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This is my final month as President of the Primary Care Rheumatology Society and it’s been a very interesting 2 years for me. I apologise that this blog is England-centric, but England is the totality of my NHS experience and I cannot write about areas outside of my experience. I would like to cover, albeit briefly, three areas that over the past few years have become very dear to my heart:
- MSK training for primary care
- MSK networks and commissioning MSK services
- Shared decision-making
For a long time the lack of training for front line GPs has been a real issue for the NHS.…
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