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Why the primary care backlog is a ticking time bomb
Now is the time to invest in general practice – not to try to reinvent the wheel through wholesale change, writes Farah Jameel, GPC England keep reading
NHS
Management
How to deal with a colleague’s lies
No doubt you’ll hear at least one lie over the course of a work day, whether you realise it or not. How can we manage keep reading
News
COVID levels fall in the UK
As reported by the BBC News, new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the number of people who have currently have COVID keep reading
Health Tech
Supporting primary care staff to use remote monitoring tech
Jana Lloyd, UCLPartners’ national programme manager for proactive care frameworks (cardiovascular disease prevention), explores how primary care staff can be supported when using remote monitoring keep reading
Practice Operations
A guide to the ‘New to Partnership Payment Scheme’
The ‘New to Partnership Payment Scheme’ (N2PP) is a new commitment from the Update to the GP Contract agreement 2020/21–2023/24, forming part of the suite keep reading
Live it
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
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
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
Live it
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