Professor Sir Chris Ham writing at The King’s Fund: Recently I spent a day visiting the Haughton Thornley Medical Centres in Tameside, Greater Manchester, at the invitation of Amir Hannan, one of the partners in the practice....
Professor Keith Willett, Medical Director for Acute Care, NHS England, writing for the King’s Fund: Considers the conversation around the changing nature of care. Medicine has changed enormously since the foundation of the NHS; GPs...
Beccy Baird writing at the Kings Fund: Last year we published a report highlighting the crisis in general practice. There are strong signs that general practice continues to be under increasing strain, including a rise in...
Many GPs will no longer prescribe painkillers, antihistamines or common antibiotics A number of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are banning GPs from prescribing anything that can be bought over the counter. Common treatments, such as...
20th March 2017 Almost 9 out of 10 GPs (89%) think reductions in social care are leading to extra pressures in their surgeries. Even more (93%) think that the lack of social care is leading...
Charlie Cooper writing for The Independent: Netnums poll in wake of death of William Mead finds 78% of mothers would bypass 111 service The vast majority of mothers would go straight to A&E rather than...
The Fit for Work website has closed Advice on returning to work, health conditions and fit notes You can get help and advice with: returning to work after absence information on health conditions information about...
Tory health chief Jeremy Hunt has been accused of backtracking on his pre-election pledge to recruit 5,000 GPs by 2020. He made the vow in the run-up to May 7 but last week stated the...
Deaf Brits are being told they can book a GP appointments only by phone, a damning report claims. And a blind patient was sent medical letters by his family doctor that he could not see...
The overweight are to be offered cooking classes and dance workouts on the NHS to combat Britain’s obesity crisis. GPs will offer advice on weight-loss, healthy eating and exercise. The plan will also see overweight...
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