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Academic GP training: reflections on combining research and clinical roles

Thinking of combining academic and clinical roles? In this latest APEx blog Academic Clinical Fellow Dr Emily Brown reflects on the benefits and challenges of dual roles. My academic and clinical roles As an academic GP trainee, I spend half my week working clinically in general practice and the other half working in research as […]

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Overseas GP recruitment to bolster the UK GP workforce – how can we maintain registration standards and patient safety?

In the context of our department’s GP workforce research and in light of reports today that GP numbers are showing a sustained drop, Emily Fletcher introduces the ‘GMAP’ project which aims to support the UK’s ambitions to recruit GPs from overseas. Key points: Across the UK, the number of GPs relative to the size of […]

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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater – asking the right questions when evaluating computerised CBT for depression in primary care

Over a third of all patient visits with a general practitioner are estimated to involve a mental health component, and 90% of these patients are primarily managed in primary care [1]. Due to this high demand, National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend the provision of computerised CBT as an initial lower […]

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Moving into the GP workforce?

Moving into the GP workforce? This post is a year late. Mainly, this is due to the many, louder tasks on my Primary Care research to-do list: delivering our final report on the NIHR ReGROUP GP workforce project, writing and submitting further papers from ReGROUP (see below) completing two rapid-fire projects for RCGP on mapping UK […]

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‘We are likely to “throw the baby out with the bathwater”. If we don’t value continuity’ … Reflections from Professor Phil Evans, a GP in the NHS for half its lifetime

Hi, my name is Dr Phil Evans and I have been working in the NHS for exactly half of its lifetime, and well over half of mine! Of the 70 years since the NHS was formed, I have been working for 35 of them as a doctor and I have recently retired as a GP […]

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‘The “front door” is not always as open as we would like….’ Reflections on the NHS at 70 from Dr Jo Butterworth, GP and doctoral research fellow

What the NHS means to me As a GP in the NHS, I feel proud to be part of one of the largest and most impressive work forces in the world, particularly when its aim is to provide good quality healthcare for all patients in the UK, regardless of their wealth. I am also a user […]

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