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Itchy patient? Think scabies

Dr Nick Jones

31st January 2024

After Rob’s blog about the rise of measles last week, this week we turn our attention to an outbreak of another age-old disease! Hands up if you’ve seen a patient with scabies recently? I can think of...

Dermatology

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Rise of the Measles

Dr Rob Walker

24th January 2024

I was chatting to my colleagues during a brief respite in our Friday duty session last week about measles. A mix of ages and experience, but not one of us had seen a case of measles in our clinical careers....

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Paediatrics

New guidelines from SIGN for Dementia

Dr Zoe Norris

18th January 2024

Dementia remains (and will continue to remain) a Hot Topic for us all in primary care. It will surprise no one that the numbers of patients we are seeing in General Practice continue to rise substantially;...

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New year’s resolutions and the avoidance of cold turkey – how to stop SSRI’s in primary care.

Dr Rachel Brettell

4th January 2024

It’s the first week of January, and for most of us, that means back to reality and back to the coal face, hopefully after a bit of festive rest and relaxation. For me, it’s also meant Janet, a middle-aged...

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Mental Health

General Practice Good Year / Bad Year

Dr Neal Tucker

28th December 2023

And so we see the end of another year. Goodbye 2023. I hope it has been a good year for you all but I suspect, as is always the case with life and general practice, you’ve taken the rough with the smooth....

Season's Greetings, and watch out for the Mycoplasma

Dr Simon Curtis

21st December 2023

Like the World Cup and the Olympics, epidemic peaks of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections come around every four years. The last epidemic season in the UK was 2019/20 and the UK Health Security Agency UKHSA,...

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Urgent Care