This site is intended for health professionals only
GPs are confronted with a huge amount of information related to Covid 19. This resource has been set up to summarise the key guidance that you will need to use in clinic
Thank you to the key contributors who have helped set this up:
GP, founder of Covid-19 Primary Care Resources
Camden
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London
Academic Clinical Lecturer in General Practice
Department of Population Health Sciences, KCL
Respiratory Consultant
University College London Hospital
Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neurosciences, KCL
GP with special interest in medical ethics and law
Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Neuropsychiatrist
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neurosciences, KCL
Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist for Older Adults
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neurosciences, KCL
Associate Professor and Consultant Dermatologist
Hospital for Tropical Diseases
Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Associate Professor in Neuromuscular Diseases
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square and UCLH
Consultant ENT Surgeon
Cambridge University Hospitals
GPwSI in Headache and Migraine
Camden
Specialist GP and Homeless Health Lead
North West London
Principal Pharmacist, Liaison Psychiatry
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Cardiologist
Bart's Health NHS Trust
Paediatric infectious diseases consultant and epidemiologist
Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Public Health England
Consultant Psychiatrist in Behavioural Sleep Medicine
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, UCLH
GP, Safeguarding Lead and Director of Covid Crisis Rescue
North Central London
GP
East London
GP
Bristol
GP
Southport and Formby
GP
Wandsworth
GP
Surrey
The primary motivation is to enable GPs to search for information quickly, according to the needs of the patient in front of them
GPs are confronted with a deluge of information related to Covid 19. Huge volumes of content relevant to primary care are produced daily from multiple sources, stored in multiple places. GPs are facing unprecedented demand for their time. It is difficult to keep up to date with the volume of rapidly changing guidance at the same time as caring for patients. This website has been set up to organise the Covid 19 national guidance and key contacts into one clear, clinically designed, easy to search format that GPs can use in clinic.
We are not creating clinical guidance, we are simply synthesising guidance from nationally recognised sources, organising and labelling it within a specifically designed web tool to improve access to information for primary care. Sources and publication dates are clearly cited.
Our inclusion criteria to the website is strict – it has to be immediately relevant to the GP in clinic. We prioritise guidance from formal sources (Chief Medical Officer, Public Health England, NICE etc). Where there are gaps we use ‘best available’ information (expert consensus, emerging research findings or leader opinion), so it may not yet be fully evidenced based.
We will do our best to ensure that guidance is revised quickly, and removed once it becomes redundant. There will be occasions where we have missed information and we urge all GPs to use the feedback tab on every post to point out errors or omissions. As always, none of the content within the website replaces clinical judgement when providing patient care.
Please bookmark this website. We will continue to update it at least weekly as guidance evolves and in line with your feedback.
Before coming to Pulse, this website was set up by Dr Poppy Freeman, a GP who set up the award-winning Camden GP Website and led its expansion to other areas of London
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