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@ICGPnews 1897 GPs & GPNs registered for our monthly webinar. Adolescent obesity, eye infections & viruses in GP. Chat line filling up with questions. @CarrollJennifer @HSELive

RT @DrNeilStone: My home country Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 NO cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women following HPV immunisation! None!…

@illonaduffy @ICGPnews Recognise some faces there that have stayed the course and some new young faces that will keep general practice vibrant and attractive. @HSELive @CarrollJennifer

@mike0callaghan GP medicine has been transformed & become more complex (&interesting) in recent years. As well as increased follow up of tests and referrals and bureaucracy we have a heavy CPD load just to keep up to date. CPD is always out of hours or weekends.

@itsthatgirlsuzi Paradoxically Grad Entry may aggravate inequity. Debt such doctors accrue is enormous. Affects career choices by forcing them into high income technical specialties. Need financial supports for grad entrants going into GP esp in deprived urban and rural areas.

New year resolutions hitting GP practices. @ICGPnews @PracticeNurses 1880 GPs and GPNs registered for webinar. Hypertension in young people, ever present diabetes and antenatal care. Happy New Year to all.

Wow! Hits the nail on the head. This editorial traces the deprofessionalisation of NHS general practice. The legacy of austerity, bad politics and a proud profession caving in to box ticking. @BJGPjournal @ICGPnews @HSELive DOI:

@Ellebelles1 There is a barely suppressed anti doctor culture in some hospitals. Expresses itself on our junior doctors. Easy targets. Our senior doctors need to take more interest in their welfare. Hospital boards & management cannot hide from their responsibility.

@Dr_BellaR I’ve been a GP for 45 years. Many of my patients call me ‘Tom’. And call my other younger male and female colleagues by first names also. I value it. We’re partners in their health story. Lowers barriers I think. More democratic.

This is a remarkable piece of writing from an ED physician about handling a difficult and unusual case in a way that helped everyone- including herself. Worth a read this Christmas.

RT @itsthatgirlsuzi: The impact of RSV vaccine is enormous! No babies in #PedsICU < 5 months as all vaccinated - it’s wonderful 🏆 Lots of…

Appeal to medical students and young doctors from a GP. Please consider child and adolescent psychiatry as a career. Families are desperate for help; we need urgent help for teams to respond to their needs. Go abroad to see how they do it but please come back.

@ritakj I think hospitals should ask GP practice managers about running their OPDs. We regularly have 150 - 200 patients booked in each morning by appointment. By and large it works and certainly no one has to wait an hour. Hospital management needs to start managing.

@ICGPnews had the last of our monthly webinars for 2024 tonight. 1800 GPs and GPNs on line to hear about topics as varied as chronic pain and the diagnosis of sepsis - has a mortality of 20%. A good year for GP that faces 2025 and a new Health Minister with confidence.

@HealthyIreland “79% of people reported having visited a GP in the last year, with an average of 4.4 visits per person among all aged 15 and older.”Private patients 3.2 pa. This was my practice this morning : 191 patients before we opened the doors. @HSELive @ICGPnews

@KellyMatshall The simplicity of his and Pat’s headstone is at odds with others in the City cemetery.

@milnem @westcorkhisfest Was that Mary Elmes or one of her family?

I’m morphing over to @todowd@bsky.social to see how it goes. Give me a follow and we can blow bubbles.

A fellow grandfather talked about the second anniversary of his daughter’s death. He batch cooks every week for her young twins and their dad. All I can do really he said. Men show love in many ways I told him and this is your way.