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New guidelines from SIGN for Dementia
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.
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
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,...
‘How are your periods?’ A simple question to find a complex condition.
Dr Laura Darby
13th December 2023
Naga Munchetty, a well known newsreader and journalist, has been raising the public profile of endometriosis through a combination of radio broadcasts and written articles. Additionally, she has given...
Menopause management – it doesn’t have to be this complicated
Dr Siobhan Becker
29th November 2023
When NICE released its 2015 Menopause guidelines1, the direction of travel seemed pretty clear – a generation of women had missed out on HRT, largely as a result of the WHI trial2, and it was setting out...