New Data: Long COVID Cases Surge New Data: Long COVID Cases Surge
A post-winter rise in estimated long COVID cases may last well into 2024, experts said.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Sarcopenic Obesity Predicts Earlier Death Sarcopenic Obesity Predicts Earlier Death
A recent study evaluated the association between sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity with mortality risk.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Source Type: news
European Regulators Close in on Big Tobacco's New Tea Sticks European Regulators Close in on Big Tobacco's New Tea Sticks
European governments are weighing the introduction of tougher rules on cigarette makers ' new zero-tobacco heat sticks, moving to close the loopholes they were designed to...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines)
Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Public Health & Prevention Source Type: news
Links between primary and secondary care must be ‘streamlined’ says NHSE
All trusts should pick a “designated lead” for improving how they work with primary care, according to new NHS planning guidance. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 27, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Practices 'unable to afford to pay willing and skilled GPs to work', warns BMA chair
GP practices have been 'starved of resources' to the point where they can no longer afford to pay 'willing and skilled GPs' to work, the BMA chair has said in remarks linking underfunding to falling patient satisfaction. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP funding Source Type: news
Bill that could legalise assisted dying in Scotland is published
A bill that could see assisted dying legalised in Scotland will be published in the Scottish parliament today (28 March). (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
Bill that could legalise assisted dying in Scotland introdiced to
A bill that could see assisted dying legalised in Scotland will be published in the Scottish parliament today (28 March). (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
Bill that could legalise assisted dying in Scotland introduced
A bill that could see assisted dying legalised in Scotland will be published in the Scottish parliament today (28 March). (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
PAs are 'not substitutes for GPs', says NHS England guidance
Physician associates (PAs) are 'not substitutes for general practitioners' and all work they undertake should be 'supervised and debriefed' with their supervising GP, an update from NHS England says. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
Public satisfaction with GP services hits record low
Public satisfaction with general practice has fallen to a historically low level, according to new research. Analysis of the latest British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey on the NHS reveals that public satisfaction with GP services now stands at 34%, representing the lowest level recorded in the survey’s 41-year history. The latest figure means satisfaction with... Read moreThe post Public satisfaction with GP services hits record low appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - March 27, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
NI GPs face withdrawal of state indemnity for out-of-hours work
GPs in Northern Ireland could lose state clinical negligence cover for out-of-hours work from the start of April in a 'deplorable' change announced at short notice. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medico-legal Source Type: news
Podcast: Taking a different approach to GP retention
Dr Lucy Henshall and Penny Flack explain how their initiative Welcome Back To Work helps support GPs who have taken time away back into the workplace – and why we need a more flexible approach to GP retention at both a regional and national level. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Podcast Source Type: news
' From Interpretation to Action': Using CGM to Manage T2D'From Interpretation to Action': Using CGM to Manage T2D
Continuous glucose monitoring devices can help guide nutrition management and insulin dose adjustments in primary care.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines)
Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines - March 27, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology Source Type: news
This Could Be Key to Motivating Older Patients to Exercise This Could Be Key to Motivating Older Patients to Exercise
A new study pitted goal-setting strategies against peer-to-peer sharing and learning to see which would help older adults increase physical activity.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Source Type: news
