NHS England’s new prostate cancer case finding scheme aims to close the ‘treatment gap’ created during the pandemic, but Dr David Turner is sceptical about this approach I am a self-confessed grump.

17 October 2022

The NHS waiting list has now hit an all-time high of seven million patients, the latest figures show.

13 October 2022

GPs should isolate patients with suspected Ebola virus in an empty room in the practice, an alert from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said.

10 October 2022

Exclusive NHS England plans to enable patients to request their historical GP records through the NHS App from next year, Pulse has learned.

10 October 2022

The UKHSA has recorded 2,803 excess deaths among over-65s during the heat waves that took place this summer in England.

07 October 2022

GPs currently have an extra opportunity to opt out of the network DES without breaching their contract, the BMA has said.

07 October 2022

NHS England’s board has issued a stark warning that demand for GP appointments is at record levels and ‘outstrips’ capacity.

07 October 2022

There has been a 16% rise in the number of patients per full time equivalent (FTE) GP in the past seven years, the latest workforce data shows.

06 October 2022

Many more patients are now opting to pay for operations privately out of their own money than before the pandemic, figures suggest, with some areas seeing numbers more than double.

06 October 2022

Dr Emma Lunan describes her experiences as a medic for Team Scotland at the recent Commonwealth Games in Birmingham  Monday 1 AugustI’d arrived the evening before to join the medics for Team Scotland.

04 October 2022