This week’s rant (because there’s a least one a week now!!) is about the endless bureaucracy and paperwork that we all suffer with…….don’t you just love the clip boards and their hi-viz jackets wandering around telling us what we should and shouldn’t be doing?!!

We’re heading into 2018 and things in GP-Land haven’t looked this glum for a while. Demand from patients versus resources available, recruitment/retention issues for GPs, a practice nurse crisis and we have employees ready for retirement but not enough newly qualifieds to take over. Need I go on?

  I’ve been struggling with some wheeziness and a fairly grim cough that just won’t go away recently. Living in Cornwall is lovely (most of the time), but some rented properties we’ve stayed in have had more than their fair share of mould spores (there’s a bit of damp around in the walls…. sea fret…

What is it with the minutes between Friday at 6pm (or 7pm or 8pm… whenever you get to finish) and Monday 6am, 7am, 8am (whenever you get to start) that means those minutes in between go quicker than you can say ‘seasonal influenza vaccination’.

“Joey was sniffing for days and moaning about a headache. Now it’s Friday and he’s not here. There’s a Robbie Williams concert in town tonight!”

By Nicola Davies Well here we are again, smack bang in the middle of the ‘flu season’ – it doesn’t half roll round quickly. Or is it just that I’m getting older and the months are flashing me by in a haze of hot flushes/emotional instability/mood swings and a need for chocolate (mmm…yes I think I…

Kids/children/young people.  Whatever you want to call them.  I have them too.  I love them. The other day my older son asked me what is it like to have children?  So I interrupted him every nine seconds until he cried… seriously… I’m one of those mums, I love my own kids but other people’s kids,…