Online GP consultations, Pre-eclampsia and could aspirin treat cancer?
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dr Mark Porter investigates the digitisation of the NHS: are online, asynchronous GP consultations the future? He visits a GP surgery in Tower Hamlets to find out how patients are getting in touch online, in their own time. Does it help improve access for patients and manage workload for busy GPs?
Manu Vatish, an obstetrician from the University of Oxford, explains that currently every pregnant woman will be tested for pre eclampsia and how a new test could help accurately identify the 4% of women who actually get the condition.
And could aspirin help in the treatment of cancer? Mark talks to Professor Peter Elwood from Cardiff University about his recent study into the evidence and to Professor Janusz Jankowski, a gastroenterologist at Morecambe Bay hospital to talk about the implications and risk and benefits.
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| 0:34.3 | Hello, coming up in the next half hour, yet another use for aspirin. I interview the researcher |
| 0:39.7 | behind a new study that suggests it could treat cancer. And preeclampsia, if you've ever had a baby, |
| 0:46.2 | you will have been screened for the condition, but how much do you actually know about it? |
| 0:50.9 | So when my wife was pregnant and she's married to an obstetrician, she said, |
| 0:55.0 | what's this preeclampsia thing? And I sat there and thought, well, if she doesn't know, then what |
| 0:59.7 | hope is there for anybody else? More about preeclampsia later. But first, the digitisation of the NHS, |
| 1:06.1 | which will, among other things, transform the way that patients interact with their GP. Being able to Skype |
| 1:12.4 | your doctor from your phone or computer seems to be the most widely promoted example of the |
| 1:17.4 | sort of change we can all expect. But do video consultations live up to the hype? Dr Margaret McCutney |
| 1:24.0 | is in our Glasgow studio. Margaret, how much research has been done in this area? |
| 1:28.3 | Well, not nearly enough. |
| 1:29.4 | There certainly has been some research done over the last few years |
| 1:32.4 | looking at the pros and the cons of video consultation. |
| 1:36.3 | And I think it's fair to say that there are more questions than answers at the moment. |
| 1:40.7 | What sort of cons are there? |
| 1:42.9 | Well, there's lots. |
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