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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.

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Love in the time of Corona

One of the other customers, a regular like me who knew I was a doctor, rushed in to save me: ‘No, no. This lady is doing good work in this country.’ I surely am. I work for the NHS during the COVID-19
23 March 2020
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RCGP Chair vlog: 23 March 2020

Professor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Dr Steve Mowle, RCGP Honorary Treasurer, talk about COVID-19 and personal protective equipment.
23 March 2020
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RCGP Chair vlog: 20 March 2020

Professor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Dr Steve Mowle, RCGP Honorary Treasurer, talk about COVID-19 and the challenge ahead. "We do have to remember though, this is the biggest crisis that we have probably ever had
21 March 2020
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Video consultations: a guide for practice

Many practices are now using or considering using alternatives to face-to-face consultations because of concerns about Covid-19. Important new information and guidance is now available to support video consultations. Produced by researchers at the University of Oxford, the document covers five key
18 March 2020
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My first year as a GP physician associate

When I first qualified as a physician associate (PA), I had no intention to work in general practice, at least until later in my career. I was unsure of the impact a PA could have in a GP setting prior to the
26 February 2020
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The impact of BJGP’s research on clinical practice

he British Journal of General Practice is a leading international primary care journal, publishing high-quality research with clinical impact worldwide. Here we highlight some recent papers and their clinical impact. 1. Detecting multiple myeloma Koshiaris et al. Universities of Oxford and Exeter,
18 February 2020
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Podcast interview with BJGP Editor, Professor Roger Jones

Rajiv Chandegra is a GP, passionate about holding impactful conversations. He interviews Professor Roger Jones, Editor-in-Chief of the BJGP. Roger has been in the role for almost a decade and the BJGP has risen to be the world’s leading primary care journal.
4 February 2020
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BJGP Long Read: Healthcare’s hole in the heart

David Zigmond was a small practice GP in south London 1977-2016. Read Obituary for St James Church Surgery: the death of a practice. Can we have value for money and not lose our humanity?  Our lives lengthen, our population increases, our expectations
19 November 2019
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A Scottish elective: a view from Lebanon

Rana El-Jarrah is a third year medical postgraduate trainee in family medicine at the American University of Beirut. She volunteered in mobile clinics to refugee camps in Lebanon. She is interested in primary care refugee health and social medicine. Editor: Rana offers
1 November 2019
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Inspiring healthy lives

Rachel Handscombe is a GP partner in Derbyshire. She is an activity enthusiast and is keen to share the benefits of exercise to those she meets. I wore my 100 parkrun t-shirt to work today. I was curious as to what my
25 October 2019
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BJGP’s impact, readership, and peer review

The British Journal of General Practice publishes high-quality research and has the highest impact factor of all primary care journals worldwide, reaching 4.43 for 2018; additional journal metrics are the 5-year impact factor 4.187, Immediacy Index 1.380, Eigenfactor 0.00937, and Article Influence
15 October 2019
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The stressed but not ‘mentally ill’: How can we actually help?

Rosie Marshall is a GP based in Wiltshire.  General practice routinely involves supporting patients presenting with diverse manifestations of stress. This can be a challenging issue for clinicians to manage because by definition there are underlying circumstances (sometimes related to complex and
23 September 2019
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Audio essay: My loss

Ahmeda Ali is a GP in Ireland. Ahmeda’s essay was one of the Sheppard Memorial Prize winners at the Republic of Ireland Faculty Winter Meeting. An abridged version will be published in the BJGP and here we present the full essay with
22 July 2019
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Vasco da Gama exchange to Switzerland

Patricia Schartau is a ST4 academic clinical fellow in Primary Care at King’s College London and in the Royal Free Hospital VTS Training Scheme, with a specialist interest in men’s health & eHealth. I was chosen by the Vasco Da Gama Movement
21 June 2019
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