Health and safety in general practice.

Effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness of homeopathy in general practice - summarized health technology assessment.

INTRODUCTION The Health Technology Assessment report on effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and appropriateness of homeopathy was compiled on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office for Public Health (BAG) within the framework of the 'Program of Evaluation of Complementary Medicine (PEK)'. MATERIALS AND METHODS Databases accessible by Internet were systematically searched, complemented by manual sea...

Patients' and carers' perceptions of safety in rural general practice.

OBJECTIVES To explore patients' and carers' experiences of rural general practice to identify their perceptions of safety of care. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Four focus group interviews were conducted with 26 rural patients and carers in south-west Victoria between September and December 2012. Frequent users of general practice were recruited from local allied health self-management pro...

Sexual health in general practice: introductory skills.

Digital mental health services in general practice.

in the community, third-sector and statutory organisations, can all contribute. For general practice and primary care this will certainly require different training and more resources. The experience for all could be quite different: an individual with ‘stress’ booking straight into their choice of groups run by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services; a patient with psychos...

Sexual health delivery in general practice.

Lactobacillus and thrush prevention A randomised controlled trial1 has dashed the hope that eating, or putting preparations of lactobacillus into the vagina, prevents thrush. The aim of the study published in the British Medical Journal was to test whether oral or vaginal lactobacillus could prevent postantibiotic vulvovaginitis. The study recruited women aged 18–50 years with nongynaecological...