How To Hack The NHS is a UK-based healthcare podcast with one simple goal – to make modern healthcare work for you. The show has a general practice focus and is presented by General Practice Business Manager Bex Cottey and GP Dr Tano Rebora. For more information please visit https://howtohackthenhs.com/
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Hosts Bex and Tano answer listener questions about GP-related topics, focusing on mental health and available resources, in this Q&A episode.
14 Nov 2024
How is Technology Helping General Practice?
Bex and Tano are joined by Kieran Baker (NHS South Yorkshire ICB) and Dr Dr Satya Raghuvanshi (Head of Clinical at AccuRx) to discuss how digital solutions are helping clinicians to care for their patients. Unfortunately, Satya's sound is a little murky, but we think the quality of the discussion makes it worth persevering.
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15 Oct 2024
Five Minute Check-Up: Technology in Primary Care
In our latest five minute check-up, Bex and Tano discuss the growing role technology plays in NHS primary care.
In an upcoming episode, we will expand on this topic with a couple of special guests.
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30 Sept 2024
Five Minute Check-Up: RSV Vaccination
In our latest five minute check-up, Bex and Tano discuss the latest addition to the winter vaccination - the RSV vaccine.
What is RSV and why should you consider the vaccine? Join us for this brief explainer.
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4 Sept 2024
How To Make A Complaint
How do you make a complaint regarding NHS primary care services? And what is the impact when you do? We discuss a range of scenarios and our approach to managing complaints.
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21 Aug 2024
Five Minute Check-Up: GP Receptionists
A recent online commenter referred to GP receptionists as "the punching bags" of the practice? Ours have been called even worse. But from our perspective, reception is the heart of the practice team and our skilled receptionists are valued team members. So why are they so unfairly maligned?
In our latest short bonus episodes, Tano and Bex discuss this absolutely vital role and condemn the unfair abuse they so often receive.
Resources:
"If I Die It Will Be Your Fault"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ru4QhVZ2a8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ru4QhVZ2a8)
An absolute much watch video, providing an insight into what healthcare teams - and especially receptionists - encounter every day.
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25 Jul 2024
How To Get The Most From Your Doctor's Appointment
Doctor's appointments can be stressful. You will likely have between ten or fifteen minutes to discuss your problem(s) and potential solutions. That's a lot less time than you think! Bex and Tano discuss strategies for maximising your experience with the GP and provide tips to help you get the most out of your visit to the surgery.
Our medical section is a summer special! But instead of beaches and pools, Tano and Bex have chosen to focus on less enjoyable aspects of the season, namely hay fever and insect bites!
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3 Jul 2024
Five Minute Check-Up: Medication Shortages
Where have all the drugs gone?
In our new series of short bonus episodes, Tano and Bex discuss medication shortages. Learn what general practice is doing to make sure patients don’t come to harm as a result of supply problems — and what you can do to help!
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10 Jun 2024
Who Might I See And Why? Introducing The General Practice Team
Everyone is familiar with GPs and general practice nurses - but who are all the new faces in primary care? And what do they bring to the table?
We introduce some of these newer roles - nurse associates, first contact physios, physician associates, emergency care practitioners, and many more - and explain what they do and why you might find yourself sat in a consulting room with them instead of a GP or nurse.
In our medical section, Tano and Bex discuss the challenges of weight management and outline what to expect from a consultation concerning your weight.
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7 May 2024
What Is Your GP Actually Doing?
A quiet waiting room does not mean your GP is putting their feet up and enjoying an easy day. Face-to-face appointments with patients may be our bread and butter, but they are only the tip of a growing workload iceberg.
In this episode, we explore what goes on behind the scenes in general practice and explain why there's a lot more to the GP's role than seeing patients, as important as that is.
In our clinical segment, Dr Tano Rebora digs deep into one of our most commonly encountered problems: diarrhoea. How can you improve your symptoms? What will a GP consultation entail? When should you worry? Tano answers all these questions and more.
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1 Apr 2024
Why Can’t I See My GP?
It’s the number one question we get asked in general practice:
Why can’t I see my GP?
This is a huge topic and one we’ll be returning to throughout the series. In this episode, we’ll be laying the foundations to help you understand why primary care is struggling and how you can navigate the system.
In our clinical segment, Dr Tano Rebora discusses erectile problems and explains why this common men’s health issue is really worth getting an appointment with your doctor about.
RESOURCES:
The NHS Budget And How It Has Changed | The King's Fund (kingsfund.org.uk) (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/nhs-budget-nutshell)
NHS: Key Facts And Figures | The King's Fund (kingsfund.org.uk) (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/key-facts-figures-nhs)
The NHS in a nutshell | The King's Fund (kingsfund.org.uk) (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/projects/nhs-in-nutshell)
Real-terms GP funding 'slashed by £350m in four years' | GPonline (https://www.gponline.com/real-terms-gp-funding-slashed-350m-four-years/article/1858299)
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/erection-problems-erectile-dysfunction/ (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/erection-problems-erectile-dysfunction/)
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/sexual-and-reproductive/erectile-dysfunction-impotence/ (https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/sexual-and-reproductive/erectile-dysfunction-impotence/)
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23 Mar 2024
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How To Hack The NHS is a brand new podcast with one simple goal – to make modern healthcare work for you. The show is presented by General Practice Business Manager Bex Cottey and GP Dr Tano Rebora. It is produced by Dr David Coleman.
The theme tune is "The Urban Gentry" by Beat Mekanik. It is used here under a CC BY license and available via The Free Music Archive.
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