Blog - Hot Topics GP Update - Page 17

Cognitive bias and the importance of safety netting

Dr Rob Walker

17th November 2022

Safety netting is something that is drummed into us at a very early stage in our medical careers. It’s a recommended part of a standard consultation, and one that we all got taught to do as GP trainees,...

Hot Topics GP Update

Urgent Care

Overprescribing, functional dyspepsia and PPWhy’s?

Dr Rachel Brettell

3rd November 2022

Sometimes (often), it feels like us GP's can't do anything right.

Hot Topics GP Update

Gout: Mind the (evidence) Gap

Dr Rob Walker

20th October 2022

Guidelines. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, we know they are an important tool to help us manage the massive range of problems we see in General Practice. As GPs we can’t know the ins and outs of the evidence base...

Hot Topics GP Update

Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain - New name, new evidence?

Dr Rob Walker

13th October 2022

Bob has just turned 47, and by his own admission is an impatient man. He is getting some pain again in his shoulder which is affecting his weekend games of tennis, so has booked to see you so he can get...

Hot Topics GP Update

SGLT2 inhibitors for Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

$SGLT2 inhibitors for Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction image$

Dr Nick Jones

6th October 2022

The rise and rise of the SGLT2 inhibitors over the past few years has been so jaw-dropping that a recent editorial in the European Heart Journal even compared their development to that of ‘aspirin, penicillin,...

Hot Topics GP Update

Panic disorder – do the drugs work?

Dr Simon Curtis

29th September 2022

Mike is on the phone. He has suffered from panic attacks all his life, but over the last few months they have become much more common. They are recurrent, can be unexpected and the fear that they will...

Hot Topics GP Update

Mental Health