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 ...

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

The new episode of Pulse in Focus: The Podcast for GPs is now live and available on all podcast platforms. Editor Sofia Lind is joined by deputy news editor Anna Colivicchi to discuss Anna’s Big ...

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

Millions of patients rely on financial help with the costs of their medicines through NHS schemes, figures show. Most of the schemes offered by the NHS have seen increasing numbers of accepted ...

This year’s GP Patient Survey is welcome recognition of the hard work that has been taking place across general practice. Patients are reporting continued improvements in their experience of care and ...

Neighbourhood services should never replace core general practice and the Government must commit to implementing a ‘primary care investment standard’, the RCGP has said. The college said that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exclusive The new BMA GP Committee chair will prioritise seeking a ‘significant’ GP funding uplift from the Government before going after wholesale GMS contract reform. Former health secretary Wes ...

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approved the use of two technologies in primary care to speed up the diagnosis of endometriosis, under new draft guidance.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