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GP. Tweeting in a personal capacity.

[mcd @dalzc]

@markataylor16 @HealthFdn Please remember the patients who are waiting for medical specialist assessment and management, not just those waiting for surgical procedures.

[mcd @dalzc]

Robin Harland Prize from Queen’s University, Belfast has been awarded to Medical Student tutor Dr Gray and the whole Coagh practice team.

[mcd @dalzc]

40 years a doctor

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

PLEASE Don’t follow the advice of The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Rt Hon Theresa Coffey @theresecoffey

Only use prescribed antibiotics
Finish the course
Don’t use left over antibiotics
Never share with others

(Share widely)

[mcd @dalzc]

@DamianFog @clo13 @PeterSharpe1 @drciaramulligan @AlanStout19 @laurence903 @RNeilABlack Good news. For years prescribing advisors scolded us for using ezetimibe as combination therapy.

[mcd @dalzc]

Northern Irish go to Ireland for surgery while Irish go to Spain. Oh my!

[Laura Durcan @Rheum2improve]

Well this is mortifying.....

https://t.co/MDKiohxun9

[mcd @dalzc]

@rcgp_ni @laurence903 Sorry to have missed it - on holiday!

[mcd @dalzc]

@EimearDarcy Monitoring diary date for annual review, not just HbA1c but BMI, BP check and healthy lifestyle advice - same for pre-diabetics also.

[mcd @dalzc]

Doocashel washed clean #lovedonegal

[mcd @dalzc]

@markataylor16 @dmg243 @EatAtDeanes @UlsterRugbySP @KingspanStadium @PortstewartProm Much older than you Mark and still at the coalface. Hurrah for this part-time working GP lark! Enjoy your birthday weekend. #GPatheart

[mcd @dalzc]

Not the worst Saturday to have an enforced “stay at home” #SixNations2022

[mcd @dalzc]

@laurence903 @rcgp_ni After 32 years as a GP and advocate for my patients, I despair. Will the necessary reforms to our Health Service ever happen?

[Alan Stout @AlanStout19]

Accountability key. Those on w/l account for about 20% of GP contacts often leading to even more referrals, prescribing etc. not to mention frustration.
A direct point of contact with Trust and transparent information would be fundamental change

[mcd @dalzc]

⁦@rcgp_ni⁩ “green inhaler” policy successfully instituted in our practice last year despite Covid restrictions. Thanks for a talk at annual conference highlighting the issue. https://t.co/Y2NMMb6YlD

[mcd @dalzc]

@GPNIreland @BMANI_GP @rcgp_ni Salaried GP opportunity Coagh Medical Centre. Please consider working in rural Mid Ulster.

[mcd @dalzc]

Hoping for a brilliant match!

[mcd @dalzc]

@HSCBoard @rcgp_ni @BMANI_GP Practice stats. Face to face contacts at pre-Covid level, phone first contacts 25% higher, all the organising for and administering Covid and flu vaccines, staff and dr shortages. To also have to count/report every contact is beyond impossible.

[mcd @dalzc]

@RobinSwannMoH A few of the many seen by me today- 2 elderly ladies with head injuries, one wrist fracture, one dvt, one child with fitting episode, one acute abdomen. All “didn’t want to bother services at a weekend when everywhere is so busy”. I’m distraught on their behalf.

[mcd @dalzc]

@rcgp_ni @BMANI_GP 308 flu vaccines given yesterday to our very appreciative patients. Huge thanks to practice manager, receptionists and clinical staff who gave up their Halloween Saturday to facilitate this. Same again next week and then it’s Covid booster time.

[mcd @dalzc]

@nigelhart @DamianFog Think the “when to refer” part of the guidance is more useful than the “when not to refer”