Evidence-based, practical tips to help you to quickly update your knowledge in a range of clinical areas
Top tips: vaccination myth-busting
Dr Toni Hazell offers 10 top tips about how best to manage scepticism toward vaccination and improve uptake of vaccines
Top tips: getting started with dermoscopy
Dr Kash Bhatti provides 10 top tips for GPs who want to get started with dermoscopy and diagnose benign skin lesions with confidence
Top tips: lung cancer
Dr Anthony Cunliffe and Dr Richard Simcock share 10 top tips for primary care on the diagnosis and management of patients with lung cancer
Case-based scenarios to help you with your diagnosis of a range of clinical conditions based on common symptoms
Unintended weight loss: what’s the diagnosis?
Dr Sonya Jey explains the importance of considering and excluding sinister causes of unintentional weight loss and explores some clinical scenarios in which unintentional weight loss is a feature
Skin lesions: what’s the diagnosis?
Dr James Thambyrajah uses case studies to illustrate four different types of skin lesion and describes how each condition should be managed in primary care
Breast pain: what’s the diagnosis?
Dr Toni Hazell uses case studies to explore three possible causes of breast pain (mastalgia) and how each condition should be managed in primary care
Multiple-choice question CPD modules designed to test your knowledge and reflect on your learning after reading an article.
Practical advice to help you with your preparation for your appraisal
GP burnout: how much of a threat is it to doctors and their patients?
Dr Honor Merriman explores how to help GPs before they reach burnout and provides practical steps for supporting colleagues and improving morale
Top tips: preparing for appraisal and revalidation
Dr Honor Merriman provides 10 top tips on how GPs can ensure they are ready for their appraisal, and how to get the most out of it
Being a reflective practitioner
Dr Honor Merriman explores recent guidance on reflective practice for practitioners and students and how this supports learning and patient care
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Guidelines Live—what's it all about?
Valerie Benfield, Guidelines Live event organiser, answers questions about MGP’s 2-day conference on clinical guidance and best practice
A useful template to help you reflect on Guidelines in Practice articles for your revalidation
Reflective template
This reflective template is designed to help you reflect on your learning after reading a Guidelines in Practice article.
Short, personal anecdotes from your fellow professionals
No need to be a hero
As I write this I am lying in bed feeling awful. Awful as in ill and awful as in guilty, in equal measure. I’m feeling ill because I have gastroenteritis and guilty because it is Monday morning and I should be at work. I should be tackling the post-weekend triage ...
Appreciating our colleagues
I have been musing about how we can get better at retaining staff in primary care; this has largely been because I have found myself as the clinical director of my local primary care network. Now that the dust has settled around filling in various forms, signing agreements, and working ...
Patient creativity
I don’t think you would disagree that life as a GP can feel pretty time-constrained, pressured, and exhausting, so to lighten the mood I thought I might share some amusing anecdotes on patient creativity.
Simple, practical tips on how to improve your and your practice’s efficiency
Bid writing in general practice: how to win a losing battle
Dr Satpal Shekhawat explores the business development challenges faced by primary care clinicians, and the steps necessary to overcome them
Articles on medico-legal issues such as patient confidentiality and consent
Covert medication: decisions must follow the law and NICE guidance
Dr Maria Dyban offers an overview of the law on covert medication and suggests some practical steps for considering the issues
Confidentiality guidance covers a wide range of scenarios
Dr Maria Dyban visits some important aspects of GMC 2017 confidentiality guidance and highlights resources available to help with both familiar and challenging situations
All healthcare staff have a duty of confidentiality
Dr Maria Dyban summarises guidance on patient confidentiality and explores situations where information may or may not be shared
Latest expert articles
GP burnout: how much of a threat is it to doctors and their patients?
Dr Honor Merriman explores how to help GPs before they reach burnout and provides practical steps for supporting colleagues and improving morale
Unintended weight loss: what’s the diagnosis?
Dr Sonya Jey explains the importance of considering and excluding sinister causes of unintentional weight loss and explores some clinical scenarios in which unintentional weight loss is a feature
Frailty and malnutrition: the role of the practice pharmacist
Shailen Rao and Samantha Cudby explain the role of the practice pharmacist in supporting the management of malnutrition in frail older people in primary care
Key learning points: NICE community-acquired pneumonia
Dr Caroline Ward highlights four key learning points from the 2019 NICE guideline on antimicrobial prescribing in community-acquired pneumonia
Top tips: vaccination myth-busting
Dr Toni Hazell offers 10 top tips about how best to manage scepticism toward vaccination and improve uptake of vaccines