NHS England scraps visa support service for GPs
NHS England has closed its visa support service for GPs and practices in a move the RCGP fears could make it harder for thousands of newly qualified GPs to join the NHS workforce. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
'Overrun' practices delivering millions more appointments with fewer GPs
GPs have warned that practices are being 'overrun', after delivering 22% more appointments in February this year compared with the same month in 2019 - with 3% fewer GPs. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workload Source Type: news
Are Deadly Strep Infections on the Rise? Here's What to Know
(MedPage Today) -- Japan has been experiencing a dramatic rise in cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), according to the country's National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) and as reported in the Japan Times.
In 2023, a record... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Which forms of industrial action would GPs be prepared to take?
GPs have overwhelmingly rejected the 2024/25 GP contract for England and a GPonline poll suggests there is widespread support for industrial action in the coming year - but which forms of action would GPs back? (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Three quarters of GPs prepared to take industrial action, poll suggests
Almost three quarters of GPs are prepared to take industrial action in the coming year, a GPonline poll suggests. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
General practice 'at boiling point' after years of bullying, BMA GP chair warns
GPs' overwhelming rejection of the 2024/25 contract in a BMA referendum shows the profession is 'at boiling point' after being bullied and gaslit for years, England's GP committee chair has warned. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP contracts Source Type: news
GP core funding to rise by £2.84 per weighted patient in 2024/25
The global sum payments per weighted patient that practices receive will rise to £107.57 under the 2024/25 GP contract in England. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
GPNs ‘put to one side’ in place of ARRS staff
General practice nurses (GPNs) are being ‘put to one side’ while other professionals employed under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) are doing the work they used to do, an exclusive Nursing in Practice conference has heard. Chief executive of the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) Dr Crystal Oldman was speaking at the Nursing in Practice... Read moreThe post GPNs ‘put to one side’ in place of ARRS staff appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - March 28, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
Death Is Inevitable. Doctors Should Be Prepared to Manage It Appropriately.
(MedPage Today) -- It was the second week of 2015, and instead of joining my medical student peers in our first week of clinical year, I was racing north on I-95 from New York with my mom.
Her older sister was in the intensive care unit in a hospital... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP referendum delivers overwhelming rejection of 2024/25 contract
Thousands of GPs have voted almost unanimously to reject the 2024/25 GP contract in a landmark referendum carried out by the BMA. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: GP contracts Source Type: news
Steward Health Strikes Deal to Sell Its Physician Network to Optum
(MedPage Today) -- Financially embattled hospital operator Steward Health Care has struck a deal to sell its nationwide physician network to Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, as it works to stabilize its finances.
The move comes as Massachusetts... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
New Data: Long COVID Cases Surge New Data: Long COVID Cases Surge
A post-winter rise in estimated long COVID cases may last well into 2024, experts said.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Sarcopenic Obesity Predicts Earlier Death Sarcopenic Obesity Predicts Earlier Death
A recent study evaluated the association between sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity with mortality risk.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Source Type: news
European Regulators Close in on Big Tobacco's New Tea Sticks European Regulators Close in on Big Tobacco's New Tea Sticks
European governments are weighing the introduction of tougher rules on cigarette makers ' new zero-tobacco heat sticks, moving to close the loopholes they were designed to...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines)
Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - March 28, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Public Health & Prevention Source Type: news
Links between primary and secondary care must be ‘streamlined’ says NHSE
All trusts should pick a “designated lead” for improving how they work with primary care, according to new NHS planning guidance. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 27, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
