Professor Brendan Delaney talks us through some key recommendations around long Covid from a new Delphi study.
Last year the Lancet predicted ‘Substantial increases in the number of avoidable cancer deaths in England’ as a result of diagnostic delays due to the pandemic in the UK. Jenny Stephenson discusses some of the issues involved.
Is the concept of the patient as an 'inconvenience' a pernicious aspect of the hidden curriculum of medical school and postgraduate training? Nathaniel Aspray tells us his story.
The Kieran Sweeney Prize is awarded each year by the Tamar Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners. This year's title: “What does the future hold for the relationship between a patient and their GP in the UK?”
Our current system is not OK. Day after day, my clinic is full of people struggling to cope with their mental health needs. So what is going wrong?
patients and public are now more involved in research via PPI groups. But PPI members tend to be white, middle-class and retired. The National Institute for Health Research has published recommendations re diversity and inclusion in PPI groups. Danielle Nimmons and colleagues
Dr Thomas Round talks about research that shows how 2-week wait referrals for cancer have more than doubled up to 2018/2019.
Following the BMA vote to withdraw opposition to physician assisted suicide the possibility of doctors being expected to be involved in hastening their patients' deaths looks closer. Claud Regnard and his colleagues discuss some of the practical issues involved.
Frustrated. Exhausted. Burnt out. If we don’t support those working in primary care, the NHS as we know it will no longer exist.
Armna Ali reflects on her experience as a GP during Covid...... and what happened when the clapping stopped......
"Whereas 2 Tone bands were kicking out neo-Nazis from their gigs decades ago, anecdotal reports of obsequious adjustments accommodating the racist demands of some patients continue to occur within the NHS today, despite an official zero-tolerance approach to racism." Sati Heer-Stavert reflects
It’s hard to understand the actions of a leadership that attacks doctors and nurses at the peak of a pandemic, but that is what is happening in Myanmar ...
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
As euthanasia is an uncomplicated and humane way of disposing of a sick animal, why should it not be available as a treatment option for human patients who are suffering? A vet and a doctor working in palliative medicine discuss a little
"Long Covid" presents as a constellation of symptoms that are debilitating, persistent and unexplained, often limiting patients' day-to-day activities. David Thompson and his colleagues describe a novel approach - the Optimal Health Programme - which they are now trialing for this condition.
This study gives insights into how GPs document safety-netting advice and how it compares to what actually happened in the consultation.
Why is the General Medical Council's ‘Good Medical Practice' like eating plate after plate of chips? No, it's not the first line of a joke - let Bhupinder Goraya explain all.
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
Those who come from poorer backgrounds get unwell earlier and die almost a decade before those from richer backgrounds. Dipesh Gopal reviews "Inflamed: deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice" by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel.
Anouk Weghorst takes us through the findings from a RCT studying the use of ondansetron in primary care in children with gastroenteritis.
We discuss a new randomised controlled trial exploring the use of ondansetron for vomiting in children with gastroenteritis.
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.
Charlotte Williamson has been chair of the patient liaison group for the Royal College of General Practitioners, and is an expert in giving friendly but challenging feedback to our profession, making sure the patient's voice is heard. Roger Jones reviews her important
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 ...
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..........
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
LUTS are common and Professor Adrian Edwards talks through research on the experiences of GPs and patients.
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.
Following David Zigmond's previous article he received a letter from a retired GP which has prompted this further reflection.
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.
Dr Sharon Dixon talks through research on diagnosing endometriosis in primary care.
My Dark Vanessa is not an easy read, but any book that tackles the subject of abuse, sexual exploitation, victimhood, and coercive control is bound to be challenging ...
Has general practice lost its way? Lyn Jenkins is a retired colleague who advocated the "rewilding" of general practice.
Alena Chong reviews John Launer's latest book .... and is inspired to shower colleagues and patients with limitless compassion, calmness, loving-kindness and appreciative joy.
John Gillies reviews a textbook on Compassionate Leadership, with the subtitle ‘sustaining wisdom, humanity and presence in health and social care.’ It might just be a book whose time has come.
We speak to Dr Faraz Mughal about young people who self-harm and how we can improve primary care services for them.
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......
Nigel Masters reviews "Dr Samways writes to the Editor: The Life and Times of an Exceptional Physician" by Tom Treasure. Samways was a remarkable 19th century General Practitioner who still holds lessons for us today.
BJGP Life has sought to keep us all informed about the medical and humanitarian crisis following on from the coup in Myanmar. Jim Brockbank tells us about a current initiative to get financial aid to Myanmar.
Creativity is the ability to make creative decisions and have creative ideas. Aliana Sharma has a few bright ideas.....