Category: General practice / family medicine, UK

Weight management services in England will be able to use four new digital platforms to…

GPs in Scotland have issued an urgent plea for help, and most say that their…

The health service provider Babylon—once hailed as one of the “world’s best HealthTech companies” by…

The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee in England has elected Katie Bramall-Stainer as its chair. The…

The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme was introduced in 2019 to help expand the general practice…

People talk to their doctors in confidence, expecting the details they share about their weight,…

A group of potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes have been linked to a rise in…

Various steps recommended by MPs last year to improve the doctor-patient relationship in general practice…

In February 2022 NHS England published its Delivery Plan for Tackling the Covid-19 Backlog of…

Several times a year I run sessions for GP training schemes or other groups of…

Four years ago, we knew that video consulting existed but saw no role for it…

The UK government has failed to meet a key target to eliminate paper prescribing in…

“Show me your budget, and then I’ll know what you care about.”1 This quote is…

As a child I lived through the Cuban missile crisis, when the United States and…

Last week, the tragic and avoidable death of a young woman was discussed in parliament.1…

The UK government has been urged to decriminalise all drugs for personal use and to…

The places where we live, work, and play—and how we access them—are fundamental determinants of…

We were promised a workforce plan in 2017, and at last it has arrived.1 Just…

Thousands more doctors and nurses will be trained every year under proposals in the long…

The final verdict on Scotland’s five year experiment in introducing a minimum unit price (MUP)…

GPs are buckling under their workloads, and the bottom line is that we simply have…

If you’re lucky enough, you’ll live to attend the 50th anniversary of entering medical school….

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced more than £50m in funding for researchers to…

Whenever the NHS is in trouble (all the time, over the past 10 years) you…

Achieving a place at medical school is the ambition of many school leavers. Competition is…

In a GP surgery in Pimlico, London, Cornelia Junghans-Minton meets with a small group. The…

What is a GP? I suspect that if you asked a representative sample of people…

Around 20 years ago I had a consultation with a cardiologist that I’ve never forgotten,…

No one is doubting that general practice is in trouble—but how much, and how can…

The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England published a report last week…

For one day last month I was stranded in a small Welsh town. My car…

On paper, a GP’s working schedule can look quite inviting: consulting for three and a…

This week I visited two older patients of mine who recently had surgery for cancer….

“What we’re seeing at the moment is the largest decline in living standards since records…

As you can see from my photo in the print edition, I’m the oldest columnist…

Last week I attended an event celebrating the Oxford Refugee Health Initiative.1 It’s not often…

Primary care in England needs wholesale reform, alongside extra investment to revitalise struggling services, Labour’s…

Leading medical organisations and charities in Scotland are calling for tougher measures to reduce the…

While doctors in training were on strike last week, consultants and GPs did their best…

Our waiting rooms are full of anxious parents, with children sitting listlessly on a lap…

NHS England has instructed the IT system suppliers EMIS and TPP not to switch on…

When I chose to become a doctor all those years ago, I never imagined that…

Just at the moment, our GP surgery is in the happy position of having enough…

The government must make retention of GPs as much of a priority as their recruitment,…

As the UK’s new government sets its priorities, it does so in the middle of…

Growing demand for sexual health consultations coupled with cuts in funding has left services in…

Family doctors in Scotland are struggling to meet patient demands despite delivering around half a…

Back in 2010, in a move reminiscent of George Orwell’s Newspeak, sick notes were renamed…

I’m reaching the age when my friends are discussing retirement, pensions, and the next stages…

From 1 November patients were supposed to have access to their electronic GP record and…