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GPC England chair among speakers as Pulse LIVE London kicks off

Pulse LIVE is taking place in London today and tomorrow, including a keynote speech from the chair of the BMA’s GP Committee for England.

26 March 2024

What kind of industrial action do GPs want?

We asked Pulse readers what kind of industrial action they would want to see if BMA members do vote against the contract in England in the current referendum.

25 March 2024

Substantial fall in cancer deaths in UK but cases rising

More people are getting cancer but fewer of them are dying from it, according to a UK analysis of the last 25 years.

15 March 2024

2024/25 contract: What it means for GPs and practices

Editor Jaimie Kaffash deciphers what NHS England’s letter on the contract really means for the profession Yesterday, NHS England laid out its changes for the 2024/25 contract.

29 February 2024

Forging links with our local further education college

We have traditionally worked in silos in the public sector, rarely considering or even having time to trial working with our colleagues in other areas.

20 February 2024

Chris Morris: ‘The Government would rather attack GPs than listen to them’

In a special feature, satirist Chris Morris – the son of two GPs – follows his star turn at the 2023 LMCs conference with a piece for Pulse on the Government’s destruction of the NHS and general practice  I grew up in a GP household where Pulse lurked in the paper pile.

16 February 2024

Pulse in Print: How issues around race came to the fore in the 2010s

In the final piece looking at the biggest stories during Pulse’s time in print, we look at two stories in the last decade that highlighted racial issues within medicine ‘Sometimes images are more powerful than words and that was the case for this cover story.

13 February 2024

BMA calls for measles enhanced service to cover extra GP work

The BMA’s GP Committee has called for a measles vaccination enhanced service to cover currently ‘unresourced’ work associated with the measles outbreak.

13 February 2024

Pulse in Print: The long-term impact of the MMR scandal

As part of our Pulse in Print series looking at the major stories in general practice, Jaimie Kaffash looks at how a gastroenterology reader derailed the fight against childhood infectious diseases ‘MMR vaccine uptake was constantly in the news for public health reasons, and also since GP pay was linked to immunisation targets.

08 February 2024