Blog - Hot Topics GP Update - Page 15

NFILD and non-antibiotic options for recurrent UTI

Dr Rob Walker

28th April 2022

Joan is 73 and comes to see you with a worsening dry cough over the past few months, and she is now feeling a bit more puffed out than usual, which is affecting her daily dog walk. Her examination is unremarkable...

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GALLERI: The Holy Grail for cancer diagnosis?

Rob Walker

3rd February 2022

We all know that there are multiple challenges to the early diagnosis of cancer for us in primary care, one of the big ones being a lack of access to accurate tests for cancer. There are obviously exceptions...

Cancer

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Home BP monitors - reassuringly cheap and accurate

Dr Rob Walker

20th January 2022

Which blood pressure monitor should I buy doc? I hope it won’t cost too much…I’m sure all of us will have had this, or a variation of this question from patients over the past few years. There had been...

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ME/CFS – Top 5 learning points from the new NICE guideline

Dr Simon Curtis

13th January 2022

In late October 2021, NICE published their new guideline on myalgic encephalomyelitis or encephalopathy/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) NICE NG206 2021. As could have been predicted, the guideline...

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