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Hospital targets need to align with neighbourhood health if the new model of care is to succeed, a former NHS England official has said. Full episode: www.gponline.com/hospitals-ne...
🚨 BREAKING NEWS🚨 There will be no requirement for PCNs or practices to form legal entities to hold new single-neighbourhood provider (SNP) contracts, NHS England has suggested. Full story: www.gponline.com/nhs-england-...
Patient satisfaction with general practice is rising, but how does the picture vary across England - and are there signs that the gap between the highest- and lowest-rated areas is narrowing? Full story: www.gponline.com/rising-patie...
Regulators should introduce national 'best practice' standards on the use of AI scribes in the NHS so that patients can better understand how they are being used, @healthwatchengland.bsky.social has said. Full story: www.gponline.com/call-nationa...
Fears grow for patient safety and potential GP burnout after some newly qualified salaried GPs report working above their contracted hours - often 12 to 13 hours a day. Full story: www.gponline.com/newly-qualif...
List cleaning threatens a seismic financial shock that could disrupt more than £1bn in GP funding - despite government promises to reinvest money 'released' through the process into general practice. Full story: www.gponline.com/why-list-cle...
Seven in 10 GPs in Wales say that workload pressures have caused a routine or constant impact on their own personal wellbeing, a BMA survey has revealed. Full story: www.gponline.com/70-gps-say-w...
Neighbourhood working will only succeed if there is a ‘sufficient overall uplift’ of primary care funding and any services shifted from hospitals to the community are properly resourced, the RCGP has said. Full story: www.gponline.com/primary-care...
A lack of GP roles with visa sponsorship left one international medical graduate GP registrar feeling ‘demoralised’ and fearing that without work he would be forced to claim asylum after war broke out in his home country. Full story: www.gponline.com/lack-gp-visa...
'There aren't enough jobs': new GPs face waiting lists for shifts Full story: www.gponline.com/there-arent-...
🚨 BREAKING NEWS🚨 Tens of millions of pounds removed from GP budgets through a list cleaning process that has stripped more than 500,000 patients from practice lists will 'remain within general practice', NHS England has said. Full story: www.gponline.com/cash-release...
🚨 BREAKING NEWS🚨 The BMA has announced details of the three GPs who have been elected deputy chairs of England's GP committee. Full story: www.gponline.com/new-bma-engl...
🚨 Exclusive 🚨 Kent LMC chair Dr Gaurav Gupta shared more detail about the network contract DES variation in Kent and Medway - the first of its kind - with GPonline. Full story: www.gponline.com/kent-des-var...
Patient satisfaction with general practice has surged to its highest point in five years, the latest GP patient annual survey reveals. Full story: www.gponline.com/patient-sati...
Fewer than 800 GP practices received premises upgrades from a £102m fund last year - despite a government promise that it would benefit 'more than 1,000 surgeries'. Full story: www.gponline.com/gp-premises-...
'I’m hearing of people going on waiting lists for more sessions at their practice. It’s happening frequently,' said @royalcollegeofgps.bsky.social GP registrar co-chair Dr Molly Dineen. Full story: www.gponline.com/there-arent-...
One year on, is the 10-year health plan on track? @royalcollegeofgps.bsky.social president Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown shares her view. Full story: www.gponline.com/one-year-on-...
New chair of BMA England GP committee announced Full story: www.gponline.com/new-chair-bm...
.@bma.org.uk GP committee chair Dr Katie Bramall speaks to GPonline editor Emma Bower about her decision not to stand for re-election when her three-year term ends this month and the highs and lows of her time in the role. Full episode: www.gponline.com/podcast-dr-k...
Primary care leaders have been left ‘flabbergasted’ after the NHS England chair said GP practices have ‘twice as much floor space’ as they need. Full story: www.gponline.com/gp-fury-nhs-...
EXCLUSIVE: BMA England GP committee chair @drkatie.bsky.social speaks to GPonline about her decision to not stand for re-election when her three-year term comes to an end this month. www.gponline.com/its-privileg... Look out for full podcast interview tomorrow.
One year on from the publication of the government's 10-year health plan, how much progress has been made against its aims and promises? Full story: www.gponline.com/one-year-on-...
Seven in 10 GP practices have had to reinstate patients removed incorrectly during a list cleaning drive that has cut practice funding by up to six figures, pushed up workload and risks 'drastic patient harm', LMCs have warned. Full story: www.gponline.com/gps-fear-dra...
GP practices are being asked to refuse to accept any new shared care agreements that lack appropriate funding from 1 July in the next phase of collective action. Full story: www.gponline.com/gps-refuse-s...
Resident doctors including GP registrars have called off strikes after voting to accept a government pay offer that delivers a 6.6% average pay uplift along with other reforms. Full story: www.gponline.com/resident-doc...
Around half of growth in the GP workforce over the last financial year came from jobs created through the additional roles reimbursement scheme, NHS data suggest. Full story: www.gponline.com/arrs-contrib...
GP leaders question the validity of an 'alarming' list cleaning drive that has slashed more than 300,000 patients from practice lists over the past year. www.gponline.com/gp-funding-s...
GPs fear their workload could increase when a new online NHS hospital opens next year. Full story: www.gponline.com/online-nhs-h...
'I've had sleepless nights,' says London GP Dr Tina Agrawal, a partner whose exceptionally popular practice faces a six-figure income cut thanks to list cleaning. 'We're in trouble.' Full story: www.gponline.com/list-cleanin...
GP access schemes should not come at the expense of continuity of care, the @royalcollegeofgps.bsky.social has warned - as it signed a three-year deal with the NHS to deliver support to practices. Full story: www.gponline.com/gp-access-wa...