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  The Ashya King case highlights the importance of doctor-patient dialogue

  9 Sep 2014: Zara Aziz: As doctors, we need to reflect on how to improve communication with patients when our health beliefs collide

• ‘I want a renaissance in community-based services’

  Guardian Professional, 5 Sep 2014: Michelle Drage, chief executive of Londonwide LMCs and a GP, believes the sector needs more time with patients

• Gay people report worse experiences with GPs

  4 Sep 2014:

  Study finds gay, lesbian and bisexual people are more likely to report communication problems and have less trust in their GP

• Antibiotics wrongly prescribed by many GPs, survey finds

  19 Aug 2014: Doctors giving out antibacterial medication, even when unnecessary, to satisfy patients or cover uncertain diagnosis

• The business model for GPs is busted. How can we fix it?

  Guardian Professional, 15 Aug 2014:

  Family doctors are calling for extra funding, but money will not tackle the issues facing primary care, writes Roy Lilley

• Cancer patients dying early because of postcode lottery

  15 Aug 2014:

  Delays mean that in some areas of England cancer patients have up to a 61% higher risk of dying within a year of diagnosis

• Unsafe GP surgeries told: improve or be shut down

  14 Aug 2014:

  Any deemed unsafe will be given time to remedy situation before Care Quality Commission makes final ruling

• NHS diabetes treatments in England cost more than £800m last year

  12 Aug 2014:

  Impact on health service of type 2, weight-related, diabetes prompts call to divert sugary foods' VAT to weight plans

• GP practices are struggling but it should not be the patients who take the strain

  8 Aug 2014: Ann Robinson: The government and doctors must fix the healthcare system, not limit access for patients, as a surgery in Halifax has done

• What happens to the excreted drugs you flush down the toilet?

  8 Aug 2014: Doctors should take into account the ‘downstream’ effects on the environment when they prescribe drugs, suggests a scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency

• More must be done to cut unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, say experts

  5 Aug 2014:

  Worst-performing GP surgeries hand out twice as many drugs for coughs and colds, finds Public Health England and UCL

• How important is it to trust my doctor?

  27 Jul 2014:

  Luisa Dillner: Whether you have faith in your clinician can drastically affect your health when it matters most

• Statins guidance to GPs is a victory for vested interests over evidence

  18 Jul 2014: Kailash Chand: Nice’s advice is based on drug-company-sponsored trials. People at low risk of heart attacks are better off walking more and eating less processed food

• At life's end: dying painlessly and peacefully is the goal of most

  17 Jul 2014: As the assisted dying bill goes to the Lords, doctors explain how most wish for palliative care, friendship and dignity at the end

• Edward Snowden urges professionals to encrypt client communications

  17 Jul 2014:

  Exclusive: Whistleblower says NSA revelations mean those with duty to protect confidentiality must urgently upgrade security

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