Rose Laing, part-time GP and clinical lead for collaborative care (shared care planning) for Canterbury Clinical Network, ponders the complex demands on practices as secondary care seeks to shift services into primary care
Rose Laing, a Christchurch GP and GP liaison and clinical lead for Collaborative Care (shared care planning) under Canterbury Clinical Network, has encounters of the frustrating kind
When the headline screamed out “Flesh eating bugs at Melbourne beach”, I was struck with a vision of sunbathers succumbing to necrotising fasciitis (or “fascists”, as my spellcheck would have it)
At a rate of 3.9 per 100,000 a general practice team might see meningococcal meningitis once every 20 to 30 years, writes Bill Douglas, yet it continues to destroy lives of patients and healthcare workers
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