​#GPnews: GP recruitment lead to explain workforce crisis impact on BBC radio

16:45 The BMA’s lead on GP education and training, Dr Krishna Kasaraneni, is going to be on BBC radio this evening discussing GP recruitment.

Listen in to @bbc5live at 10.30 tonight to hear @dr_kasaraneni discuss his experience of GP recruitment and retention

— General Practice (@BMA_GP) July 31, 2017

Dr Kasaraneni said he would be setting out to the public how recruitment problems are hampering GP services.

Here are the statistics for #GPWorkforce – will be setting out how this is hampering GP services in the country at 11.00 on @bbc5live pic.twitter.com/bDdvs0yAQg

— Krishna Kasaraneni (@Dr_Kasaraneni) July 31, 2017

Also due to be on radio discussing GP recruitment is Pulse deputy editor Jaimie Kaffash, who will be interviewed by Sky tomorrow morning.

12:40 Pupils at school should be taught about the benefits and difficulties of breastfeeding, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has said.

It said this comes as just a third of UK babies are breastfed at six months old – one of the lowest rates in Europe, reports the BBC.

College president Professor Neena Modi said they were upset to find that there’s a stigma around the practice already among children.

She said: ‘When we asked groups of children and young people what they thought about breastfeeding, we were really surprised – and a little bit upset – to hear the word “yucky” being used by them.

‘Clearly the perception that we, as a society, are giving children, is not the perception we want them to be getting.’

09:30 The BMA and Londonwide LMCs have questioned advice from NHS England London for GPs to ask patients in high-rise dwellings about fire safety.

Although ‘well-intended’, they strongly suggest advising on fire alarms and escape routes is the responsibility of the landlord rather than the doctor – who is already attempting to squeeze in multiple bits of complex medical advice into a ten-minute consultation.

But then again, as Dr David Turner says: ‘I know as much about fire alarms as Jeremy Hunt does about running a health service, so why not?’

Read the full story here, and Dr Turner’s blog here.