23 May 2012
| by Mary Selby
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Avocados on the balcony GPs however, have GP friends. In the midst of my surreal fever-driven attempt to rearrange the avocados on my balcony, one of them emailed me. I read your column in GP, quoth she. What ...
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There was even the thought of simply pretending to be better - but GP friends are nothing if not persistent, so ...
23 May 2012
| by Dr Sally Hope
A review of this week's medical research. By GP Dr Sally Hope....mammography because film has a lower false-positive rate.
Dr Hope is a GP in Woodstock, Oxfordshire ...
at myCME.com/gp
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GPs could be left out of industrial action on pensions if they do not vote in high enough numbers...council member and Wiltshire GP Dr Helena McKeown said: 'That will be one of the things ...
on their age group and specialty. 'Locally in Wiltshire, I didn't feel there was enthusiasm among GPs,' she ...
scheme, were angrier about the reforms and could vote in higher numbers.
BMA treasurer and Cardiff GP ...
GPs must use the 2012 UK LMCs conference this week to urge ministers to halt NHS reform, GPC..., but not just on GPs.
'Give more for district nurses, health visitors, physiotherapists and the other service ...
plans to tackle 'bullying' by NHS managers. 'We talk about bullying in the workplace but many GPs ...
23 May 2012
| by Professor Rodger Charlton
Professor Rodger Charlton explains what GPs need to know about the role of research ethical...You may not be involved in research, but GPs need to know a little about clinical trials.
Every so often we receive letters informing us a patient has agreed to enter a double-blind, controlled ...
to participants such as questions that could cause distress.
Professor Charlton is a GP and a professor ...
23 May 2012
worthy ambition.
This week's exclusive investigation by GP reveals that far from taking action ...
that only a third of PCTs could specify how they plan to spend these funds.
GPs and charities have ...
bring a GP focus to the argument but there seems no reason why PCTs should not invest more in scans ...
in England 'remain poor' compared with Europe's best.
But a GP investigation found half of 94 PCTs ...
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GPs and charities were warning that endoscopy capacity was 'at its limit', before the bowel cancer awareness campaign even began ( GP , 25 January). Our findings suggest many PCTs had ...
23 May 2012
| by Stephen Robinson
An investigation by GP has found many patients wait months for tests such as colonoscopy ...
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Download the full GP investigation results here
Bowel Cancer UK warned that the DH cancer ...
% higher demand.
Prominent cancer GP and DH adviser Dr Nick Summerton said access to NHS endoscopy ...
23 May 2012
| by Dr Jeremy Phipps
GPs made the national newspapers at the start of this month but not for the best of reasons ...
in one in 20 of GP prescriptions and that one in 550 contained a serious error.
Here are 10 tips to help GPs cut down on those mistakes.
TIP 1. Use technology
Using the computer-based primary care ...
23 May 2012
| by Dr Suneeta Kochhar
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Dr Kochhar is a GP principal in St Leonards, East Sussex ...