Guest blog by Dr Geraint Preest GP Partner, Pencoed Medical Centre Primary care Editor, onExamination from BMJ Learning Is it just that I’m getting old or is general practice busier than ever? With increasing demands from all quarters it would seem illogical to add to our workload by maintaining a Twitter account. However, Twitter has [...]
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Scrapping GP catchment areas – superficially attractive but not essentially practical
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Good to hear that this isn’t a priority for the Welsh Assembly Government as the BMA can see many drawbacks to the idea of scrapping GP catchment areas. For a start, the rest of the health service and social services and county councils all work by boundary areas, and so to just suddenly take general [...]
Kicking off the ARM with a call to "Look after our NHS"
Monday, June 29th, 2009Day one of this year’s ARM in Liverpool began with BMA UK Chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum’s key address to delegates. The hall’s packed with around 500 doctors from all over the UK. In his speech Dr Meldrum called on the Westminster Government to “end this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare [...]
Government targets interfere with the battle against superbugs
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009I want to highlight here a new report by the BMA which focuses on the war on healthcare associated infections (HCAIs), or as they are perhaps more well known – ‘superbugs’. The report illustrates very well how we’ll never win this battle, unless long-term strategies are introduced. Short term solutions like alcohol gel, dress code [...]
Free prescriptions for all English patients soon too?
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Judging by the latest announcement from the DoH, it looks like free prescriptions could slowly be creeping in via the backdoor in England. From today, thousands of cancer patients can start applying for free prescriptions, with that being extended at a later date to any patient with a long term health condition. With the current [...]