How normal service is being forced upon GPs

When NHS England instructed GPs to grant all patients face-to-face appointments when requested, it lost much of the profession’s goodwill.

21 May 2021

Here’s what GPs have really been doing during the pandemic

I’m a GP.

21 May 2021

Diabetes reviews

21 May 2021

NHS England will not enforce new face-to-face appointment guidance

Exclusive NHS England will not enforce its new guidance on face-to-face appointments, although CCGs may, Pulse has learned.

20 May 2021

GP e-consultation forms should be accessible round the clock, says NHSE

GP practices should not limit access to e-consultation forms at evenings and weekends because it will be less convenient for patients and reduce patient satisfaction, updated guidance from NHS England states.

20 May 2021

NHS England’s bulletin just bombed

I’m writing this as A-bomb dropped today.

18 May 2021

Calls for primary care director to resign as GPs deal with F2F letter fallout

GPs are calling for the resignation of NHS England’s medical director for primary care amid the furore created by its latest guidance.

17 May 2021

GPs respond to ‘tone deaf’ and ‘badly judged’ NHSE face-to-face order

The BMA and LMCs have issued fierce responses to NHS England’s order for GP practices to offer face-to-face appointments to all patients who ‘prefer’ one to remote consultation.

14 May 2021

Blackburn health chiefs ‘stopped from vaccinating all over-18s’

Blackburn with Darwen’s public health director has told the BBC that he was stopped by Government officials from rolling out vaccines to all over-18s next week.

13 May 2021