Interview: RCGP must keep in touch with grassroots
RCGP chair-elect Dr Maureen Baker advocates contact with front-line GPs. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 24, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Hunt plans contract change to hand out-of-hours duty to GPs
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will overhaul the GMS contract to enforce primary care reforms that will hand out-of-hours responsibility back to GPs. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Video: GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman's last LMCs speech in full
GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman earned a lengthy standing ovation for his final UK LMCs conference speech in the role. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs call for 'urgent' government action to halt workforce crisis
GPs have called on the government to take urgent action to reduce the acceleration of the 'current workforce crisis' caused in part by an 'avalanche' of unresourced work moving into practices from hospitals. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
LMCs condemn GMS contract imposition
LMC leaders have denounced the government's contract 'imposition' and demanded a return to negotiations in a motion passed at the LMCs conference in London. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs call for independent inquiry into NHS 111 fiasco
LMCs have unanimously called for an independent inquiry into the NHS 111 'debacle' and warned that the service is putting patients' lives at risk. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Video: Exclusive interview with Dr Laurence Buckman
GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman speaks to GPonline.com at the LMCs conference about the ongoing out-of-hours row and his time in office. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
LMCs reject claims GPC has 'lost faith of profession'
LMC leaders voted against a motion claiming the GPC had lost the faith of the profession after GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman launched an angry defence of his negotiating team. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 23, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs should take on 30% of A&E work, say emergency doctors
A&E doctors have called for more GPs at emergency departments to ease pressure on services, but a senior GP warned it could have the opposite effect. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 15, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Dementia diagnosis must accelerate, warns Hunt
The NHS must identify an extra 160,000 cases of dementia by 2015 as part of a push to increase 'shockingly low' diagnosis rates, the health secretary has announced. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 15, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Generalism vital as multimorbidity rises, warns NICE chair
NICE must change how it works to reflect the importance of general practice and the shift towards multimorbidity as the population ages, the institute's new chair has said. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 15, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Former negotiator bids to restore female voice on GPC
Former GPC negotiator Dr Beth McCarron-Nash has told GP magazine she will stand in elections this summer in a bid to reclaim the post she lost last year. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 14, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
NICE to draw up quality standards for public health
NICE has been tasked with drawing up quality standards for public health that will drive healthcare improvement and inform outcomes targets for GP commissioners. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 14, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
DH must tackle 'huge workload challenges facing GPs', warns RCGP
Ministers must tackle huge rises in GP workload and provide extra resources if the profession is to play a key role in improved, integrated healthcare for the elderly, the RCGP has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 14, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Fears over NHS England capacity to manage general practice
The quality of UK primary care is at risk because NHS England's area teams lack the capacity to develop relationships with practices and manage their performance, the King's Fund will tell MPs. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 14, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
