Exclusive The BMA will ‘unashamedly’ be looking for a share of the £100m pot the Welsh Government has allocated towards reducing waiting lists, the chair of its GP committee has said. Dr Gareth ...

Recommendations from the four Chief Medical Officers repeat earlier advice to do at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. But there is new focus on why small amounts of movement – such as taking the ...

GPs and neighbourhood teams will pilot genomic testing in primary care to predict the likelihood of specific conditions.

The GMC is ‘close’ to eliminating disproportionate referrals of ethnic minority doctors, its chief executive has said.

GPs are taking additional specialist medicine training in their own time, to feel ‘safe’ practising under the expansion of ...

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Copperfield reflects on a recent inquest and asks whether the wrong lessons are being drawn about GPs' role in emergency referrals ...

Three GP partners have been elected as the new deputy chairs of the BMA’s GP committee, the union has announced. The committee has elected Dr David Wrigley, Dr Shan Hussain and Dr Manu Agrawal as the ...

Copperfield finds the new 28-day patient communication standards for hospitals encouraging, until he looks at the small print and realises that GPs will likely be picking up the pieces So, bad news ...

GPs should advise patients taking ACE inhibitors about a rare side effect that can happen even if they have been taking the drug for weeks or even years. Information on packaging is also being ...

British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) primary care guidance is clear that there is no reliable way to predict the severity of future allergic reactions. Someone with a previous ...

NICE has conditionally approved the use of two technologies in primary care to speed up the diagnosis of endometriosis, under new draft guidance. The committee said Endosure and Endotest should be ...