General practitioners Blog Posts

• Reasonable adjustments in primary care for people with learning disabilities

  22 May 2014

  • Matt Hoghton

  
• Why do GPs over prescribe benzodiazepines? Synthesis of qualitative studies

  15 May 2014

  • Sarah Knowles

  
• Black patients’ first contact with mental health services is more likely to be coercive

  23 Apr 2014

  • John Baker

  
• WEAVE RCT: GP training, but not screening, may benefit women who have experienced intimate partner violence

  15 Nov 2013

  • Susie Johnson

  
• Do people stop smoking if their doctor advises them to? Cochrane review says sometimes and it IS worth the effort

  29 Aug 2013

  • Matt Field

  
• Reducing variation in prescribing activities in primary care

  23 Jun 2013

  • Caroline De Brún

  
• Commissioning a good child health service

  05 May 2013

  • Caroline De Brún

  
• More guides to help GPs commission mental health services

  24 Jan 2013

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Teaching GPs about depression and suicide can help reduce the risk of suicide in depressed older adults, says new RCT

  07 Nov 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• New guides to help GPs commission mental health services

  08 Feb 2012

  • Andre Tomlin