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Shared Decision Making The state of being comfortable, healthy or happy. By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) As GPs, we are expected to assume clinical risk. We cannot refer every patient who comes to see us. We take a considered history and perform a clinical examination. […]
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Compassion Versus Empathy … By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) When talking to patients, clinicians can sometimes feel overwhelmed by emotion. This may manifest as feeling low, sad or even as if you are going to cry. This can be an odd experience. It happens because
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SCA blog The Second Half By Dr Ramesh Mehay GP Bradford (Yorkshire & the Humber) This week, one of my trainees was struggling with the second half of the consultation. We have fined tuned the first – you know, the Data Gathering bit. This particular consultation we watched was really good in terms of data
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Listen Compassionately By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) When we run our resilience courses, delegates often describe having their energy drained when they interact with patients. We have all experienced this, but the question is, are patients taking our energy from us or are we giving
Where are we with Wellbeing? a reflection By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) Unfortunately, the statistics are rather dismal: The GMC national training survey 2021 reports that: 33% of trainees feel burnt out to a high/very high degree because of their work. Three in five trainees
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TRAINERS & TRAINEES WELCOME Want to join a balint group? Are you interested in joining an online Balint group? We have vacancies in a group on the third Wednesday each month, 7-8.30 pm, and are keen to recruit GPs and GP trainees. This is a mixed group, welcoming people from different professional backgrounds and at
Manifest Success The state of being comfortable, healthy or happy. By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) With the arrival of the first of January comes expectations to set New Year’s resolutions. Common ones are to do more exercise or introduce other healthier lifestyle choices, driven largely
The Power of Silence By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) NHSE data from March 2021 states that 7 million consultations are carried out in General Practice every week. The traditional model of 15 face-to-face appointments in a 2.5-hour surgery that is repeated in the afternoon is
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Should you go to pharma sponsored educational meetings? medical educational meetings – why the pharma fuss? By Bradford VTS The short answer is we don’t think you should – i.e. NO. You’ll find many medical educators who are dead against using any form of pharmaceutical sponsorship for meetings of any kind. But back in the
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Mindful Consulting How are your consultations going lately? By Karen Forshaw GP Doncaster (Yorkshire & the Humber) By Chrisssie Mowbray Chartered Physiotherapist (Yorkshire) How are your consultations going lately? The huge increase in telephone consulting we have seen due to the pandemic has changed the way that we interact with our patients. It has fundamentally
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