Clinical

The US drugs regulator has advised patients to contact their GP if they take proton-pump inhibitors and develop diarrhoea that does not improve.

NICE guidance on hypertension is too expensive to implement, and is prompting practices to encourage patients to buy their own blood pressure monitors to use at home, cardiology expert has claimed.

Exclusive GPs are set to be enrolled in schemes to switch patients en masse to atorvastatin in the wake of an analysis for the Government’s QIPP programme finding its price could plummet by as much as 95% when it comes off patent later this year.

Questionnaires detailing family history of cardiovascular disease can help GPs identify a further 5% of their patients who are at high risk, a UK study reveals.

In the first of a series of monthly columns, Dr Margaret McCartney takes the Government to task for its evidence-free decision to introduce dementia screening

The Government should hold a public consultation in order to decide whether to provide homeopathy on the NHS, says Dr Andrew Sikorski

RCGP champion for learning disabilities, Dr Matt Hoghton, looks at why GPs should improve the care of this particular group of patients.