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The number of people not in education, employment, or training in the UK, especially among the young, is much higher than in most of Europe. Are we as GPs to blame and actually causing part of the problem?

This article does not touch on our ability to state 'may be fit ', which I would suggest applies to a very large proportion o...


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Goyder et al highlight the fundamental importance of addressing structural missingness to improve cardiovascular outcomes.1 If improvement is to be achieved consideration must also be given to wider determinants of health and support offered to address these.

Williamson and team have subsequently co-designed a suite of ...


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Goyder and colleagues have carved the concept of diagnostic liminality out of patients' journeys to a heart failure diagnosis.1 Their key finding is that being given the disease label does not, on its own, release patients from this suspended state. Truth-telling and careful explanation, through sense-making, enable the escape. We want t...


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I read with great interest the study by Edwards et al on safety-netting communication during telephone consultations.1 Their careful analysis provides valuable insights into when and how safety-netting advice is delivered, documented, and recalled by patients.

The authors understandably focus on safety-netting as a form of commun...


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Calderón-Larrañaga and colleagues offer an important national analysis of social prescribing for people at high risk of type 2 diabetes. Referrals increased after national roll-out and were more common among people living in deprived areas, current smokers, people with obesity, multimorbidity and depression or anxiety.¹ In a prevention l...


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