The chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has defended her plans for general practice after Labour criticised the proposals and in particular the call for a bigger share of the NHS budget and a safety alert system for overwhelmed practices.
Wes Streeting, Labour’s health secretary, wrote in the Times on 20 October that the RCGP’s plans offered solutions that were “completely counter to what GPs and patients need.” He said it was “a plan for the managed decline of general practice, not a …
General practices should have a patient safety alert system which allows them to suspend non-urgent work and access overflow hubs and extra locums to protect patients, the UK’s leading GP has said.
Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of GPs, wants to see a system introduced in every integrated care system (ICS), modelled on the operational pressures escalation levels (OPEL) framework which is used by hospitals.
Local medical committees have been calling for such a system for primary care for some time. RCGP said that it would enable practices and …
Not quite. Friluftsliv is a Norwegian word that roughly translates as outdoor life, which basically means communing with nature. The concept is popular across Scandinavia.
Only if you want to. Frilusftsliv can be anything from hiking to kayaking, climbing trees, camping, skiing, picnicking on the beach, or listening to birdsong in the woods.
It’s as old as the hills and the fjords and forests. The term frilusftsliv …
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) can be used as an alternative to bariatric surgery to help people with a body mass index (BMI) over 30 to lose weight, when combined with lifestyle modifications, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has said in draft guidance.1
The procedure, which is carried out under general anaesthetic, involves folding and stitching together sections of the stomach wall to reduce the size of the stomach by about two thirds. It takes up …
The BMA’s GP committee has called for NHS England to investigate the mismanagement of this year’s winter covid-19 and flu vaccination programmes, which it says has caused widespread confusion among GPs and risked patient safety.
In early August NHS England announced that the vaccination programmes, which usually start in September, would be delayed until October to ensure that vulnerable people were protected “through the period of greatest risk in December 2023 and early January 2024.”1
NHS England had already caused upset among GPs by …