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Latest news - Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Northern Ireland invests £26m in general practice services

GPs say increased investment will enable more practices to begin transforming the way they deliver services

AF nearly a fifth more likely in smokers’ adult offspring

New association ‘offers new evidence to motivate smoking avoidance and cessation’ to reduce global burden of atrial fibrillation

Half of student midwives might quit courses over money worries

Government must give back student midwives’ bursaries to help tackle huge shortage of midwives, warns RCM

Industry has had too much say over junk food ad rules

Doctors warn industry has unduly influenced decisions – and Ofcom shouldn’t lead on issue as it has commercial interests

Higher daily nut consumption linked to lower weight gain

Less weight gain and lower incidence of obesity among people who ate more nuts of any type, despite their high energy density

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Blogs

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

Chris Preece proposes an NHS Climate Change Quiz - worth 2 CPD points, or 2,000 if you actually prevent the apocalypse…

Are PCNs what we all imagined?

Luke Koupparis looks at whether PCNs are turning out to be all they were hyped up to be

On The Pulse - August 2019

Childhood antibiotic exposure predictor for subsequent response failure

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Views

Social Prescribing Link Workers AKA ‘The Glue in Health and Social Care’

Social Prescribing Link Workers have become a crucial new profession and their impact has been acknowledged by a growing number of NHS hospitals, as evidenced by several initiatives

For sale to the highest bidder? Future trade deals and the NHS

Is the NHS up for sale, and could a post-Brexit trade agreement with the USA lead to the privatisation of the NHS? Kate Ling, senior European policy manager at the NHS Confederation gives her views.

Live Facial Recognition: avoiding the pitfalls

As the multiple applications of LFR technology emerge, including in the medical sector, barrister John Goss outlines some of the issues surrounding its use

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ESC 2019 Clinical Practice Guidelines: What’s new?

An overview of the 5 new clinical guidelines presented at this year’s European Society of Cardiology Congress - Stay up-to-date with the latest changes!

Learning

Bell’s palsy

A review of the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of the most commonly documented cause of facial nerve weakness.

Sudden weakness of the face

A 45-year-old man presents with a sudden onset weakness down the left side of his face. His sensation is slightly reduced and he reports that food tastes different to usual. What’s the diagnosis?

Drug and Therapeutics Update – 20th September

NICE recommends lanadelumab for recurrent attacks of hereditary angioedema in final draft guidance; EMA begins review on ranitidine medicines following detection of NDMA

Hyperparathyroidism: presentation, diagnosis and management

A clinical review of the third most common clinical endocrine disorder after diabetes and thyroid disease and for which surgery is the only curative therapy

Primary hyperparathyroidism

A 53-year-old lady presents with tiredness and non-specific malaise. The blood tests came back as showing mild hypercalcaemia and suboptimal vitamin D levels (54 nmol/l). Subsequent bloods showed her to have a raised parathyroid hormone

Posterior knee pain

Posterior knee pain consists of a myriad of structures which can each give rise to similar symptoms. This article goes through the anatomy and relevant pathologies with treatment modalities detailed. It intends to demystify the approach to posterior knee pain with a structured approach

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