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Focus on Disability - For Disabled People, the Elderly and their Carers in the UK

1st June 2015

GP staffing crisis – patients needing new doctors

Most daily papers today are running stories regarding the GP shortage – Charlie Cooper for The Independent writes – Thousands of patients have had to find a new GP because their local practice has closed,...

Focus on Disability / NHS

4th March 2015

GP Surgeries at Breaking Point – Hundreds Close or Merge

Hundreds of GP surgeries across Britain could close or merge as demand stretches them to breaking point, figures show. Between April and December last year, 169 practices approached NHS England for advice on the “nuclear...