More than eight in ten patients (83%) had an overall ‘good’ experience of their GP practice this year, the NHS’s latest GP patient survey has revealed.

08 July 2021

The UK regulator has updated safety warnings for Pfizer and Moderna vaccines after ‘extremely rare’ reports of myocarditis and pericarditis.

08 July 2021

NHS England has said GPs are delivering ‘well beyond’ pre-pandemic activity levels and are busier than ever – at the same time as it prepares to introduce a target on GP appointments.

08 July 2021

Reports that a GP has literally downed tools and quit his role have rocked the region of Greater Manchester.

06 July 2021

A new system for extracting patient records has been postponed until the autumn, but GP anxieties about privacy, data security and liability remain, find Nicola Merrifield and Awil Mohamoud As a former home secretary, Sajid Javid may know more than most about sensitivities around the state and people’s right to privacy.

02 July 2021

The BMA has met with a health minister to call for a further delay to the introduction of new primary care network (PCN) services that are due to begin from this autumn, citing the additional workload pressures they will bring.

02 July 2021

02 July 2021

Covid has shown us the devastating results of not involving primary care in wider decision-making at an early stage.

01 July 2021

Dear Sajid Javid, The health portfolio is a proven political graveyard.

30 June 2021

Something I realised when compiling our 60th birthday issue last year is that every health secretary has at some point been called the worst ever, and Matt Hancock is no exception.

30 June 2021