Reversing real-terms NHS funding cut could pay for extra 31m GP appointments
Reversing a projected real-terms funding cut worth £1.3bn in 2024/25 could pay for more than 30m extra GP appointments, analysis suggests. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 13, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP funding Source Type: news

LMCs call for national alert scheme to warn GPs about violent patients
LMCs have called for a national alert system to make practices aware if patients have previously been removed from a practice list because of violent or threatening behaviour. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 12, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news

MMR catch-up plan could undermine core GP services, warns BMA
The BMA has warned that practices will struggle to provide day-to-day patient care unless they are given extra resources to deliver the MMR catch-up campaign launched to tackle the current measles outbreak. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 12, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news

Cloud-based telephony leaves practices facing up to 300% higher costs, BMA warns
Practices are facing up to five-figure bills for new telephone systems they have been required to install, GP leaders have warned - as the BMA called for a pause on rollout of new telephony. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 9, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP funding Source Type: news

GP locum rates fall slightly in England but rise in rest of UK
Average rates paid to locum GPs by practices have slightly fallen over the past year in England, but risen in the other UK nations, according to analysis by GPonline's sister site GP Business. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 9, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news

Practice closures don't affect quality of care, primary care minister claims
Primary care minister Andrea Leadsom has claimed in parliament that GP practice closures do not reduce quality of care, sparking a furious response from GPs. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 9, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news

Junior doctors announce strike dates this month
Junior doctors in England have said they will stage a strike lasting almost five days, from 24-28 February, after talks on pay broke down. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 9, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news

More than half of locum GPs in England are struggling to find work
More than half of locum GPs in England have struggled to find work in the past year, with the majority of those doctors experiencing a significant decrease in their income as a result, a GPonline poll has found. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 9, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news

CQC to 'learn lessons' after Ofsted visit contributed to headteacher's death
The CQC has said it will learn lessons from the death of headteacher Ruth Perry, who took her own life after an Ofsted inspection, and is overhauling training for staff on how to deliver bad news. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 8, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: CQC Source Type: news

Podcast: What does the 2024/25 contract offer mean for general practice?
Talking General Practice looks at what's in the GP contract offer for 2024/25, what the BMA, grassroots GPs, and Labour think about the deal – and what happens next. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 8, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Podcast Source Type: news

Labour promises more attractive GP careers and condemns 'bonkers' retention failure
The Labour Party has said it is committed to making general practice more attractive and that failing to retain overseas doctors who come through UK GP training would be 'bonkers'. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 8, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news

JCVI outlines plan for 2024 spring COVID-19 booster campaign
The government has accepted advice from the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation (JCVI) on a spring COVID-19 booster campaign for 2024 with minor changes to eligible groups. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 8, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Coronavirus Source Type: news

Government must ensure all GP practices can afford staff pay rises, warns RCN
Nursing leaders have called for an overhaul of how GP practice staff costs are funded after polling found most practice nurses were denied a recommended 6% pay rise for 2023/24 and many received no uplift at all. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 7, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP funding Source Type: news

Tories and Labour respond to call to clear doctors' student loans
Calls for doctors' student loans to be written off in return for years of NHS service have not been backed by either of England's largest political parties - but a Labour frontbencher called the policy 'attractive'. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 7, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news

Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer: It's time to stop ignoring reality - GPs need more funding
Better technology and practical reforms are welcome suggestions to improve general practice and the wider NHS, says BMA England GP committee chair Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer. But the need for more funding remains the 'elephant in the room'. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - February 6, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Viewpoint Source Type: news