Take one GP. Put him or her in a room with a whiteboard. Add one interested hospital clinician, a DHB manager and funder and, voilà, you have the ingredients for a successful recipe
It's uncanny the music you hear when put on hold. It's like discovering the final resting place for hits by groups like 1990s Euro-pop group Aqua, famous for atrocities such as 'Barbie Girl'
If the funding formula for general practice was a human called Fat Charlie, he would be an affable fellow, not perfect (who is?) and sporting a dilapidated suit
So, you've decided to tackle the famous Cornerstone process, the pinnacle of practice organisational achievement, to reach the dizzy heights of being one of those 200... sorry 230 (the figure increases by the day) practices who have entered the hallowed halls of Cornerstonism
Driving to work on a Monday morning you vaguely register a radio news item reporting an increase in local hospital admissions over the weekend - a particularly nasty flu bug is to blame
Driving to work on a Monday morning you vaguely register a radio news item reporting an increase in local hospital admissions over the weekend - a particularly nasty flu bug is to blame
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management