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When people get better they tend not to come back - so when they do we are sometimes puzzled (or even alarmed, as when Mrs Fester turned up with the fruit cake to thank us for trying after she drowned the maggots in her legs).
I've just come down from the ceiling after the news that our educational case for extending and enhancing GP training has been accepted by the Medical Programme Board.
Currently one in 20 GP prescriptions contains an error. Part of the solution is for all NHS prescribing to be conducted from a centralised, web-based database: this means only one place to create prescriptions, and only one place to look them up.
The results were alarming, the dangers real and the responses inadequate. Recent research suggests that one in 20 patients receives an erroneous GP prescription.
When I was a junior doctor in a rural hospital, the local community had been fundraising for years for an ultrasound scanner, which back in the early eighties was the very latest thing.
I've just read Susan Cain's book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. An introvert herself, she celebrates the 50% of society who are similarly talented. And I use that word advisedly. Society often labels introverts as ...
If England was to achieve cancer survival rates at the European average, then 5,000 lives would be saved every year.
The ability to benchmark practices against each other on achievement was made easier when the QOF was introduced in 2004. Suddenly, the DH had a points-related measure applying to all UK practices which had been negotiated with the GPC.
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