GP Enterprise Awards 2013: The winning practices
The GP Enterprise Awards have once again delivered some exciting new ideas that should help to improve the working lives of GPs around the UK. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs most stressed of all UK doctors, survey reveals
GPs are reporting the highest levels of pressure of all UK doctors, a BMA survey has revealed. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 21, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Artery thickness 'predicts vascular disease'
MRI of the abdominal aorta can be used to predict the risk of future cardiovascular events, a study has found. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 21, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Rural GP sends out SOS over MPIG funding cuts
Lancashire GP Dr Karen Massey fears her practice will not survive beyond 2014/15 if plans to cut MPIG top-ups to core pay go ahead, and is mounting a campaign to protect rural practices. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 21, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Interview: Primary care faces hard road ahead, warns Labour peer
GPs cannot be blamed for A&E problems, but primary care reform is inevitable, Labour peer Lord Hunt tells Neil Roberts. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 21, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Interview - How I became a TV presenter
London GP Dr Louise Pealing recently travelled to El Salvador to present two TV programmes. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 21, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs lead Ramadan diabetes campaign
GPs across the UK are leading meetings at local mosques to encourage people with type 2 diabetes to speak to their doctor if they plan to fast during Ramadan. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 20, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Landmark RCGP report demands major GP investment
Major investment in general practice manpower, premises, technology and infrastructure is vital over the next decade to keep the NHS safe and sustainable for patients, a landmark RCGP report has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 20, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs warn 'perverse' cuts will deepen A&E crisis
GP leaders have warned 'perverse' and 'short-sighted' funding cuts by CCGs could deepen the A&E crisis. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 20, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPC warns against widening CQC role to probe GP access
Plans to widen CQC inspections to cover GP practice opening hours are 'unreasonable' at a time when the profession is struggling to cope with soaring workload, the GPC has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 20, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
NHS urgent care review backs 24/7 GP care
Patients would be put at risk if GPs are forced to take back out-of-hours responsibility because practices are already overloaded with work, GP leaders have warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 20, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Media attacks on GPs must stop, says GPC chairman
Outgoing GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman has said he would rather tell people he is a 'trainee mortician' than a GP because of the current media backlash against the profession. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 19, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
NHS could suffer 'staff shortages' due to early retirements, report warns
More should be done to halt early retirements in the NHS to prevent staff shortages, a report on pensions has found. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 19, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GMC could win right to test EU doctors' language skills
Rules preventing the GMC from testing the language skills of doctors trained abroad could be scrapped to help prevent a repeat of errors that saw German locum Daniel Ubani kill a patient on his first UK shift. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 19, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Catching up on missed sleep 'protects against diabetes'
Catching up on sleep could protect against diabetes, research suggests. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 19, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
