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NHS urges frontline staff to get vaccinated against flu
The NHS is urging all frontline healthcare workers to ensure they receive their flu jab before winter hits NHS Improvement has announced that all frontline keep reading
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Management
New guidance urges doctors to ditch the jargon
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has published guidance for doctors, suggesting that they use plain English when writing to patients New guidance from the keep reading
Health & Patient Care
Mental health therapists in practices could ‘radically change’ primary care
New guidelines from NHS England could see mental health therapists placed within GP surgeries NHS England has set out new guidelines which encourage the placement keep reading
Health & Patient Care
GPs are letting down heart failure patients
British Heart Foundation research has revealed serious shortcomings in heart failure care, much of which could be improved by better GP-hospital communication According to new keep reading
News
Fall in GP numbers ‘demoralising and distressing’
NHS Digital has released its yearly statistics on NHS workers, and a worrying trend has emerged regarding GP numbers According to the Healthcare Workforce Statistics keep reading
News
Workload is causing 40% of GPs to suffer mental health problems
A survey has shown that 40% of GPs in the UK are currently suffering a mental health condition as a result of being overworked According keep reading
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GP shortage is forcing Welsh practices into closure
The BBC has reported that Wales is struggling through a GP staffing crisis, with closures leading to over 40,000 patients being displaced in five years keep reading
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Government calls for new GP Premises Policy solutions
GPs across the UK can have their say as the government makes a public appeal for help in updating the General Practice Premises Policy The keep reading
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Communication between hospitals and GPs in Wales must improve, report shows
Research into the way that patients are discharged from hospital and into GP care in Wales has exposed some of the problems therein A new keep reading
Health & Patient Care
AI could diagnose dementia up to 10 years earlier than GPs
CREDIT: This story was originally seen on Express New research shows that AI may have the potential to diagnose dementia up to a decade earlier keep reading