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Creating an international community of practices to support newly qualified GPs
Creating an international community of practices to support newly qualified GPs
Bennett’s account that GP registrars focus on passing the qualification assessment, and the nuance of applying knowledge i...
Kez and the system
Kez and the system
MondayKez has an embarrassing problem. He has tried a cream that maybe worked in the past but not now. He needs the doctor...
Books: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Books: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brown Brené Vermilion, 2021, HB, 336pp, £20.23, 978-1785043772It’s been only very recently that I first came across Brené ...
Fluoroquinolones: what do GPs need to know?
Fluoroquinolones: what do GPs need to know?
ContextIn January 2024, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) released a Drug Safety Update for t...
Achieving earlier diagnosis of symptomatic lung cancer
Achieving earlier diagnosis of symptomatic lung cancer
<collab>the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation working group on symptomatic diagnosis</collab>Lung cancer is th...
The enshittification of general practice
The enshittification of general practice
It was Cory Doctorow, the author, who coined the term ‘enshittification’ when he used it to describe the evolution and, cr...
Underlying disease risk among patients with fatigue: a population-based cohort study in primary care
Underlying disease risk among patients with fatigue: a population-based cohort study in primary care
Background Presenting to primary care with fatigue is associated with a wide range of conditions, including cancer, althou...
Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme uptake, patient satisfaction, and QOF achievement: an ecological study from 2020-2023
Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme uptake, patient satisfaction, and QOF achievement: an ecological study from 2020-2023
Background The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) was introduced by NHS England in 2019 alongside primary care n...
General practice for a brave new world!
General practice for a brave new world!
An earworm, from the German ohrwurm, is a tune that gets stuck in your head. It is made worse by tasks that are too easy o...
Books: Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care: Good for the Planet, Good for Practices, Good for Patients
Books: Environmentally Sustainable Primary Care: Good for the Planet, Good for Practices, Good for Patients
Matt Sawyer and Mike Tomson CRC Press, 2024, PB, 322pp, £33.99, 978-1032793573The world is changing fast. The ‘Great Accel...
Improving personal continuity in general practice: a focus group study
Improving personal continuity in general practice: a focus group study
Background Personal continuity is an important dimension of continuity of care in general practice and is associated with ...
The GP athlete: what’s the best advice I can give my patients about nutrition?
The GP athlete: what’s the best advice I can give my patients about nutrition?
I was excited to recently receive my copy of Tim Spector’s The Food for Life Cookbook,1 which was a timely prompt for me t...
Standing up for general practice
Standing up for general practice
As Iona Heath handed over the Presidency of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in 2012, she gave an intervi...
Structured medication reviews: progress since 2020 and opportunities for improvement
Structured medication reviews: progress since 2020 and opportunities for improvement
Structured medication review (SMR) is a service delivered by clinical pharmacists in primary care networks (PCNs) to repla...
'Flattened, fattened, and forgotten’: the 'dis-integrated’ care of patients prescribed antipsychotics in the UK
'Flattened, fattened, and forgotten’: the 'dis-integrated’ care of patients prescribed antipsychotics in the UK
There is a growing problem with antipsychotic prescribing, that if the NHS is not careful, could become a new scandal in t...
Forget sun, sand, and surf, who needs Australia when you’ve got general practice?!
Forget sun, sand, and surf, who needs Australia when you’ve got general practice?!
A 2022 study by Health Education England (HEE)1 found that approximately 65% of newly qualified doctors are choosing to ta...
GPs and assisted dying
GPs and assisted dying
All letters are subject to editing and may be shortened. General letters can be sent to bjgpdisc@rcgp.org.uk (please inclu...
Narrative and numbers
Narrative and numbers
Patients adopt a variety of approaches when talking to their doctor: they may tell a story, with all the contextual detail...
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...