Pragmatic prescribing: why GPs offer beta-blockers for anxiety, despite guideline gaps

GPs’ perceived benefits of beta-blockers for anxiety underscore a need for further research and updated clinical guidance to align practice with evidence.

Beta-blockers like propranolol are being prescribed more often for anxiety in UK primary care, even though they don’t appear in national guidelines. This new qualitative study explores why GPs turn to them, and what that says about evidence, safety, and patient choice.

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Are the current approaches to treating traumatised kids actually making them better?

Teddy bear in war zone

More and more research is telling us about the long-term negative consequences of trauma and adversity in childhood with correlations between childhood trauma and poor mental and physical health outcomes across the lifespan. So, it makes sense that there should be a good evidence base for treating the effects of childhood trauma. In February this [read the full story…]