by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Jan 23, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Winter Wellness: Tips for Staying Strong This Season Being in the midst of a so called quademic (a wave of winter virus’ including flu, RSV, norovirus and COVID-19) and numbers rising exponentially in our hospitals, the media seems to be reporting on very little...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Dec 5, 2024 | Blog Post, General
Beyond the Tears: Understand and Coping with Grief “Whenever we think about loss, we need to think about love” Julia Samuel As a palliative care doctor who has worked in cancer care for over thirty years, I have experienced my fair share of death both...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Nov 14, 2024 | Blog Post, General
Prescribing Wellness: Lifestyle Medicine by GP’s Perhaps it will come as no surprise to anyone, that I applauded the recent news that GP’s were urged to embed lifestyle medicine into primary care at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) annual...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Oct 24, 2024 | Blog Post, General
Powering Change: How the Third Sector is Shaping a Better Future The “third sector” of medicine represents a crucial component of our healthcare system here in the UK. But what exactly is the third sector and why is it so vital to the NHS? Primary care is...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Oct 3, 2024 | Blog Post, General
The Silent Epidemic of Chronic Pain Pain is the most common reason that people attend their GP and affects 1 in 4 people – approximately 28 million people in the UK. By definition chronic pain is a persistent condition which lasts more than three months. It can...
