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Practices will receive virtually no help to prepare for what could be an exceptionally harsh Christmas, finds Carolyn Wickware
'When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras' - the old adage is well-known to GPs but what should you do when faced with a zebra, not a horse? Consultant cardiologist Professor Robert Tulloh and GP Dr Louise Tulloh kick off our new series with their advice on how to catch Kawasaki disease in general practice.
Dr Krishna Kasaraneni, chair of the GPC’s education and training subcommittee, reflects on the ‘angry’ mood at today’s LMCs Conference due to the Government’s recent pledge to introduce seven-day GP access, despite the profession ‘struggling’ with workload already
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Michael Crow | Sessional/Locum GP22 May 2015 9:02pm
There are just not enough GPs to provide this. We need to differentiate between A&E, Urgent/Acute on chronic relatively minor illness and management of complex conditions. Not all of this needs to be available 7 days a week
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Anonymous | Salaried GP22 May 2015 10:24pm
Our public is getting 7 day access already. OOH is no more for urgent cases only. It has become a default services for just about everything from back pain of20 years to to "my keloid" is sore to real urgent cases which actually need a 999 ambulance.
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Sanjeev Juneja | GP Partner27 May 2015 8:03am
It will happen over dead bodies if it has to - this is how the government and NHSE function. The question here whether politicians can swallow their pride and concede it's not do-able or whether in the glorious political tradition we will see it happen and then hear in a few years as the PM lays a wreath at the grave of NHS 'Lessons have been learnt'. How dumb do you have to be to be repeating the same autistic phrase and not really learning anything along the way.
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Anonymous | GP Partner07 Jun 2015 12:24pm
There are a number of online sites that we could use to send out a mass resignation letter. Just Google online petition or online resignation letter.
Hamish Meldrum did this in 2001, but I don't think our current BMA representatives will do it, for whatever reason.
The online letter would be automatically sent out to all GPs' NHS email addresses. It can also be optimised for social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Pulse Magazine could also help.
The letter of resignation would go along the lines of stating what GPs would do e.g. Number of consultations per year per patient for the £126. Consultations over and above this limit would be charged directly to patients. The letter also should outline the proposal to develop our own private health insurance package that could be set up using any number of insurance companies.
I'm afraid I'm too tired and worn out to do this myself, besides I shall shortly be retiring anyway
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notinmyname | GP Partner13 Jun 2015 9:43pm
Yeap, only over our- experienced GPs dead or fleeing bodies-- that could and would come true ...Cassandra we do not need you here....
yes, indeed, I am repeating myself : hoopla here - hole there ..still hoopla
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