Wessex LMCs Podcasts

The Wessex Healthier Together website provides advice for parents, young people and pregnant women, and clinical resources to support healthcare professionals – which means that children are likely to receive consistently high-quality care, irrespective of which healthcare professional they see. Sanjay Patel, Paediatrics Infectious Diseases Consultant at Southampton Children's hospital who leads the Healthier Together programme, joins us to discuss the resources available in further detail to help change parental help seeking behaviour. The Healthier Together app aims to change the health-seeking behaviour of parents by providing them with the tools to evaluate the severity of their child’s illness when they are poorly. Only by your practice formally onboarding will your patients have full access to the functionality of the app. We encourage practices to get onboard before the rise in winter respiratory viruses. If you have any queries or require further support to onboard, please contact ahmadc@cenigma.net https://www.healthiertogether.nhs.uk/

Dr Steph Carter and Dr Claire Hodgekiss, both GP Partners in Hampshire discuss the projects they have been involved in to improve their practice service for both patients and staff. Steph’s practice worked on improved access for patients. By creating a better workplace culture, the team worked together to achieve improved capacity and safe general practice care. Claire describes how her practice took back control of the number of daily contacts to improve patient care, with a focus on same day access. We encourage anyone listening to this podcast to think about these safe working projects and hope this inspires your practice to go through a process of change.

Dr Laura Edwards talks with Dr Gemma Langman, Clinical Champion for Learning Disability and Autism for the Hampshire and IOW ICB.  Gemma has a passion for neurodiversity and explains more about the modalities of autism. She also provides tips for clinicians to improve consultations and best support patients with autism. The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism

----more----Dr Laura Edwards talks with Dr Gemma Langman, Clinical Champion for Learning Disability and Autism for the Hampshire & IOW ICB. This discussion aims to bring awareness and increase understanding and confidence in dealing with patients with learning disabilities.  Wessex LMCs: Learning Disabilities: The Annual Health Check

Wessex LMCs Medical Director Dr Edd Rendell, and Nurse Advisor Zoe Tobin, talk to Cherry Alvian, Paediatric Allergy GRID registrar at University Hospital Southampton about Egg allergy in children, including – New guidance around the management of mild cases of paediatric egg allergy in primary care Guidance and considerations around vaccinating children with a confirmed egg allergy Signposting to relevant sources of support and guidance for both health care professionals and parents of Egg allergic children. Further resources mentioned in the podcast can be located here https://www.healthiertogether.nhs.uk/new-parent-and-baby/allergic-reaction

Figures from consumer research group 2San show that 1 in 3 people in Southampton initially look for medical advice on socials instead of from a GP. In this radio interview, Wessex LMCs Joint CEO, Dr Laura Edwards, talks to Global News about how this affects the NHS.

Alex Morgan continues the discussion with Sharjeel Qureshi and they dig a little deeper into how it feels to be training as a GP in a different place and culture. Sharjeel shares experiences about racism, religion and culture and offers some techniques for IMGs to help them overcome challenges. "Spend a Penny" booklet to share with International Graduate GP trainees.

Dr Will Howard talks to Dr Sharjeel Qureshi & Dr Alex Morgan about hosting an International Medical Graduate (IMG) in your surgery as a training GP.  Dr Alex Morgan (Team Communication Specialist, International Coach and Coach Supervisor) elaborates on why and how teams & individuals behave as they do, Dr Sharjeel Qureshi (GP Partner, Near to Peer Support Fellow NHSE, Dorset LMCs’ Committee Member) brings real & personal examples, and Dr Will Howard summarises with a list of hints and tips for practices. "Spend a Penny" booklet to share with International Graduate GP trainees.  

GP Dr Camilla Janssen talks to Richard Roope about FIT tests, their use in screening as well as for the symptomatic population. Also covered are the new colorectal referral pathways including recent changes, such as the FIT -ive referral route. Discussions include appropriateness of requesting and interpreting FIT tests in different clinical situations, i.e. with rectal bleeding, change in bowel habits, acute infection and when taking iron supplementation and the importance of safety netting. Here is the link to the information on the Wessex Cancer Alliance website, including useful links that can be sent to patients regarding the FIT tests and result interpretation, as well as Wessex lower GI pathways and flowcharts.  Symptomatic FIT - Welcome to Wessex Cancer Alliance  The final part of the discussion covers the "Rapid Investigation Service" as well as the "Cancer of Unknown Primary" 2WW pathways. Awareness is raised regarding the high incidence of false -ive results with different tests and the importance of remembering this, when interpreting results in the clinical context.

Imposter Syndrome is the experience that many high-achieving people have of feeling a fraud, of not deserving their success, a fear of being ‘found out’, of not being as competent as other people think they are.  It is characterised by chronic self-doubt, feeling phoney, attributing success to luck or other external factors, feeling unable to live up to expectations, etc. The best evidence is that it effects women more often than men and people from humble origins more than those from more privileged backgrounds.   In this podcast, Dr Edd Rendell, Medical Director at Wessex LMCs, speaks with John Perry, a counsellor and coach,  about tips for coping with Imposter Syndrome.