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What went wrong in the global handling of COVID?
Clare Wenham, assistant professor of global health policy, discusses the mistakes made by international governments in the handling of the pandemic CREDIT: This is an keep reading
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How GPs can help end food insecurity
Jane Feinmann asks why doctors should care about food insecurity, and what they can do about it CREDIT: This is an edited version of an keep reading
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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
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The post-pandemic future of general practice
Professor Mayur Lakhani, CBE, discusses what the future of general practice may hold after a year which has seen monumental challenges, but also great successes keep reading
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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
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Additional roles in primary care – so much more than an extra pair of hands
Karen Garry, adviser with not-for-profit social enterprise organisation PCC, discusses how additional roles could benefit your practice We know that the introduction of the additional 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
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Why poverty is also a pre-existing condition
GP Helen Salisbury discusses why inequality is also a risk factor in contracting and dying of COVID-19 CREDIT: This is an edited version of an keep reading
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The COVID ‘infodemic’ – how misinformation impacts primary care
A disturbing side to this pandemic – and possibly the most damaging – has been the sheer amount of misinformation that has dominated social media keep reading
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Tackling ethnic minority inequality in the workforce: priorities for primary care
Professor Mayur Lakhani explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has cruelly exposed health and workforce inequalities in the NHS Research has shown a disproportionate impact on keep reading