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GP Appraisals, Quality assurance of appraisers, involving: Standard specifications, contracts and training guidance. Competency frameworks. Review of feedback from apprai...
Genetic Counselling - a Guide for GPs, This type of testing could provide a large amount of information about a range of disease susceptibilities for individuals, rather than the targeted use...
Other community-based services, including (where appropriate) services provided by GP practices that go beyond the scope of the GP contract. Rehabilitation services. Maternity ...
This is partly due to a reduction in communicative diseases, an increase in diabetes, obesity and hypertension and an increase in the average age of the population.The Government's strategy in...
Patient Online, giving patients access to their healthcare records online, became mandatory for NHS GPs in England in 2016 under the terms of GP contracts. In Scotland, Wales and ...
The drive to meet GP contract targets has encouraged GPs to prescribe increasing numbers of medicines and to chase patients who decline to take them as advised.
Financial incentives have been used to influence behaviour and are now used routinely under the existing GP contract, which makes provision for regular review of targets and incentives. Th...
When you go to the toilet to pass urine, the bladder muscle squeezes (contracts), and the urethra and pelvic floor muscles relax. Complex nerve messages are sent between the brain, the bla...
Overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome means that the bladder, which is a bag made of muscle, squeezes (contracts) suddenly without you having control and when the bladder is not full. OAB syndrom...
For example, there must be a contract in place, the data are only released to approved organisations, and restricted to specific purposes that will benefit the health and social car...
The facial nerve carries signals from the brain to make your facial muscles contract or relax. For example, the facial nerve makes you blink, twitch your nose and pout your lips.
When you go to the toilet to pass urine, the bladder muscle squeezes (contracts) and the urethra and pelvic floor muscles relax to allow the urine to flow out. Complex nerve messages are s...
The heart produces tiny electrical impulses which spread through the heart muscle to make the heart contract. These impulses can be detected by the ECG machine. An ECG may be used to help ...
If Dupuytren's contracture progresses, one or more fingers bend (contract) into the palm and you cannot straighten the finger/s. The cause is not known. In many cases it remains mild and ...
Prostaglandins help the muscular wall of the womb to contract and remove the lining of the womb during a period. In women with period pain there seems to be a build-up of too much prostagl...
To find how well the ventricles of the heart contract. Dye can be injected into the heart chambers and an X-ray video of the heart can see the dye as the heart chambers are pumping.
How do you contract gonorrhoea? Dr Rosemary Leonard MBE Gonorrhoea is caused by the germ (a bacterium) Neisseria go...
When you go to the toilet to pass urine, your bladder muscle squeezes (contracts) and your urethra and pelvic floor muscles relax to allow the urine to flow out. How common is blood in u...
Weakened bladder muscles Weakened bladder muscles may not squeeze (contract) strongly enough or long enough to empty the bladder completely. This may result in urinary retention.
The atria contract at about 300 bpm but the ventricles are unable to beat that quickly and so beat at between 75 and 150 bpm.