Watchdog reveals £1.1bn cost of NHS reforms
NHS reforms implemented by the coalition government had cost £1.1bn by the end of March 2013, a National Audit Office (NAO) report reveals. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 10, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
RCGP urges GP funding to underpin elderly care reform
Plans to make named GPs responsible for elderly patients 'at all times' will fail without investment in primary care, the RCGP has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 8, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Jeremy Hunt speech on 'named clinicians': full transcript
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt set out plans for NHS reforms that could have a significant impact on GPs in a speech to mark the 65th birthday of the NHS on 5 July. Read the full speech below. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 5, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Named GPs could have 24-hour responsibility for elderly
Named GPs could be made accountable for the care of elderly patients 'at all times' for care outside of hospital, under proposals unveiled today by health secretary Jeremy Hunt. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 5, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Exclusive: NICE 'must lower QOF targets'
GPs have called for 'impossible' QOF targets that force practices to meet ever-increasing clinical thresholds to be scrapped as part of a NICE review. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 5, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
A new dawn for general practice?
The RCGP set out its vision for the profession's future in a wide-ranging report on general practice. So what will GPs be doing in 2022? Nick Bostock reports. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 5, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
'Doctors are angry,' says BMA chairman
Dr Mark Porter reflects on his first annual representative meeting as BMA chairman. Marina Soteriou reports. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 5, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
#weekinreview - 4 July: MPs' 15% pay rise, #BBCQT, #NHS65 and #justice4lewisham
A glance back over this week's primary care news, opinion, top tweets and best gaffes. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 4, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Interview: Female GPs reveal why they want to lead GPC
Exclusive: Two female GPs standing on a joint ticket to become co-chairwomen of the UK GPC said they want to 'empower' the committee and take it off the 'back foot' in negotiations. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 4, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPC chair election: meet the candidates
The contest to become GPC chair stepped up a gear this week after the first female candidates stepped forward with a joint bid to job-share the role. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 4, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
My life in rural Ecuador
Dr Andrea Gardiner discusses her work to improve health and wellbeing in rural Ecuador. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 4, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
'Savage cuts' threaten loss of 2,400 GPs
Up to 2,400 GPs could be lost from the workforce as a result of pooling an extra £2bn of spending between the NHS and local councils, the RCGP has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 3, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Limit antibiotic use to combat drug resistance, GPs told
GPs must do more to limit antibiotic prescribing in the face of rising drug resistance, experts have warned, after a survey found that 97% of patients who ask for antibiotics are prescribed them. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 3, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Foreign nationals to pay for GP visits under DH crackdown
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed plans to charge visitors to the UK to use GP services. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 3, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP premises fees could bring five-figure income boost
Practices could increase their income by five-figure sums by ensuring they are correctly charging organisations for using their premises, LMCs have said. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 3, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
