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Jul 24, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Public service announcement thread:
1- If asked when contacting your GP Practice if you have any respiratory/infection symptoms (cough, fever congestion etc), please don’t say no and then tell the GP about them when you’re in their office.
Covid is still around and you are 1/
putting other patients (potentially vulnerable), staff and GPs at risk- we are risk-assessing by asking you screening questions to decide on level of PPE required or whether better to do phone consult to minimise risk- this is the new normal and will get worse as winter comes 2/
Apr 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Numbers of patients visiting GP is still lower than it should be, people avoiding GP and delaying treatment, collateral damage from #Covid19. But what worries me more is the hidden reason for going to the GP, the cue that the GP picks up on with a patient who they’ve known for 1/
years that something is
a bit off that’s prompts the question ‘is everything ok?’ with a sympathetic look. This often reveals the real reason for the appointment, that that person is struggling, be it with a medical, social, psychological or mental health problem. These are 2/
