium in Scotland

Paul McNamara and Yoosuf Ibrahim argue that is imperative for GPs to highlight the increased risk of overdose associated with street valium use, given its unpredictable composition, to individuals struggling with drug dependency. Additionally, efforts should be made on disseminating knowledge about

29 July 2024

3 mins read

BJGP Long Read·Opinion

Eating the elephant or riding it

If all we have to offer are platitudes and cures, we will be stuck forever trying to eat the elephant in the room, a possibility in theory, but rarely in practice. If we can understand and engage with our patient’s point of

27 July 2024

4 mins read

BJGP Long Read·Opinion

GP workload and patient safety

How has increasing workload impacted on GPs, and our sense of providing safe care to our patients? Nada Khan finds that research into workload and safety suggests an association between wellbeing, burnout and patient safety.

25 July 2024

6 mins read

Bright Ideas and Innovation·Opinion

Advancing back to the Middle Ages – The Barbers of Saxmundham.

Effective public health campaigns need more than posters and TV ads about going to see your GP. We need to get key community influencers in the team if we are going to have any impact whatsoever. John Havard argues that barbers have

24 July 2024

2 mins read

Podcast·Videos

Episode 175 – How to work with patients to prevent long-term use of opioids in general practice

In this episode, we talk to Lisa Davies about how to frame discussions in practice around opioid prescribing.

23 July 2024

1 min read

BJGP·Research

Yonder: Rural generalists, mental health of refugees, end-of-career GP reflections, and lung ultrasonography

Yonder: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literature

22 July 2024

2 mins read

Opinion

A secret medicine

The intervention takes less than a minute every day - and done at scale would be safe and as cheap as chips. Imagine that existing good quality evidence showed that it is 10 times more effective than the current NHS Health Check

20 July 2024

4 mins read

4

BJGP Long Read·Bright Ideas and Innovation·Stories

Developing compassionate communities through Community-Oriented Integrated Practice

"Health is whatever helps me to travel hopefully within and between my story-strands." Paul Thomas describes this as Community-Oriented Integrated Practice (COIP) – a way of thinking & acting that facilitates local collaboration for health and care.

19 July 2024

7 mins read

1

BJGP Long Read·Bright Ideas and Innovation·International

Showcasing primary care models in South Asia: sharing experiences from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

"In the dynamic landscape of healthcare delivery, South Asia stands at the forefront of transformative change, particularly in the realm of family medicine. This article explores and elucidates the diverse models of family practice emerging across the region ... "

18 July 2024

7 mins read

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