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Hypertension Management in General Practice: A Complete 2025 Guide
Hypertension affects over 1.28 billion adults worldwide and remains the leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. This comprehensive guide covers the latest NICE NG136 updates, threshold targets, drug selection algorithms, and management of resistant hypertension in primary care.
Dr. Sarah Mitchell·10 Mar 2025Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: From Diagnosis to Insulin Initiation
ECG Interpretation for GPs: A Systematic Approach to the 12-Lead ECG
Diabetes Lifestyle Management: Beyond the Prescription Pad
Obesity & Weight Management in Primary Care: A Complete Clinical Framework
NICE vs WHO vs AHA: When the Guidelines Disagree — A GP's Field Guide
How to Read a Clinical Trial: RCTs, NNT, Confidence Intervals & the 5 Questions Every GP Should Ask
Dr. Marcus Chen·14 Apr 2026Shared Decision Making in 10 Minutes: How to Present Risk, NNT, and Treatment Options to Patients Without a Statistics Degree
Dr. Priya Nair·14 Apr 2026All Articles
Hypertension Management in General Practice: A Complete 2025 Guide
Hypertension affects over 1.28 billion adults worldwide and remains the leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. This comprehensive guide covers the latest NICE NG136 updates, threshold targets, drug selection algorithms, and management of resistant hypertension in primary care.
Dr. Sarah Mitchell10 MarType 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: From Diagnosis to Insulin Initiation
Type 2 diabetes affects over 537 million adults globally. This guide covers the complete GP management pathway — from HbA1c-based diagnosis and lifestyle intervention through metformin initiation, SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP-1 agonists, and insulin initiation protocols.
Atrial Fibrillation in General Practice: Detection, Anticoagulation & Rate Control
Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, affecting 2–4% of the general population and rising sharply with age. This guide covers opportunistic detection, CHA₂DS₂-VASc scoring, DOAC selection, rate vs rhythm control, and when to refer.
Antibiotic Prescribing in General Practice: A Stewardship Guide
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest threats to global health. GPs prescribe approximately 80% of all antibiotics in the UK. This guide covers evidence-based prescribing for the most common GP infections — RTIs, UTIs, skin infections, and ear/throat conditions — with NICE-aligned protocols.
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Primary Care: QRISK3, Statins & Beyond
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death globally. QRISK3 is the validated tool for 10-year CVD risk estimation in UK primary care. This guide covers who to screen, how to interpret QRISK3, statin prescribing thresholds, and lifestyle interventions.
ECG Interpretation for GPs: A Systematic Approach to the 12-Lead ECG
The 12-lead ECG is one of the most powerful diagnostic tools in general practice. This systematic guide covers rate, rhythm, axis, P waves, PR interval, QRS complex, ST segments, and T waves — with a focus on the patterns GPs must not miss.
Managing Depression and Anxiety in General Practice: A Practical Guide
Depression and anxiety are the most common mental health conditions in primary care, affecting 1 in 4 people at some point in their lives. This guide covers validated screening tools, NICE-aligned stepped care, antidepressant selection, and crisis pathway management.
Chronic Kidney Disease in General Practice: Staging, Monitoring & Slowing Progression
CKD affects approximately 10% of the global population and is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and end-stage renal failure. This guide covers KDIGO staging, monitoring intervals, ACEi/ARB prescribing, anaemia of CKD, and referral criteria for primary care.
Paediatric Fever Assessment in General Practice: The NICE Traffic Light System
Fever is the most common reason for paediatric GP consultations. The NICE NG143 traffic light system provides a validated framework for risk stratification. This guide covers the green/amber/red system, serious bacterial infection recognition, meningococcal disease, and when to admit.
Low Back Pain in General Practice: Evidence-Based Assessment and Management
Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide and one of the most common presentations in general practice. This guide covers red flag screening, the biopsychosocial model, analgesia ladder, physiotherapy referral, and avoiding the imaging trap.
Thyroid Disorders in General Practice: Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism & Nodules
Thyroid disorders are among the most common endocrine conditions in primary care. This guide covers TSH interpretation, hypothyroidism management with levothyroxine, hyperthyroidism (Graves disease, toxic nodule), subclinical thyroid disease, and thyroid nodule assessment.
Sepsis Recognition and Management in General Practice: The NEWS2 Approach
Sepsis kills approximately 11 million people globally each year. Early recognition and the Sepsis Six bundle within the first hour significantly reduce mortality. This guide covers NEWS2 scoring, sepsis red flags, the Sepsis Six, and safe transfer from primary care.
Diabetes Lifestyle Management: Beyond the Prescription Pad
Pharmacotherapy alone cannot reverse the trajectory of Type 2 diabetes. Structured lifestyle intervention — encompassing dietary pattern, physical activity, sleep quality, stress physiology, and behaviour change science — can reduce HbA1c by up to 22 mmol/mol and achieve remission in a significant proportion of patients. This guide gives GPs the clinical tools to prescribe lifestyle with the same precision as medication.
The DiRECT Trial & NHS Low Calorie Diet Programme: A GP Implementation Guide
The DiRECT trial overturned decades of clinical nihilism about Type 2 diabetes — proving that remission is achievable through structured weight loss alone. 46% of participants achieved T2DM remission at one year without any glucose-lowering medication. The NHS Low Calorie Diet Programme now makes this intervention available to GPs across England. This guide covers the trial protocol, the biological mechanism, patient selection, referral pathway, and how to manage the consultation.
Obesity & Weight Management in Primary Care: A Complete Clinical Framework
Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, neurobiological disease — not a lifestyle choice. The Edmonton Obesity Staging System reframes obesity management around functional impairment rather than BMI alone. GLP-1 receptor agonists have transformed pharmacotherapy, achieving 15–22% weight loss in trials. This guide gives GPs the clinical framework to assess, stage, treat, and refer patients with obesity using the best available evidence.
NICE vs WHO vs AHA: When the Guidelines Disagree — A GP's Field Guide
NICE says treat at 140/90 mmHg. AHA says 130/80 mmHg. WHO says 140/90 mmHg but with different drug choices. Your patient is sitting in front of you with a BP of 135/85 mmHg. Who do you follow? This guide cuts through the noise — comparing NICE, WHO, AHA, ESC, and other major bodies on the clinical questions that matter most in primary care, explaining why they diverge, and giving you a framework for making defensible, patient-centred decisions when the guidelines don't agree.
How to Read a Clinical Trial: RCTs, NNT, Confidence Intervals & the 5 Questions Every GP Should Ask
A trial is published. The headline says "Drug X reduces heart attacks by 25%." Your inbox fills with patient queries. A colleague changes their prescribing. Should you? This guide gives GPs the statistical literacy to read any clinical trial critically — understanding RCT design, absolute vs relative risk, NNT, confidence intervals, p-values, and the five questions that separate practice-changing evidence from noise.
Dr. Marcus Chen14 AprShared Decision Making in 10 Minutes: How to Present Risk, NNT, and Treatment Options to Patients Without a Statistics Degree
Your patient has a 10-year cardiovascular risk of 12%. You want to start a statin. The trial shows a 30% relative risk reduction. You say this. They hear "30% chance of a heart attack." The consultation derails. Shared decision making is not about dumbing down the evidence — it is about translating it into the language of lived experience. This guide gives GPs the specific tools, scripts, and visual frameworks to present risk, NNT, and treatment options in a way that genuinely informs patient choice — in the time available in a real consultation.
Dr. Priya Nair14 AprAccess the Full Clinical Reference
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