Patients will be able to choose from up to five different providers through the NHS app when they are referred by a GP for treatment, the Government has announced.

25 May 2023

GP leaders have called on governments and public health bodies to consider the effects of sending public health messages around single diseases, after the Strep A campaign caused ‘widespread panic and unprecedented demand’.

23 May 2023

Many GPs are too worn down to drive change in the NHS, says Dr Steven Laitner.

22 May 2023

Columnist Dr Copperfield welcomes a small dose of reality in the deranged world of clinical guidelines I realise we’ve barely reached spring, and that the Jurassic, cynical and clapped out aren’t supposed to trouble themselves with ‘the medical literature’, but the truth is, I’ve already decided on my paper of the year.

19 May 2023

Rachel Carter takes a look at NHS England’s new pledges for reducing unnecessary GP bureaucracy The Government’s latest recovery plan for general practice has sought to address an issue that has plagued GPs for years: secondary care ‘workload dump’.

10 May 2023

The number of people with diabetes in the UK has escalated to more than five million for the first time, an analysis from Diabetes UK suggests.

13 April 2023

12 April 2023

A contractual clause that that could have seen funding moved between ARRS and core GP funding has been axed in the new contract.

30 March 2023

Ethnic minority doctors performed ‘no worse’ in GP licensing assessments than white doctors when MSRA scores and demographic factors were considered, a new study has claimed.

21 March 2023

The former health secretary’s plans in October 2021 caused shockwaves among the profession.

10 March 2023