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BJGP Life

BJGP Life

The BJGP is the world-leading primary care journal. At BJGP Life we add multi-media comment and opinion for the primary care community.

Domestic abuse in the time of coronavirus

Three weeks into the job the thing that keeps me awake at night are the vulnerable patients at risk of domestic abuse confined in their homes. Primary care is the common ground that these patients cross most frequently.
28 April 2020
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The GP role in domestic violence during COVID-19

When we finally emerge from the current pandemic, more women and children (throughout the world) will have suffered from and be experiencing the consequences of domestic abuse than ever before. Therefore, during this COVID-19 lockdown and afterwards we need to stay alert
28 April 2020
3 mins read
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Mortality, social inequality, and doctors on the front line

Professor Azeem Majeed from Imperial College talks through COVID-19 mortality and concern about indirect deaths. He puts forward his view that people in their 60s should be taking extra precautions — which raises concerns about older healthcare professionals returning to the frontline
28 April 2020
1 min read

COVID-19 challenges for practice in North London

Josephine Sauvage is a GP and chair of a north London CCG and she talks through some of the challenges facing practice including death certification in the community, particularly with elderly patients who may present atypically, and the ongoing concern around accessing
27 April 2020
1 min read

Language is our greatest weapon against COVID-19

What does it mean to be human? Philosophers and scientists alike have struggled since time immemorial to capture the vastness of the human experience and answer this very question. Let us start with the fundamentals — we are a primate. Not the
22 April 2020
2 mins read

Family medicine in turmoil in the United States

Professor John Frey tells us about the reorganisation of primary care in the US and the shift to remote consultations. Practices have been closing as they have lost revenue and 34% of practices in the country may not be financially viable as
21 April 2020
1 min read

Is COVID-19 the denouement for our sickening NHS?

At the time of writing the government and the NHS are reeling from the dramatic suddenness of a contagious crisis for which we are largely unprepared. Within a few days the necessary perspectives and needs of public health have prevailed: autarkic NHS
21 April 2020
3 mins read

Richard Horton on primary care and the WHO

“This pandemic, and now the attack on WHO, is going to set countries back decades”. Richard Horton talks through the worrying impact on health systems throughout the world as WHO faces the prospect of losing 20% of its funding. He offers advice
20 April 2020
1 min read
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The science of remote consultations

Professor Brian McKinstry talks us through the science of remote consultations and the findings of his research. Certain types of consultations, like ones related to mental health, are well suited to video consultation. He also talks about groups where there may be
17 April 2020
1 min read

The technology legacy of COVID-19 in primary care

For decades, digital health has promised to help address many of the challenges of primary care. Digital-first approaches, using either telephone, video or online technologies to deliver care, have the potential of improving efficiency and patient safety, and reducing health inequities by
15 April 2020
3 mins read

BJGP Open welcomes COVID-19 submissions

Dr Hajira Dambha-Miller is the editor of BJGP Open. BJGP's open access online journal is calling for COVID-19 research: Rapid reviews, preliminary work, protocols, research briefs, opinion, or policy pieces are welcome with fast decisions on all submissions.
14 April 2020
1 min read

Death, dying, and love with Iona Heath

Iona Heath, past president of the RCGP, talks further about how we handle death during the pandemic. She expresses concern at the blanket exclusion of relatives as people die from COVID-19 and how we are handling it in the current crisis. She
8 April 2020
1 min read
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Heightened listening in telephone consultations

Like many, I’ve always had a slight mental block with telephone consulting as there is so much value for the both the patient and the doctor in real contact. However, I want to take a positive approach to change, and be part
6 April 2020
2 mins read

Managing vulnerable patients during the COVID-19 crisis

Dr Stephen Bradley talks about some of the concerns of managing vulnerable patients during the COVID-19 crisis. Homeless patients, people who use drugs, asylum seekers and refugees have particular needs that are particularly challenging to meet just now.
3 April 2020
1 min read
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COVID-19: A view from Clapham Health

Upon hearing the World Health Organization report° that a novel coronavirus had caused a respiratory illness in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, I didn’t think it would have much of an effect on me as a GP working in inner city London. How
2 April 2020
2 mins read

Introduction to the incoming Editor — Domhnall Macauley

Let me introduce myself as the incoming editor of BJGP. What a time to start! Someone must have pressed the fast forward button — our medical world has started spinning at ever increasing speed and seems barely in control. Meanwhile, the rest
1 April 2020
2 mins read

Professor Trish Greenhalgh on video consultations and PPE

Trisha Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Science working with the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford. She talks about the evidence around video consultations and how the research can help GPs and nurses consult safely and with
31 March 2020
1 min read

Getting ready for COVID-19 in a Somerset GP practice

The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to pose an unprecedented challenge to the NHS’ provision of healthcare over the coming months. Epidemiological modelling predicts a burden of disease at least 8-times greater than current critical care capacity... Practices across the country, including Somerset’s
27 March 2020
2 mins read

Professor Azeem Majeed talks about COVID-19

Azeem Majeed is Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Public Health at Imperial College London and he is a world-leading primary care epidemiologist. In this short video he talks about the impact of COVID-19 generally
26 March 2020
1 min read
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