GPs and neighbourhood teams will pilot genomic testing in primary care to predict the likelihood of specific conditions.
Hospital trusts will be held to account on eight new ‘minimum standards’ for patient communication, including informing patients within 28 days if their GP referral has been accepted. Once the ...
GP leaders have urged the Government to require hospitals to ensure that any patient referred by a GP to A&E is assessed by a doctor. The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has written to health secretary ...
NHS England said it will speed up the planned rollout of an AI patient triage tool in the NHS App, following the success of a local pilot which reduced demand on GP services. The commissioner said the ...
The RCGP has criticised the new CQC draft framework detailing how it will assess GP practices, saying that it contains ‘vague expectations’ and does not recognise pressures faced by general practice.
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A GP practice has warned abusive patients they will be removed from the practice list following ‘a number of incidents involving abusive behaviour’. East Calder Medical Practice in Livingston, ...
Copperfield reflects on a recent inquest and asks whether the wrong lessons are being drawn about GPs' role in emergency referrals ...
The GMC is ‘close’ to eliminating disproportionate referrals of ethnic minority doctors, its chief executive has said.
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Dr Clare Bannon has been elected as the new chair of the BMA’s GP committee England, the union has announced. Dr Bannon, a former GPC deputy chair and a GP in Barnsley, will succeed current GPC chair ...
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