Dan Wellings, Senior Fellow, Policy, writing for the King’s Fund: It is rare that any service hears from 800,000 of its users at the same time, but that is what happened recently with the publication...
Focus on Disability is supporting the 2016/17 Stay Well This Winter campaign. The Stay Well This Winter campaign is a joint initiative from NHS England and Public Health England, which encourages people with long-term conditions and...
Increasing demands on general practice over the past five years – not just a heavier workload but the increasing complexity and intensity of work – have led to a feeling of crisis. The NHS is...
Kathryn Snowdon writing in The Huffington Post 31/12/2015 – Mental health is the largest area of concern within the NHS, with lengthy waiting times and a lack of understanding from GPs in need of the most improvement,...
Stephen Hayward writing in the Sunday Mirror – Going to see your GP could be bad for your health, according to research. One in 10 surgeries is so rundown it poses a risk to patients....
Charlie Cooper in The Independent highlights the disgraceful state of affairs where medics will have money thrown at them to try to rectify a problem that should never have arisen – medics may be quids...
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,...
More than 2,000 people have been given laser treatment after having second thoughts about their body “art”. And last night MPs branded it a “sheer waste” at a time when many hospitals are working at...
Fiona MacRae for the Daily Mail writes how suffering from bereavement, many older people seek help from a GP to cope with the crushing feeling of loneliness. But they are often misdiagnosed with depression –...
Whiplash fraudsters are clogging GP surgeries and wasting more than one million hours of doctors’ time every year, claims new research. Family doctors see a staggering 116,000 people every month whom they suspect are inventing...
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