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Dr Andy Ward

12th January 2023

An ill-timed jump for a header, an awkward landing, a disturbing pop in my knee and the worst pain I’ve ever felt. Thus went my left anterior cruciate ligament and with it my fantasy of tearing up the...

Hot Topics GP Update

What TIME should I take my BP meds Doc?

Dr Rob Walker

5th January 2023

We’re all used to the flurry of questions that come after we start people on a new medication. You’re eyeing up the clock (running late…again), and about to say your farewells when the inquisition starts...

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Where did 2022 go and other medical mysteries

NB Medical

29th December 2022

What a year. Flown by in a blur of telephone triage, moaning media, war, inflation and civil unrest. Many of us will be pleased to see the back of 2022 but it’s gone so fast I’m left with some important...

A Fortunate Woman

Dr Simon Curtis

20th December 2022

‘It was not that she was out of the ordinary’ writes Polly Morland near the start of her compelling and beautifully written book A Fortunate Woman, ‘Put simply, she is a doctor who knows her patients....

Resilience

Is FIT fit for purpose?

Dr Nick Jones

15th December 2022

I think it is fair to say that the recent NHS England letter to practices advising on the role of Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in the assessment of people with suspected colorectal cancer has not...

Hot Topics GP Update

Invasive Group A Strep – A Keeping it Simple Update

Drs Laura Darby & Simon Curtis

7th December 2022

With terrifying headlines reporting children dying from (iGAS) invasive Group A streptococcus it’s no surprise that parents are alarmed. A quick scrawl through the BBC news site reveals a series of articles...

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