One million more patients will be on the waiting list for elective care even if NHS England meets its targets, posing a ‘huge risk’ to primary care, a House of Commons committee has said.

16 March 2022

The QOF system for GP payments should be scrapped, RCGP chair Professor Martin Marshall has said.

15 March 2022

In our interview with health minister Robin Swann, Caitlin Tilley learns there is ‘less antagonism’ between GPs and other doctors in Northern Ireland There have been a lot of practice closures in areas of Northern Ireland such as Fermanagh.

09 March 2022

The quality of GP workload data needs to be improved in order to ‘frame expectations’ on what can by achieved by the service, a leading think-tank has said.

08 March 2022

Several medical organisations have issued strongly-worded objections to a Government decision to scrap temporary pandemic rule changes allowing at-home early medical abortions without being seen in a clinic.

07 March 2022

Despite the lack of detail PCNs are figuring out what will be required of them when the specifications are ramped up in April.

03 March 2022

NHS England and NHS Improvement today (1 March) announced that GPs in England’s PCNs will be required to open from 9am to 5pm on Saturdays from October under new enhanced access arrangements.

01 March 2022

The Government has said that those previously identified as ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ (CEV) are no longer at increased risk from Covid, unless they are immunosuppressed.

28 February 2022

NHS England has launched a portal for those on waiting lists to access support and find out more how long they may have to wait.

25 February 2022

As I have mentioned in this column before, my wife is a kidney transplant patient.

23 February 2022