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Health Anxiety – A Cause for Concern?

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Dr Andy Ward
7th February 2024

Back in November, I wrote a blog post about the poor health outcomes for those patients who frequently miss appointments. I was therefore interested to see a recent Swedish study that looked at health...

Itchy patient? Think scabies

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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...

Rise of the Measles

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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....

New guidelines from SIGN for Dementia

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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;...

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

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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...

General Practice Good Year / Bad Year

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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....

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