Positive experiences on GP placements make undergraduates more likely to pursue GP training later on. Jack Amiry found that GPs who enjoy teaching have numerous opportunities to get involved.
We speak to Dr Ian Bennett-Briton about a system of continuous risk-based peer review and how GPs found it.
She is young to have so many layers to her suffering. I know about the fragile life she leads on the edge of homelessness ...
Although the necessity of hand hygiene is well known, regular monitoring of technique compliance is required. Darshana Jeyaruban reflects on the result of her audit.
Richard Baker reviews the first authoritative account of the UK government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Data suggests that the interventions put in place to control the pandemic may have reduced the childhood population’s resistance to normal endemic diseases leading to a ‘build-up of susceptibility’. Roshni Mistry and James Hibberd warn us to be prepared for a possible
The UK’s NHS data has been valued at £10bn. Paquita de Zulueta discusses the current plans to sell off our medical details.
It takes great commitment, responsibility and dedication to save lives at the coal-face of the NHS. Yet we are seeing sharp increases in the abuse, violence and discrimination of our NHS staff. Carter Singh reflects on the way that the Euro 2020
COVID-19 has forced many conferences to be held virtually in 2020 and 2021, but in a post-COVID world should conferences continue to be held virtually? Dr Niha Mariam Hussain discusses positives and negatives to virtual conferencing, providing primary research and insights into
Andrew MacFarlane is the winner of the 2021 medical student essay prize of the Society of Academic Primary Care. This is his winning essay.
During this pandemic we have sometimes been so overwhelmed by the obvious information that we overlook what is hidden in plain sight. Samar Razaq advises us to avoid premature enumeration.
BJGP Editor, Euan Lawson, gives a quick summer update and invites you to get involved with the journal.
For so many of us this has been a hard, even a heartbreaking time. But let us also remember the people of India, and especially our colleagues in the UK who have family there and are seeking creative ways of helping them.
Summer time! Perhaps a moment to reflect? Get creative and share your thoughts - here are some suggestions for articles for BJGP Life.
Dr Sooyoung Lee describes her own experience of the misunderstanding and dismissal of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) evidenced in primary care. Is it time to reconsider our attitudes?
There is a cash crisis in the NHS and Social Care. As there has been for the last decade. Arthur Kaufman suggests that a government issue of Health & Social Care Bonds could raise a substantial amount of finance without imposing further
Doctors face “triple jeopardy” - being pursued by the Civil Court for damages, the Criminal Court for negligence, and the GMC for fitness to practice. Alena Chong reviews a novel by Tim Howard, a fellow doctor, about what can happen when things
We speak to Dr Julian Treadwell about how GPs talk to patients about numbers and how we feel about discussing risks and benefits.
Dr Htar Htar Lin, the Director of Myanmar Immunisation Program who led Myanmar’s COVID Vaccination Campaign, has been found to be positive for COVID infection whilst in prison. This article highlights the ongoing concerns around the arbitrary arrests of our colleagues in
Boris Johnson tells us we have to “learn to live with Covid”. There is much talk of using “common sense” but Peter Toon reminds us this is not all that common and discusses some of the issues involved.
NHS England-led changes to the way we deliver primary care to our care home residents were accelerated due to the Covid pandemic. Deirdre Walsh and Domini James report on their own local feedback.
The good news is that palliative care is reaching more people with cancer, organ failure and frailty and dementia, and is starting earlier. But Scott Murray and Jordi Amblas question why planned and emergency medical care continues to expand even more for
"There is something immensely grounding about working with the earth and weathering the seasons. Gardening is immersive. It slows you down and can be a humbling experience." Charlotte Sidebotham takes us back to the soil.
We speak to Dr Marta Wanat about a study that explored the experiences of primary care across eight European countries during the first wave of COVID-19.
We know that information gathering in the medical consultation is through both verbal and non-verbal communication. But there is also that which goes unsaid. Chris Ellis offers his reflections on the importance of accessing that which is unsaid.
COVID-19 has accelerated the uptake of digital consultations. But rather than focus on form, perhaps our attention should fall to how the content of consultations has changed. Dr Clare Etherington and Dr Liliana Risi explore this in detail and suggest that 'digital
We might be tempted to think it's the beginning of the end of the Covid19 pandemic. But it's only the beginning of the beginning of the Long Covid pandemic. Carter Singh discusses the issues we need to face.
Many politicians, planners and now younger doctors are advocating more remote and procedurally algorithmic practice. These assume the irrelevance of personal continuity of care. Yet much gets lost. What? David Zigmond gives us three authentic tales from a single practice.
It's not been an easy time to be a doctor! Jonathan Wells reviews "The Wellbeing Toolkit for Doctors", a timely new book for GPs, medical students and doctors in training. Let's look after ourselves and each other!
The Editor, Euan Lawson, is joined by our Associate Editor Dr Nada Khan for some conversation. The July issue has been published and we talk over some of the highlights in this month's issue.
We are given reassurances that the MRCGP exams are fair and unbiased. But Laura Emery, an Academic Clinical Fellow at the University of Sheffield, challenges us to ask whether this is correct.
'... this book helps to illuminate the feminist perspective on injustice in health care.' — Judith Dawson reviews Elinor Creghorn's new book 'Unwell Women', a history of the mistreatment, misdiagnoses, trauma, and neglect women have received in health care from Ancient Greece
Two final year medical students share their experience of OSCEs, where they and their BME peers experienced differences in patient feedback and in general OSCE marks between themselves and their white counterparts. They make a plea for structural changes that will ensure
Is the NHS too Industrialised? In this report David Zigmond argues that it is. Zigmond builds on a Kings Fund Report from 2014 which criticised recent approaches to improving UK health care. These reports cover vital issues, as yet another round of NHS
How can we support people with long-COVID to return to work? Ira Madan and colleagues review the current literature and guidance from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.
Erin Oldenhof and Dr Petra Staiger join us from Australia to offer practical, actionable advice from their paper to support prescribers in discontinuing benzodiazepines.
Euan Mackinnon and colleagues sound the alert that COVID-19 lockdowns have reduced head and neck cancer referrals to secondary care, and now primary tumour size is significantly larger at presentation. We need to reverse this worrying trend. Cancer hasn't gone away.
Funding for online consultation services varies across the UK. Kris McLaughlin argues that online consultations will remain a vital part of future general practice, and will in fact improve access for all patients, not just the young or digitally savvy.
Pimary care is undergoing a seismic restructuring such that the nature of the job has changed beyond recognition. Nigel Masters reflects on the role played by the electronic health record which tethers doctors to the computer screen.
The travelling community has historically struggled to achieve equal access to healthcare. They have a higher prevalence of disease, lower literacy rates, poor health education and are burdened with significant rates of poverty. So what does this mean during the current pandemic?