I was asked to write a blog for Pulse, unfortunately due to the busy day I submitted it late. Here it is anyway: After a hectic meeting with district nurses, community matron team, care coordinator and local practice team discussing complex patients, risk registers and end of life care; I then had a busy on-call followed by my […]
The RCGP is a member organisation. As members we have the right to expect our college to work for us. Lately I feel the college seems distant. With growing workload, pressure from the Government and secondary care to do more and patient expectations rising, I propose we need change. The RCGP needs to do more […]
So the BOMTTU bunfight came and went. The DrGandalf journey began at the the top of snow hill. Descending its peak I Braved the harsh weather of middle midlands to arrive at the Old Stock and joint. Greeted by familiar faces and the hugging death grip of the Human Tourniquet the afternoon brought acquaintances old […]
Do hacks really work? Well I think they do. In 2012 I attended the #digidoc2012 conference in London. This was a conference aimed at bringing clinicians and technology enthusiasts together to learn how better to use technology to help in a clinical setting. Part of the day included tutorials and lectures, but my favourite part […]
Recently the Sunday Times published an opinion piece on how GPs are the cause for the NHS woes. In response an excellent (in my humble opinion) response was sent via Dr Holden in Derbyshire. I will post the link when I can find it however here is the response: update 11.54: found the link to […]
Last week, I went to an interesting event. Called Health Camp WM (West Midlands), it was a free unconference about the use of social media for patient care. Through this event I learnt a great deal. It was interesting to meet people in various different fields: commissioners, communications people, third party providers of health care […]
I apologise for the lack of blog posts lately. Due to a few issues with the site, and work, I have been a little behind. I will be continuing the series on eportfolios in a few weeks. However in the meantime, I have written some articles for Network Locum on Continuous Professional Development (CPD) particularly […]
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
This is a Powerpoint version of a presentation made at Woodside Surgery as part of our clinical teaching. The information is available to all but based on local data from Dec 2011. Please click on the link below. Feedback is welcome. Hypertension Guidance