GPs face more distressed patients as economic crisis continues
GPs are facing rising numbers of distressed patients as the economic crisis continues and patients with mental health conditions are among the worst affected, the RCGP has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
NHS England to review sustainability of 111 service
NHS England is set to launch an urgent review of the troubled NHS 111 urgent care phone service. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs warned over 'unfamiliar' overseas prescriptions
GPs are being warned not to feel pressured to prescribe unfamiliar drugs after growing reports of doctors being asked to continue treatments initiated abroad. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - May 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Practice manager jailed after £150,000 fraud
Practices have been urged to review their anti-fraud policies after a practice manager who siphoned off £150,000 from a Manchester surgery was jailed for 18 months. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 30, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs to vaccinate two-year-olds against flu from September
The government has brought forward plans to begin routine vaccination of children against flu, as it confirmed its shingles, rotavirus and meningitis C programmes. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 30, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Rapid expansion of GP role 'risks undermining patient care'
GPs' role is widening significantly and could force a major overhaul of selection criteria and training programmes for the profession, a study has found. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs face £200m funding loss
GP leaders fear more than £200m could be stripped from general practice in England next year under plans to equalise funding across GMS and PMS contracts. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP premises in England could receive cash injection
GP premises in England could be in line for a much-needed cash injection after NHS Property Services Ltd revealed plans to draw up a capital investment programme this year. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 29, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
'GPs should take the lead on population health'
GPs should seize the opportunities presented by NHS reforms to take a more proactive approach to prevention and population health, according to research. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 26, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP data won't be shared if patient objects, DH says
Data from GP records will not be shared outside practices without patient consent except in emergencies, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 26, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Notting Hill GP takes over at her father's practice
When Notting Hill GP Dr John Stride retires next month, he will hand over to two new partners, one of whom is his daughter, Dr Helen Neilan (pictured below, with her father). (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 26, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Reaction to 1.25% Scottish pay award: GPC 'bitterly disappointed'
GPC Scotland has hit out at the Scottish government for awarding the lowest GMS pay settlement in the UK despite claiming to support and value GPs. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 26, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Scotland's 1.25% GMS uplift is lowest in UK
GPs in Scotland have been awarded a 1.25% uplift on GMS contract funding for 2013/14, lower than settlements in the rest of the UK. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 26, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Fears over MMR workload amid GP contract pressure
An LMC at the centre of the measles outbreak in Wales has spoken of the strain placed on local services and warned that ever-increasing workload from the GP contract could limit primary care's response to future emergencies. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 26, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Give patients access to all care records, Caldicott review says
Patients should be given access to all their hospital, community and social service records within the next decade and frontline staff should share information more widely, a major review has said. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - April 26, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
