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Physician associates have a place in primary care
Physician associates have a place in primary care
Thank you for recommending British Journal of General Practice.NOTE: We only request your email address so that the pers...
Books: Safe Care in Paediatrics
Books: Safe Care in Paediatrics
Nicholson Alf, John Murphy, Sarah Taaffe, and Kevin Dunne Elsevier, 2024, PB, 268pp, £38.24, 978-0443108853They’ve done it...
Muscle weakness post-COVID: a practical guide for primary care
Muscle weakness post-COVID: a practical guide for primary care
IntroductionSince the earliest stages of the pandemic, muscle weakness has been a key symptom described by patients post-C...
A brief vulnerability
A brief vulnerability
OK, pretty much anything to do with airports is a First World problem. But hear me out.We were living in the Gulf where I ...
Digitalised primary care in the UK: a qualitative study of the experiences of minoritised ethnic communities
Digitalised primary care in the UK: a qualitative study of the experiences of minoritised ethnic communities
Background Barriers to accessing and using primary care services among minoritised ethnic communities have been extensivel...
Multimorbidity and person-centred care in a socioeconomically deprived community: a qualitative study
Multimorbidity and person-centred care in a socioeconomically deprived community: a qualitative study
Background People with multimorbidity (>2 long-term conditions) have poorer outcomes in areas of high socioeconomic dep...
Books: King Lear: Shakespeare’s Dark Consolations
Books: King Lear: Shakespeare’s Dark Consolations
Arthur W Frank Oxford University Press, 2022, HB, 176pp, £18.99, 978-0192846723‘I’ll teach you differences ... ’ King Lear...
Books: The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: a Memoir
Books: The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: a Memoir
Sarah Ramey Fleet, 2020, PB, 432pp, £9.09, 978-1844087242Sarah Ramey was 21 when she first became ill, and 17 years later ...
Passport to medical freedom? Only for the lucky digitally enabled
Passport to medical freedom? Only for the lucky digitally enabled
I bet you’re reading this on your phone, right? Maybe on the train or waiting for the kettle to boil. Some of you, go on, ...
Avoiding hospital admissions this winter: the challenge for general practice
Avoiding hospital admissions this winter: the challenge for general practice
Autumn can feel like the calm before the storm of winter in health care. Winter pressures impact across primary and second...
External validation of a prognostic model to improve prediction of psychosis: a retrospective cohort study in primary care
External validation of a prognostic model to improve prediction of psychosis: a retrospective cohort study in primary care
Background Early detection could reduce the duration of untreated psychosis. GPs are a vital part of the psychosis care pa...
’Tis the season of the primary care miscellany
’Tis the season of the primary care miscellany
Season’s greetings, dear readers! One of my favourite Christmas traditions is the miscellany, often found in little piles ...
Lived experiences of end-of-life care at home in the UK: a scoping review of qualitative research
Lived experiences of end-of-life care at home in the UK: a scoping review of qualitative research
Background Home is the preferred place of care and death for most people with advanced illness.Aim To examine and describe...
Bridging the gap between health care and no care: the homelessness crisis
Bridging the gap between health care and no care: the homelessness crisis
It is difficult to estimate how many people are homeless in the UK but, just taking rough sleepers on a single night in au...
Shifting the attention to long- term community stroke care
Shifting the attention to long- term community stroke care
IntroductionIn the UK, there is on average one stroke every 5 minutes resulting in 100 000 strokes annually and around 1.3...
Health inequalities and community pharmacy closures: why we should all be worried
Health inequalities and community pharmacy closures: why we should all be worried
All letters are subject to editing and may be shortened. General letters can be sent to bjgpdisc@rcgp.org.uk (please inclu...
Physician associates and RCGP policy — some plain speaking
Physician associates and RCGP policy — some plain speaking
I recently spoke to a physician associate (PA) who was desperately distressed about fatigue and the threat to their career...
A limited view of socioeconomically deprived communities
A limited view of socioeconomically deprived communities
Thank you for recommending British Journal of General Practice.NOTE: We only request your email address so that the pers...
Primary care for survivors of trafficking
Primary care for survivors of trafficking
The Global Slavery Index 2023 estimates that approximately 122 000 people in the UK are living in modern slavery (1.8 for ...
Yonder: Improving connections, AI in reflective practice, lung cancer diagnosis, and euthanasia aftercare
Yonder: Improving connections, AI in reflective practice, lung cancer diagnosis, and euthanasia aftercare
Yonder: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literatureIn 2...
CGRP therapy in primary care for migraine: prevention and acute medication
CGRP therapy in primary care for migraine: prevention and acute medication
Migraine affects about one in seven people worldwide1 and is the leading cause of disability among people aged under 50 ye...
The Ealing domestic abuse initiative: a success story
The Ealing domestic abuse initiative: a success story
Domestic abuse (DA) is a severe human rights violation and public health issue, affecting the health and wellbeing of surv...
Reclaiming holistic medicine
Reclaiming holistic medicine
I always thought we’d let the term ‘holistic’ get away from us. As a GP I just thought being holistic was just what we did...
'The Fellowship is breaking, it has already begun’
'The Fellowship is breaking, it has already begun’
Life moves fast in general practice. Things can pass you by. The last year has been a time of great uncertainty, and as we...
Books: The Story of a Heart
Books: The Story of a Heart
Rachel Clarke Abacus, 2024, HB, 288pp, £18.99, 978-0349145594In summer 2016, 9-year-old Max developed serious heart proble...
Can’t prescribe, can’t dispense: the challenge of medicine shortages
Can’t prescribe, can’t dispense: the challenge of medicine shortages
Medicine shortages are an ever increasing problem for the UK primary care system, with the Department of Health and Social...
Conversations matter: improving the diagnosis experience for people with type 2 diabetes
Conversations matter: improving the diagnosis experience for people with type 2 diabetes
More than 5 million people in the UK are living with diabetes, of whom 90% have type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).1 Primary ...
Are good GPs holistic?
Are good GPs holistic?
Good GPs are holistic. Is that harder to argue than ‘GPs are holistic’? Is holistic part of being good or just a part of b...
Primary care health professionals’ approach to clinical coding: a qualitative interview study
Primary care health professionals’ approach to clinical coding: a qualitative interview study
Thank you for this article that explores the topic of coding in medical records.1 I think there are deeper conceptual prob...