S5 E12: Does less GPs matter? PCNs & continuity; best drug in T2DM after metformin

NB Hot Topics Podcast

English - May 17, 2024 07:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB
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Previous Episode: S5 E11: AF, Hypertension & Future Cardiac Disease; DRE and Prostate Cancer Screening: Is It Time to Stop? Interview with Amy Rylance & Sam Merriel

Next Episode: S5 E13: The "We're Making It Up" Election Song; Post-attack asthma f/up; Repeat Antibiotics for Cough; Aspirin After Breast Cancer

Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode we think about the GP workforce courtesy of four papers in this month's BJGP - does more GPs boost life expectancy (of the patients...)? do PCNs help health inequalities? is practice-based continuity as good as individual continuity?

For a more directly clinical update, we look at new research in the BMJ on which is the best oral option in T2DM after metformin. Can the SGLT2 inhibitors prove their worth?

References

BJGP Does the shortage of GPs matter?
BJGP PCNs, deprivation and funding
BJGP Continuity in GP
BJGP Continuity in Norwegian GP
BMJ Best drug after metformin in T2DM