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NB Hot Topics Podcast — 108 episodes
S7 E9: Best DOAC for VTE; Muscle loss with GLP1s; CDSSs - why don't we use them?
S7 E8: Longevity of THR; GLP1a for Addiction; Analgesia for Kids
S7 E7: Stopping Anticoags After Ablation; Spinal Manipulation for Back Pain; Talking About Dying
S7 E6: Weight Regain with GLP1ra; Orforglipron; Ivermectin vs Permethrin
S7 E5: Christmas Special - Empathy in GP, an interview with Dr Andy Ward
S7 E4: Social Media & Cognitive Development; Urine vs Smear for HPV; Tai Chi vs CBTi For Sleep
S7 E3: Anti-Ds side effects; knee OA exercise; PSA trends & PCUK interview with Dr Bunmi Olajide & Kevin Howell
S7 E2: "Not Phone-Calling" song; AIR for kids; SCAN for cancer; GP number trends
S7 E1: Best BP Meds; Preventing End-Stage CKD; ADHD & Risky Behaviours
S6 E13: "When the IT Went Down" Song; Anti-Emetics for Kids Gastro? Methotrexate for Knee OA?
S6 E12: Anti-Ds for Insomnia; SSRIs & Hypotension; Cancer Cures
S6 E11: Exercise & Colorectal Cancer; IBS & Amitriptyline; SGLT2i & Liver Disease
S6 E10: GPs vs PTSD; GLP1s vs PAD; Exercise vs Cancer
S6 E9: Interview with Dr Stephen Bradley on CXR rates in GP & lung cancer; orthostatic HYPERtension; overactive bladder tests
S6 E8: "The NHSE Song (Quango in the Wind)"; BV treatment; GLP1a for alcohol; GIP for prediabetes
Hot Topics Interview: Dr Helen Salisbury, GP & BMJ columnist
S6 E7: CVA with COC; Safety Netting; Antivirals for Flu
Hot Topics Interview: Dr Euan Lawson, GP & Editor of the BJGP
S6 E6: Hybrid Working; Antibiotics for Appendicitis; Patient Decision Aids for AF
S6 E5: "Granny's Not Invited to Christmas" song
Hot Topics Interview: Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer, GP & Chair of the BMA General Practice Committee England
S6 E4: Chocolate Against Diabetes; 30 Year CVD Risk Prediction; Digital Access for Minoritised Ethnic Communities
Hot Topics Interview: Dr Claire Fuller, GP & Primary Care Medical Director for NHS England
S6 E3: "GP Trainee ARRS Song"; Semaglutide & Knee OA; SLGT2i & Kidney Stones; Interview with Drs Alex Norman & Oliver Hulson on role of PSA Testing
S6 E2: Acute Migraine; Prostate Cancer Screening; 1st Contact Physio
S6 E1: SGLT2i & Dementia; De-Escalating Anti-Platelets Post-MI; RSV Vaccination
S5 E15: Nasal sprays for the common cold; what is 'full time GP'; walking for back pain
S5 E14: Discontinuing Antidepressants; Helping Persistent Symptoms; CVD In the UK
S5 E13: The "We're Making It Up" Election Song; Post-attack asthma f/up; Repeat Antibiotics for Cough; Aspirin After Breast Cancer
S5 E12: Does less GPs matter? PCNs & continuity; best drug in T2DM after metformin
S5 E11: AF, Hypertension & Future Cardiac Disease; DRE and Prostate Cancer Screening: Is It Time to Stop? Interview with Amy Rylance & Sam Merriel
S5 E10: Doctors Are Cheaper than Nondoctors; Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Under-Recognised; Helping Older People Stay at Home
S5 E9: “The Strike Song”; Maintaining Weight Loss; Exercise & Depression; Microplastics in Your Arteries
S5 E8: "Pharmacy First Song"; Rehab for Long Covid; Urate to Predict Acute Gout
S5 E7: Patient Experience of General Practice; Weight Loss and Cancer; Testosterone and Fractures
S5 E6: "Signing Scripts For Xmas" song; "Great Expectations - time required to deliver BMJ’s 10 minute consultations": interview with Dr Stephen Bradley & Dr Alice Harper
S5 E5: Interview with Prof Hazel Everitt - amitriptyline for IBS; methotrexate for hand OA; leaflets for LUTs
S5 E4: Interview with Prof Miriam Santer on BMJ Spironolactone for acne in GP; physician associates; once-weekly insulin; tirzepatide vs insulin for T2DM
S5 E3: "Three Coats" song; interview with Dr Jessica Watson on BJGP "WHY Test" study; rosuva vs atorvastatin; DNA cancer blood tests
S5 E2: Hot Topics 25th birthday interview with Simon Curtis; semaglutide in heart failure and obesity; nurse-led sleep restriction therapy for insomnia
S5 E1: GP motivations; morning after pill & NSAIDs; cancer risk with non-erosive GORD
S4 E16: "Summertime Blues" song
S4 E15: Donanemab & Alzheimer's Disease; Diet Against Dementia; Weekend Exercise; Opioids & Acute Back Pain
S4 E14: The Stethoscope Song; HRT & Dementia, HF Monitoring, New Obesity Meds
S4 E13: JOMT: CVD with Dr Jim Moore; Methotrexate Monitoring, Opioid Withdrawal Strategies
S4 E12: "GP Access Song"; JOMT Interview with Dr Matt Doyle on Allergy; Predictors of Post-covid fatigue; Peanut allergy patch
S4 E11: Inflammation vs Cholesterol and CVD; Bempedoic Acid; Coffee & Tea for T2DM
S4 E10: "The Grass Ain't Always Greener" Song; Removing QOF, Caffeine & Acute Cardiac Issues; New Menopause Drugs
S4 E9: "Do The Maths" song; JOMT interview - Dr Sam Merriel talks about prostate cancer; also antibiotic resistance, nitrofurantoin failure, kidney stones
S4 E8: JOMT Interview with PCRS chair, Dr Katherine Hickman; pushing bad pills, eye drops for myopia, CVD risk prediction in cancer survivors
S4 E7: NHS in crisis, still... Molnupiravir for acute covid, healthy lifestyle for dementia, patient perspective on FIT
S4 E6: The GP Wonderland Song
S4 E5: Thinking distal DVTs; High dosage in Heart Failure; Just One More Thing... Rachel Ainley discusses IBD
S4 E4: Continuity; maternal mortality; Just One More Thing: Sarah Davies discusses diabetes
S4 E3: Pension Song #1; BP meds at night?; CVD screening; "Future of General Practice" report; patient record access
S4 E2: Gestational Diabetes, CVD risk & modifiable factors; roflumilast for psoriasis; bronchodilators for non-COPD smoking symptoms
S4 E1: Supplements + sweeteners aren't good for your health, autoimmune disease & CVD risk, statin & muscle pain, open source diabetes
S3 E15: Gout and CV events; early identification of colorectal cancer; barriers to shared decision making in multimorbidity
S3 E14: The "Sorry, I'm Not Sorry" Song; bye bye Boris; prescribing for anxiety, bariatric surgery to reduce cancer, RSV vaccine
S3 E13 - "Plans for change", Panorama and Partnership; NICE Traffic Lights, internet based CBT for trauma; opioids post-surgery
S3 E12 - Monkeypox song; more about monkeypox; keeping the frail mobile; preventative medicine - what is it good for?; treating mild hypertension in pregnancy - right or wrong?
S3 E11 - Self-monitoring BP in pregnancy, ezetimibe or PCSK9 inhibitors for CVD risk & a treatment for alopecia! Plus interview with Aarti Bansal & Veena Aggarwal on Improving Asthma Care & Sustainability in the NHS
S3 E10 - How racism influences guidelines: interview with Dr Dipesh Gopal; does a 4th covid vax work? acute covid complication risk, breast pain & cancer, UTI & Abx, iron supplements
S3 E9 - The RCGP Membership Fee Song; Working weekends; Covid in hamsters; The Triple F*** Syndrome; Child mental health; Recurrent UTIs
S3 E8: The end of covid; accuracy of lateral flow tests; new DVT algorithm; remember Zika?
S3 E7 - Covid blues song; racism, nationalisation, incentivisation; new covid drugs; does continuity help?
S3 E6 - Stating the obvious, treatment time after VTE and CVA; best meds for obesity
S3 E5 - The Omicron song, vaccine clinics and what we've achieved this year
S3 E4: The RTI surge song, NICE depression or not, Long Covid guidance, balloon bariatric surgery
S3 E3 - Rescuing ourselves with a shared vision; funding GP & multimorbidity; empagliflozin for HFpEF; AF - to screen or not to screen
S3 E2 - The press, corporations & conspiracies; ondansetron for kids with gastro; PHQ9, what is it good for?
S3 E1 - Heath secretaries, COVID boosters, Quadpill for BP & Cannabis for pain
S2 E16 - Blood bottle crisis; community covid treatments; rotator cuff injury; FIT testing for cancer
S2 E15 - Self-isolation, Freedom and GP; Drug Optimisation for the Multimorbid; Antispasmodics for Low Back Pain
S2 E14 - Crisis of identity in GP; implantable arrythmia monitors for AF; wearable glucose monitors for diabetes
S2 E13 - Wounded animals
S2 E12 - Remote consulting and the state of GP; Antidepressant withdrawal techniques; Blood pressure lowering for normotensives; Vagus nerve stimulation after stroke
S2 E11 - Headaches, AZ and Thrombosis; Green Light for Inhaled Steroids in GP; Risk of death on discharge post-COVID
S2 E10 - Inhaled steroids for COVID in GP; risk of COVID in adults with kids; 3 days of antibiotics for pneumonia; more semaglutide stuff
S2 E9 - Long COVID in kids, statins and muscle pain, health inequalities and consultation length
S2 E8 - GP and the Environment - interview with Terry Kemple; BP meds & falls; Semaglutide & weight loss; a little COVID...
S2 E7 - Variants and the vaccine; GP Contract, Obesity and Surgery; Anti-depressants for OA; Parental Burnout
S2 E6 - Mutant covid, the success of GP and covid vaccinations, clowns in hospitals and merry Christmas!
S2 E5 - Covid vaccines, the story continues... & BP meds and statins for 100 year olds.
S2 E4 - COVID Vaccines and missing data, PCN DES and the Committee of Horribly Absurd Orders, SSRIs for acute mild COVID, Cancer Delay and Death
S2 E3 - COVID Skin Signs, Long Covid Rates, Dad Jokes
S2 E2 - Trump's Treatments, The Committee of Pointless S**t, Gliflozins for All
S2 E1 - Covid symptoms in kids, antibody durability, gut instinct and the power of continuity
S1 E20 - Schools, Boris bikes, Obesity and Vaccines
S1 E19 - Immunity and T cells, Post-COVID Syndrome
S1 E18 - Antibody tests, dexamethasone and the coming 2nd wave
S1 E17 - Race, riots and inequality; faked hydroxychlorquine research; face masks; NEWS in GP; liraglutide for childhood obesity
S1 E16 - Children, coronavirus and Kawasaki-like disease; Hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and cardiac arrest; antibody testing; non-coronavirus research!!!
S1 E15 - Coronavirus Special: Do The Drugs Work?
S1 E14 - Coronavirus Special: The Future for General Practice
S1 E13 - Coronavirus Special: Saving Lives and the End of Life
S1 E12 - Coronavirus Special: Covid-19 in the Community
S1 E11 - Coronavirus Special: Lessons for General Practice
S1 E10 - Coronavirus Special: Making General Practice Great Again
S1 E9 - Coronavirus pt.3, Salt and BP, Eggs and CVD, Why All Blood Tests are Wrong
S1 E8 - Coronavirus pt.2, Propranolol Overdose, CKD screening, Big Data and GP
S1 E7 - Coronavirus, Isolated Diastolic Hypertension & Varicella Booster
S1 E6 - Alcohol and AF, Colchicine and Cardiac Events, Anti-virals and Influenza
S1 E5 - Cholesterol Levels in Younger Age Predicting Future Risk, Dyspepsia Strategies, Once-monthly POP
S1 E4 - Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure, Melatonin for Insomnia, Suspended Animation
S1 E3 - Medical Cannabis, Vestibular Rehabiliation, Bempedoic Acid, Measles and Immunity
S1 E2 - Ranitidine, Night-time Anti-hypertensives, Once Weekly Statins, Genome Editing
S1 E1 - Childhood Obesity, eCigarettes & Exoskeletons