Exclusive A hospital trust has moved to ban consultants from refusing patient referrals from GPs by downgrading them to ...

PCNs should reject proposals to pilot single neighbourhoods if they lack ‘sufficient’ funding, the BMA has said in new guidance.

New legislation is expected to be announced this week which will force GPs in England to hand over data to the new NHS single patient record (SPR). Plans for the SPR were first outlined in last year’s ...

The BMA will announce a new collective action for GP practices next month, should the Government fail to provide ‘sufficient ...

Greater reliance on advice and guidance (A&G) can lead to delays in diagnosis and unnecessary referrals, the RCP has warned.

US private equity firm TPG has bought Optum UK, the company that owns major UK GP IT system supplier EMIS. The deal, which was first reported as a possibility at the beginning of this year, means that ...

The CQC will start piloting its new assessment framework specific to primary care next month, with inspectors using ‘Word ...

A new target for improving patient experience considered by the Government must reflect ‘significant’ workload pressures, the ...

The talk of the town recently has been GPs supposedly returning to collective action. However, as the Department of Health ...

GPs in several areas have been advised by their LMCs to use ‘tweaked’ versions of the BMA’s template letter for collective ...

Pulse will host an on-stage interview with the chair of the BMA’s GP committee in Wales Dr Gareth Oelmann at the first-ever Pulse LIVE Cardiff this summer. The free-to-attend conference will also ...

Copperfield asks if the GPCE's proposed collective action on data sharing agreements is the best that GPs can do ...