Biggest threat to patient safety is tired doctors, says RCGP in response to CQC State of Care report 2015/2016
Chair of the RCGP, Dr Maureen Baker, has issued a response to the Care Quality Commission’s annual State of Care … Read more
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CQC: State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England 2015/16
CQC Summary Demands are increasing on health and social care. State of Care – our annual overview of health and … Read more
£500m savings plan set to shift workload to GPs amid trust merger
GPs in one region of England may have to shoulder an increasing burden of patient care as part of radical … Read more
GP practices closing while waiting on support promised by Jeremy Hunt
GP practices at the brink of closure are being denied millions of pounds of funding promised to them by health … Read more
Hospital overcrowding caused by ‘political maladministration’, say MPs
Hospitals have become dangerously full and discharge patients too soon as a direct result of “political maladministration” by successive governments, … Read more
Secretive NHS STP plans could see GP numbers in Hackney fall by a third
NHS England’s Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP) would see England divided into 44 “footprints” – which must achieve financial balance … Read more
Nearly 600 GP practices could be forced to close by 2020, warns RCGP
Around one in 15 GP practices could be forced out of business and the UK will face a shortfall of … Read more
GPs decry Capita’s privatised backup services as ‘shambles’
Family doctors have criticised the “shambles” that has ensued after the firm Capita was handed a £700m contract to provide … Read more
GPs write to CCG to say they are stopping all ‘unfunded’ work
GPs in Lincolnshire will stop offering non-essential services they not commissioned to provide unless they are given the cash to … Read more
Health education bosses miss GP training target
Health Education England has failed to reach its target of delivering 3,250 doctors in GP training by 2016, despite having … Read more