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Richard welcomes FCP ambassador and MSK physio Ed Baker to the podcast . During the episode we discuss the assessment of patients with lower back pain, including red flags , pertinent history taking and investigations in general practice.  We apply this knowledge in some cases, including a patient with mechanical  back pain and inflammatory  spondyloarthropathy.

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As always special thank you Scott and Martin for your help.

Versus Arthritis
Back pain | Causes, exercises, treatments | Versus Arthritis
Examination of the spine | Versus Arthritis

Patient info
Back and Spine Pain | Causes and Treatment | Patient

Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub
Home - Coventry & Warwickshire Training Hub (cwtraininghub.co.uk)

NICE guidelines 
Sciatica (lumbar radiculopathy) | Health topics A to Z | CKS | NICE

Babinski sign
The Babinski Sign or Reflex | Upper Motor Neuron Lesion - YouTube

Clonus
Clonus - YouTube

Straight leg raise
Straight Leg Raise or Lasègue's Test for Lumbar Radiculopathy - YouTube

Human leukocyte antigen B27 (HLA-B27)
HLA-B27 (labtestsonline.org.uk)

Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub
Home - Coventry & Warwickshire Training Hub (cwtraininghub.co.uk)

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Richard and Emma welcome back Dr Heidi Kerr who is a GPwSI in Women's Health.  Within the episode Dr Heidi Kerr discus's the assessment of Women who present with pelvic pain and vaginal bleeding.

 Dr Heidi Kerr has given up her free time, please feel free to give feedback, I know I enjoyed the episode and learnt lots I will use in my practice. 

As always thank you to Martin and Scott for your input.

Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub
Home - Coventry & Warwickshire Training Hub (cwtraininghub.co.uk)

VHK Education
VHK Education – Delivering bespoke education in women’s health

Gynaecological cancers - recognition and referral | Health topics A to Z | CKS | NICE

Dr Heidi Kerr's 5 C's - PV bleeding
Conception - what are they taking?
Compliance - how are they taking the medication?
Chlamydia (STI's)
Cervix
Cancer
Consider drug history

Primary Care Women's Heath forum
Home - Primary Care Women's Health Forum (pcwhf.co.uk)

Mittelschmerz
Mittelschmerz - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

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Richard and Emma welcome Dr Heidi Kerr who is a GPwSI in Women's Health to the podcast.  Within the episode Dr Kerr discus's her approach to patient assessments in women's health.  We then discuss common general practice presentations including breast pains and vaginal discharge.

Please feel free to leave comments and follow us on twitter @FCPParamedicpod.

As always special thank you to Martin and Scott for your input on the podcast.

If you wish to contact Dr Heidi Kerr about training in Women’s Heath please contact - [email protected].

VHK Education
VHK Education – Delivering bespoke education in women’s health

Breast cancer reconition
https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/breast-cancer-recognition-referral/diagnosis/symptoms-suggestive-of-breast-cancer/

NHS Breast Cancer screening program
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/breast-screening-mammogram/when-youll-be-invited-and-who-should-go/

Breast cancer managing FH
https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/breast-cancer-managing-fh/

Dr Kerr’s funnel questions for sexual history
When did you last have sexual intercourse?
Was it a new or regular partner?
Was it a male or female?
What sort of sexual intercourse?
Was protection used?

Coventry and Warwickshire Training hub
https://www.cwtraininghub.co.uk/

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Richard and Emma welcome back Dr David Lupini who is a GPwSI in Dermatology.  Within the episode we discuss a range of common Dermatology cases in General Practice and use his expertise to ensure an affective patient assessment.  Within the episode Dr Lupini discus's cases include systemic rash, pruritus and acne.

Please feel free to leave comments and follow us on twitter @FCPParamedicpod.  Dr Lupini kindly gave up his own time for these podcasts, please join Richard and Emma thanking him for sharing his knowledge and experience.

As always special thanks to Martin and Scott for your input.

Some further reading and resources :-

The Primary Care Dermatology Society
The Primary Care Dermatology Society | UK (pcds.org.uk)

British Association of Dermatologists
Home Page - British Association of Dermatologists (bad.org.uk)

Dermnet
DermNet | Dermatology Resource (dermnetnz.org)

Pruritus
Itch (pruritus) without a rash (pcds.org.uk)

Acne
Acne vulgaris (pcds.org.uk)
Acne vulgaris | Health topics A to Z | CKS | NICE

Morbilliform Rash
Morbilliform drug reaction (maculopapular drug eruption) | DermNet (dermnetnz.org)

Urticaria
Urticaria | Health topics A to Z | CKS | NICE
Urticaria and angioedema (pcds.org.uk)

Yellow Card Reporting
Yellow Card | Making medicines and medical devices safer (mhra.gov.uk)

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International Paramedics Day will be held on 8th July 2023 to build a better understanding of the breadth and depth of work carried out by paramedics around the world.  Paramedicine and the Paramedic, is relatively young profession but it is growing rapidly with a very wide range of paramedic roles being carried out in different fields and we want to showcase this diversity in 2023. .  Richard presents a special episode for International Paramedic Day 2023, which I based around #whatwedo.  Within the episode we showcase the work that Paramedics are undertaking in General Practice and within leadership roles.

Guests include Sam Holmes from Coventry and Warwickshire GP Alliance, she is a lead Paramedic and works clinically, Sophie Delay from Leamington South and North PCN, who works as a advanced clinical practitioner, a ambulance paramedic and helps support her practices new staff and Helen Beaumont-Waters, who is the head of clinical development for the College of Paramedics.

As always special thank you to Martin and Scott for your help and support developing the episode.

Please feel free to contact us and follow on twitter at @FCPParamedicpod

HOME | International Paramedics Day

Display event - Primary Care and Prescribing Conference (collegeofparamedics.co.uk)

Diploma in Primary and Urgent Care (collegeofparamedics.co.uk)

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Richard and Emma welcome Dr David Lupini who is a GPwSI in Dermatology.  Dr Lupini discus's his approach to patient presenting with skin complaints.  Dr Lupini then applies his assessment to a single site rash.  He discus's potential differential diagnosis and clinical reasoning in the assessment of skin presentation.

Please feel free to leave comments and follow us on twitter @FCPParamedicpod.  Dr Lupini kindly gave up his own time for these podcasts, please join Richard and Emma thanking him for sharing his knowledge and experience.

As always special thanks to Martin and Scott for your input.

The Primary Care Dermatology Society
The Primary Care Dermatology Society | UK (pcds.org.uk)

British Association of Dermatologists
Home Page - British Association of Dermatologists (bad.org.uk)

Dermnet
DermNet | Dermatology Resource (dermnetnz.org)

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Richard and Emma welcome back Dr Ian Allwood who is a GPwSI in gastroenterology.  We would highly recommend listening to episode one where Ian discus's his process to assess abdominal pain.

Dr Ian Allwood discus's gastroenterology patient presentations which include perinate history taken, appropriate examination and investigations.  The cases include :-
Change in bowel habit,
Nausea / vomiting
and rectal bleeding. 

Please follow us on twitter for updates @FCPParamedicpod

Always great to here comments about the episodes.  Our guests give up their time to record these episodes so please feel free to leave feedback on the episode.

As always special thanks to Martin and Scott for your assistance.

Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology
PCSG – The Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology

Ingest podcast - from the PCSG
Ingest Podcasts – PCSG

Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub
Home - Coventry & Warwickshire Training Hub (cwtraininghub.co.uk)

College of Paramedics
Primary and Urgent Care (collegeofparamedics.co.uk)

Rome Criteria
Rome IV Diagnostic Criteria for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - MDCalc

NICE DG30 for Quantitative Faecal Immunochemical Test
Overview | Quantitative faecal immunochemical tests to guide referral for colorectal cancer in primary care | Guidance | NICE

NG12 Guideline for suspecting cancer
Recommendations organised by site of cancer | Suspected cancer: recognition and referral | Guidance | NICE


Offer testing with quantitative faecal immunochemical tests
NICE diagnostics guidance on quantitative faecal immunochemical tests to guide referral for colorectal cancer in primary care

Recommends to assess for colorectal cancer in adults without rectal bleeding who:

• are aged 50 and over with unexplained:
  • abdominal pain or
  • weight loss, or
• are aged under 60 with:
  • changes in their bowel habit or
  • iron-deficiency anaemia, or
• are aged 60 and over and have anaemia even in the absence of iron deficiency.

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Richard and Emma welcome Dr Ian Allwood who is a experienced GP with a specialist interest in gastroenterology.

Dr  Ian Allwood discusses the assessment of patient's presenting with gastroenterology complaints including a overview of taking abdominal pain history, epigastric pain and distension.

Please follow us on twitter for updates @FCPParamedicpod

Always great to here comments about the episodes.  Our guests give up their time to record these episodes so please feel free to leave feedback on the episode.

As always special thanks to Martin and Scott for your assistance.

Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology
PCSG – The Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology

Ingest podcast - from the PCSG
Ingest Podcasts – PCSG

Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub
Home - Coventry & Warwickshire Training Hub (cwtraininghub.co.uk)

College of Paramedics
Primary and Urgent Care (collegeofparamedics.co.uk)

Abnormal Liver Fuction
Guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests - The British Society of Gastroenterology (bsg.org.uk)

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This is the first episode of the FCP podcast.

During the podcast Emma and Richard discuss the FCP roadmap, specially for Paramedics with Lily Dixon.

Lily discusses the FCP roadmap in depth including the role of a FCP - Paramedic, the FCP roadmap, including stage one and stage two, clinical supervision and how to get started.

Please feel free to leave any feedback and to follow us on twitter @FCPParamedicpod

Coventry and Warwickshire training hub
Community Paramedic - Coventry & Warwickshire Training Hub (cwtraininghub.co.uk)

The FCP roadmaps to practice
First Contact Practitioners & Advanced Practitioners - Roadmaps to Practice | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk)

Fourteen Fish e-portfolio
Fourteen Fish e-Portfolio for Primary Care Paramedics (collegeofparamedics.co.uk)

BNSSG Training Hub
First Contact Paramedics – BNSSG Training Hub

College of Paramedics - Primary and Urgent Care
Primary and Urgent Care (collegeofparamedics.co.uk)

Personalised Care Modules
Your learning options (personalisedcareinstitute.org.uk)

Primary Care E-learning Module's
Musculoskeletal Primary Care - elearning for healthcare (e-lfh.org.uk)