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GPs to use artificial intelligence to help manage elective care waiting list

The Government has said that artificial intelligence (AI) in GP practices will help manage patients in the elective care backlog.

09 September 2021

Eight in 10 GPs say return to pre-pandemic levels of F2F appointments is unnecessary

Exclusive Around 80% of GPs say that a return to pre-pandemic levels of face-to-face appointments is not necessary, a Pulse survey has revealed.

09 September 2021

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09 September 2021

Flu communications strategy has left me cold

In every weekly news meeting, I’ve been imploring the team to find out the latest on the flu vaccination programme.

08 September 2021

Vaccine delivery issues will not delay overall flu programme, says minister

The vaccines minister has said that issues with flu jab deliveries will not cause a delay to the overall flu vaccination programme ‘at all’.

08 September 2021

National Insurance rise ‘will raise £36bn in three years’ for NHS and social care

National Insurance (NI) contributions will rise by 1.

07 September 2021

Working life: Connecting remote Zambia

The Virtual Doctors medical director Dr Daniel Grace on delivering telemedicine to Zambia during Covid The Virtual Doctors is a UK-based NGO, which uses a bespoke telemedicine app to connect isolated rural health centres in Zambia with volunteer doctors, based in the UK and Zambia.

07 September 2021

GPs forced to cancel flu vaccine appointments due to delivery delays

GPs are having to cancel hundreds of flu jab appointments due to vaccine delivery delays of ‘up to two weeks’.

06 September 2021

Nothing as certain as death and taxes

Nothing is certain in life, except death and taxes, they say.

24 August 2021

High street pharmacies to carry out targeted CVD screening from October

All pharmacies in England will be able to offer targeted cardiovascular (CVD) screening to patients aged over 40 from this autumn.

24 August 2021