Pulse’s end-of-year newsletters wouldn’t be the same without making mention of workforce numbers and recruitment.

26 December 2020

Salaried and locum GPs are to be recruited into new flexible staffing ‘pools’ that will be set up with £120,000 of funding in each region, NHS England has said.

23 December 2020

It’s been a truly awful year, but to lighten the mood, we are giving out awards to those who managed to make it that little bit worse….

18 December 2020

We look at 2020 in general practice through the covers of Pulse JANUARY We started the year by exclusively revealing how GPs’ child mental health referrals were being rejected, because one in three NHS mental health trusts were only accepting the most severe cases.

18 December 2020

A workload analysis carried out by LMCs has shown that work transferred from secondary would take an additional 1,150 full-time GPs across England to complete.

17 December 2020

Three quarters (77%) of 172 GPs surveyed by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said they will continue using remote working practices ‘frequently’ after the Covid-19 pandemic ends.

16 December 2020

GP practices could start receiving referrals from A&E departments under a new set of measures proposed by NHS England.

16 December 2020

We previously asked colleagues to tell us their accounts of being a patient for our forthcoming book The doctor as the patient.

15 December 2020

GMC will increase doctors’ registration fees by 0.

15 December 2020

More than 162,000 patients have now waited more than a year for routine hospital treatment, monthly NHS performance statistics show.

10 December 2020