Imagine a room full of passionate, talented young professionals with a desire to help build a fair, sustainable and highly innovative NHS in the UK. This is what the Youth Health Parliament was designed to achieve. Doctors and nurses, industry professionals, entrepreneurs, medical students and academics all responded to a call for 50 young people, […]
Every year, thousands of children throughout Britain are taken to their local GP or A&E with a high temperature. They may have no other symptoms but they are clearly unwell. The difficulty that the clinician faces is trying to make a rapid assessment as to whether the child has a virus – by far the […]
Anyone can snore, but, according to the British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association (BSSAA), more than two-thirds of snorers are men. ‘Men are more likely to carry weight around their neck and throat, and are more likely to drink and smoke – all factors that contribute to snoring,’ admits Marianne Davey, co-founder of the BSSAA. […]
Do doctors have time for dogs? According to social media, it depends on what field you work in and whether you have flexible hours to walk the dog and keep it company. If you do manage to have a dog and work in healthcare, you will be doing yourself a lot of good. Studies show that […]
Traffic pollution is not just noxious on the lungs, it is also seriously bad for the skin, according to new research published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. I have seen this for myself in clinical practice. Over the last five years, as pollution levels have soared in London, there has been a significant increase […]
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer and a diagnosis of this disease usually means a short life expectancy of a few months. The 5-year survival rate even for people with operable disease, treated with surgery and chemotherapy is only 20 per cent and only one percent of those diagnosed at late stage 4 […]
Asthma patients from surgeries who have good access to primary care, such as in their GP surgery, are less likely to be admitted to hospital because of their condition. This is the conclusion of our study at the University of East Anglia which looked at access scores for GP surgeries and compared them to the […]
A Father’s Day curry at home in muggy Derbyshire afforded me yet again the opportunity to attempt to field answers to a medic’s least favourite question of all: have you thought about a speciality, yet? As always, I churned out the same old answer about it being early days, that I am interested in many […]
The Flexible Careers Scheme is a response to the Improving Working Lives Initiative, which aims to make the National Health Service a better place to work. The IWL standard sets out the expectations placed on NHS employers to support staff and promote their welfare and development, in order to create a healthy and productive balance […]
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‘I retired from medicine at the age of 73. I would have liked to work for longer as a locum but it really became quite untenable. Not because I wasn’t willing and able, but the system has changed so much it contrives against older GPs staying on to work. There are now really disincentives to […]