There’s a useful short video from the people at the Love Your GP site about why you can’t – well actually the fact that you can! – get an appointment with your GP. The video is also on YouTube …
Seeing Your GP
10% of Prescribed Drugs “Useless”
A review, ordered by the government in 2018 and published this week, concludes that overprescribing is a major problem.
The review found that one in 10 drugs dispensed by GPs and pharmacists are pointless and potentially harmful. Moreover around one in five hospital admissions in over-65s are caused by the adverse effects of medicines – the more medicines someone takes, the greater the risk of unwanted or harmful effects.… more >>>
Organ Donation Trial
The NHS is to run a large trial of an approach that could boost number of organs available for transplant, and the transplant success rate. If it works, potentially thousands of lives could be saved as the demand for transplants vastly exceeds the supply of useable organs.
The plan is to give organ donors a cheap statin after the donor is declared brainstem dead and the relatives have consented, but before their organs are removed.… more >>>
Rare Diabetes Diagnosis
The NHS is planning to use genetic testing to help diagnose thousands of people who have a rare inherited form of diabetes.
The condition, monogenetic diabetes, makes up one in fifty diabetes cases, but it is difficult to diagnose or distinguish from the more common types of the condition – type 1 or type 2 diabetes.… more >>>