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I’m a GP — do you still trust me?

Trust is not visible, but you miss it when you lose it. Trust develops from many inputs that include memories, beliefs, and emotions that help us predict how someone may act.
7 March 2026
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Narrative and Numbers

We walk a tightrope in medicine, balancing every day the unique and complex needs of individual patients with the standardised requirements of the rule-book that governs their care. There is danger in tipping too far in either direction. Ben Hoban makes us
24 October 2024
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Reclaiming holistic medicine

Somewhere along the line holistic medicine has been claimed as a special expertise in addition to what we, as mere GPs, do. Tim Senior asks whether and how we should be holistic!
16 October 2024
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Safe care in paediatrics

I am immensely grateful that I was fortunate enough never to have made any major blunders with children’s care in my career. But I would have slept better had I read this book.
9 October 2024
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Heart-based medicine

Gabriella Day reflects on general practice in 2024. Advances in clinical medicine are of great benefit, but their value is diminished when implemented without heart.
30 September 2024
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Trust

Again and again we learn — when trust fails, systems fail ...
23 September 2024
3 mins read

Standing up for the wisdom of general practice

People just don’t understand what General Practice, as a medical discipline, is. Meaning that people are creating solutions to our capacity issues based on a misunderstanding of what we do. Joanne Reeve channels her indignation into a rallying cry for advanced generalist
18 September 2024
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Were you Dad’s Doctor?

When does a GP attend a patient’s funeral? Emma Ladds writes about how it is such a privilege to be a family doctor, and about grief when losing a patient.
11 September 2024
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Archery, noodles and general practice

Appeals to tradition represent a desire to preserve the evanescent, to build a clear narrative that tells us who we are and how we should go about things, even if its historical basis is shaky. We project our thinking onto ... general
2 September 2024
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Wagging the dog

The inappropriate transfer of work from secondary care in particular is a well-recognised problem which seems difficult to address. Ben Hoban wonders if this reflects a broadly political change in the goals of British healthcare.
14 August 2024
4 mins read

Reflecting on the recent racist riots

Carter Singh reflects that we need to address the underlying cause of the racism, hatred, polarisation and intolerance that is now brimming over the edges into everyday life.
10 August 2024
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Why perpetuate NHS funding gaps?

In the second of two articles on NHS funding formulae, Rodney Jones looks at trends in death and the implications for cost pressures on the NHS. Why can’t government funding take into account the well-established nearness to death (NTD) methodologies, ending the
8 August 2024
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Eating the elephant or riding it

If all we have to offer are platitudes and cures, we will be stuck forever trying to eat the elephant in the room, a possibility in theory, but rarely in practice. If we can understand and engage with our patient’s point of
27 July 2024
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