Labour would 'sharpen' GP targets to incentivise family doctor model
A Labour government would streamline GP targets including the QOF and 'redirect the money' to incentivise continuity of care, shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has said. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 11, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP funding Source Type: news
GMC to regulate PAs under new legislation but keeps appeal power for now
The GMC will move towards regulating physician associates under legislation to be laid this week - and could finally lose its power to appeal medical tribunal decisions in a further wave of legislation. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 11, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Professional regulation Source Type: news
Hundreds of practices on the brink as half their GPs are over retirement age
At least half of GPs are over retirement age at 10% of England's GP practices - leaving hundreds of practices at potential risk of collapse, analysis by GPonline reveals. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 8, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
GP survey overhaul could distort understanding of patient satisfaction, BMA warns
Changes to the GP patient survey for 2024 could make tracking patient satisfaction harder and risk undermining patient feedback on access to their preferred health professional, GPs have warned. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 8, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Patient safety fears as one in three practice nurses near retirement
General practice is facing a nurse retirement timebomb, with more than a third of practice nurses aged over 55, GPonline analysis of workforce data shows. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 8, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Hospitals warn of rising flu admissions and A & E pressures
Hospitals in England have warned that the number of patients being admitted for flu and other winter illnesses is rising and A&E departments are facing increased pressure. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 7, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
Podcast: Where next for the GP contract, plus Labour ’s plan for neighbourhood health centres
Talking General Practice looks at what the BMA's might be looking to achieve in negotiations for next year's GP contract and beyond, and Labour's plan to 'shake up' community services. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 7, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Podcast Source Type: news
More than 2,000 GP practices switch to registering patients online
More than 2,000 GP practices have signed up to accept patient registrations via an online service in a move primary care staff say is saving hours of work. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 7, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
One in eight GPs forced to call police over abusive patients
One in eight GPs have had to call the police to handle an abusive patient in the past year, a survey shows. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 7, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Wellbeing for GPs Source Type: news
HCRG Care Group to take over 60 practices run by Operose Health
US company Centene, which is among the UK's largest providers of NHS GP services, is to sell its chain of around 60 practices to HCRG Care Group, which was formerly Virgin Care. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 7, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Patients refusing to see GPs based on ethnicity 'unacceptable', practice warns
A GP practice has been forced to warn patients that it will reject requests 'not to see some of our doctors based on their ethnicity or colour of their skin'. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 6, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Practices to slash thousands from heating bills after £2m green grant
Thirteen GP practices in Scotland could slash thousands of pounds from their heating and lighting costs after benefiting from a £2m grant from a public sector energy efficiency scheme. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 6, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
GPs facing 'unprecedented demand', warns Welsh health watchdog
GP practices in Wales are facing 'unprecedented demand', with long waits for routine and emergency hospital care adding to major pressure, a healthcare watchdog has warned. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 6, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Junior doctors set for further strikes as pay talks collapse
Junior doctors are set for further strike action after the government failed to put forward a 'credible offer' on pay. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 5, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Pay Source Type: news
GP conquers 'Everest of competitive mullet growing'
A GP called Dr Bush has triumphed in a competition he describes as the 'Everest of the competitive mullet growing world'. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 5, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: People News Source Type: news