Working with colleagues and great curry!

Another good GP meet up last night, we shared fantastic curry and current dilemmas. As one of us has had to let go a partner and another has resigned from her partnership. Both had issues to do with being able to work with colleagues in practice. Tough decisions but we all agreed both had done the right thing.

Shingles vaccine and norovirus vaccine on the horizon, nursing homes and home visiting.

We covered a lot of ground!

Austerity and NICE

The GP group were in decidedly sombre mood, talking about austerity cuts and effects on patients. We discussed effects of diet poor mental health and effect on kids of the budget cuts. We discussed what we could do about it and how to raise awareness of the plight of our already disadvantaged patients.

There was more throwing hands in the air at current NICE guidance regarding tamoxifen for at risk women. Several of us had heard the Inside Health article about the recommendations and agreed with the GP on the show.

We also managed to share dilemmas regarding colleagues and partnerships. A productive if rather depressing couple of hours.meeting in July , accidentally not recorded until september as it hadnt saved