Podcast: What does the NHS 10-year plan hold in store for GPs? And are digital rectal exams a thing of the past?
Our latest instalment of Pulse in Focus: The Podcast for GPs is now live and available on all podcast platforms.
Pulse deputy news editor Anna Colivicchi discusses the Government’s 10-year health plan with features assistant Maya Dhillon. The pair delve into the plan’s aims to reform the NHS and how this will impact general practice.
They are joined by several guests giving their takes on the 10-year plan. Following her widely-shared editorial, editor Sofia Lind argues that the plan’s introductions of two new contracts signals the end for small practices.
Professor Azeem Majeed, head of the department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London, and Dr Steve Taylor, GP spokesperson for the Doctors’ Association UK, also question the plan’s aims and point out the challenges it might present.
Anna also gives a preview of her brand new miniseries analysing how the 10-year plan will impact the new 2028 GMS contract.
In our clinical section, we are joined again by Pulse editorial adviser and GP Dr Keith Hopcroft. This time, he dissects a recent claim from urologists that GPs no longer need to do a digital rectal exam to test for prostate cancer. He looks at where this has come from, the facts behind it, and what it means for GPs.
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This episode was produced by Maya Dhillon and Mollie Fraser-Andrews.
Pulse in Focus: The Podcast for GPs is hosted on Buzzsprout but you can find it wherever you get your podcasts.
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I thought the future of the NHS was to do everything digitally, so what is happening to end Digital Rectal Examination?
I think there are some of us who might like to nominate certain politicians to have a computer perform the DRE on them?
All in the cause of reducing malign politicians growing at the expense of the patients, of course.
Hahaha, “….to do everything digitally, so what is happening to end Digital Rectal Examination?” 😂😂
Quite.
The aims of the government’s 10 year health plan – such as the shift from prevention to cure – are not new and have been priorities in many other health plans over the last 35 years. The question we need to ask is why have previous plans failed in achieving these objectives?
The band on the titanic went down playing their socks off.