Dr Priya Kumar outlines how four PCNs in Slough, Berkshire, are joining forces to create a multi-generational household home visiting project NHS Frimley integrated care board (ICB) covers a diverse area across the three counties of Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire.

27 July 2023

Not enough is being done to provide access to good quality spirometry testing in England, GPs and respiratory specialists have warned.

21 July 2023

A personal experience leaves columnist Dr Copperfield more sympathetic to patients… and to the idea of favourable NHS treatment for doctors I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but people seem to get iller as they get older.

18 July 2023

Only a ‘massive investment’ in general practice will turn around the lowest patient satisfaction ratings in six years, the BMA’s GP Committee has said.

14 July 2023

In a major Pulse analysis, Anna Colivicchi asks whether the Government’s long-term workforce plan for GPs will solve any of the longstanding problems ‘This is a truly historic day for the NHS in England,’ said NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard on the publication of the long-awaited workforce plan at the end of June.

07 July 2023

A GP has been erased from the medical register after an MPTS tribunal concluded today that her statements on vaccines amounted to misconduct.

05 July 2023

Deaths from flu were higher this past winter than the pre-pandemic average, a report from the UK Health Security Agency has concluded.

29 June 2023

Almost 100,000 more people have died with cardiovascular disease in England than expected in the three years since the pandemic began, a new analysis from the British Heart Foundation shows.

22 June 2023

GP leaders have expressed concerns over safe use of patient data as the Government awarded a major contract to ‘a huge US-based multinational company’.

21 June 2023

Mandating GPs to use advice and guidance (A&G) pathways instead of referring patients could be storing up a ‘hidden backlog’, experts have warned.

19 June 2023