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Bright Ideas and Innovation

Bright Ideas and Innovation/Opinion

Patient and carer perceptions and advice on the integration of paramedics into the GP practice workforce

Whilst efforts are being made to develop the paramedic role within primary care, what is often missing from research and policy informing practice is the voice of patients. An NIHR patient and public group discuss this and offer practical advice for primary

11 May 2022
8 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Early View/Opinion

Rethinking generalist healthcare: opportunities from challenges

Joanne Reeve explores three misconceptions about medical generalist and highlights the work of the WISEGP and CATALYST programmes.

10 May 2022
7 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Clinical

Fibromyalgia and chronic pain: Are we asking about (and auditing) psychological trauma or traumatic events?

Karen Nicholson highlights possible connections between psychological trauma fibromyalgia and chronic pain syndromes - and suggests an audit

5 May 2022
10 mins read
1
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Opinion

Wisdom of a wise GP

Rafia Aftab shares practical wisdom about doing things 'just right' gained on the Catalyst Programme

4 May 2022
8 mins read
Arts/Bright Ideas and Innovation/Stories

The right write rite

Are you a healthcare professional looking for a creative community of writers? Neil Wilson introduces the Society of Medical Writers

30 April 2022
6 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Opinion

Kieran Sweeney Prize winner: What does the future hold for the relationship between a patient and their GP in the UK?

"Through partnership rather than paternalism, the future patient–GP relationship will embrace the change of the world yet to come." — Nathaniel Roocroft, winner of this year's Kieran Sweeney Prize, sets out a future vision of general practice.

30 March 2022
20 mins read
1
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Opinion

‘Carry on doctor!’: creating psychological support and wellbeing opportunities for doctors

It is only in recent years that the physical and emotional burden faced by those in the medical profession has been raised. What can be done at both a structural and individual level to aid the wellbeing of medical staff? Dr Feryad

23 March 2022
16 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Building new and faster ways to achieve sustainable healthcare

Terry Temple and colleagues showcase how they found a way for the NHS and prescribers to know that the medications they used were not harming the environment (includes open access resources).

2 March 2022
7 mins read
BJGP Long Read/Bright Ideas and Innovation/Coronavirus/International

“Tell me about that colleague”: Long Covid, narrative medicine, and a remarkable conversation

Maria Victoria Bovo and John Launer give an account of a remarkable conversation they had in December 2021 during an online workshop in narrative medicine, about Long-COVID and a colleague.

28 February 2022
15 mins read
1
BJGP Long Read/Bright Ideas and Innovation

Primary care staff at the ‘Deep end’: Experiences from Lincolnshire’s East Coast

In November 2021 the First Coastal Primary Care Network (FCPCN) hosted an event to understand 'Deep End' practice. This short article intends to inform readers as well as providing a record of the day’s events.

24 February 2022
14 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

GP Carbon Calculator: making it easier to support the NHS’ net zero ambitions

The GP Carbon Calculator is a free online resource designed to support GP practices to reduce carbon emissions and tackle climate change. Find out more.

7 February 2022
6 mins read
1
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Opinion

Is a problem-solving approach to patient consultations part of the problem?

As a practising GP, I have come to see myself as a fixer of problems. But does this problem-oriented approach to consultation squander the opportunity we have when we engage our patients in that narrow window? What if we were to re-configure

4 February 2022
5 mins read
BJGP Long Read/Bright Ideas and Innovation

How to start a medical YouTube channel

Michael Poplawski shares five hot tips for starting a medical YouTube channel

29 January 2022
19 mins read
BJGP Long Read/Bright Ideas and Innovation

When population health meets general practice – a brief introduction to dashboards and registries

Afsana Bhuyia and colleagues give us a de-mystifying introduction to dashboards and registries, digital public health tools which they are using in their work on the management of cancer.

5 January 2022
8 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Bereavement care in general practice: strengthening compassionate bereavement support in practice

This week is National Grief Awareness Week. Daniel Knights and Catherine Millington-Sanders signpost some useful resources, to help us to support bereaved patients.

6 December 2021
7 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

#MyGPguide: Visiting your GP: A guide for young people with lived experience of self-harm and suicidality

GPs are often the first and last healthcare contact for those who die by suicide. Maria Michail shares news of an excellent resource to support both GPs and their patients.

1 December 2021
8 mins read
1
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Improving the health and wellbeing of older patients – looking beyond traditional medical intervention

If only there were interventions that reduce morbidity and frailty in the elderly! Helen Burn reminds us that there already are: exercise and social interaction.

26 November 2021
7 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Lonely this Christmas? Elvis may have left, but Alexa could sing us a carol instead!

The pandemic has given us all a taste of what socially isolated and lonely patients must experience year-in-year-out. Paul Beaney and Ruth Chambers describe a pilot project to see if Alexa Echo Show smart speakers could provide companionship for the lonely.

19 November 2021
10 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Hybrid academic conferences: a greener and better future for conferences?

Hybrid conferences offer a reduction in environmental impact, allow those who cannot attend in person to attend virtually, and look more likely to be the dominant form of future conferences worldwide. Fraser Birrell, Terry Kemple, and Rob J Lawson review the effectiveness

11 November 2021
7 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Research

Understanding patients’ knowledge of inhaler recycling

General practice is ideally placed to introduce changes to become more environmentally sustainable. Dr Vasumathy Sivarajasingam shows, with primary and secondary research, that increased awareness of inhaler recycling among patients and better signposting from primary care staff may be sorely needed.

8 October 2021
12 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Primary care and public health integration: opportunities for increased community health advocacy

There is an important need for innovative alliances in the realms of public health and primary care, but how can we achieve this? Julia Darko gives us some key ideas.

25 August 2021
11 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Quality Improvement in General practice during COVID-19

Everything in general practice seems to have changed in the last year or so. So do we manage that change, or do we just feel overwhelmed by it? Joanna Bircher and colleagues report how they used a QI model to develop services

1 June 2021
17 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Supportmatch Homeshare – a personal article

We all have elderly patients who are becoming unsteady on their feet, maybe a little lonely, or worried that the next step might be a Care Home. Here a relative tells us about a possible win - win situation that has benefitted

15 April 2021
6 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Setting up a Drive Through Covid Clinic: a first ever in Ireland

There are still almost 30 million unvaccinated adults in the UK, and younger adults may be more difficult to reach. Tadhg Crowley and colleagues share their experience of setting up a GP run drive through vaccination centre.

3 April 2021
10 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Submitted

Universal Basic Income: a missing link in health and social care?

Anyone is vulnerable in a capitalist society if they have no access to the essential funds needed for survival. Perhaps Universal Basic Income, the system in which all citizens receive the same income regardless of employment status, could fill an important gap

30 March 2021
8 mins read
1
Bright Ideas and Innovation

A lockdown opportunity to bring lifestyle medicine into the mainstream

Shireen Kassam and Laura Freeman have previously described the medical advantages of a plant based diet. Here they tell us about their own journey to start Plant Based Health Online, a commumity interest company that puts profits back into improving the health

25 February 2021
11 mins read
39
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Movement as Medicine for Mind and Body – a project by Clarendon Lodge Medical Practice

The Clarendon Lodge Medical Practice had demonstrated the health benefits of regular exercise in a big way. Here's how.....

25 February 2021
7 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Point-of-Care Ultrasonography: Toward thoughtful integration of a new technology.

Point-of-Care Ultrasonography is an exciting new technology for primary care. It offers real potential, but Michael Tanael and Shari-Jean Hafner warn us to consider the balance of evidence and to proceed with caution.

11 February 2021
7 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Mass vaccination drive through flu clinic in a pandemic- A proposed safe and efficient way to mass administer the new Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine

The MHRA has clarified that the Oxford AZ Covid vaccine does not require a 15 minute wait by the patient following vaccination. Dr William Ridsdill Smith and colleagues describe an innovative proposal for a drive through Covid vaccination clinic.

9 January 2021
5 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

How to help patients transition to a healthy and sustainable plant-based diet

Helping patients transition to a plant-based diet may not only prevent an estimated 11 million annual deaths, but largely decrease the damage to the environment caused by meat and dairy farming. Here, Shireen Kassam and colleagues provide a list of advice on

30 December 2020
6 mins read
16
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Coronavirus

68-year-old GP worried about COVID-19 takes up smoking

Smoke bombs in cars, Channel 4 film crews, and depositing rocks in car parks — this is the bizarre story of James Douglas's research into the development of PPE.

22 December 2020
7 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Jugaad: a recipe for coping with uncertainty in times of crisis

Finding all the problems of 2020 getting you down? David Jeffrey teaches us how to cope, using "Jugaad".

16 December 2020
5 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Life as a Physician Associate ‘BP’? (Before primary care preceptorships)

Physician Associates play an increasing role within of primary care teams. Ria Agarwal describes her own steep learning curve and tells us how PAs need to be supported.

27 November 2020
9 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

NEWSflash – shorter than NEWS 2 with just the headlines

COVID has taught us just how much care can be delivered over the telephone and video link. But what of patient safety, particularly for the frail elderly and patients with dementia in care homes? John Havard describes a useful new tool that

16 November 2020
6 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Life in the Slow Lane

Are you constantly short of time? Charlotte Sidebotham encourages us to discover the slow movement.

13 November 2020
6 mins read
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Coronavirus

GP teams need the competence, confidence, and capability to deliver video-consultations

Are GPs prepared for a future dominated by remote consultations? Ruth Chambers and her colleagues present results from their survey into the effectiveness of learning sets that help GPs to develop their video-consultation skills.

29 October 2020
7 mins read
1
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Clinical

How I use drawing and creative processes within the GP consultation

Holly Quinton describes the use of metaphor and drawing in consultations to improve understanding, compliance and rapport. This can help the GP to explain medical terms to a patient, but it can also help the doctor to understand the patient's experience.

30 September 2020
5 mins read
1
Bright Ideas and Innovation/Opinion

Grabbing the digital innovation bingo ticket in 2020

When reading articles on digital innovation in the NHS audiences are finding that they need to update their editorial bingo ticket. Classics like culture change, interoperability or costs remain. But any self-respecting writer must now include something on how the NHS response

10 July 2020
9 mins read
1
Bright Ideas and Innovation

A video to help patients get the most out of 10 minutes

Ed Schwarz has just completed his GP training as an educational scholar in Cornwall and is now a GP in Penzance. Fed up of running late? Another patient cancelled last minute? Need to examine someone wearing 12 layers? If we are honest,

4 November 2019
1 min read
Bright Ideas and Innovation

Evolving General Practice: Artificial Intelligence and Primary Care

The Clinical Innovation and Research Centre (CIRC) at the RCGP works with GPs and practice staff, supporting them to deliver a better quality and level of care to their patients through a wide portfolio of projects. Find out more at https://www.rcgp.org.uk/clinical-and-research.aspx. Artificial

7 January 2019
3 mins read
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