Pleased to say that we have ditched plastic cups for our waiting room water dispensers and now have recyclable paper ones. Better still if people refill their own water bottles.

It's a great line-up for the Practice Manager of the Year: Martin Randall, Leatside Surgery, Tracy Dell, Plane Trees Group Practice, James Foster, St Stephens Gate, Christina Cleworth, Portsdown Group Practice, Daniel Vincent, Ryalls Park, Sarah Herdman, Chiswick Health Practice

Testing times for all this week with the new self-isolation rules but with some tech solutions for our self isolating Docs and staff to work from home we hope to keep the Leatside service running effectively.

Computers down today for a very overdue upgrade. Should be back on stream tomorrow afternoon. Why can't they do this on a weekend for us?

Rebecca Armstrong: The drugs don't work? Check your prescription - Opinion - The Independent independent.co.uk/opinion/commen… via The Independent

Hopefully EMIS online appt booking etc working again now. Been down all week!!

4 day Bank Holiday coming up again soon so don't forget to get prescription requests in early please!

Ante-deluvian joke found beneath remains of Balham Empire - sign in hair dresser's; 'shampoo and set £10, proper poo and set £20.'

GPs call for work capability assessment to be scrapped gu.com/p/37z4n/tw via The Guardian ATOS' WCA shockingly poor I think.

Where is the missing face?: youtu.be/AWB_2TzaMvU via YouTube

Doctors have the upper hand in pension dispute gu.com/p/37mzv/tw via The Guardian

Cornish complaints raise questions over national drive to outsource NHS care gu.com/p/37pfx/tw via The Guardian thank god for devon doctors

HRT risk gets more complicated to understand The Telegraph soc.li/sSeqQFH

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dailymail.co.uk/health/article… All so sad... so difficult to be as brave as she is when you truly know what is going on.

Victoria Coren on Newsnight... lucid argument. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

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