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29 April 2020
Exclusive A Lincolnshire foundation trust has become the second to recognise its black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) workforce as ‘vulnerable and at risk’.
28 April 2020
28 April 2020
GPs have received a ‘significant alert’ amid concerns that the coronavirus (Covid-19) may cause a ‘multisystem inflammatory state’ in children.
27 April 2020
The British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) has written to NHS leaders over ongoing concerns about disproportionately high mortality rates among black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) healthcare staff.
24 April 2020
Practices should contact all of their patients who are shielding from coronavirus (Covid-19) as a ‘follow-up’ to the NHS letter notifying them to stay at home for 12 weeks, NHS England has said.
24 April 2020
GPs have expressed concern for their care home patients as new CQC data collection signalled that over 2,000 patients have likely died in care homes.
23 April 2020
GPs can refuse to treat patients if their personal protective equipment (PPE) is ‘inadequate’, the BMA has said.
22 April 2020
Red tape is holding up the process of returning retired GPs to the workforce during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Pulse has learned.
22 April 2020
NHS England has encouraged GPs who have come up with ‘creative’ solutions to keeping up with ‘vital’ immunisations during the Covid-19 pandemic.
21 April 2020