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🌱 GP 🎶 GP Update Presenter 📚 Views are my own, and preferably south facing

London, England
Joined October 2013
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This week GP @PrattsSteven joins @nikkendrew to talk about the new Netflix show #Headspace ‘Guide To Meditation’. Have we found a new resource that we can share with our patients? Also, what’s the latest on low carb diets and #type2diabetes ? Listen: buzzsprout.com/1300702/78178…
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Latest Pearl: Caring for Patients Living with HIV. Effective antiretroviral treatment made HIV a chronic disease rather than a death sentence, but the disease and treatment mean increased risk of comorbidities & adverse events: gp-update.co.uk/updates #HIVTestingWeek #primarycare
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Last minute places still available for our next live-hosted GP Update Together event coming NEXT THURSDAY. Join us for 6 hours of the latest updates & live interaction from our award-winning studio! Sign up here: ow.ly/x1Rg50Dpf8X #primarycare #medicaleducation #gpupdate
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Well here’s a bit of personally exciting news...
Curious about the facts behind some of the medical stories covered by the press and online? Catch insight weekly from Dr. Nik Kendrew @boggleddocs on Boom Radio - with Jane Markham in the afternoon.
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Latest Pearl - COVID-19 Update. Early 2020 we produced a Pearl with everything we knew about the new virus COVID-19. Almost a year later it's still at the forefront of our lives, but we now know much more than we did then. ow.ly/yHvJ50Dcysc #primarycare #medicaleducation
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Part of the Footsteps Festival 2021, @livewellpain presents Step Into Singing – free online workshops for people living with persistent pain - fortnightly from Tue 26 Jan. Workshops led by opera singer Marie Claire Breen and suitable for all levels! ow.ly/nIOv50DcBNw
Did somebody say GRIN model? 😉 nitter.cf/boggleddocs/status/134…
GRIN: Goals Resources Increments &Noticing what works Goals can work rather better than threats @jen_unwin has taught me well!
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Seeing many doctors overwhelmed this week - exhausted, burnt out, scared, angry, grieving, traumatised, anxious, depressed, hurting, flat... whatever you are feeling you are not alone, there is help out there, please reach out, txt FRONTLINE to 85258 @NHSPracHealth @TheDA_UK
Latest Pearl - Motivating behaviour change & @lowcarbGP David Unwin's GRIN model. Interventions in #primarycare can make a real difference to patients making changes in their behaviour. @nikkendrew introduces, full article here: gp-update.co.uk/updates #medicaleducation
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My #rightfulrespect tonight goes to all the parents who’ve had to rejig schedules, work weird hours and learn how to edit pdfs on an iPad without editing Miss Honey’s master copy 👏 👏 👏
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These moments are fleeting, but just for a little bit, we are number 8 in the Apple Podcasts GB medicine chart! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has listened so far, we’re beyond grateful and completely blown away!! xx
You can have a go at the #millionpoundquestion that we asked @drfritchie : “According to the Oxford Handbook of GP. Tennis elbow has tenderness over which epicondyle, and pain on which resisted movement.” The answer is revealed in our Christmas episode: buzzsprout.com/1300702/69877…
10%Medial & wrist pronation
42%Lateral & wrist extension
5%Medial & wrist extension
42%Lateral & wrist pronation
40 votes • Final results
Digging deep as I enter Christmas week; praise be to the supportive medical text @amateuradam
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✨Pop in for a brill charity Christmas concert with @MaggiesCentres on 13th Dec, featuring Lulu and @londonoriana choir, and including some amazing guests and me [insert comma where you like there ] ✨
Join us for a festive performance on Sunday 13th December for @maggiescentres Carols in the Kitchen, a free virtual carol concert in support of people with cancer. Register now for a perfect festive family evening bit.ly/2GtQ80H #carolsinthekitchen
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My current read has me looking for more entry level poetry. Many thanks @heidi_regan 👏😂
Replying to @heidi_regan
This one is about the elusiveness of beauty.
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Episode 9: It’s a Fine Line...Nik and I discuss the @SocialDilemma_ - how social media affects human behaviour and mental health. Please rate and review! @nikkendrew @boggleddocs
We like to start with a giggle! Have a great weekend. #TeamGp #primarycare #LoveGPs #socialdilemma You can listen to the whole episode here: buzzsprout.com/1300702/65720…
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Thanks @NTLive for a great show of One Man Two Guvs! What a pleasure to watch and donate #donate Let’s keep the POSITIVITY going #PROVID 🎭
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Great outing to the Tooting Vampires with enjoyable travel chat over the tea and biscuits with the fellow gifters. People are good 💫@GiveBloodNHS 💉 @StGeorgesTrust #teamgp
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