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Latest Episodes

Podcast | Singing in the brain; music for dementia
May 09, 2019

London’s Wigmore Hall is a temple of high culture. The audience is packed with musicians. Sometimes I feel I’m the only person who couldn’t be up there performing the work. But recently I joined forty people, some able, some less able,

Podcast | The Sessional GP magazine April 2019
April 10, 2019

Richard reviews the latest edition of The Sessional GP magazine. In our 106th edition, Liz takes us through five taxing days, Nigel has some top tips for locums on getting a mortgage, Louise reviews the latest SIGN guidance on alcohol in pregnancy,

Podcast | I’m a GeriGP
March 19, 2019

NASGP member Eva Kalmus describes how she became co-chair of the new GeriGP group of the British Geriatrics Society (BGS), and why being a portfolio GP has never been boring. When I did my GP training, about half of the GP trainees undertook a self-mad...

Podcast | Eating people is wrong: Kuru and cannibalism
March 07, 2019

Recently, in Tromsø, the Arctic capital of Norway, I came across the name Carleton Gajdusek. That name took me back many years and halfway round the globe to a village in the Fore district of Papua New Guinea.

Podcast | The Sessional GP magazine February 2019
February 14, 2019

Richard reviews the latest edition of The Sessional GP. In this 105th edition, Sara concludes her article on a fresh pair of eyes; Judith would rather we didn't eat each other; Rachel has some news on medical indemnity; Liz answers your Type-2 queries;...

Podcast | Saying farewell to social media
January 23, 2019

Scroll down to the bottom of the page to listen to our podcast with  Zoe in conversation with Richard Fieldhouse on her journey to a destination that's almost completely free of social media. I was an early adopter of social networking,

Podcast | Getting under your skin; a visit to Body Worlds and the art of plastination
January 08, 2019

As I was shepherded into a dimly-lit lift, I was expecting an exhibition designed to titillate and shock. How do you react to seeing a man standing, flayed of his skin, his internal organs on view, his muscles brick red,

Podcast | Oh, you’re a GP locum; the rise of the portfolio GP
December 18, 2018

Zoe Neill had begun to feel trapped as a GP partner. She describes her journey, and speaks to Richard Fieldhouse in our latest podcast. Time was when the look of disappointment from a GP colleague would have got me down.

Podcast – No es fácil: clinical electives in Cuba - NASGP | The art of GP locuming
January 03, 2018

Few things in Cuba are easy. Most countries faced with what Cuba has lived with for more than half a century would be failed states. Cuba keeps going, with hardship and sacrifice, but a shared vision. The reputation of Cuba’s health service – providing...

Podcast | The Sessional GP Magazine December 2017 - NASGP | The art of GP locuming
December 12, 2017

Richard and Sara run through the December edition of the Sessional GP Magazine 2017. In our 98th edition, Liz clarifies your tax schedule, Nigel has great news for locum parents; Judith's Cuban experience, Kelly's turning her experience to the benefit ...