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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.

Salting the Earth

2020 has been a distressing year for UK doctors for many reasons. John Frey reminds us that it's no better across the pond.
18 December 2020
4 mins read

D.I.Y S.O.S

What do you do to help switch off after a busy clinical day? Read? Paint? Brick-lay? GP and post-CCT Fellow, Sophie Ingham, reveals her surprising discovery of D.I.Y as a therapeutic tool during the COVID-19 pandemic.
11 December 2020
3 mins read

Three types of agnosia

We doctors are pretty smart, yes? Chris Tiley identifies three critical areas of understanding that we need to get straight.
9 December 2020
2 mins read

Wild Swimming

Missing the gymn or pool? Or just Covid enui? James Douglas challenges us to try wild swimming!
7 December 2020
3 mins read

How to close the gap of undergraduate GP teaching

7000 extra GPs are needed within the next five years to avoid a UK medical workforce crisis, but only a minority of medical students are willing to take on the general practitioner role. Philipp Schorscher examines why, and what we can do
20 November 2020
3 mins read

General Practice during COVID-19: an FY2’s Perspective

How do remote consultations work for Foundation trainees in general practice, who suddenly find themselves working in an unfamiliar environment? Emilie Dobler, an FY2, describes the methods of training used during their GP rotation to best prepare them for a future where
17 November 2020
2 mins read
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Book Review: Blinded by Covid

Martin Edwards and Anjna Harrar review this polemical but important book. It is devastatingly critical of the government, its advisors and Public Health England in its analysis of the early months of the COVID-19 crisis in Britain.
14 November 2020
3 mins read

Time for a little Self-Love?

Some GPs seem invincible, gliding through their entire careers with a minimum of alarms. How do they do it? Retired GP, Ed Warren, muses on attitudes worth cultivating during a career as a GP.
13 November 2020
3 mins read

Primary care buildings must be designed for pandemics

During the current Covid-19 pandemic, operating procedures to deal with face-to-face consultations in primary care in the United Kingdom were clear in the need of separating services for patients with symptoms of Covid-19, and for shielded patients needing care. Pablo Millares Martin
11 November 2020
3 mins read

Primary care networks in a time of pandemic

Covid-19 has had a major impact on the provision of all health care services. Have Primary Care Networks had a role to play in helping GP practices to adapt? Sarah Parkinson and Judith Smith talked to leaders from four PCNs across England
11 November 2020
4 mins read
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The GP as an advocate: Widening migrant access to healthcare

Migrants are widely recognised to have complex and diverse health needs, but recent reform within the NHS includes the introduction of healthcare charges for many of them. These may create pressure on GP services, increase the disease burden and widen health inequalities,
10 November 2020
4 mins read
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