But being on one pole of a restrictions-versus-protections continuum is a long way from swallowing undiluted anti-vax Kool-Aid, isn’t it? ... Surely, being lukewarm on masking doesn’t mean you’re going to deny the evidence on vaccines?
The BJGP podcast is taking a two week summer break, but we're back on 5 September.
Richard Armitage asserts that the art of effectively deploying this knowledge with professionalism and wisdom is rooted in the discipline of philosophy. In 2022-23 he attended a masterclass in bridging these two domains for healthcare professionals.
"Understanding Allergy is a book that I think will have a profound effect on my practice as a GP. It is packed full of interesting facts but crucially, it also does exactly what it says on the tin — it helps you
Tim Sanders views the “rewiggling” of the Swindale Beck in the Lake District as a metaphor for a need to nurture and cherish core aspects of generalism, continuity and relationship-based care within the role of the GP
So, how can GPs help their patients in facing transformative decisions? The advice, helpfully explained by Richard Armitage, is to reframe the decision-making process with which we approach them.
General Practice, then, shares the values of both the dinner date and the mobile phone, and this is reflected in the way patients consult differently depending on context, preferring ease of access for simple acute problems and continuity of care for complex
In this episode, we talk to Line Pedersen and Anne Sophie Oxholm about what motivates Danish GPs in practice.
Nigel Masters has a déjà vu experience as he looked onto the ‘White screen’ of a newly registered patient and finds empty allergy fields, problem lists, consultations and immunisation screens.
"I was startled to notice an under-confidence in my formulation of dermatological diagnoses, calling my supervisor to review patients more frequently than usual. It soon dawned on me that there was a pattern to my reticence. With my White patients, I was
Given the increasingly multidisciplinary system we work in, perhaps no one individual can be expected to take responsibility for championing continuity.
This warning is not about climate change. Skip to the last paragraph to get your warning or keep reading to understand why we ignore warnings.
In this episode, we talk to Charlie Coombs about micro-teams in primary care and how these might impact on continuity and patient care
"I firstly prompted GPT-4 to “Answer the following as if you were a GP trainee in the UK.” I then asked [it] each of the 45 text-only questions ...from the RCGP AKT practice paper"
Submissions are invited for the 2022/2023 Rose Prize for the best submission in the history of UK general practice/primary care. Deadline for final submission is November 1 2023
The Independent Pregnancy Loss Review, published in July 2023, offers recommendations to improve care for women and their families experiencing pregnancy loss, and includes specific advice for primary care.
Clinical codes are of course created by the machines’ human lackeys, but sometimes betray a way of thinking that is hard to relate to. Ben Hoban muses on how we record clinical consultation data.
In this episode, we talk to Professor Jonathan Mant about stroke risk and how to follow up patients with atrial fibrillation.
The term 'pathway' is commonly used within the NHS to describe the sequence of steps and services involved in a patient's care. While ‘pathway’ may be familiar and well-understood among healthcare professionals, this is far from the case with the public.
"... machines will soon become superior to doctors in all domains of health care, where the Moravec paradox will cease to apply."
A recent warning from the UK Health Security Agency suggests that London is at risk of a major measles outbreak due to poor measles vaccination coverage. What does this mean for general practice?
This short book of handwritten text and drawings from life is useful for anyone involved with the process of dying and death. It takes less than 15 minutes to read the text and illustrations but you will probably want to read it
In this episode, we talk to Emma Whitfield about diagnostic windows in non-cancer diseases.
"School is integral to the long-term wellbeing and aspirations of children, so it is a cause for significant concern that school absence has increased markedly since the COVID-19 pandemic ... "
...people will only ‘buy in’ to a particular something if they first realise and understand why that something should be considered as valuable to them. Richard Armitage argues that we should 'Start with Why'
The service I work in was set up by the local Aboriginal community, because they were being poorly served by the health services that existed at the time. Part of this was that the options offered seemed to operate on a narrow,
All of us in the NHS want to help people, we wouldn’t be here otherwise. But, and I only use diabetes as an example, how much of our work now inadvertently keeps a proportion of our patient’s sick?
In this episode, we talk to the winners of the 2023 RCGP/SAPC Early Career Researcher awards, Dr Sarah Bailey and Dr Ben Brown.
In a podcast recorded by the Medical Republic, Jens Sondergaard outlined six main reasons it’s great to work in Danish general practice. Nada Khan weighs up the evidence for moving to Denmark.
"I feel vindicated reading the book that I am doing the right thing. There needs to be a distinction between temporary human distress and mental illness." - Elke Hausmann reviews What Mental Illness Really Is ... (And What It Isn't) by Lucy
'Caring for carers is everyone’s business, though general practitioners (and we use our words wisely) are perhaps best placed to identify and support carers -more so than other health professionals.' argue Helen Walker and Clare Gerada
If we want to avoid missing significant diagnoses, and tigers, we cannot examine every symptom or blade of grass exhaustively, but we can cultivate an openness to the sort of cognitive dissonance that points to unrecognised danger. Ben Hoban explains
'More of the same won’t fix general practice.' So, what should we be doing differently? The Lazarus project is designed to take GPs out of ‘usual care’ to a different space for professional practice ...
Episode 126: Gender differences in pay and uptake of partnership roles – what can we do differently?
In this episode, we talk to Dr Laura Jefferson about gender differences in uptake in partnership roles and the reasons behind the disparities.
Introducing a temporary weight loss fix using GLP-1 agonists without consideration of the wider implications and long-term plan is quite frankly, an absurdly short-sighted idea, argues Elizabeth Dapre
This is an outstandingly well-written debut novel and enables the reader to glimpse into the terrifying world of serious mental illness in an open and revealing way ...
Have you heard of brain reprocessing therapy or neuroplastic reprogramming? Elke Hausmann first heard about it during a webinar on work support options for NHS staff with long covid. This book gives hope in that it provides the tools that anyone can
What can be done? These are five low-cost steps to take forward a modern version of the family doctor.
In both primary and secondary care, we see firsthand the concerning, growing impact of mould on the health and wellbeing of our patients. These cases are a stark reminder of how significantly more needs to be done to combat the devastating impact
"There is a lack of ADHD training for GPs, and GPs are often lacking accurate knowledge and confidence when dealing with ADHD in their practice. In light of this, we received 3-year funding from the ESRC to co-develop and evaluate tailored online