Joel Brown examines the sales pitch for a career in private general practice, and is left feeling proud of working for the NHS
Giles Dawnay reviews the TV adaption of Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt.
John Launer reflects that Pather Panchali is a masterpiece in its own right but there are particular reasons why GPs might want to find time to watch it. Few other movies show such a profound understanding of family life among people living
Peter Toon reflects on registering overseas vaccinations in the UK and asks if there are lessons for the NHS as a whole
Kath Brown argues that although Covid has exposed our long-standing domestic drivers of poor health, we simply cannot ignore global health inequalities during a global pandemic. Vaccinating the world also in all of our interests.
What could we learn by comparing a GP to driver in the Grand Prix? Could your surgery be transformed by a Reception Revolution?
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.
Christopher Lowe argues we all need to keep sight of the overall aim of technology: to improve efficiency for both patient and clinician.
Chris Dowrick reviews 'Humanity's conundrum' by David Zigmond. It is easy to become jaded and tired and to lose sight of the therapeutic purpose underlying all of our clinical encounters. Zigmond reminds us to stop, to listen and to respond.
'Perhaps a psychoanalyst would coax out of me that growing my nails is an act of quiet liberation; I can decide how long I want my nails to be, I can decide what I want to next choose for myself. taking control
Briony Hudson gives a curator's view of the RCGP 'Women at the heart of General Practice' exhibition, now open online and in person at 30 Euston Square
Vasumathy Sivarajasingam argues that we need to talk about, and manage, the menopause much better, and reminds us about key aspects that make a huge difference to women's health
Paquita De Zulueta reviews 'Go, went, gone' by Jenny Erpenbeck, a novel tackling themes of asylum and involuntary displacement
Satpal Shekhawat reflects on the problems of an exhausted primary care workforce facing no let-up in workload. Is there a leadership-based solution?
We talk to Dr Christo Karuna who goes through a new systematic review and meta-analysis on the global burden of burnout amongst general practitioners.
Maria Victoria Bovo and John Launer give an account of a remarkable conversation they had in December 2021 during an online workshop in narrative medicine, about Long-COVID and a colleague.
Hannah Milton reviews a book which argues that childhood adversity leads to other illnesses and that interventions for parents and children are needed as early as possible.
Patients in the UK are able to change the gender marker on their NHS patient record at any time on request, irreversibly removing previous gender identity from their medical record. Does removal of this information pose a challenge to high-quality care for
In November 2021 the First Coastal Primary Care Network (FCPCN) hosted an event to understand 'Deep End' practice. This short article intends to inform readers as well as providing a record of the day’s events.
In this episode, Mr Ashu Gandhi talks through the findings from a large prospective cohort study showing that there was no association between breast pain alone and breast cancer.
Primary care clinicians need to be confident business and healthcare management leaders soon after qualification. It's about time this becomes an educational priority to those with the power to shape the educational future of general practice.
We are joined by Dr Hassan Awan who runs through the findings from a qualitative systematic review that offers insight into how to help people with emotional distress, anxiety and depression from South Asian ethnicities.
Basem Saab and colleagues from the American University of Beirut illustrate the complexity of COVID-19 requirements and air-travel, for which patients may attend their family doctor for advice and documentation.
Jason Heath, Sangeetha Sornalingam, and Max Cooper highlight the problems the #newnormal is causing to medical education and argue that recognition of this effect is needed before there is lasting damage to the future of the medial profession
What comes to mind when you hear the word bully? Most likely the stereotype of an older child picking on a younger child. But it's important to think of other forms, like the bullying that occurs in our workplaces. Joel Brown explores
RCGP Past President, Terry Kemple, reviews Keefe's 'Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty'.
Steven Walker gives a sobering introduction the history of child abuse
In this episode we talk to Dr Joāo Delgado about a recent Exeter study that shows higher continuity of care with a GP is associated with important clinical outcomes in people with dementia.
Samar Razaq shares a parable of travellers in search of health and in fear of disease
As a practising GP, I have come to see myself as a fixer of problems. But does this problem-oriented approach to consultation squander the opportunity we have when we engage our patients in that narrow window? What if we were to re-configure
Louise Hyde argues that we could be doing a lot more to protect children from COVID in the UK
Gwenllian Wynne-Jones and Carolyn Chew-Graham outline the societal and personal impacts of supporting people back to work, and the effective role of primary care in the UK
We are joined by Professor Jeremy Horwood who tells us more about a qualitative study into the unintended consequences of online consultations.
Michael Poplawski shares five hot tips for starting a medical YouTube channel
The breadth of the scope of clinical care in general practice has often left the rather tragically lingering stereotype that GPs are the medical variety Jack of all trades and master of none. Joel Brown, family physician, combats this stereotype and offers
Maybe the human connection be used as a strength when it comes to health motivation. Mariam Sohail is inspired by a new father.
Lloyd Hughes looks at plans for an integrated Scottish National Care Service and considers the strategic challenges for general practice it poses.
We talk to Dr Gail Hayward about a randomised controlled trial that has shown no reduced contamination with urine collection devices in urine samples of women with uncomplicated UTIs.
Jack Monahan reflects on an elective in homeless medicine and reminds us that general practice can help address the cumulative disadvantages that put a person on the street.
Richard Armitage takes a critical look at the shift to offering more urgent than planned general practice appointments, and finds it is a complicated trade off between competing priorities