Health & Patient Care
A doctor’s view: vitamin D
Dr Paul Lambden discusses vitamin D – why we need it, and where we get it from Vitamin D is required for building and maintaining keep reading
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Recruit and Retain
What is the GP retention scheme?
​The GP retention scheme is a package of support for GPs considering leaving the profession – and for the practices employing them – to help 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
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
How to boost healthier choices
Thomas Rouyard, post-doctoral fellow, and colleagues discuss use of the ‘boosting’ approach as an alternative to ‘nudging’ in developing non-coercive interventions to promote good health CREDIT: This keep reading
Management
How can you help the ‘Support your Surgery‘ campaign?
This BMA petition campaign addresses the mounting pressure on general practice in England to clear the backlog, and restrictions on access, as a result of keep reading
Comment
The rising pressure on practices
Catherine Lawler, PMA, discusses the pressure on GP practices and how you can regain a feeling of recognition We’re all acutely aware of the massive keep reading
Health & Patient Care
A doctor’s view: fibromyalgia
Dr Paul Lambden discusses the symptoms, causes and treatments relating to fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is a rheumatic condition characterised by muscular or musculoskeletal pain with stiffness keep reading
Recruit and Retain
What is the GP retention scheme?
​The GP retention scheme is a package of support for GPs considering leaving the profession – and for the practices employing them – to help keep reading
News
New NHS plans to make GP appointments available in the evening and on weekends
As reported by The Independent, from October every GP surgery across England will be required to make changes and increase its availability As of October keep reading