PAs are 'not substitutes for GPs', says NHS England guidance
Physician associates (PAs) are 'not substitutes for general practitioners' and all work they undertake should be 'supervised and debriefed' with their supervising GP, an update from NHS England says. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
NI GPs face withdrawal of state indemnity for out-of-hours work
GPs in Northern Ireland could lose state clinical negligence cover for out-of-hours work from the start of April in a 'deplorable' change announced at short notice. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medico-legal Source Type: news
Podcast: Taking a different approach to GP retention
Dr Lucy Henshall and Penny Flack explain how their initiative Welcome Back To Work helps support GPs who have taken time away back into the workplace – and why we need a more flexible approach to GP retention at both a regional and national level. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Podcast Source Type: news
Public satisfaction with NHS and GP services sink to another all-time low
Public satisfaction with the NHS overall and with GP services have sunk to the lowest levels ever recorded, figures from the latest British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey reveal. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 26, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP funding Source Type: news
Free learning module on providing care to transgender patients
International Transgender Day of Visibility is on 31 March and you can update your knowledge with a free MIMS Learning module by Dr Amy Tulip and Dr Demi Thompson, featuring transgender patients ’ own healthcare stories. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 26, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: News Source Type: news
Contract threatens 'primary care-lite' model with GPs on zero hours contracts
General practice is heading for a 'primary care-lite' model with GPs on zero hours contracts if the profession accepts the imposed 2024/25 contract, the BMA England GP committee chair has said. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 26, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP contracts Source Type: news
Gonorrhoea rate highest since 1918 as sexual health care 'at breaking point'
Sexual health services in England are 'at breaking point' with gonorrhoea rates at the highest level since records began and syphilis cases at levels not seen since 1948, MPs have warned. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 25, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
GMC opens consultation on regulation of physician associates
The GMC has launched a consultation on the 'rules, standards and guidance' it will use to regulate physician associates - and is also seeking views on future guidance on fitness to practise decisions. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 25, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Professional regulation Source Type: news
Referendum set for massive vote against contract as GPs fear cuts and closures
A BMA referendum looks set to deliver an overwhelming rejection of the imposed 2024/25 GP contract this week as GPonline polling showed GPs fear it will drive practice closures and lead to cuts in services. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 25, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP contracts Source Type: news
ICB halts possible GP funding cuts in wake of high-profile LMC report
An LMC has said that an in-depth report it produced on the financial crisis facing practices in its area has played a key role in the ICB rowing back on planned cuts to local GP funding this year. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Police investigation launched into alleged racist comments by TPP chief Frank Hester
West Yorkshire Police have launched an investigation into alleged racist comments about the MP Diane Abbott by Frank Hester, chief executive of England's second-largest supplier of GP IT systems, TPP. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Equality Source Type: news
LMC helps practices and GPs recover £607,000 from PCSE
An LMC has helped practices and GPs recover a combined total of at least £607,000 over a two-year period from Primary Care Support England (PCSE). (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Podcast: Defining physician associate roles, a GP Uber driver, Welsh GPs near industrial action
The GPonline team discuss the key news stories affecting general practice on our Talking General Practice podcast. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Podcast Source Type: news
NHS workforce plan built on 'substitution' of GPs, warns NAO
Hospital consultant numbers will rise 12 times faster than fully-qualified GPs under the NHS workforce plan - with GPs facing 'substitution' by other health professionals, a National Audit Office (NAO) report warns. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 21, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
Junior doctors deliver fresh six-month mandate for industrial action
Junior doctors have backed another six months of industrial action and warned that the government has now wasted £3bn covering strikes - more than double the amount it would take to settle the pay dispute. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 21, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Pay Source Type: news
