Antony Willman

Ministry of Defence uk · Defence Primary Healthcare

Introduction eConsult has recently been introduced into Defence Primary Healthcare to allow Service Personnel of the British Armed Forces and their dependants improved access to healthcare. This review sought the views of primary care clinicians using eConsult. Method An 18-item survey was constructed after an initial scoping survey. This was then...

Introduction Alongside traditional attendance at learning, general practitioners use social media and Web 2.0 tools in the UK for continuous professional development (CPD). Research has demonstrated, however, barriers to their uptake and use, as well as a requirement for training. Primary care doctors working for the Defence Primary Healthcare (DPH...

Abstract Introduction Practice-Based Small Group Learning (PBSGL) is a system for continuing professional development introduced into Wessex Region Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) as the Salisbury Plain PBSGL group in 2012. This is a mixed intraprofessional group comprising general practitioners (GPs), GP trainers, general practice specialist reg...

Perimenopause is a hot topic in the UK mainstream media, with celebrities championing the cause and a new selection of books being published on the topic. Little is known, however, about the experiences of women serving in the UK Armed Forces while transitioning through perimenopause. This mixed-methods survey aimed to evaluate women's current expe...

Perimenopause is a hot topic in the UK mainstream media with celebrities championing the cause and a new selection of books being published on the topic. Little is known however about the experiences of women serving in the UK Armed Forces while transitioning through perimenopause. This mixed methods survey aimed to evaluate women's current experie...

The educational benefits of Practice-Based Small Group Learning (PBSGL) are well known. The Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom employs a salaried healthcare workforce across the globe with staff frequently moving. Given the success of PBSGL in Canada and Scotland, PBSGL was introduced as a large pilot to assess it as a continuous professiona...

Introduction: With increasing numbers of women serving in the UK Armed Forces and better retention of women into their 40s and 50s, it is inevitable that serving women are being affected by the perimenopause (PMP) yet there is no information about the numbers affected or their experiences serving through it. This survey aimed to gather information...

Academic Department of Military General Practice, Defence Primary Healthcare, Birmingham, United Kingdom An evaluation of Practice-based small group learning as a method of continuous professional development after its introduction into Defence Primary Healthcare. A cross sectional survey was undertaken with both quantitative and qualitative compo...

Background Recorded consultations are a useful tool for developing general practice specialty trainees (GPST) consultations skills and have become more widely utilised following changes to GPST exit examinations and development of the Recorded Consultation Assessment (RCA). Attitudes and acceptability of utilising this method for developing consul...

Healthcare. Abstract The educational benefits of PBSGL are well known. Defence employs a salaried healthcare workforce over the world with staff frequently moving. Given the success of PBSGL in Canada and Scotland with a similar geographical spread, PBSGL was introduced as a large pilot to assess it as a form of CPD. A survey was distributed to the...

Background Continuous professional development (CPD) is recognised as essential and mandated by the Royal College of General Practitioners and other medical professional colleges. However, it can be difficult to maintain when deployed and remote from normal training and support structures. There is no literature directly discussing how military doc...

A letter to BMJ Mil Health describing our experiences of using opportunistic questioning about domestic abuse using the HARK tool.

Introduction eConsult has been recently introduced into Defence Primary Healthcare to allow patients electronic access to healthcare. Using mixed methods, this service evaluation sought the views of primary care clinicians using eConsult. Methods A two-phase sequential exploratory mixed-method approach was used. An inductive thematic analysis of f...

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. There is increasing ownership of smartphones in the UK. These provide a portable and convenient way to access the Internet and to run a variety of applications. Amongst under- and post-graduate students they are used increasingly for educational purposes. Despite widespread ownership...

There is increasing ownership of smartphones in the UK. These provide a portable and convenient way to access the Internet and to run a variety of applications. Amongst under- and post-graduate students they are used increasingly for educational purposes. Despite widespread ownership, barriers may exist preventing General Practitioners from using t...

Medical Officers are often called to review violent or disturbed soldiers in barracks or in their homes. Management of the acutely disturbed soldier differs from the acutely disturbed civilian in that, whilst drug therapy will be largely similar, application of the Mental Health Acts (1) varies depending on the soldier's situation and, in some case...