Labour plans for GP shakeup must avoid mistakes of the past
…way to reduce pressure on A&E, combine services locally, and ease costs. Is this a new idea? Labour has not filled in the detail around this policy, but expanding community…
…way to reduce pressure on A&E, combine services locally, and ease costs. Is this a new idea? Labour has not filled in the detail around this policy, but expanding community…
…including the support of many who come in at short notice, we have had to make short notice closures of centres when we do not have GP cover. The GP…
Nurses have expressed their anger over the public sector pay cap in a protest outside parliament, warning the government they are prepared to take industrial action. Around 2,000 nurses from…
Fully story in The Isle of Thanet News, 6 October 2018 Hundreds of campaigners turned out today (October 6) to protest at plans close the stroke unit at Margate’s QEQM…
…local laboratories. Last week at least three trusts in south London faced waits of five to seven days for test results, while several acute trusts in the Black Country waited…
GP practices rated outstanding or good by the CQC (Care Quality Commission) have benefited from more funding than those deemed inadequate or requiring improvement, the BMA can reveal. A report…
A new one-hour target for sepsis, set out in NHS England’s standards review this month, could encourage “bad clinical practice to beat the clock”, a senior clinical leader has cautioned….
…Place practice in Kemp Town shut after its two GPs decided to retire, leaving 5,600 patients in need of a new surgery. Later that year the Care Quality Commission closed…
…comment was made by the minister, the Department of Health elaborated on what she said, saying that patients get around the rationing by registering with surgeries that offer more rounds…
A GP practice has cancelled all immediate and future appointments for its patients. Cleveland Surgery, in Gainsborough, which has a patient list size of almost 13,000, cancelled all appointments without…