10,000 pharmacies on track for Pharmacy First launch this month
The Pharmacy First scheme will launch as planned at more than 10,000 pharmacies across England from 31 January in a bid to save up to 10m GP appointments a year, NHS officials have confirmed. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 25, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
UK ’s first supervised drug use centre will save lives and ease pressure on GPs
The UK ’s first supervised consumption centre for drug users will improve access to healthcare for vulnerable patients and ease pressure on GPs, the doctor leading the pilot has said. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 25, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
BMA to ballot junior doctors over further extension of strike mandate
The BMA will ballot junior doctors for a further six-month mandate for strike action - and will ask members to approve 'action short of a strike' as well as full walkouts. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 25, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
Podcast: GP funding cuts, problems at the primary care interface, measles concern
The GPonline team discusses some of the key news stories affecting general practice in our Talking General Practice podcast. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 25, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Podcast Source Type: news
GP workforce records first calendar-year rise since at least 2016
General practice in England ended 2023 with more GPs than it had the previous year - the first year-end rise recorded in at least seven years, official data show. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 25, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
'Alarming' rise in non-COVID deaths among people with diabetes during pandemic
Researchers have found a 'deeply alarming' rise in deaths not related to COVID-19 among people with diabetes during the pandemic. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 24, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
Labour plans 'Red Tape challenge' to cut GP bureaucracy
The Labour party has promised a 'Red Tape challenge' to strip away unnecessary bureaucracy and targets that pile extra work on GPs and limit their time with patients. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 23, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workload Source Type: news
GP researchers encouraged to enter RCGP Research Paper of the Year awards
The RCGP is encouraging GPs involved with research to enter its Research Paper of the Year awards. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 23, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
BMA 'dismayed' as MPs rubber-stamp plan for GMC to regulate physician associates
MPs have 'consented to the blurring of the roles of doctor and physician associate' by rubber-stamping legislation to make the GMC responsible for regulating staff who are not doctors, the BMA has warned. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 23, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
Which ICB areas have seen the largest drops in real-terms GP funding?
GP funding per patient was £12 lower in real terms in 2022/23 than in 2018/19 across England - but which parts of the country have seen funding slip fastest? (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 23, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP funding Source Type: news
NHS England launches catch-up MMR campaign amid rising measles cases
Parents in England are being urged to book their children in for missed MMR vaccines after health officials declared a major incident over the spread of measles cases. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Real-terms GP funding 'slashed by £350m in four years'
GP practice funding in England has fallen by £350m in real terms since 2019 while demand has spiked to record levels, analysis by the Liberal Democrats reveals. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 19, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP funding Source Type: news
GPs told to wear PPE when seeing suspected measles cases
NHS England has advised healthcare professionals to wear PPE when assessing or managing patients with suspected or confirmed measles. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 19, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
GMC fees for physician associates could be around half the rate doctors pay
The GMC will announce later this year how much physician and anaesthesia associates will pay for regulation - and has suggested it could be significantly less than the rate for doctors. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 19, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Rural medical school could offer UK blueprint for retaining doctors, says BMA Scotland
Building a new medical school in rural Scotland would help build a sustainable medical workforce and could provide a model for underdoctored areas across the UK, the BMA has said. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 19, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
