Evidence-based, practical tips to help you to quickly update your knowledge in a range of clinical areas
Top tips: supporting the patient who self-harms
Dr Dominique Thompson provides 10 top tips on recognising self-harm and how to help reduce the risks of further self-harm or suicide
Top tips: sexually transmitted infections (part 2)
Dr Toni Hazell completes her two-part series on managing STIs in primary care, focusing on best practice tips for non-chlamydia STIs
Top tips: sexually transmitted infections (part 1)
Dr Toni Hazell provides 10 top tips on sexually transmitted infections—part one of this two-part series covers general history taking, with a focus on chlamydia
Case-based scenarios to help you with your diagnosis of a range of clinical conditions based on common symptoms
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
Rashes in children: what’s the diagnosis?
Dr Jennifer Parkhouse unravels four case studies covering several diagnoses of childhood rashes and explains 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
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
Key learning points: GP revalidation guidance
Dr Honor Merriman highlights five things GPs need to know about the updated requirements for supporting information for appraisal and revalidation
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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
The junior doctor contract: a trainee’s perspective
View from the ground, by Dr Sarah Merrifield
If the shoe were on the other foot
View from the ground, by Dr Sarah Merrifield
Let’s talk co-sleeping
View from the ground, by Tamsyn Crane
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
Key learning points: NICE stroke and TIA
Dr Ivan Benett identifies five key learnings for primary care from the new NICE guideline on stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
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
New standards for IBD aim to improve patient experience and outcomes
Dr Kevin Barrett and Jackie Glatter discuss how the new IBD Standards encourage a patient-centred framework for safe, consistent, high quality, personalised care
Hypertension: the role of the practice pharmacist
Muhammad Siddiqur Rahman explores how pharmacists can help adults with hypertension meet their blood pressure targets and optimise their medication
Top tips: supporting the patient who self-harms
Dr Dominique Thompson provides 10 top tips on recognising self-harm and how to help reduce the risks of further self-harm or suicide