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Neighbourhoods could be future PCN taskmasters
Opinion

Resolve to plan in advance for predictable winter pressures

By Dr Jeremy Carter | Published: 07 January 2025

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Columnist

New Year, New Me?

By Dr Sian Stanley | Published: 24 December 2024

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Columnist

What will happen to PCNs in 2025?

By Ben Gowland | Published: 18 December 2024

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Opinion

Interface issues need to be addressed

By Dr Sarit Ghosh | Published: 28 November 2024

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Opinion

Red tape red flags

By Dr Geetha Chandrasekaran | Published: 20 November 2024

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Opinion

Why are integrated neighbourhood teams important?

By Dr Minesh Patel | Published: 19 November 2024

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Columnist

When PCN funding gets tough, everyone feels it

By Tara Humphrey | Published: 13 November 2024

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Columnist

Lack of digital interoperability leads to poor outcomes

By Professor Aruna Garcea | Published: 07 November 2024

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Columnist

The future general practice workforce

By Ben Gowland | Published: 24 October 2024

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Columnist

PCNs got talent

By Dr Sian Stanley | Published: 21 October 2024

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Opinion

How to work with high intensity service users

By Dr Neil Modha | Published: 18 October 2024

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Interview

Sharing nursing students across a PCN

By Madeleine Anderson | Published: 16 October 2024

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Opinion

The ARRS GP conundrum

By Dr Laura Mount | Published: 15 October 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: Venn PCN’s inclusion health officer, Claire Garrett, on early release prisoners

By Beth Gault | Published: 01 October 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: Harrow East PCN clinical director Dr Meena Thakur MBE

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 16 September 2024

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Columnist

How to address tensions and improve communication in your PCN

By Tara Humphrey | Published: 05 September 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: mental health lead Emma Tiffin

Published: 04 September 2024

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Columnist

The addition of GPs to a (separate) ARRS

By Ben Gowland | Published: 22 August 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: digital transformation expert Dr Tom Micklewright

Published: 20 August 2024

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Opinion

Is continuity of care truly possible?

By Dr Jeremy Carter | Published: 13 August 2024

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Columnist

Adding GPs to ARRS gives us hope

By Professor Aruna Garcea | Published: 08 August 2024

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Columnist

TV dispatch: joining the pre-election debate

By Dr Sian Stanley | Published: 03 July 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: Alex Matheson from LGBT Foundation

By Beth Gault | Published: 27 June 2024

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Columnist

Underwhelming manifesto promises for primary care

By Ben Gowland | Published: 19 June 2024

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Columnist

Should GPs be added to the ARRS scheme?

By Tara Humphrey | Published: 13 June 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: population health management expert Sir Muir Gray

Published: 28 May 2024

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Columnist

Primary care collaboratives can power a local approach to care

By Professor Aruna Garcea | Published: 09 May 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: Personalised care expert Dr Samuel Finnikin

Published: 23 April 2024

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Columnist

New contract puts a strain on clinical directors

By Ben Gowland | Published: 17 April 2024

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Opinion

Opinion: Primary care must band together

By Dr Tom Holdsworth | Published: 04 April 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: PCN management expert Tara Humphrey

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 28 March 2024

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Interview

How Gloucestershire ICB works with PCNs

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 22 March 2024

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Opinion

Opinion: PCN clinical directors are not an NHS policing service

By Dr Geetha Chandrasekaran | Published: 21 March 2024

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Opinion

Opinion: Targeting physician associates is unethical

Published: 18 March 2024

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Columnist

Actions not words: tips on getting things done in a PCN

By Dr Sian Stanley | Published: 14 March 2024

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Opinion

Exit interview with a PCN clinical director

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 05 March 2024

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Columnist

What the NHS vaccination strategy means for PCNs and practices

By Ben Gowland | Published: 29 February 2024

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Columnist

Forging links with our local further education college

By Dr Laura Mount | Published: 20 February 2024

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Columnist

ARRS can continue to unlock a brighter future

By Professor Aruna Garcea | Published: 08 February 2024

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Columnist

A sense of urgency: setting up an urgent treatment centre

By Dr Sian Stanley | Published: 25 January 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: Health policy expert Nigel Edwards on PCNs and rural healthcare

By Jess Hacker | Published: 16 January 2024

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Interview

Leading questions: Dr Tracey Vell

By Jess Hacker | Published: 09 January 2024

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Columnist

Party like it’s 2025

By Andy Cowper | Published: 03 January 2024

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Columnist

Grand ambitions: PCNs need local autonomy

By Professor Aruna Garcea | Published: 02 January 2024

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Opinion

Reversing the inverse care law

By Dr Sarit Ghosh | Published: 20 December 2023

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Editorial

PCNs: The end

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 19 December 2023

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Opinion

Winter pressures – again

By Dr Jeremy Carter | Published: 14 December 2023

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Opinion

PCN funding has created a new inverse care law

By Dr Rebecca Fisher and Jake Beech | Published: 12 December 2023

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Columnist

What’s in store for General Practice in 2024?

By Ben Gowland | Published: 04 December 2023

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Interview

Leading questions: Charlotte Osborn-Forde

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 31 October 2023

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Columnist

Flux capacity

By Professor Aruna Garcea | Published: 19 October 2023

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Columnist

PCNs, me and the BMA

By Dr Sian Stanley | Published: 12 October 2023

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Opinion

Opinion: Nightmare of delivering the autumn booster

By Dr Geetha Chandrasekaran | Published: 10 October 2023

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Columnist

PCNs and the NHS long-term ‘whatforce’ plan

Published: 05 October 2023

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Columnist

Embed ARRS staff to future-proof your practice

By Ben Gowland | Published: 02 October 2023

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Interview

PCN system leader: Dr Richard Vautrey

Published: 19 September 2023

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Editorial

Keep PCNs at the heart of new neighbourhood teams

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 12 September 2023

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Interview

‘GPs are doing too many face-to-face consultations’

By Jess Hacker | Published: 24 August 2023

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Interview

‘GPs are doing too many face-to-face consultations’

Published: 24 August 2023

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System working

Opinion: Why collaboration matters in Sheffield

By Dr Tom Holdsworth | Published: 17 August 2023

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Columnist

Five tips for building a relationship with a community provider

By Ben Gowland | Published: 08 August 2023

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Interview

Leading questions: Dr Laura Mount

By Jess Hacker | Published: 18 July 2023

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Interview

Leading questions: Lord Victor Adebowale, chair of the NHS Confederation

By Jess Hacker | Published: 06 July 2023

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Columnist

PCNs and the Hewitt Review

By Professor Aruna Garcea | Published: 27 June 2023

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Interview

Pride In Practice: Supporting LGBTQ+ patients in general practice

By Jess Hacker | Published: 22 June 2023

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Interview

Pride In Practice: Supporting LGBTQ+ patients in general practice

By Jess Hacker | Published: 22 June 2023

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System working

Opinion: What has the new system done for PCNs?

By Dr Kieran Gilmartin, | Published: 21 June 2023

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Columnist

Accentuate the positive: politics in primary care

By Andy Cowper | Published: 20 June 2023

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Columnist

Access all Areas

By Dr Sian Stanley | Published: 15 June 2023

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Columnist

What’s that coming over the hill….for general practice?

By Ben Gowland | Published: 08 June 2023

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Editorial

It’s time for PCNs to shout about their successes

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 08 June 2023

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Analysis

A year on from the Fuller stocktake

By Ruth Rankine | Published: 25 May 2023

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Opinion

Opinion: Access recovery

By Dr Sarit Ghosh | Published: 23 May 2023

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Opinion

Primary care: from cottage industry to multi-million-pound enterprise

By Dr Craig Newman | Published: 18 May 2023

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Opinion

Why your PCN needs to rethink team meetings

By Dr Craig Newman | Published: 18 April 2023

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Columnist

PCNs insulate us so we can deliver care

By Dr Sian Stanley | Published: 11 April 2023

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Opinion

Opinion: Investment and impact fund changes

By Dr Geetha Chandrasekaran | Published: 06 April 2023

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Columnist

The four steps to an effective PCN

By Ben Gowland | Published: 03 April 2023

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Columnist

One size doesn’t fit all: General Practice is going through changes

By Professor Aruna Garcea | Published: 30 March 2023

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Interview

Dr Vautrey: Neighbourhood teams alone won’t solve GP crisis

By Jess Hacker | Published: 23 March 2023

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Editorial

Bottom line: ARRS is a force for good

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 21 March 2023

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Columnist

Of potholes and PCNs

By Andy Cowper | Published: 16 March 2023

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Opinion

Handing over the reins: A PCN clinical director on stepping down

By Dr Brigid Joughin | Published: 15 February 2023

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Columnist

Is the obsession with ‘fair’ holding back PCNs?

By Ben Gowland | Published: 06 February 2023

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Interview

PCNs need more flex from 2024, NHS Confederation lead says

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 19 January 2023

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Columnist

Bad parents

By Dr Farzana Hussain | Published: 10 January 2023

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Columnist

Sackwell and Binthorpe bulletin: Towards neighbourhood teams

By Julian Patterson | Published: 03 January 2023

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Editorial

PCNs were built on weak foundations

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 15 December 2022

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Columnist

Collective action to future-proof PCN influence

By Ben Gowland | Published: 08 December 2022

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Opinion

Where does the PCN’s responsibility end?

By Dr Jeremy Carter | Published: 25 November 2022

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Columnist

Sackwell and Binthorpe bulletin: Proactively working as a system

By Julian Patterson | Published: 10 November 2022

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Columnist

Five focus areas for creating PCN harmony

By Dr Craig Newman | Published: 09 November 2022

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Columnist

General Practice needs to fight for PCNs

By Ben Gowland | Published: 26 October 2022

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Interview

Dr Claire Fuller: Are PCNs proving to be a success?

By Caitlin Tilley | Published: 25 October 2022

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Opinion

PCNs need to be supported to ‘double run – to think and plan’

By Dr Nicole Atkinson | Published: 21 October 2022

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Opinion

Four tips for building a team beyond the PCN 

By Tara Humphrey | Published: 13 October 2022

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Columnist

Digital dissonance: are patients ready for healthcare by app?

By Dr Pramit Patel | Published: 16 September 2022

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Opinion

Opinion: Chaos theory – is the DES deliverable?

By Dr Manu Agrawal | Published: 13 September 2022

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Columnist

Four actions to prepare for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams

By Ben Gowland | Published: 25 August 2022

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Interview

Leading questions: How can PCNs improve public health?

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 02 August 2022

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Columnist

Sackwell and Binthorpe bulletin: Jeremy Hunt, a beacon of hindsight

By Julian Patterson | Published: 26 July 2022

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Columnist

Five consequences of the Fuller Report for PCNs

By Ben Gowland | Published: 30 June 2022

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Columnist

All aboard: PCNs and the move to ICSs

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 23 June 2022

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Columnist

Seasons of change: What does the future hold for PCNs?

By Dr Pramit Patel | Published: 01 June 2022

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Columnist

Sackwell and Binthorpe bulletin: Clarifying the face-to-face advice

By Julian Patterson | Published: 19 May 2022

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Opinion

Lived experience: PCN CD on clinical pharmacists

By Dr Saul Kaufman | Published: 19 May 2022

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Interview

Leading questions: Dr Caroline Taylor

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 22 March 2022

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Editorial

Back to the future

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 14 March 2022

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Interview

Leading questions: Andi Orlowski

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 01 February 2022

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Columnist

Scaling up with new hope

By Dr Pramit Patel | Published: 27 January 2022

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Columnist

Wake-up call

By Dr Manu Agrawal | Published: 06 January 2022

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Editorial

Mind games

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 02 December 2021

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Columnist

Sackwell and Binthorpe bulletin: Introducing our streamlined data collection approach

By Julian Patterson | Published: 11 November 2021

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Interview

Leading questions: Dr Pramit Patel

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 28 October 2021

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Columnist

About timing

By Dr Manu Agrawal | Published: 18 October 2021

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Editorial

An equal shot

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 16 September 2021

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Interview

Leading questions: Jenny Bostock

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 12 August 2021

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Columnist

Job prescription

By Dr Manu Agrawal | Published: 19 July 2021

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Editorial

Stop. Collaborate and listen

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 01 July 2021

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Interview

Leading questions: Dr Monica Alabi

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 10 June 2021

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Columnist

The Sackwell and Binthorpe PSCCIU bulletin: Clarifying the face-to-face advice

By Julian Patterson | Published: 27 May 2021

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Opinion

My vision for algorithm-based GP triage

By Dr Ed Turnham | Published: 26 May 2021

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Columnist

Sackwell And Binthorpe PCSSIU Bulletin: Get to know your ARRS!!

By Julian Patterson | Published: 06 May 2021

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Editorial

PCNs – a unified voice for the future

By Victoria Vaughan | Published: 15 April 2021

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