Health Education England will invest in 250 extra foundation year two training posts to help expand ‘shortage specialties’ such as general practice in 2020/21, it has said.

03 August 2020

GPs cannot refuse to treat patients who present at their practice without a mask, NHS England has said.

03 August 2020

The first-ever NICE guideline on chronic pain has said that GPs should not prescribe opioids to patients with chronic pain because they could be ‘harmful’.

03 August 2020

03 August 2020

The planned pause of the Covid-19 shielding programme will still go ahead tomorrow, despite the Government halting some other lockdown easing measures that had been planned for this weekend.

31 July 2020

Bureaucracy that was removed from the NHS due to Covid-19 will not return, health secretary Matt Hancock has promised.

30 July 2020

30 July 2020

NHS England wants patients to book into a slot via NHS 111 before attending A&E this winter, but will not stop patients from turning up without calling ahead.

28 July 2020

27 July 2020

UK medical schools have reached agreement with the GMC to implement the new Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA), one year later than previously planned.

27 July 2020