19 March 2020

GPs can defer routine medication reviews to October, under new NHS England guidance issued in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

19 March 2020

The introduction of the structured medication review (SMR) and medicines optimisation service specification – which fall under the PCN DES – will be postponed until October 2020 ‘in the first instance’, NHS England has said.

19 March 2020

NHS England has told GPs to prepare to do significantly more home visits to patients as a result of the Government’s strategy to deal with coronavirus (Covid-19).

19 March 2020

Global demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) and a ban on export of the products in China is causing constraints on securing additional UK supplies, the Department of Health and Social Care has said.

19 March 2020

The RCGP has cancelled all CSA exams for GP trainees indefinitely due to the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19).

18 March 2020

Chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance has said that 20,000 deaths or fewer would be a ‘good outcome’ of the coronavirus outbreak.

18 March 2020

Patients fit for discharge are to be moved out of hospital ‘urgently’ to free up beds in England, suggesting GPs will be left to care for them in the community.

17 March 2020

The Government has defended the move to supply out-of-date face masks to GP practices to tackle the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

17 March 2020

Professor Clare Gerada, former chair of the RCGP and a well-known London GP, has overcome coronavirus (Covid-19).

16 March 2020