Protests over move to cut number of free treatments to be blocked
Full story in The Camden New Journal, 9 February 2018 Health bosses have drawn up a blacklist of treatments which … Read more
GPs
GP leader says family doctors are working ‘beyond safe levels’.
GP leader says family doctors are working ‘beyond safe levels’ Full story at The Guardian on 18 January 2018 GPs … Read more
Fears over future of Yorkshire GP services after closures and mergers
Full story in The Yorkshire Post, 12 January 2018 Fears have been raised for the future of GP services after … Read more
Swindon CCG applies for 20 GPs from overseas
Full Story at Swindon Advertiser 11 January 2018 A GP shortfall could be partly plugged by recruits from abroad. Swindon … Read more
Care UK gives GPs operation price list
Full story in The Guardian, 5 December 2017 A private healthcare company has sent letters to hundreds of GPs setting … Read more
Emergency GP service in Somerset ‘unacceptable’
Out-of-hours GP services in Somerset are “unacceptable”, the county’s clinical commissioning group has said. Its chief officer said bosses had … Read more
NHS straining at the seams year before 70th birthday, finds regulator
The NHS is in danger of a sharp decline in its services around its 70th birthday next year, with the risk of … Read more
GPs losing sleep over patient safety fears, says head of profession
Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, says colleagues are left anxious by overwork and exhaustion … Read more
New care model plan contains ‘no detail’ on GP involvement, grassroots warn
GPs in Leicestershire have criticised a local plan to form an accountable care system (ACS) because the plans are unclear … Read more
Is it any wonder the NHS is struggling to recruit homegrown GPs when their job has been reduced to little more than delivering bad news?
As the NHS launches a £100m drive to recruit foreign GPs, it’s hard to know what to think. Perhaps we should feel … Read more