Ask and ye shall (not) receive
Seven days ago I blogged asking Where is the practice pay award detail? and yesterday afternoon it was published. The timing was unfortunate for GP because we’d gone to press the day before with a...
View ArticleBritain lacks talent and what are we doing to Susan Boyle?
I promise I’d never watched Britain’s Got Talent until Saturday night’s final when I joined an estimated UK TV audience of 20 million. I first heard of Susan Boyle the morning after her debut...
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Will Twitter win the election for Labour?
‘So Obama’s political tussle for reform has succeeded in uncovering what the English right wing opinion formers really think about the NHS, in a way in which present UK politics has not. The politics...
View ArticleInternet drugs: right or right now?
RCGP chairman Professor Steve Field blogs on the BBC news website today about the dangers of internet drugs. He references an exclusive GP story this summer which found that one in four GPs have...
View ArticleThe medical perils of Twitter and Facebook
Another day, another story related to social networking and medicine. On Tuesday, Healthcare Republic reported that the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS) was warning doctors to take...
View ArticleWe all love a minister who veers ‘off-message’
David Cameron has never much liked Twitter. He made that pretty clear when he warned Absolute Radio host Christion O’Connell about ‘the trouble with Twitter’ railing against ‘the instantness of it:...
View ArticleWill social media revolutionise the way doctors treat their patients?
Are you a Facebook user? Do you have a (professional) Twitter account? Do you interact with colleagues in online forums? Do you regularly read medical blogs? If you’ve replied yes to at least two of...
View ArticleShould patients post consultations on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter?
Do you remember a time before computers? Prior to their arrival in consulting rooms, people genuinely feared that GPs would spend all their time during appointments looking at screens rather than...
View ArticleWelcome to our brand new blogs on GPonline.com!
It’s been as busy few weeks for the web team as we worked hard to bring you a more modern and improved blog platform on GPonline.com. We have given our blog platform a facelift, and made quite a few...
View ArticleShould patients have their GP’s mobile phone number and email?
‘You and social media: thriving and surviving on the social superhighway’ was the title of an hour-long debate about GP use of social media at the RCGP conference in Glasgow on Friday. Chairwoman and...
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