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What has postmodernism ever done for us?
What has postmodernism ever done for us?
‘… it is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented … Let us ...
Ideas, Concerns, and Expectations for peace in the Middle East
Ideas, Concerns, and Expectations for peace in the Middle East
On 16 and 19 October 2023, the Royal College of General Practitioners1 and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecol...
Reflections on COVID Christmases
Reflections on COVID Christmases
On New Year’s Eve 2019 as we ushered in the start of a new decade, the words ‘I have a feeling it’s going to be a great ye...
Yonder: Wait and see, identity loss, data failures, and patient organisations
Yonder: Wait and see, identity loss, data failures, and patient organisations
Yonder: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literatureMany...
A duty to expose: professionalism in a time of crisis
A duty to expose: professionalism in a time of crisis
‘I think’, said the then Lord Chancellor Michael Gove on 3 June 2016, ‘people in this country have had enough of experts …...
Asthma management post-hospital admission should be based on robust evidence
Asthma management post-hospital admission should be based on robust evidence
All letters are subject to editing and may be shortened. General letters can be sent to bjgpdisc@rcgp.org.uk (please inclu...
Supporting adults with autism — don’t forget comorbid ADHD
Supporting adults with autism — don’t forget comorbid ADHD
O’Nions et al’s recent analysis of autism1 helpfully highlights how primary care can help and the problem of under-diagnos...
How does co-production differ from patient and public involvement (PPI)?
How does co-production differ from patient and public involvement (PPI)?
It is a common mistake to confuse co-production with PPI, as the two are closely aligned and — depending on the definition...
Always winter, but never Christmas: does general practice need a magic wardrobe, or a TARDIS?
Always winter, but never Christmas: does general practice need a magic wardrobe, or a TARDIS?
Sometimes it is possible to feel that you are in a story. According to novelist and journalist Will Storr, this is a neces...
Editor’s choice: 10 BJGP articles from 2022-2023
Editor’s choice: 10 BJGP articles from 2022-2023
As BJGP editor I was recently asked (again) to discuss 10 interesting papers from the last year at the Royal Society of Me...
Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO): the future of asthma care?
Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO): the future of asthma care?
Asthma affects around one in 30 people and contributes to nearly half a million deaths worldwide every year.1 It is estima...
Assessment and management of endometriosis in young people in primary care
Assessment and management of endometriosis in young people in primary care
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition resulting from the presence of endometrial tissue, glands, and stroma in...
Predicting illness progression for children with lower respiratory infections in primary care: a prospective cohort and observational study
Predicting illness progression for children with lower respiratory infections in primary care: a prospective cohort and observational study
Background Antibiotics are commonly prescribed for children with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs), fuelling anti...
Management of asthma in primary care in the changing context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative longitudinal study with patients
Management of asthma in primary care in the changing context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative longitudinal study with patients
Background The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected asthma monitoring in primary care, but exploration of patients’ vie...
Radical solutions are needed to meet the challenge of medical student placement capacity in primary care
Radical solutions are needed to meet the challenge of medical student placement capacity in primary care
Despite all efforts to increase capacity, UK medical schools are facing genuine difficulty in recruiting sufficient GP pra...
Poem: I Would Like To Talk About Why Life Is So Unequal
Poem: I Would Like To Talk About Why Life Is So Unequal
Why my patients are biologically 15 years older than their ageWhat poverty and deprivation does to the bodyHow my patients...
Maternal mental illness and child atopy: a UK population-based, primary care cohort study
Maternal mental illness and child atopy: a UK population-based, primary care cohort study
Background The number of children exposed to maternal mental illness is rapidly increasing and little is known about the e...
Exploring GPs’ assessments of their patients’ cancer diagnostic processes: a questionnaire study
Exploring GPs’ assessments of their patients’ cancer diagnostic processes: a questionnaire study
Background Most cancer diagnostic pathways start from primary care and several factors affect the diagnostic processes.Aim...
Interconception care in Australian general practice: a qualitative study
Interconception care in Australian general practice: a qualitative study
Background GPs provide care for women across the lifespan. This care currently includes preconception and postpartum phase...
Uptake and adoption of the NHS App in England: an observational study
Uptake and adoption of the NHS App in England: an observational study
Background Technological advances have led to the use of patient portals that give people digital access to their personal...
This is from the heart — a general practice miscellany
This is from the heart — a general practice miscellany
This issue focuses on the heart and cardiovascular medicine. Life & Times for its part stresses the metaphysical and m...
A new 'Glossary’ for the modern NHS (with tongue firmly-in-cheek)
A new 'Glossary’ for the modern NHS (with tongue firmly-in-cheek)
The ever changing face of health services has been reflected in incessant change in language. Here is a glossary for those...
Trends in consultations and prescribing for rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: an electronic primary care records study
Trends in consultations and prescribing for rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: an electronic primary care records study
Background Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are common and generally managed in primary care through supporte...
The GP gloves are off! Keeping clinical examination sustainable
The GP gloves are off! Keeping clinical examination sustainable
‘The gloves are off’ campaign highlights excessive glove use, and the procedures for which they are not needed.1 It also p...
Sociodemographic variations in the uptake of faecal immunochemical tests in primary care: a retrospective study
Sociodemographic variations in the uptake of faecal immunochemical tests in primary care: a retrospective study
Background Faecal immunochemical test (FIT) usage for symptomatic patients is increasing, but variations in use caused by ...
Inequities in hypertension: we can do better ... but how?
Inequities in hypertension: we can do better ... but how?
Hypertension is the most commonly reported long-term condition in the UK, estimated to affect one in three adults;1 howeve...
Lester positive cardiometabolic resource update: improving cardiometabolic outcomes in people with severe mental illness
Lester positive cardiometabolic resource update: improving cardiometabolic outcomes in people with severe mental illness
The late Helen Lester, in her 2012 Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Annual General Meeting James Mackenzie le...
Long-term self harm: a patient perspective
Long-term self harm: a patient perspective
All letters are subject to editing and may be shortened. General letters can be sent to bjgpdisc@rcgp.org.uk (please inclu...
No, we mean sex AND gender
No, we mean sex AND gender
The use of language when dealing with gender and sex is important: in the field of health inequalities, it is important to...
Judgement of data saturation
Judgement of data saturation
I read the article by Jones et al1 with great interest and strongly appreciate the importance of this study. The research ...
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