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How to stay mentally healthy when working from home
With COVID-19 meaning that many are choosing to self-isolate before things get worse, how do you remain mentally healthy if you’re stuck at home and keep reading
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COVID-19 testing for frontline NHS staff will ensure GPs can provide care when they are well, says RCGP
The Royal College of General Practitioners has responded to the government’s launch of coronavirus tests for frontline NHS staff Dr Jonathan Leach, joint honorary secretary Royal keep reading
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Royal College of General Practitioners answers COVID-19 FAQs
The RCGP have convened a group of GP experts on emergency preparedness to answer these FAQs and are also bringing together helpful material from elsewhere keep reading
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Latest COVID-19 guidance in your area
The COVID-19 outbreak is arguably one of the greatest public health challenges of our time – not least for general practice, where over one million keep reading
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RCGP calls for priority COVID-19 testing for healthcare professionals
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has called for priority coronavirus for frontline NHS staff This is an edited version of a press release keep reading
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Red-raw, dry and sore? How to cure your hands after all that hand-washing
Is rigorous hand-washing and sanitising in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic making your hands red-raw, dry and sore? Skin healing expert Hanna Sillitoe gives keep reading
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Coronavirus – Top 10 tips on what to do in primary care
These top tips, issued by esteemed RCGP doctors, are for clinicians and practice employees and offer guidance on how best to tackle COVID-19 in primary keep reading
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Top 10 tips for COVID-19 telephone consultations
These top tips are for clinicians and practice employees making decisions about or conducting telephone consultations to assess and advise patients concerned they may have keep reading
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CQC to stop routine inspections during COVID-19 pandemic
Effective from Monday 16th March, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced that it will be stopping routine inspections to focus on supporting providers to keep reading
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RCGP: GPs must receive ‘significant share’ of emergency funding to tackle COVID-19
The chair of the RCGP has spoken out about the emergency general practice funding required to cope with the evolving Coronavirus situation in the UK keep reading