BJGP Life – Page 48

Incorporating global health into your primary care life

The authors are current and former members of the RCGP Junior International Committee; Sonia Tsukagoshi (chair) Katrina Whalley (former National Exchange Coordinator, NEC) and Bernadeta Bridgwood (current NEC). Global health is an important area of primary care which is infiltrating general practice across the

29 June 2018

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Clinical

Diagnosing dementia in younger people: A decision-making guide for GPs

Shona Lucitt (right) is currently studying for a Masters in Public Health at Imperial College London. She previously worked at the Alzheimer’s Society supporting a pilot project for people living with YOD. More recently she has been working for Public Health England in

26 June 2018

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Research

The inaugural BJGP Research Conference gets off to a flying start

We were thrilled to host the inaugural BJGP Research Conference for primary care and family medicine last month. We had speakers including Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, Prof Roger Jones, Dr Graham Easton, and Prof Pali Hungin.

15 April 2018

1 min read

International

A GP volunteer experience in Nepal with Raleigh International

Karan Ghatora is a GP with interests in pre-hospital and aerospace medicine. Rachna Patel is a GP interested in new experiences, constant learning and development. Namaste! We were GPs looking to provide medical support for a worthwhile cause, whilst furthering our personal

8 February 2018

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Research

Tough times for doctors and the best case fallacy

When the going gets tough, what about those who don’t feel tough enough to keep going? Peter Aird is a GP in Bridgwater, Somerset. Recently I watched the BBC adaption of ‘Little Women’. Despite the fact that it wasn’t the kind of

16 January 2018

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Undergraduate

Destination GP: How to help medical students become GPs

Written by Fisher D, Bull C, Blackadder-Weinstein J, Nicholls G, Hawthorne K. Becoming a GP should be a highly sought-after medical speciality destination. As a career, general practice can be both flexible and diverse – with new models of care developing both

13 December 2017

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Bright Ideas and Innovation

E-consultations are redefining the clinical landscape

Murray Ellender is a GP in south London, a partner in The Hurley Group and co-founder of eConsult. To mark the 100th anniversary of the invention of the telephone, the Lancet in 1977 published a discussion paper on the use of telephony

27 November 2017

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Bright Ideas and Innovation

Bright Ideas: Support for GP trainees in Northern Ireland

Bright Ideas is an online portal for innovative practice run by the RCGP Clinical Innovation and Research Centre (CIRC). The GP Specialty Training Department – Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency (NIMDTA) submitted this entry and it was one of the

21 November 2017

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Clinical

From doctor to daughter – coping with death in the family

Claire Wastakaran is an ST2 trainee in South Yorkshire. “A 5cm lump in the pancreas. Never mind, I will fight it”. These were the words spoken by my father that made me rethink my relationship with him and all my medical training

9 November 2017

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Clinical

The GP FY2 experience: Working with uncertainty

Nethmi Vithanage is a University of Edinburgh graduate from New Zealand, currently working as a FY2 in general practice and looking to get into a life of public health. Black Wednesday had arrived and along with it, a familiar feeling; like I

6 November 2017

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International

Volunteering to be Different

Kirsty Wooff, having spent her foundation years in Glasgow, took an ‘FY3’ year to travel and volunteer in Malawi and Nepal. Travelling for eight months… A once in a lifetime opportunity. Eight months and nine countries. But what has it done for

17 October 2017

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Bright Ideas and Innovation

Part 2: Integration and true collaboration to develop primary care

Cat Roberts is Clinical Lead GP involved in developing and delivering primary care services within an acute trust, including a GP-led frailty service You can read Cat’s first post: Challenging the norm: GPs as innovators here. I vividly remember one of my first

13 July 2017

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Opinion

A GP’s experience of the Grenfell Tower fire

Ahmed Kazmi is a GP at Exmoor Surgery in West London. He is also a stand up comedian and his next shows will be used to fundraise for the dispossessed. For tickets go to: www.doctorahmed.net and to donate: www.justgiving.com/doctorahmed. He is on Twitter

16 June 2017

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Bright Ideas and Innovation·Clinical·Opinion

Self discovery with an ankle fracture

Kate Dawson is a full-time remote and rural GP on the Isle of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides. At our staff night out, I slipped on a wet dance-floor, and in a moment, fell and became a patient. I couldn’t put any weight on my

14 March 2017

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Opinion

Letter to Dr Sarah Wollaston – prevention of suicide and continuity of care

David Zigmond was a small practice GP in south London 1977-2016. You can read Obituary for St James Church Surgery here. This is an edited extract from a letter to Sarah Wollaston MP, Chair, Parliamentary Health Select Committee. Prevention of Suicide. The

10 March 2017

4 mins read

International·Opinion

General practice in Scotland and Australia: the experience of two GPs

Jane Gall and Derek Wooff, are both general practitioners who worked in Stranraer, Scotland for 26 years and have been working in Shepparton Medical Centre for the last 6 years. General practice is a good job. It uses knowledge, experience, judgement and

2 March 2017

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Opinion

“Too big to talk about”: Organisational momentum and its paralytic wake

David Zigmond was a small practice GP in south London 1977-2016. You can read Obituary for St James Church Surgery here. Corporatism often enlarges and entrenches itself by increasing demands for compliance. Eventually though, unchecked, this will sicken any organisation. Such is

7 February 2017

3 mins read

BJGP Long Read

BJGP Long Read: The changing face of general practice in the 20th century

Dr Stanley Jeffs is a retired GP who has made regular contributions to the College Journal. He is now 90 years old. His first article, An Epidemic of Lumbago, was published in 1961. You can download and read it from our archives here.

18 January 2017

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BJGP·Research

Child & Adolescent Mental Health Problems – Twitter Journal Club

Carrie Ladd is a part time NHS GP, a spare time RCGP Clinical Fellow in Perinatal Mental Health and a full time mum… doing overtime! You can find her on Twitter @LaddCar and she has a website. On Sunday 28th November, Dr Lucy

6 December 2016

2 mins read

Opinion

Brexit and statins: a tale of scepticism

Christien Fortune is a final year medical student at The University of Manchester and has interests in cardiology and medical education. In the fabled land of post-June 23rd Britain and Northern Ireland, politics in the UK has been understandably dominated by the UK’s

7 September 2016

3 mins read

International

Volunteering in the Calais ‘jungle’

Niamh Scally graduated from Norwich Medical School in 2013 and completed foundation training in Manchester. She is currently enjoying an F3 year before starting her paediatric training in London later this year. She has an interest in health inequalities and care of

3 July 2016

2 mins read

Clinical·GP Journal Club

Next GP Journal Club is Sunday 3rd July at 8pm: migraine and CV disease in women

The next GP Journal Club will be discussing the BMJ paper: Migraine and risk of cardiovascular disease in women: prospective cohort study by Kurth et al. You can download it here. Migraine occurs in 15% of the UK adult population and is three times

27 June 2016

1 min read

Bright Ideas and Innovation

Genuine patient participation: implementing change in Islington

Phil Wrigley is a Commissioning Manager in Islington where he has worked for over 12 years; he currently leads on LTCs and Self Care – prior to 2004 he was a professional actor for 25 years. There is a scenario frequently used

7 June 2016

3 mins read

Clinical·Opinion

Escape to the Country: challenges of a migrant population for the rural GP

Bronwen Warner is an FY1 doctor at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She spent a month with Heilendi GP Practice in the Orkney Islands as part of her elective at Bristol Medical School. Patients stumble into the waiting room, propelled by a passing

10 May 2016

3 mins read

Bright Ideas and Innovation·Opinion

Bridging the gaps in care: are charities the way forward?

Ashika Sequeira trained on the Bromley GP Scheme and is a Locum General Practitioner. Alexandra Grove is an ST2 trainee in General Practice in the Tower Hamlets training scheme, East London. Vanessa Oo is a GPST2 in the UCLH GP training scheme. Work

20 April 2016

3 mins read

GP Journal Club

GP Journal Club – April 2016

The April GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was: Lorgeril M, Rabaeus M. Beyond confusion and controversy, can we evaluate the real efficacy and safety of cholesterol-lowering with statins? JCBMR 2016;1(1):67 The next GP Journal Club will be

12 April 2016

1 min read

Clinical

Zika virus testing: practical management for primary care

Christos Mousoulis is a medical doctor specialising in Public Health. He is currently an Academic Clinical Fellow doing his health protection placement at Public Health England – West Midlands East team. His main interest is in Academic Public Health and in Clinical Trials

1 April 2016

3 mins read

GP Journal Club

GP Journal Club – Sunday 20th March 2016 at 20:00 GMT

The next GP Journal Club will be discussing the BJGP paper: Telephone triage systems in UK general practice: analysis of consultation duration during the index day in a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by Holt et al. You can download it here. The

17 March 2016

1 min read

GP Journal Club

GP Journal Club – February 2016

The February GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was: Douglas IJ, Bhaskaran K, Batterham RL, Smeeth L. Bariatric Surgery in the United Kingdom: A Cohort Study of Weight Loss and Clinical Outcomes in Routine Clinical Care. PLoS Med.

29 February 2016

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Opinion

Time for a change: retired GP volunteering to treat asylum seekers

Jim Newmark is a GP who has progressed in his career from senior partnership to salaried to volunteer doctor status. He feels that his Christian faith and family make up for his abysmal memory and gross humiliation in pub quizzes. In November

4 February 2016

4 mins read

Opinion

Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt

Simon Morgan is a GP and medical educator from Newcastle, NSW, Australia. He spends his spare time writing and playing the ukulele. Can I take a photo? Recently, I was in Heathrow Airport when an anonymous traveller approached me and asked ‘Do

29 January 2016

3 mins read

Research

GP Journal Club – Sunday 28th February 2016 at 20:00 GMT

The next GP Journal Club will be discussing the PLOS Medicine article: Bariatric Surgery in the United Kingdom: A Cohort Study of Weight Loss and Clinical Outcomes in Routine Clinical Care by Douglas et al. You can download it here. The next #gpjc

25 January 2016

1 min read

GP Journal Club

GP Journal Club – January 2016

The first GP Journal Club is now on Storify. The paper discussed was Promoting physical activity in older people in general practice: ProAct65+ cluster randomised controlled trial by Illiffe et al and it can be downloaded here at bjgp.org. The next GP Journal Club

13 January 2016

1 min read

GP Journal Club

New on Twitter: the GP Journal Club

First #gpjc tweet chat will be 8pm UK time on Sunday 10th January. Please read the article and get involved. https://t.co/lVgWEBbC6I — GPjournalclub (@GPjournalclub) December 10, 2015 Lucy Pocock is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Primary Care and is on Twitter @drpoco

7 January 2016

1 min read

Undergraduate

Bristol and Exeter Student GP societies: working hard to promote general practice

Alice James is a 4th year medical student at Bristol University. She is passionate about promoting general practice to other students in her role as Chair of the University GP Society (Bristol GPSoc) and student representative for the Severn Faculty RCGP. Nilakshini

26 November 2015

3 mins read

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Opinion

Junior doctors’ dispute – learning from previous experience

Peter Sykes is a retired surgeon and author. His latest light hearted novel, entitled ‘First do no harm’ is set against the industrial action that beset the NHS in the 1970s. His website is www.petersykes.org. Recently junior doctors voted overwhelmingly in favour of

23 November 2015

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Opinion

BJGP article on practices in special measures: CQC response

Devin Gray is a National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow and a GP trainee, interested in driving system-level change to achieve better care and outcomes for patients. This article was co-authored with Professor Nigel Sparrow OBE, Senior National GP Advisor and Responsible Officer, CQC

13 November 2015

4 mins read

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