Exclusive: Top female GPs plan joint bid to lead GPC
Two leading female GPs are considering standing on a joint ticket to become co-chairwomen of the UK GPC. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 2, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Exclusive: GPC Wales appoints first female chair
Dr Charlotte Jones will become the first woman and youngest-ever GP to chair GPC Wales when she takes up the post later this month. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 2, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
CCG musculoskeletal care revamp slashes waiting times
A CCG pilot to reform local musculoskeletal care has cut waiting times and could save the NHS millions of pounds if more widely adopted. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 2, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
National lung cancer campaign urges GP visits
A lung cancer campaign has launched in England urging patients with persistent cough to visit their GP, after regional pilots saw a significant jump in diagnosis rates. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 2, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs take Jeremy Hunt to court over Lewisham A&E cuts
GPs and other campaigners launched a High Court challenge against health secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday to block plans to downgrade a London hospital. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 2, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GP leaders demand crisis summit with Jeremy Hunt
The RCGP and the Patients Association have demanded urgent talks with Jeremy Hunt to discuss the 'crisis' in general practice, warning pressure on GPs could have a 'catastrophic' impact on patients. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs to vet patients in 'health tourism' crackdown
GPs will be forced to police access to healthcare and impose charges on foreign nationals under plans to be announced this week by the government. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GPs launch rotavirus vaccination for babies
GPs across the UK will offer rotavirus vaccination to over half a million babies a year from Monday, in a bid to reduce the spread of gastroenteritis. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Monitor to probe GP access and 'new models of primary care'
GP access and barriers to 'new models of primary care' will be probed as a part of a wide-ranging review of general practice in England, launched by health regulator Monitor on Monday. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - July 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Publishing consultant mortality data 'pointless', warns top GP
Publication of mortality rates for individual hospital consultants by NHS England is 'absolutely pointless' because GPs cannot refer to named doctors, a senior London GP has warned. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Exclusive: GPs in line for share of £125m premises investment
Primary care premises in England are set to benefit from a share of £125m in capital funding, GP magazine can reveal. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Electronic records 'risk damaging interaction with patients'
Greater use of electronic records risks harming the patient-doctor relationship by distracting GPs from patients' concerns, experts warn. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
#weekinreview - 28 June: GP pole dances, #ARMLive, #WONCA2013 and #LGBThealthcare
A glance back over this week's primary care news, opinion, top tweets and best gaffes. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 28, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
NHS reforms have undermined London's healthcare system
The NHS reforms have created a 'leadership vacuum' in London's health services that threatens to seriously undermine patient care, according to healthcare academics. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
BMA hits out over GP contract and recruitment crisis
Doctors from across the health service have backed GPs in condemning the government's decision to impose changes to the 2013/14 GP contract. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - June 27, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
