Conferences and more your Digital Primary Care update 4.7.20

Contact us and share your opinionJoin Andy and Gandhi as they explore attending online conferences in our post COVID world including a sneak peek at our own:  S1 FBUG SystmOne Online Summit: https://bit.ly/S1FBUG2020 🔴 Subscribe: https://bit.ly/eGPlearningYTsubscribe 🔴  Welcome S1 FBUG SystmOne Online Summit: https://bit.ly/S1FBUG2020 Join in before all the early bird tickets go. Today...Exploring an issue from the news this week….Controversy around RCGP comments that COVID19 is a lifestyle disease…http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/why...http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/rcgp... Plus further details on the exciting up coming S1 FBUG onlineThe apology…https://twitter.com/rcgp/status/12768... The articles… http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/rcgp...Event held in coop with sport england Caused controversy around the term… Lifestyle disease Promoting the event, the RCGP had said: ‘Covid-19 is a communicable virus but it is also a lifestyle disease. Obesity, diabetes and other lifestyle diseases are associated with poorer outcomes from infection.' Caused controversy on twitter resulting in apology RCGP virtual conference titled ‘Covid-19: A lifestyle disease and the vital role GPs have in beating it’ Most risk factors identified by PHE are NON-MODIFIABLE - BAME increases risk of death by 10-50%, male gender, certain types of employment where homeworking/distancing difficult. DM & HTN may also be risk factors, and life style is a factor here, but the link to COVID outcomes becomes stretched. http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/rcgp...Event held in coop with sport england Promoting the event, the RCGP had said: ‘Covid-19 is a communicable virus but it is also a lifestyle dise