NB Hot Topics Podcast

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What's NB Hot Topics Podcast about?

The Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical brings you the latest in general practice current affairs, reviews the latest research relevant to primary care, explores interesting and important topics in-depth, and looks at cutting edge medicine.

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NB Hot Topics Podcast episodes:

06.07.2024
S5 E13: The "We're Making It Up" Election Song; Post-attack asthma f/up; Repeat Antibiotics for Cough; Aspirin After Breast Cancer
Welcome to the Hot Topics Podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. It's election time but we're going to put aside politics and focus on the latest medical research! In this episode, we look at an important BJGP paper...
05.17.2024
S5 E12: Does less GPs matter? PCNs & continuity; best drug in T2DM after metformin
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode we think about the GP workforce courtesy of four papers in this month's BJGP - does more GPs boost life expectancy (of the patients...)?...
04.19.2024
S5 E11: AF, Hypertension & Future Cardiac Disease; DRE and Prostate Cancer Screening: Is It Time to Stop? Interview with Amy Rylance & Sam Merriel
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. To DRE or not to DRE? This is the question and the main event in this episode. We have a fantastic interview with Amy Rylance, Head of...
03.28.2024
S5 E10: Doctors Are Cheaper than Nondoctors; Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Under-Recognised; Helping Older People Stay at Home
Welcome back to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with host Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we start by thinking about the news. Firstly, the overwhelming consensus from GPs in England to not support the imposed contract. Secondly,...
03.08.2024
S5 E9: “The Strike Song”; Maintaining Weight Loss; Exercise & Depression; Microplastics in Your Arteries
Welcome back to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode we think about another year of imposed GP contract on practices in England, the BMA response and where it may lead. In research,...
02.15.2024
S5 E8: "Pharmacy First Song"; Rehab for Long Covid; Urate to Predict Acute Gout
Welcome back to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we think about the pay offer for practices in England, a new King’s Fund report on the under-funding of primary care for three...
01.26.2024
S5 E7: Patient Experience of General Practice; Weight Loss and Cancer; Testosterone and Fractures
Welcome back to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we consider the current state of general practice in the UK and what lessons the countries can learn from each other. We examine...
12.20.2023
S5 E6: "Signing Scripts For Xmas" song; "Great Expectations - time required to deliver BMJ’s 10 minute consultations": interview with Dr Stephen Bradley & Dr Alice Harper
Welcome to the Christmas Hot Topics Podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. It’s time for a bit of light-hearted festive fun so if you’ve finished signing all your scripts for Christmas then join us for a discussion with...
12.01.2023
S5 E5: Interview with Prof Hazel Everitt - amitriptyline for IBS; methotrexate for hand OA; leaflets for LUTs
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we talk to Prof Hazel Everitt, a GP and lead author of a recent Lancet paper exploring whether amitriptyline is effective for IBS, and...
11.10.2023
S5 E4: Interview with Prof Miriam Santer on BMJ Spironolactone for acne in GP; physician associates; once-weekly insulin; tirzepatide vs insulin for T2DM
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. The highlight of this episode is our interview with Prof Miriam Santer, lead author of recent research in the BMJ exploring the effectiveness of spironolactone for acne...
10.20.2023
S5 E3: "Three Coats" song; interview with Dr Jessica Watson on BJGP "WHY Test" study; rosuva vs atorvastatin; DNA cancer blood tests
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode we talk to Dr Jessica Watson, lead author of the Why Test study, published in the BJGP exploring the use of blood tests in...
09.29.2023
S5 E2: Hot Topics 25th birthday interview with Simon Curtis; semaglutide in heart failure and obesity; nurse-led sleep restriction therapy for insomnia
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr. Neal Tucker. As we celebrate 25 years of NB Medical and the Hot Topics course, in this podcast we chat with co-founder Dr Simon Curtis about the changes in...
09.15.2023
S5 E1: GP motivations; morning after pill & NSAIDs; cancer risk with non-erosive GORD
Welcome to Season 5 of the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. Despite celebrating our 25th birthday (don't forget to check out our NB Plus birthday special here) the world of medical news and research never...
08.11.2023
S4 E16: "Summertime Blues" song
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. Wondering where the sunshine is? Then this song is for you. Have a good summer everyone and the podcast will be back in September. In the meantime...
07.21.2023
S4 E15: Donanemab & Alzheimer's Disease; Diet Against Dementia; Weekend Exercise; Opioids & Acute Back Pain
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. School's out for summer but general practice never stops. This week we look at the medical news story of the week: donanemab for Alzheimer's disease - can...
06.30.2023
S4 E14: The Stethoscope Song; HRT & Dementia, HF Monitoring, New Obesity Meds
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. NHS Long Term Workforce Plan is all over the news today. In this episode we have a look at some of the key statements, seeing what is...
06.09.2023
S4 E13: JOMT: CVD with Dr Jim Moore; Methotrexate Monitoring, Opioid Withdrawal Strategies
Welcome to a new Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In Just One More Thing we are joined by Dr. Jim Moore, chair of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, where we discuss cholesterol lowering therapies, new...
05.12.2023
S4 E12: "GP Access Song"; JOMT Interview with Dr Matt Doyle on Allergy; Predictors of Post-covid fatigue; Peanut allergy patch
Welcome back to the Hot Topics podcast. In this episode we reflect on the Prime Ministers Primary Care Recovery Plan, then move on to more useful things like research. We have new papers in the BJGP on who may be...
04.20.2023
S4 E11: Inflammation vs Cholesterol and CVD; Bempedoic Acid; Coffee & Tea for T2DM
Welcome to another Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. With general practice becoming an increasingly popular political battleground, we focus on the latest research. In this edition, we look at whether bempedoic acid actually reduces cardiovascular...
03.31.2023
S4 E10: "The Grass Ain't Always Greener" Song; Removing QOF, Caffeine & Acute Cardiac Issues; New Menopause Drugs
Welcome to the latest Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we have the latest news including how the public view the NHS and what's happening to the GP contract for English practice. In...
03.10.2023
S4 E9: "Do The Maths" song; JOMT interview - Dr Sam Merriel talks about prostate cancer; also antibiotic resistance, nitrofurantoin failure, kidney stones
Welcome to the Hot Topics Podcast with host, Dr Neal Tucker. In this bumper edition, we have the next in our Just One More Thing series. We interview Dr Sam Merriel in collaboration with Prostate Cancer UK, talking about what...
02.17.2023
S4 E8: JOMT Interview with PCRS chair, Dr Katherine Hickman; pushing bad pills, eye drops for myopia, CVD risk prediction in cancer survivors
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we speak to Dr Katherine Hickman, current chair of the Primary Care Respiratory Society, who answers our three Just One More Thing questions on what we need to...
01.27.2023
S4 E7: NHS in crisis, still... Molnupiravir for acute covid, healthy lifestyle for dementia, patient perspective on FIT
Welcome to another HOT TOPICS podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In the podcast cast we reflect on the latest commentaries from the political parties and medical organisations on how they can help with the NHS crisis. We...
12.23.2022
S4 E6: The GP Wonderland Song
Welcome to the latest NB Hot Topics podcast. It’s Christmas and no one needs anything too serious. Enjoy the song. Happy holidays everyone! See you in 2023. Neal www.nbmedical.com/podcast
12.02.2022
S4 E5: Thinking distal DVTs; High dosage in Heart Failure; Just One More Thing... Rachel Ainley discusses IBD
Welcome to a new episode of the Hot Topics Podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this podcast, we look at new research in the BMJ on optimal duration to treatment distal DVTs (wait... do we even check for...
11.18.2022
S4 E4: Continuity; maternal mortality; Just One More Thing: Sarah Davies discusses diabetes
Welcome to the new Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. We're dealing with heavy topics today - the Autumn Statement, how losing continuity is detrimental to patient care, maternal mortality in the UK - but we've...
10.21.2022
S4 E3: Pension Song #1; BP meds at night?; CVD screening; "Future of General Practice" report; patient record access
Welcome to a new NB Hot Topics Podcast with Dr Neal Tucker. Amongst all the political turmoil, healthcare must go on. In this episode, we look at:The new government report (someone's still working, for better or for worse) on the Future...
09.30.2022
S4 E2: Gestational Diabetes, CVD risk & modifiable factors; roflumilast for psoriasis; bronchodilators for non-COPD smoking symptoms
Welcome to the new Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. After a whirlwind week where general practice has been populistically politicised on all sides, in this episode we stay on safer ground and look at new...
09.09.2022
S4 E1: Supplements + sweeteners aren't good for your health, autoimmune disease & CVD risk, statin & muscle pain, open source diabetes
Welcome back to the new series of the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. A sober start with the death of the Queen yesterday and reflecting on the pressures of general practice and the profoundly sad...
08.03.2022
S3 E15: Gout and CV events; early identification of colorectal cancer; barriers to shared decision making in multimorbidity
Welcome to a new Hot Topics Podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. It's the summer holidays! We hope a little pressure is off at your practices and you might even get a break yourself. In this podcast, we...
07.08.2022
S3 E14: The "Sorry, I'm Not Sorry" Song; bye bye Boris; prescribing for anxiety, bariatric surgery to reduce cancer, RSV vaccine
Welcome to another Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker leading you through the latest news and research in general practice. Of course, we must touch on the demise of Boris Johnson and how he might still...
06.17.2022
S3 E13 - "Plans for change", Panorama and Partnership; NICE Traffic Lights, internet based CBT for trauma; opioids post-surgery
In this new episode of the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical. Dr Neal Tucker reflects on a busy week in the politics of UK general practice: "plans for change" from the English health secretary, but the head of primary...
05.25.2022
S3 E12 - Monkeypox song; more about monkeypox; keeping the frail mobile; preventative medicine - what is it good for?; treating mild hypertension in pregnancy - right or wrong?
Welcome to the latest Hot Topics podcast with Dr Neal Tucker. This week we think about monkeypox. Do we need to worry? What do we need to look out for? Can my pet rat give it to me? Beyond a...
05.06.2022
S3 E11 - Self-monitoring BP in pregnancy, ezetimibe or PCSK9 inhibitors for CVD risk & a treatment for alopecia! Plus interview with Aarti Bansal & Veena Aggarwal on Improving Asthma Care & Sustainabi
In the latest Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical Dr Neal Tucker discusses the latest research important in primary care and interviews two experts in improving asthma care and sustainable healthcare. In new research we examine: The role of self-monitoring of BP...
04.08.2022
S3 E10 - How racism influences guidelines: interview with Dr Dipesh Gopal; does a 4th covid vax work? acute covid complication risk, breast pain & cancer, UTI & Abx, iron supplements
Welcome to another Hot Topics podcast with Dr Neal Tucker. In this busy edition, we discuss whether national guidelines are affected by bias against race or ethnicity, potentially driving health inequalities. GP and researcher Dr Dipesh Gopal joins us for...
03.18.2022
S3 E9 - The RCGP Membership Fee Song; Working weekends; Covid in hamsters; The Triple F*** Syndrome; Child mental health; Recurrent UTIs
In the Hot Topics podcast, Neal Tucker discusses the latest primary care news and research. This week:Reflecting on NHS England's PCN stipulations - general practice finds itself in a lose-lose situation. Is it a coincidence it comes just as a think...
02.25.2022
S3 E8: The end of covid; accuracy of lateral flow tests; new DVT algorithm; remember Zika?
In the latest Hot Topics podcast with Dr Neal Tucker, we reflect on the government removing covid measures and how this affects general practice. In research, we have a look at a timely BMJ paper on the accuracy of lateral...
02.04.2022
S3 E7 - Covid blues song; racism, nationalisation, incentivisation; new covid drugs; does continuity help?
After not being out the house for 13 days due to him and the kids having covid, Neal Tucker uses the Hot Topics podcast for a bit of escapism. Apart from singing the blues, in this podcast we discuss the latest...
01.14.2022
S3 E6 - Stating the obvious, treatment time after VTE and CVA; best meds for obesity
Happy New Year! Welcome to a new episode of the Hot Topics podcast with Neal Tucker. In this episode, we have a look at research that states the obvious (non-covid infections went down during lockdowns) and why we feel the need...
12.16.2021
S3 E5 - The Omicron song, vaccine clinics and what we've achieved this year
Welcome everyone to the last Hot Topics podcast for 2021! In this episode Neal Tucker discusses the omicron variant, the cancelling of the festive season for general practice and the effectiveness of vaccines and boosters. While it doesn't feel like there's...
11.26.2021
S3 E4: The RTI surge song, NICE depression or not, Long Covid guidance, balloon bariatric surgery
Welcome back to another Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. Everyone in his family has a cold - is this the anticipated surge in respiratory tract infections we've expected to see or could it have a simpler...
10.22.2021
S3 E3 - Rescuing ourselves with a shared vision; funding GP & multimorbidity; empagliflozin for HFpEF; AF - to screen or not to screen
In this latest Hot Topics Podcast, Dr Neal Tucker reflects on the NHSE Rescue Package and asks if we are going to strike are we clear what we want general practice to be? Time for us to make up our...
10.07.2021
S3 E2 - The press, corporations & conspiracies; ondansetron for kids with gastro; PHQ9, what is it good for?
In this latest episode of the Hot Topics podcast, Neal Tucker considers why the press have been attacking general practice and who stands to gain. We also look at new research in to giving anti-emetics for children with gastroenteritis, the...
09.17.2021
S3 E1 - Heath secretaries, COVID boosters, Quadpill for BP & Cannabis for pain
Welcome, to Season 3 of the Hot Topics podcast with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we lament why Health Secretaries appear to hate healthcare. We also look at the rationale for covid boosters with new research on the vaccine response...
08.11.2021
S2 E16 - Blood bottle crisis; community covid treatments; rotator cuff injury; FIT testing for cancer
In this summer holidays episode of the Hot Topics Podcast, Neal Tucker looks at the latest research for the primary care community. Firstly, three treatments for covid-19 in community-managed patients - do they work? Next rotator cuff injury - can progressive exercise...
07.16.2021
S2 E15 - Self-isolation, Freedom and GP; Drug Optimisation for the Multimorbid; Antispasmodics for Low Back Pain
In this episode, Neal Tucker squeezes in a podcast between childcare during self-isolation. When he's let out there will be a new sort of Freedom in England, should the rest of the UK be jealous? We think about rising covid...
06.16.2021
S2 E14 - Crisis of identity in GP; implantable arrythmia monitors for AF; wearable glucose monitors for diabetes
In this episode of the Hot Topics Podcast, Neal Tucker considers if there is a crisis of identity in GP and how the ever-increasing workload has changed the traditional role of a GP. Is there a solution? Possibly, but not...
05.26.2021
S2 E13 - Wounded animals
Approach a wounded animal with caution. Someone should have told this to NHS England before they wrote THAT letter. In this podcast, in classic GP style, we reflect on how this makes us feel and come to the only obvious...
05.07.2021
S2 E12 - Remote consulting and the state of GP; Antidepressant withdrawal techniques; Blood pressure lowering for normotensives; Vagus nerve stimulation after stroke
Welcome back! Neal Tucker takes you through the latest Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical. In this edition after a "cry for help" from a UK practice written in a 16-page letter to patients we look at new research in the...
04.16.2021
S2 E11 - Headaches, AZ and Thrombosis; Green Light for Inhaled Steroids in GP; Risk of death on discharge post-COVID
The big news this week has been the risk of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis post-AZ vaccine and it's been giving us all a headache, but this has overshadowed further new data confirming benefit of inhaled corticosteroids for acute mild covid...

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NB Hot Topics Podcast episodes:

S5 E13: The "We're Making It Up" Election Song; Post-attack asthma f/up; Repeat Antibiotics for Cough; Aspirin After Breast Cancer

S5 E12: Does less GPs matter? PCNs & continuity; best drug in T2DM after metformin

S5 E11: AF, Hypertension & Future Cardiac Disease; DRE and Prostate Cancer Screening: Is It Time to Stop? Interview with Amy Rylance & Sam Merriel

S5 E10: Doctors Are Cheaper than Nondoctors; Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Under-Recognised; Helping Older People Stay at Home

S5 E9: “The Strike Song”; Maintaining Weight Loss; Exercise & Depression; Microplastics in Your Arteries

S5 E8: "Pharmacy First Song"; Rehab for Long Covid; Urate to Predict Acute Gout

S5 E7: Patient Experience of General Practice; Weight Loss and Cancer; Testosterone and Fractures

S5 E6: "Signing Scripts For Xmas" song; "Great Expectations - time required to deliver BMJ’s 10 minute consultations": interview with Dr Stephen Bradley & Dr Alice Harper

S5 E5: Interview with Prof Hazel Everitt - amitriptyline for IBS; methotrexate for hand OA; leaflets for LUTs

S5 E4: Interview with Prof Miriam Santer on BMJ Spironolactone for acne in GP; physician associates; once-weekly insulin; tirzepatide vs insulin for T2DM

S5 E3: "Three Coats" song; interview with Dr Jessica Watson on BJGP "WHY Test" study; rosuva vs atorvastatin; DNA cancer blood tests

S5 E2: Hot Topics 25th birthday interview with Simon Curtis; semaglutide in heart failure and obesity; nurse-led sleep restriction therapy for insomnia

S5 E1: GP motivations; morning after pill & NSAIDs; cancer risk with non-erosive GORD

S4 E16: "Summertime Blues" song

S4 E15: Donanemab & Alzheimer's Disease; Diet Against Dementia; Weekend Exercise; Opioids & Acute Back Pain

S4 E14: The Stethoscope Song; HRT & Dementia, HF Monitoring, New Obesity Meds

S4 E13: JOMT: CVD with Dr Jim Moore; Methotrexate Monitoring, Opioid Withdrawal Strategies

S4 E12: "GP Access Song"; JOMT Interview with Dr Matt Doyle on Allergy; Predictors of Post-covid fatigue; Peanut allergy patch

S4 E11: Inflammation vs Cholesterol and CVD; Bempedoic Acid; Coffee & Tea for T2DM

S4 E10: "The Grass Ain't Always Greener" Song; Removing QOF, Caffeine & Acute Cardiac Issues; New Menopause Drugs

S4 E9: "Do The Maths" song; JOMT interview - Dr Sam Merriel talks about prostate cancer; also antibiotic resistance, nitrofurantoin failure, kidney stones

S4 E8: JOMT Interview with PCRS chair, Dr Katherine Hickman; pushing bad pills, eye drops for myopia, CVD risk prediction in cancer survivors

S4 E7: NHS in crisis, still... Molnupiravir for acute covid, healthy lifestyle for dementia, patient perspective on FIT

S4 E6: The GP Wonderland Song

S4 E5: Thinking distal DVTs; High dosage in Heart Failure; Just One More Thing... Rachel Ainley discusses IBD

S4 E4: Continuity; maternal mortality; Just One More Thing: Sarah Davies discusses diabetes

S4 E3: Pension Song #1; BP meds at night?; CVD screening; "Future of General Practice" report; patient record access

S4 E2: Gestational Diabetes, CVD risk & modifiable factors; roflumilast for psoriasis; bronchodilators for non-COPD smoking symptoms

S4 E1: Supplements + sweeteners aren't good for your health, autoimmune disease & CVD risk, statin & muscle pain, open source diabetes

S3 E15: Gout and CV events; early identification of colorectal cancer; barriers to shared decision making in multimorbidity

S3 E14: The "Sorry, I'm Not Sorry" Song; bye bye Boris; prescribing for anxiety, bariatric surgery to reduce cancer, RSV vaccine

S3 E13 - "Plans for change", Panorama and Partnership; NICE Traffic Lights, internet based CBT for trauma; opioids post-surgery

S3 E12 - Monkeypox song; more about monkeypox; keeping the frail mobile; preventative medicine - what is it good for?; treating mild hypertension in pregnancy - right or wrong?

S3 E11 - Self-monitoring BP in pregnancy, ezetimibe or PCSK9 inhibitors for CVD risk & a treatment for alopecia! Plus interview with Aarti Bansal & Veena Aggarwal on Improving Asthma Care & Sustainabi

S3 E10 - How racism influences guidelines: interview with Dr Dipesh Gopal; does a 4th covid vax work? acute covid complication risk, breast pain & cancer, UTI & Abx, iron supplements

S3 E9 - The RCGP Membership Fee Song; Working weekends; Covid in hamsters; The Triple F*** Syndrome; Child mental health; Recurrent UTIs

S3 E8: The end of covid; accuracy of lateral flow tests; new DVT algorithm; remember Zika?

S3 E7 - Covid blues song; racism, nationalisation, incentivisation; new covid drugs; does continuity help?

S3 E6 - Stating the obvious, treatment time after VTE and CVA; best meds for obesity

S3 E5 - The Omicron song, vaccine clinics and what we've achieved this year

S3 E4: The RTI surge song, NICE depression or not, Long Covid guidance, balloon bariatric surgery

S3 E3 - Rescuing ourselves with a shared vision; funding GP & multimorbidity; empagliflozin for HFpEF; AF - to screen or not to screen

S3 E2 - The press, corporations & conspiracies; ondansetron for kids with gastro; PHQ9, what is it good for?

S3 E1 - Heath secretaries, COVID boosters, Quadpill for BP & Cannabis for pain

S2 E16 - Blood bottle crisis; community covid treatments; rotator cuff injury; FIT testing for cancer

S2 E15 - Self-isolation, Freedom and GP; Drug Optimisation for the Multimorbid; Antispasmodics for Low Back Pain

S2 E14 - Crisis of identity in GP; implantable arrythmia monitors for AF; wearable glucose monitors for diabetes

S2 E13 - Wounded animals

S2 E12 - Remote consulting and the state of GP; Antidepressant withdrawal techniques; Blood pressure lowering for normotensives; Vagus nerve stimulation after stroke

S2 E11 - Headaches, AZ and Thrombosis; Green Light for Inhaled Steroids in GP; Risk of death on discharge post-COVID

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