Antidepressant prescriptions nearly double in a decade
Antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed over 70 million times in England last year, figures show, nearly doubling in a decade. A total … Read more
GPs
Report – Primary Concerns 2018 – The state of primary care
An overwhelming 44% of the 2,386 GPs, practice managers, practice and community nurses and community pharmacists surveyed reveal they are … Read more
GP practices are struggling – and Brexit will only make things worse
Staff sickness and uncertainty caused by Brexit have worsened NHS staffing shortages. A recent NHS staff survey showed that just … Read more
Workload and funding cuts leave GPs struggling to offer stop smoking services
Research by Cancer Research UK found that just 53% of GPs and nurse practitioners had time to offer patients ‘very … Read more
GP numbers will fall 7,000 short within five years despite increasing trainees
GP numbers will fall ‘substantially short of demand’, even though there is a major focus on increasing GP trainee numbers … Read more
Experts warn shortage of GPs will last for at least a decade
The shortage of GPs will last for at least another decade and patients will have to be treated by physiotherapists … Read more
Shortage of GPs will never end, health experts say
Patients will have to get used to seeing a pharmacist or physiotherapist instead of a family doctor because the NHS … Read more
NHS ‘no chance of training enough staff’
The NHS in England has no chance of training enough GPs and nurses to solve the shortages it faces, experts … Read more
GP screening and care plan programme for older patients ‘increases NHS costs’
An NHS programme that involved GPs screening older people at risk of hospitalisation and providing them with care plans increased … Read more
Almost half of UK GPs plan to retire in next five years, study shows
GPs are increasingly demoralised and looking for the exit despite a raft of measures to improve the job, according to … Read more