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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.

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Access to general practice

The Health Foundation has recently identified that the public’s first big priority across the NHS is to make it easier to get an appointment at their GP practice. Nada Khan explores what meaningful access looks like in general practice.
7 April 2025
6 mins read
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What is Illness?

Peter Toon considers how public debates inform why we define a condition as illness rather than another type of problem, and the implications of this.
4 April 2025
10 mins read
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Getting an upgrade

Taking a look at her consultation model feels like the least painful of her goals to try and get done, and so she takes hold of the flaking metal handrail, slowly breathes in and out to centre herself, and walks down the
3 April 2025
4 mins read
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The familiar and strange art of diagnosis

Diagnosis ... provides structure to a narrative of dysfunction, or a picture of disarray, and imposes official order, sorting out the real from the imagined, the valid from the feigned, the significant from the insignificant ... In Life and Times this month
28 March 2025
3 mins read
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Clocks

"Something's gotta get me 
I guess, her elder wisdom smiles. Digging for one thing,
 we unearthed another." A poem by Giles Dawnay
12 March 2025
1 min read
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Narrative failure

Something shifted in my head, and I heard the sound of a penny dropping in a bank vault deep underground. I rummaged around in my desk for the Campbell-Frank Analyser and applied the scalp electrodes and mask with trembling hands.
10 March 2025
4 mins read
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Illusions of control

Ponder this: The causal link between our actions and any outcome may be dubious, but the relief we feel at having done something, especially when there is an improvement of some kind, is so strongly reinforcing that we tend to ignore this.
7 March 2025
5 mins read

Book review: The Ghosts of A and E

"it was wonderful to attend the launch of Nicky Carter's first book of poetry, The Ghosts of A and E, in Liverpool a few weeks ago. Hearing them read by the author was a real privilege and took us all to those
1 March 2025
4 mins read
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Adolescent screening for digital diabetes

In the same way there is an unsettling parallel in the rise of obesity and ultra-processed food from the 1970’s onwards, the rise of faster and more invasive digital technology seems to link with a decline in mental health. Giles Dawnay discusses
17 February 2025
4 mins read

Book review: Elizabeth is Missing

"It raises timely questions regarding the concept on a 'use by' date to a life. It stirs in us the realisation that despite not having 'capacity' to make decisions about medical or financial affairs, a patient may nonetheless be immersed in a
15 February 2025
2 mins read
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Ripples on a pond

If it is difficult to agree what exactly we mean by health, it is perhaps unsurprising that we also approach unhealth in a number of different ways. Ben Hoban reflects on the meanings of 'unhealth.'
13 February 2025
4 mins read
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