Month: February 2018

In the midst of the twittersphere furore surrounding Johann Hari’s high-profile book Lost Connections, stating that there are better alternatives to antidepressants, patients and practitioners around the country are unheard as they wrestle with difficult decisions. Sadly, as clinicians, we often don’t share our worries with patients, and vice versa. Prescription rates continue to rise.… Continue reading Difficult decisions about antidepressants, a person centred approach to untangling the evidence. A sceptical physician’s perspective – Richard Byng

Session 3: Organisational support for person centred approaches and scaling up. “System change – working with multiple local initiatives and top down policy dictats: Exploring context and capabilities for Integrating Care” This workshop entailed the beautiful and relevant and experiment to get a diverse set of stakeholders that mostly did not know each other to… Continue reading Reflection on primary care conference Nov 2017 – Felix Gradinger