More than three quarters (78%) of GPs have faced ‘limited access’ to enough flu vaccine stock during this year’s programme, the Doctor’s Association UK (DAUK) has told MPs.

10 November 2020

I’ve always sworn I’d never resort to one of those ‘How my illness made me a more empathetic doctor’ pieces – not least because they’re typically as riveting as listening to someone else’s dream, and often come across as sanctimonious crap.

06 November 2020

Pulse continues to receive examples of GPs and their communities rising to the challenges posed by the pandemic.

05 November 2020

05 November 2020

GP practices that have grown in size over the last few years have been less able to accommodate patients in seeing their preferred GP, a study has concluded.

04 November 2020

GPs should urgently review Covid-19 shielding lists and remove all children who no longer count as clinically extremely vulnerable, ahead of an ‘imminent’ update to guidance from the Government.

03 November 2020

GPs are expected to vaccinate double the amount of people this year but there are supply worries ahead, finds Nicola Merrifield GP practices are in a race against time to vaccinate as many eligible patients as possible against the flu this year, amid stock shortages.

02 November 2020

In mid-March, Boris Johnson said it would take 12 weeks to ‘turn the tide’ on Covid.

30 October 2020

Almost three-quarters of GPs feel ‘anxious’ about work during this autumn and winter as mental health issues among GPs are on the rise, the BMA has revealed.

29 October 2020

Another cohort of doctors will be allowed to delay their revalidation ‘due to the ongoing demands’ of the Covid-19 pandemic, the GMC has said.

29 October 2020