I don't write blog entries very often, so today I went to a talk by Nicola Morgan at the Society of Authors - all about blogging. She began blogging out of anger, she said, and has been an obsessive blogger ever since. Well, now I'm angry: during her talk, one of my medical colleagues emailed me the dreadful news that journalist Marie Colvin was dead...
Osama Bin Laden, North Africa and the Middle East, Japan, the Royal Wedding... With world events competing for headlines, nobody's paying any attention to the Ivory Coast, these days. But the miserable situation there continues, one consequence being a desperate medical crisis with a complete absence of basic medicines at most hospitals. For us, this has been brought into sharp focus by requests we've received from news correspondents for individual cases needing urgent medical supplies. We'...
Since the beginning of January, we have been extremely busy with flu vaccination. Vaccine shortages elsewhere have meant that our drop-in service has been running at full stretch, with patients attending from all over the UK. Many of them are people who belong to the traditional NHS high-risk groups. We’ve also seen large numbers of pregnant women. There have been many small children, as well as people from all walks of life who simply wish to avoid flu this winter. We’ve been fortunate to...
With all the attention being focused on flu vaccine, it is easy to forget about the benefits of early treatment with anti-viral drugs, for people of all ages who actually develop symptoms of flu. In fact, the Department of Health has recently had to remind GPs to consider this option more often.
We have become so conditioned over the years to thinking of flu and other viral illnesses as being untreatable. Yet there is clear evidence from earlier phases of the swine flu pandemic...
We've been working hard behind the scenes to upgrade our premises. Refurbishment of our basement area is almost complete, including new Men's and Ladies' loos. Next will be two new consulting rooms on our upper floors, which will improve our capacity and reduce waiting times when things get busy.