Dr Helen Crawley
Specialised areas:
1 Non-medical prescribing
2 Female problems and postnatal depression
3 General practice – all of medicine as a generalist
4 GP training and management especially part-time work
Current positions:
1 Half time partner in general practice – Twyford, Berks.
(In post for 17 years and a GP trainer since 1996)
2 SIFT fellow Oxford Medical School
3 Visiting lecturer University of Reading (mostly non-medical prescribing)
4 Weekly columnist “ask the doc” Real People
Profile:
I am a half time GP with wide experience of all aspects of a busy practice. In the last few years I have undertaken a lot of teaching and lecturing including setting up a new course for community matrons. To support this I recently completed a diploma in education.
My children are 14 and 16 and (mostly) a pleasure to be with. I love the river and plan to do the Devizes to Westminster canoe race next year. As the founder member of a book club I read reasonably widely.
In the holidays I enjoy travelling. I have back-packed around India and learnt to dive last Christmas.
Published:
BMJ paper on training for general practice
Cochrane systematic review of postnatal depression
Book chapter on non-medical prescribing
Hundreds of pieces for lay and professional press (Our Baby, Mother and Baby, Health Which, Real People ask the doc since its inception, Pulse, GP, Medeconomics, BMJ careers etc). Variety of clinical topics and practice management pieces especially looking at part-time practice.
Skills:
Part-time journalism 16 years
Writing for the lay press in an easy to understand way, carefully crafted to reflect current evidence based practice.
Delivering on time, to word count and in house style.
Competent lecturer