Long covid with Melissa Heightman and Jenny Mollica
Deep Breath In29 Tammi 2021

Long covid with Melissa Heightman and Jenny Mollica

It has been estimated that 10% of people who get covid-19 are still experiencing symptoms over 10 weeks later, and the common symptoms of long covid include fatigue, breathlessness, chest pain and ‘brain fog’. In this week’s episode, we discuss the challenges of assessing long covid symptoms, especially chest pain, in primary care. As we still don’t know enough about the trajectory of the disease, how can we balance the assumption that a patient’s symptom is caused by long covid, as is likely to be the case the majority of the time, with the potential risk of missing a critical diagnosis, such as lung cancer? We talk about the importance of acknowledging and listening to our patients’ worries about long-term symptoms, even in the face of uncertainty, when reassurance is difficult to give. We also learn about the English National Opera’s new breathing and wellbeing programme, ENO Breathe, aimed at people recovering from covid-19. Our guests: Melissa Hightman is a respiratory consultant at UCLH, and the clinical lead for the trust’s COVID follow-up service.

Jenny Mollica is the director of ENO Baylis: the English National Opera’s learning and participation programme, which now includes ENO Breathe.

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Musculoskeletal pain and osteoarthritis with Imran Sajid

Musculoskeletal pain and osteoarthritis with Imran Sajid

Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain and osteoarthritis are clinically common in general practice, but with the new draft NICE guideline on osteoarthritis (published in April 2022) recommending a move away from...

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Retention with Pamela Curtis and GP trainees

Retention with Pamela Curtis and GP trainees

Despite the Conservation party manifesto for the 2019 general election promising to deliver 6,000 additional full-time equivalent GPs, worryingly, the NHS lost 717 FTE GPs between March 2019 and March...

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Continuity with Martin Marshall and Emma Gladwinfield

Continuity with Martin Marshall and Emma Gladwinfield

In this week’s episode, we share our experiences of attending the recent RCGP Annual Conference, and our thoughts on the topics that were covered in the talks at this year’s event. We talk to RCGP Cha...

1 Elo 202244min

Adverse drug reactions with Anders Holt and Corine Ekhart

Adverse drug reactions with Anders Holt and Corine Ekhart

As more and more pharmaceutical products come onto the market, there are so many potential drug interactions, and adverse reactions, to bear in mind during a consultation in primary care. In this week...

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Violence against GPs  with Adam Janjua, Marcela Schilderman, and Anita Bignell

Violence against GPs with Adam Janjua, Marcela Schilderman, and Anita Bignell

A recent investigation, by The BMJ, showed a worrying increase in incidence of violence, directed to wards GPs, and reported to the police. In this episode of Deep Breath in, Tom and Jenny are joined ...

13 Kesä 202252min

Milk allergies with Nicola Brathwaite

Milk allergies with Nicola Brathwaite

Consultations about suspected cow’s milk protein allergies are quite common in primary care, but these allergies can be a challenge to diagnose, particularly as symptoms can manifest in many different...

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Parosmia with Emily Woodroofe and Claire Hopkins

Parosmia with Emily Woodroofe and Claire Hopkins

Parosmia – a distorted sense of smell, and a delayed post-covid symptom – affects approximately 50% of people who experienced loss of smell during their initial covid infection, and it is currently at...

13 Touko 202242min

What’s in store for general practice in the UK

What’s in store for general practice in the UK

With the focus on covid, and the pressure on hospitals, it may be easy to overlook what’s happening in general practice in the UK - but changes are afoot. Our new health secretary Sajid Javid doesn’t ...

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