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The BMA is writing to each of England's 42 integrated care boards (ICBs) warning that they should add potential GP industrial action into their system risk registers ..read more
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'Constantly elevated medicines shortages' have left patients struggling to access crucial products and driven up workload for GPs and pharmacists over the past two years, a report warns ..read more
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Three ICBs in London are ‘considering their next steps’ amid concerns that a major private provider of NHS GP services may have breached the terms of its practice contracts ..read more
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The BMA England GP committee has warned health service officials that the profession is 'now in dispute' with NHS England following the overwhelming vote to reject the 2024/25 contract ..read more
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GPs in Northern Ireland are working 'past the point of burnout and exhaustion' but cannot meet soaring demand, according to an RCGP report that calls for urgent action to stabilise general practice ..read more
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More GPs per patient, higher funding per patient and better continuity of care in general practice are associated with higher life expectancy in men and women, researchers have shown ..read more
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Tens of thousands of people of South Asian heritage with diabetes and pre-diabetes may have underestimated HbA1c levels researchers have said, after they identified a genetic variant that affects the accuracy of the test ..read more
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NHS England has reversed controversial plans to cut specialist mental health services for doctors - announcing a 12-month extension of its existing deal with NHS Practitioner Health ..read more
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Specialist mental health service NHS Practitioner Health will no longer accept new registrations for secondary care doctors and staff, while access for GPs and primary care staff is only guaranteed until March 2025, following NHS England funding cuts ..read more
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Unused locum GP capacity could deliver more than 250,000 extra appointments a week if practices were funded to employ them, analysis by GPonline suggests ..read more