News
Doctors call for cap on GP workload
CREDIT: This story was originally seen on Aol.co.uk Doctors have voted in favour of a motion to cap the workload of GPs at the annual keep reading
News
News
GPs welcome MDU’s reduced-price subscriptions
The MDU’s Transactional Benefits membership has proven popular with struggling GPs, according to the organisation’s research Seventy-three per cent of 404 GPs taking part in keep reading
News
Charging patients to visit GPs is ‘against founding principles of the NHS’
A group of doctors is putting forward the idea at this week’s BMA conference that patients should be charged to visit their GP The British keep reading
News
The foundation of general practice has “serious structural faults” – but can be fixed
Dr Richard Vautrey addressed a BMA members’ event this week and discussed in-depth the reasons why general practice is both vital and at risk The keep reading
News
Government plans to combat childhood obesity with stricter regulations
The British government is aiming to create new, stricter rules surrounding the promotion and sale of junk food in order to promote healthier living in keep reading
News
Doctors with disabilities need better support, says BMA
The British Medical Association has stated that better funding and support is needed for doctors with disabilities Doctors requiring specialist equipment in order to do keep reading
News
Practice wins £27,000 reimbursement battle with NHS
Littlewick Medical Centre has won back £27,000 after the NHS withheld the cash following a claims mix-up A dispute between Littlewick Medical Centre, a levy-paying keep reading
News
Doctors call for better initiatives to combat pollution
Doctors are calling for more clean air initiatives to combat the healthcare issues linked with the problem With Clean Air Day occurring last week (21 keep reading
News
Allied health professionals will prove vital to GPs
CREDIT: This story was originally reported by Chartered Society of Physiotherapy At a King’s Fund event this week, RCGP’s Helen Stokes-Lampard confirmed that Allied Health Professionals keep reading
News
New partnership asks GPs to begin ‘prescribing’ outdoor exercise
Getting active outdoors is the prescription from the RCGP and parkrun UK’s new collaboration, which aims to get patients and general practice staff alike moving keep reading