The BMA’s GP Committee has said it is having ‘urgent conversations’ with NHS England around whether GP practices in Greater London will take part in the polio vaccination campaign.

17 August 2022

London GP leaders have expressed ‘substantial concern’ over the ‘scale and timing’ of the urgent polio booster plan, and the effect on practice workload.

11 August 2022

NHS England has urged patients not to visit their GP if they have monkeypox symptoms.

02 August 2022

A three-month pilot programme will search GP records in the hope of finding 50,000 patients with hepatitis C who are not receiving treatment.

28 July 2022

NHS England’s medical director of primary care Dr Nikki Kanani is leaving her role to join NHS England’s chief delivery office team as director for clinical integration, initially on secondment.

28 July 2022

An increase in GP clinical negligence claims is ‘not an indication of declining medical standards’, GP medical defence experts have said in response to new data.

27 July 2022

The common adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV2 virus) has been found to be the cause of a recent rise in acute hepatitis cases in children, with any link to Covid ruled out.

25 July 2022

Burnout rates have increased among GP trainers, the GMC’s annual training survey has revealed.

19 July 2022

Dr Matt Sawyer describes a typical week running a sustainability consultancy alongside GP clinics MondayThe week starts as usual, with conventional GP work.

14 July 2022

A new virtual triage system in Nottingham has led to a huge increase in neurology referrals being rejected or returned to the GP with advice.

14 July 2022