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New Year’s Blog – General Practice Word of the Year 2024

Neal Tucker

31st December 2024

Congratulations! If you are reading this blog you have made it through 2024 and come out the other side.

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Subclinical Hypothyroidism - Think twice before testing or treating

Dr Rob Walker

10th December 2024

What is it they say about the three certainties in life? Death, taxes and life in the NHS never gets any quieter? We’re all no doubt gearing up for another busy winter, so any evidence or guidelines that...

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Stopping the groans from recurrent stones

Dr Neal Tucker

4th December 2024

Randeep is currently rolling around in agony on your examination couch. He has renal colic. You’ve already jabbed him with IM diclofenac and are wishing the practice still kept morphine. You’ve already...

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Sleepless nights, restless hearts: spotting the OSA-AF connection

Dr Simon Curtis

27th November 2024

Our patients are our best teachers. I remember one, let’s call him Mike, who first taught me the link between atrial fibrillation and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). He was a large guy, always smiley and...

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FINEARTS for fine hearts

Dr Nick Jones

23rd October 2024

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA), such as spironolactone, have been recommended as one of the key treatments for people with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) for more than...

Cardiology and ECG

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Let's talk about vaccination

Dr Laura Darby

2nd October 2024

The rates of Pertussis infection have surged this year, with over 12 000 laboratory confirmed cases reported to the UK HSA between January and July 2024 in England alone. Whilst any age group can be affected,...

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Paediatrics