Category: Emergency medicine, General practice / family medicine, UK

A general election is set for 4 July, and the next UK government will be…

If you’ve been reading the popular press, you’ll have been told that the problem of…

Last month’s publication of NHS England’s Long Term Workforce Plan1 amplified some robust debate about…

At the NHS’s foundation in July 1948 it was the first health system in the…

In 2020, when he was prime minister, Boris Johnson pledged to build “40 new hospitals…

We’re still yet to see the long promised NHS workforce plan for England1 or any…

Until recently I thought that primary care had earned the top spot as the Cinderella…

We should be wary of single issue zealotry in health service delivery, which risks making…

The Royal College of General Practitioners has disputed a claim by the health and social…

On 12 October the parliamentary committees on health and social care and science and technology…

Even before covid hit in early 2020, the NHS faced growing pressures from capacity, performance,…

Discussions on the resourcing, staffing, and effectiveness of acute hospital care versus primary care often…

At the end of 2020, delegates at the local medical committee (LMC) conference of GPs…

When I first read about plans to ask patients to book ahead at emergency departments,…

The government recently announced plans to expand GP streaming in emergency departments, after claims that…