GPs 'risk losing patient trust' over CCG cuts, LMCs warn
Commissioning GPs must put patients ahead of CCG finances or risk destroying patient trust in the profession, LMCs have warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Referral scrutiny an 'attack on professionalism', GPs warn
LMCs have criticised referral management schemes for 'eroding' GPs' professionalism and called for GPs to refuse to co-operate with systems without certain guarantees. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
LMCs reject no confidence vote in Jeremy Hunt
GPs have rejected a motion of no confidence in health secretary Jeremy Hunt during an emergency debate at the UK LMCs conference, but hit out at plans to make the profession take back 24-hour responsibility for patients. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Women 'under-represented on GPC', LMCs warn
LMCs have called for an investigation into why women are 'underrepresented in both membership and leadership roles on the GPC'. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
LMCs condemn attacks on GP funding
Practices are being destabilised by the combined financial impact of MPIG withdrawal, practice funding, premises charges and pension changes, LMC leaders have warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
LMCs hit out at occupational health cuts amid rising GP stress
GP leaders have hit out at removal of central funding of occupational health services for GPs and warned LMCs have seen up to 400% rises in doctors reporting stress. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
LMCs demand investigation into MRCGP pass rates
LMCs have called for the GMC, BMA and RCGP to launch an investigation into the reasons why international medical graduates' pass rates for the MRCGP examination are consistently lower than those of UK graduates. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Video interview: Dr Beth McCarron-Nash on out-of-hours at UK LMCs conference
Former GPC negotiator Dr Beth McCarron-Nash tells GPonline.com why GPs should not take back out-of-hours responsibility. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Video interview: Dr Michelle Drage on Londonwide LMCs' campaign
Londonwide LMCs' chief executive Dr Michelle Drage tells GPonline.com about its campaign to inform patients about the work GPs do. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Jeremy Hunt 'confused and hypocritical', GPs warn
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt's plans to overhaul GPs' out-of-hours role and enforce a tougher inspection regime are 'confused and hypocritical', GP leaders have warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Video interview: BMA deputy chairman Dr Kailash Chand on practices' bankruptcy fears
BMA deputy chairman Dr Kailash Chand tells GPonline.com why GPs are worried about their practices going bankrupt. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP Interview - Telling a short story
Author and Sheffield GP Dr Jo Cannon explains how she began writing and why she prefers to specialise in short stories. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
My 50 years as a GP
Dr Elspeth Russell reflects on her career as a GP, which began in the early 1960s. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
How NICE plans to reshape general practice
Professor David Haslam, the new chairman of NICE, believes technology is the key to integration. Stephen Robinson reports. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Exclusive: Cash crisis may force staff cuts
Practices have been left with five-figure shortfalls in monthly income and could be forced to lay off staff as NHS reforms disrupt funding. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
