Category: General practice / family medicine, UK, Shared decision making

What do we want from a healthcare service? We certainly want health, and the service…

This week I read a report in the Health Service Journal about a baffling plan…

Triage, signposting, and care navigation are buzz words that crop up frequently in discussions about…

One of the most inspiring teachers I encountered while learning to be a GP was…

Recently, I consulted with a satisfied patient. An unexpected abnormality had shown up on a…

Patients now have access to their own medical notes, which is surely progress. More patients…

During the pandemic, large volumes of individual patient data were scooped out of GP computer…

A new research paper tells us (again) about the benefits of continuity of care. It…

Medicine is usually an activity that involves consenting adults, or adults consenting on behalf of…

NHS Digital plans to extract all data coded in GP held medical records in England,…

One of the hardest parts of being ill is not knowing when, or even if,…

The doors are shut, and the waiting rooms are nearly empty. Passers-by would be forgiven…

“My biggest problem is that thanks to NHS cuts it is impossible to see the…

When I was instructed some years ago that the term “chronic disease” had been replaced…