Robert MacGibbon reviews a new radical blueprint for health which examines ‘five frontiers of health’; social justice, economic, social care, sustainability and a public health new deal.
Paul McNamara and Tanvi Cheetirala argue that UK general practice is suffering as a profession and as a 'brand.' But will re-branding or specialist status help?
Karen Nicholson highlights possible connections between psychological trauma fibromyalgia and chronic pain syndromes - and suggests an audit
Rafia Aftab shares practical wisdom about doing things 'just right' gained on the Catalyst Programme
Dr Jon Gibson talks us through research that explores how staff from diverse healthcare backgrounds in the primary care workforce are associated with system outcomes.
Richard Armitage is usually a GP in Nottingham but is currently providing primary care to internally displaced people in the east of Ukraine. He discusses issues for primary care in the region.
Koki Kato reflects on the tension between patient safety and patient centered-ness with a hypothetical case that will be familiar to many. Does it have to be one or the other?
Are you a healthcare professional looking for a creative community of writers? Neil Wilson introduces the Society of Medical Writers
Aaron Poppleton, Dennis Ougrin, and Yana Maksymets give a responsive overview of the health needs of Ukrainian refugees and provide a list of useful resources for GPs
Nada Khan investigates research into the causes of the UK GP workforce crisis and finds plenty of issues to address.
Professor Chris Butler tells us about the PRINCIPLE trial and the use of colchicine for COVID-19 in the community
Orest Mulka and Philip Evans discuss the development of general practice in Ukraine and the role of international collaboration in the development of primary care
Hannah Milton, GP, reviews Monty Lyman's The Painful Truth: The New Science of Why We Hurt and How We Can Heal.
Emma Ladds reflects on being 'at home' as a GP, in response to a bunch of tulips and an article in a national newspaper
Koki Kato reflects on learning from an RCGP 'training the trainers' course in Japan, and finds a community of practice.
It’s our ‘final warning’; the world is failing to limit the impacts of climate change and primary care can help. Nada Khan highlights resources, aided by our planetary primary care column.
The Nationality and Borders Bill has the potential to further jeopardise the health and wellbeing of migrants and asylum seekers in the UK. Hannah Fox and Durga Sivasathiaseelan from Doctors of the World outline why it is essential such a Bill should
Aldis H. Petriceks finds a sense of primary care at an unsuccessful resuscitation in the surgical ICU
Madge McClary remembers how things were at the beginning of the NHS and reflects on how they are now... especially automated phone systems...
Richard Armitage observes that demand for emergency contraception in England post lockdown has public health implications
Nada Khan considers how to approach HRT shortages in general practice
Assistant Editor Nada Khan discusses the Ockenden Report -safe and effective maternal and postnatal care involves general practice.
Dr Charlotte Archer comes on the podcast to tell us about their study looking at prescribing for anxiety in the UK 2003-2018.
Debates between doctors and patients about treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) have become particularly polarised in recent years. Damien Ridge and colleagues argue that a relationship-based care approach is vital to support people with CFS/ME.
Nada Khan discusses practical aspects of supporting migrants from Ukraine in UK primary care.
Yathu Maheswaran reflects on what TV 'This is going to hurt' might teach medical trainees
Dr Laura Jefferson joins us to talk about findings from a systematic review of GP welling during Covid-19.
Drs Laura Heath and Sheena Sharma present their bereavement toolkit, designed to aid healthcare practitioners navigate this potentially difficult space by providing real-world consultation ‘tools’.
Rabia Aftab suggests that the option of ‘doing nothing’ should be shared with patients, but is this nothing actually quite a powerful something?
Andrew Papanikitas finds that 'Frontline' is not the ‘One bloody thing after another,’ of sensationalism for shock value. It is a reflective account full of haunting ethical choices.
Samar Razaq reflects on expectations of treatment when an illness is not well understood and medical evidence is lacking or unclear
Giles Dawnay considers practitioner, patient, culture and politics in his reflections on the present and relationship between GP and patient
"Through partnership rather than paternalism, the future patient–GP relationship will embrace the change of the world yet to come." — Nathaniel Roocroft, winner of this year's Kieran Sweeney Prize, sets out a future vision of general practice.
Dr Austin O'Carroll tell us how medicine contributes to the systemic oppression of people born into poverty.
Narinder Bansal and colleagues argue that clinicians should be sensitive to how experiences of poor listening and relating can replicate and trigger wider experiences of marginalisation.
Arthur Kaufman reflects on the good old days for medical writers
Richard Armitage argues that insufficient sleep should be regarded as a serious problem requiring the urgent attention of public health and primary care practitioners.
Ed Warren asks if the north of England needs its own consultation model. Or will 'levelling up' be sufficient?
It is only in recent years that the physical and emotional burden faced by those in the medical profession has been raised. What can be done at both a structural and individual level to aid the wellbeing of medical staff? Dr Feryad
Episode 066: Do we need greater stratification of routine blood test monitoring in people on DMARDs?
Professor Trish Greenhalgh talks about important research on why GPs rarely use video consultations - though they would like to have the option in some cases.