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Coping with sleep problems
If you’re struggling with your sleep, try some of these tips and suggestions to help improve it CREDIT: This is an edited version of an keep reading
Articles by Daniel Cook
News
RCGP statement on sodium valproate use
The Royal College of General Practitioners has responded to a Sunday Times investigation on the use of sodium valproate for women of child-bearing age In keep reading
Management
Do you know what your employees are really thinking?
Your team need to feel as though they can voice their opinions. Author of The Power of Difference, Simon Fanshawe explains why this is so keep reading
Comment
Opinion: it is so difficult to see your GP because family doctors are now nearly extinct
Successive reforms to general practice have steadily eroded GPs’ ability to practise the ‘art’ of the family doctor, writes David Zigmond, retired GP and psychiatrist keep reading
Health & Patient Care
Combatting loneliness: why social prescribing should be just what the doctor ordered
Jonathan Finch, web content editor at First Practice Management, explains why social prescribing is the best tool to combat the increasing loneliness we are seeing keep reading
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Dealing with the after effects of anxiety
When a panic attack subsides the lingering after-effects leave your mind and body feeling drained. Nicky McCaig gives some expert tips to deal with this keep reading
News
GP believes race was a factor in failed job application
As reported by the BBC News, a GP in Swindon has said that his race prevented him from proceeding in the recruitment process for a keep reading
News
RCGP: ban on ‘conversion therapy’ should protect all LGBT people
The Royal College of General Practitioners has spoken out against government proposals to ban so-called conversion therapy on the basis of sexual orientation but not gender keep reading
Management
Making GPs hospital employees won’t solve pressure on hospitals or general
David Oliver, consultant in geriatrics and acute general medicine, discusses why Sajid Javid’s plans are unlikely to work CREDIT: This is an edited version of keep reading
Practice Operations
The certificates GPs cannot charge fees for
A guide to which certificates GPs cannot charge for Bankruptcy Any individual who is able to give information about a bankrupt may be required to keep reading