More midwives still need to be recruited before one of the most luxurious and specialist birthing centres in Bristol can reopen. Health bosses originally said they hoped Cossham birth centre…
…on the construction of new community health centres, bringing health services closer to people’s homes. Social Care Social care is in crisis with demand rising and real problems with…
…community” and the strategies depend on “having an open, engaging and iterative process that harnesses the energies of clinicians, patients, carers, citizens and local community partners”. There appears to be…
General practice is widely recognised to be the foundation on which NHS care is based. International studies have shown general practice in the United Kingdom in a positive light and…
…In England, Scotland and Wales, 61 practices have closed since April 2013 which has forced more than 160,000 people to register somewhere new, figures obtained via Freedom of Information (FOI)…
A practice in Doncaster has announced plans to close one of its branch surgeries ‘as early as possible’ when the number of GPs at the branch halved. The Ransome Practice,…
…the second to propose a reduction in GP numbers over the coming years as part of NHS reforms. GPonline revealed in September that health bosses in east London were planning…
…engulfing general practice. Subregional figures, obtained using the Freedom of Information Act, reveal for the first time the full and escalating extent of disruptive practice closures, mergers and takeovers. Commissioners…
…provider took over. The 5,000-patient St Martin’s practice in south Bristol will close in January after the provider Crest Family Practice handed back its contract. Crest is the third provider…
…‘There has been no consultation with the LMC, nor to my knowledge with any representatives of GPs or practices as providers,’ he said. Full story in GPonline, 18 August 2016…