HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: General Practice

General Practice current awareness bulletin

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December 2025

Artificial intelligence in medical education: potential and pitfalls

Basic fracture management in general practice

Challenges to timely access to out-of-hours end-of-life medications: a qualitative study in UK primary care

A clinical decision tool including a decision tree, point-of-care testing of CRP, and safety-netting advice to guide antibiotic prescribing in acutely ill children in primary care in Belgium (ARON): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised, controlled trial

Delivering spirometry in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic via diagnostic hubs

Delusional infestation: an evidence-informed approach for general practice

Diabetes and hearing loss: call to action for early detection and prevention

Evolution of the general practice receptionist role and online services: a qualitative study

Factors influencing primary care physicians recommending patients to use digital health technologies for self-management: a cross-sectional study across 20 countries

A fall prevention program integrated in primary health care for older people in rural China: the FAMILY cluster randomized clinical trial

First conversations about voluntary assisted dying in general practice

General practice, mental health and the care of people with cancer

Grassroots development of interprofessional primary care teams: a qualitative study in Canadian family practices

Improving cervical screening uptake in under-served patient populations

Is a long-simmering crisis boiling over? U.S. primary care today

Is your team making the most of electronic patient records? Electronic health record systems are often underused in the NHS but they have the potential to save staff time and improve productivity

Medical culture: how it affects general practitioners’ wellbeing and what needs to change

Preparing patients for travel: a primary care perspective

The primary care puzzle: the concierge cure?

Protecting travellers from vaccine-preventable diseases

Seven reasons why GP consultations are getting more complex

Systemic Janus kinase inhibitors in inflammatory dermatoses: a primer for general practitioners

Trends in the shortfall of English NHS general practice doctors: repeat cross sectional study

What happens in general practitioner consultations? A study of video-recorded Australian general practitioner consultations

Sources

Australian Journal of General Practice (Oct-Nov); BMJ (Sep-Oct); British Journal of General Practice (Oct); European Journal of General Practice (Sep); JAMA (Sep); Lancet (Oct); NEJM (Oct); Primary Health Care (Oct)

October 2025

Art and the humanity of general practice

Barriers and facilitators to antidepressant deprescribing – a qualitative interview study with general practitioners in Germany

Barriers and facilitators to primary care staff conducting research – a qualitative systematic review

Bed poverty: effects on child health—and the doctor’s role

Effectiveness of educational interventions in improving antimicrobial dispensing by community pharmacists: a systematic review

Effectiveness of screening and ultra-brief intervention for hazardous drinking in primary care: pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial

Evaluation of clinical services in community pharmacy (report by RAND Europe)

General practitioners’ decision-making strategies in the pharmacological treatment of musculoskeletal pain: a qualitative interview study

General practitioners’ perspectives regarding suicide prevention: a systematic scoping review

‘I felt I belonged’: a qualitative study of role modelling and team integration as key drivers of primary care career choice

Initial assessment of infertility in primary care

Is it possible to screen for primary aldosteronism effectively in primary care?

Opioid agonist therapy for opioid use disorder in primary versus specialty care

Overweight and obesity management (new NICE guidance QS212)

A narrative approach for the management of low back pain in general practice: an in-depth patient interviews study

Parotitis: an approach for general practitioners

Public health strategies and community resources to address social isolation and loneliness in older adults

A review of prostate cancer focal therapies in general practice

Unintended consequences of using ambient scribes in general practice

We can know more than we can tell: how do general/family practice supervisors work with their tacit knowing?

Sources

Australian Journal of General Practice (Aug-Sep); BJGP Open (Jul); BMC Medical Education (Aug); BMJ, The (Jul-Aug); Clinical Endocrinology (Aug); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (Aug); Cochrane Library (Aug-Sep); European Journal of General Practice (Jul-Aug); NICE website (Jul-Aug); RAND Europe website (Jul)

August 2025

Are house calls making a comeback?

B-phosphatidylethanol testing to identify hazardous alcohol use in primary health care—a game changer and a challenge for general practitioners: a qualitative study

Care in the era of digital health: experiences from Norwegian general practitioners

Community care navigation intervention for people who are at risk of unplanned hospital presentations (new Cochrane intervention review)

COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing COVID-19 (updated NICE guideline NG191)

Differences in use of telemedicine integrated into traditional primary health care

Effect of UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performance programme on quality of primary care

Evaluating general practitioners' focused lung ultrasound competence and findings in patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia in general practice

Exploring colorectal cancer patients' diagnostic pathways and general practitioners' assessment of the diagnostic processes: a Danish survey study

General practitioners' barriers to cross-sectoral collaboration on pregnant women with vulnerabilities: a cross-sectional survey in Danish general practice

Headaches in over 12s: diagnosis and management (updated NICE guideline CG150)

Medical encounters with young unaccompanied refugees: a qualitative study among general practitioners and physicians in migrant health clinics in Norway and Denmark

Nurse-led atrial fibrillation clinics in primary health care: a review of the evidence

Optimising the use of general practice medical records to support preconception care: a qualitative study

Paediatric care in general practice: case mix, referral patterns and healthcare costs

Putting the patient first: should general practitioners start people with probable Parkinson’s disease on levodopa while awaiting diagnostic confirmation?

Reviewing long-term opioid use in patients experiencing chronic pain in general practice: activating patients and supporting clinical decision making

Suspected cancer: recognition and referral (updated NICE guideline NG12)

Validation of point-of-care tests used at in-home assessments among older adults in primary care

'You would rather not fill your body with pills'—patient perspectives on polypharmacy and medication reviews by pharmacists in general practice

Sources

Australian Journal of General Practice (Jun-Jul); BMJ, The (Jun); Cochrane Library (Jun); NICE website (May-Jun); Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care (Jun)

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