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Part one: GP life now
After a challenging year for general practitioners, Kathy Oxtoby examines how their role is developing, what these changes mean to them, and what being a keep reading
Impact of Covid-19
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Saturday night fever
Carmel Loughlin, practice manager at Three Spires Surgery, on why the last few months in her practice have reminded her of a couple of Bee keep reading
Management
Will the changes to general practice caused by COVID be permanent?
The pandemic forced primary care practices to change virtually overnight, but will these changes now stay forever? As the country was encouraged to stay at keep reading
Health Tech
How health tech can lead to greater collaboration in the NHS
The first wave of COVID-19 brought many positive changes in healthcare – from accelerated use of technology, to greater collaboration between different disciplines. Ian Bailey, keep reading
Management
How one GP-patient volunteer group responded to the pandemic
When the UK government declared a national lockdown on 23 March 2020, staff at Elliott Hall Medical Centre in Harrow recognised that many of their keep reading
Health & Patient Care
How has the pandemic impacted the diagnosis of common health conditions?
According to research published in The Lancet Public Health, there has been a significant reduction in the rate of initial diagnoses of many common physical keep reading
Management
General practice: the current challenges and opportunities
After a ‘torrid year’ for general practitioners, Kathy Oxtoby examines how their role is developing, what these changes mean to them, and what being a GP could keep reading
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Why social prescribing is now more important than ever
As practices face an ever increasing workload in one of the bleakest winters we’ve known, Catherine Lawler, of the Practice Managers Association, explains why the keep reading
Health & Patient Care
Why care during COVID must still be personal
Angela Coulter, freelance researcher, and Tessa Richards, senior editor, patient partnership BMJ, argue why, despite the challenges of the pandemic, patient and family involvement must keep reading
Recruit and Retain
Will the pandemic lead to more doctors quitting?
Nothing causes a shakeup to the healthcare system like a global pandemic, but will nearly a year‘s worth of challenges lead to a mass exodus keep reading