Primary Care News Round-Up 26th April 2024

A round-up of the news headlines this week relating to primary care and GP practices in the UK

 

Delivering for patients: GP direct access and 2024/25 planning guidance

NHS England

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NHS England admits £1.3m cash loss due to overpaying suspended GPs

Pulse

Private GP provider is investigated for potential contract breaches

BMJ

ICB campaign sees 16% drop in prescription requests

Management in Practice

One third of patients in favour of AI-supported consultations

Healthcare Leader

Fear for GP surgery's future as contract abandoned

BBC

GP recruitment must match house building

Barnsley Chronicle

GPs raise concerns about clinically ‘risky’ incidents involving SAS doctors

Pulse

New medical examiner system postponed to September

Management in Practice

The relationship between prescription rates of oral corticosteroids for respiratory diseases and deprivation in England

Nature.com

Social prescribing: friend or foe for pharma?

Pharmaceutical Technology

Withnell Health Centre GP ‘humbled’ by public support to keep control of practice

Blog Preston

Higher GP numbers may improve life expectancy, finds study

Management in Practice

GPs like me know better than Rishi Sunak – his ‘sick note culture’ war hurts us all

Metro

GP practices had to close after police learned of ‘threat’

Nursing in Practice

Concern over GP provider's online appointment move

BBC

Glasgow has 17 fewer GP practices than a decade ago with seeing doctor 'near-impossible'

Glasgow Live

 

Trent View Medical Practice abruptly closes as patients worry about future

Grimsby Telegraph

 

Unsworth Group Practice introduce change at reception desk

Bolton News

 

BMA issues risk notice to ICBs about GP industrial action

Management in Practice

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