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 ...

The ‘refreshed’ NHS workforce plan has been delayed again and is unlikely to be published before the parliamentary recess, the health secretary has said. James Murray told the parliamentary health and ...

Exclusive A ‘plan B’ for general practice will give practices different options ‘if the NHS fails’, the new leader of English GPs has told Pulse. BMA GP committee chair Dr Clare Bannon also said that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patient satisfaction with GP practices has risen in the past year across a range of measures, according to data published by NHS England. More than three quarters of patients (76.7%) rated their ...

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approved the use of two technologies in primary care to speed up the diagnosis of endometriosis, under new draft guidance.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 ...

Flexural psoriasis (also called inverse psoriasis) is a chronic inflammatory variant of psoriasis that predominantly affects skin folds, including the axillae, groins, inframammary folds, natal cleft, ...

GP practice staff and other NHS employees who access patient records out of ‘curiosity’ face dismissal or even prison time, NHS England has said. Chief executive Sir Jim Mackey said in a letter that ...