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GPs average 50% more consultations per day than safe limit
GPs average 50% more consultations per day than safe limit
GPs deliver over 50% more consultations per day on average than the safe limit recommended by the BMA - and one in three say their daily workload is potentially unsafe, GPonline polling suggests.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
GPs average 50% more consultations per day than safe limit
ARRS driving 'two-tier' GP job market and low pay, warn LMCs
ARRS driving 'two-tier' GP job market and low pay, warn LMCs
Additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) jobs are creating a two-tier system in which newly-qualified GPs are being paid 'significantly below market rate', LMCs have warned.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
ARRS driving 'two-tier' GP job market and low pay, warn LMCs
Third of GPs to quit within five years as RCGP warns of 'mass exodus'
Third of GPs to quit within five years as RCGP warns of 'mass exodus'
Nearly one in three GPs are unlikely to be working in general practice five years from now, according to alarming RCGP polling that shows the profession is facing an imminent 'mass exodus'.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Third of GPs to quit within five years as RCGP warns of 'mass exodus'
Government accuses GPs of 'standing in the way of change'
Government accuses GPs of 'standing in the way of change'
Primary care minister Stephen Kinnock has accused the BMA England GP committee of 'standing in the way of changes vital for patient care' and claimed plans to escalate action by general practice are…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Government accuses GPs of 'standing in the way of change'
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GP leaders threaten mass resignation from practice contracts
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GP leaders threaten mass resignation from practice contracts
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GP leaders threaten mass resignation from practice contracts
GP leaders have backed plans to collect undated contract resignation letters from partners across England in a major escalation of the dispute between general practice and the government.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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GP leaders threaten mass resignation from practice contracts
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GP leaders threaten mass resignation from practice contracts
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Boycott neighbourhoods unless they are GP-led, say LMCs
Boycott neighbourhoods unless they are GP-led, say LMCs
GP practices should not participate in neighbourhood health provider structures unless they are led by general practice, LMCs have said.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Boycott neighbourhoods unless they are GP-led, say LMCs
LMCs back 'non-compliance' with online access contract requirements
LMCs back 'non-compliance' with online access contract requirements
LMCs have demanded that the GP contract change mandating practices to keep online consultation systems open throughout core hours is scrapped, and called on the BMA to draw up plans for…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
LMCs back 'non-compliance' with online access contract requirements
Struggling GP charity forced to halve time limit on financial support
Struggling GP charity forced to halve time limit on financial support
A charity that supports GPs who are struggling financially has been forced to restrict the length of time it can help beneficiaries because of its own money worries.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Struggling GP charity forced to halve time limit on financial support
ICBs could 'decommission services' to reshape NHS around 10-year plan
ICBs could 'decommission services' to reshape NHS around 10-year plan
A strategic commissioning blueprint urges ICBs to be 'bold' and take an 'active role' in reshaping NHS provision - including in general practice - and warns that delivering key outcomes could involve…
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November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
ICBs could 'decommission services' to reshape NHS around 10-year plan
How has the GP workforce changed after 10 years of promises?
How has the GP workforce changed after 10 years of promises?
Successive governments over the past 10 years have promised thousands more GPs, starting with a 2015 promise to recruit an extra 5,000 by 2020. GPonline looks at what a decade of data show about how…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
How has the GP workforce changed after 10 years of promises?
'Narrow' neighbourhood vision threatens 10-year plan goals, warns @thekingsfund.bsky.social
'Narrow' neighbourhood vision threatens 10-year plan goals, warns think tank
Emerging NHS neighbourhoods risk 'being too narrowly focused' on health services and cutting pressure on hospitals - and could fail to deliver key aims of the government's 10-year health plan as a…
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November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
'Narrow' neighbourhood vision threatens 10-year plan goals, warns @thekingsfund.bsky.social
Phase out fit notes to ease pressure on GPs, says government-backed report
Phase out fit notes to ease pressure on GPs, says government-backed report
Use of fit notes should be reduced or replaced by an employer-funded workplace health service to take pressure off GPs and tackle a 'quiet but urgent crisis' that has left a fifth of working-age…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Phase out fit notes to ease pressure on GPs, says government-backed report
NHS reform and redundancies could stall 10-year plan, ICS leaders warn
NHS reform and redundancies could stall 10-year plan, ICS leaders warn
NHS reorganisation and doubts over funding for large-scale ICB redundancies are a 'significant distraction and barrier' to progress on key government priorities such as the 10-year health plan, a…
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November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
NHS reform and redundancies could stall 10-year plan, ICS leaders warn
Why autumn budget changes could leave most GPs worse off
Why autumn budget changes could leave most GPs worse off
Most GPs could be worse off after the chancellor's autumn budget statement if a proposed 'switch' from national insurance to income tax goes ahead, accountants have warned.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Why autumn budget changes could leave most GPs worse off
GPonline reports: Practice manager handed suspended sentence after stealing thousands from GP surgery
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November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
GPonline reports: Practice manager handed suspended sentence after stealing thousands from GP surgery
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Government attacks GPs over pay as dispute deepens
Government attacks GPs over pay as dispute deepens
Government ministers have stepped up attacks on general practice - again dismissing warnings over the impact of changes to online access and claiming it 'isn't credible' that the profession lacks the…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Government attacks GPs over pay as dispute deepens
'Long winter' warning as flu and GP appointments surge www.gponline.com/long-winter-... #GPnews
'Long winter' warning as flu and GP appointments surge
GP practice appointments in September were up 7% compared with last year - as data confirmed an early spike in the flu season that has now passed baseline epidemic levels in children and NHS officials...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
'Long winter' warning as flu and GP appointments surge www.gponline.com/long-winter-... #GPnews
'No progress' on GP contract reform as BMA frozen out of Carr-Hill review www.gponline.com/no-progress-...
'No progress' on GP contract reform as BMA frozen out of Carr-Hill review
GPs' industrial dispute with the government over online consultation systems has scuppered progress on contract reform and the profession's leaders have been excluded from a review of the outdated Car...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Practices forced to hire extra staff to manage online consultation workload www.gponline.com/practices-fo... #GPnews
Practices forced to hire extra staff to manage online consultation workload
Overstretched GP practices have been forced to hire extra staff and set up waiting lists to manage a surge in workload from online consultation systems since the start of October.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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LMCs to vote on major escalation of GP industrial action www.gponline.com/lmcs-vote-ma... #GPnews
LMCs to vote on major escalation of GP industrial action
GP leaders will vote on collecting undated contract resignation letters from practices in a step towards escalating industrial action and call for a reversal of 'unsafe' online access changes at the E...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
LMCs to vote on major escalation of GP industrial action www.gponline.com/lmcs-vote-ma... #GPnews
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GPonline reports: Government plans new target for GPs to offer urgent patients same-day appointments
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GPonline reports: Government plans new target for GPs to offer urgent patients same-day appointments
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October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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GPonline reports: Government plans new target for GPs to offer urgent patients same-day appointments
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GPonline reports: Government plans new target for GPs to offer urgent patients same-day appointments
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GPonline reports: Resident doctors in England will strike for five days next month
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October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
GPonline reports: Resident doctors in England will strike for five days next month
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GPonline reports: Menopause conversations to be added to NHS health checks
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October 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
GPonline reports: Menopause conversations to be added to NHS health checks
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GPonline reports: Rise in GP workforce over past 12 months but number of partners continues to fall
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October 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
GPonline reports: Rise in GP workforce over past 12 months but number of partners continues to fall
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GPonline reports: GPs say online access change will force cut in face-to-face appointments
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October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
GPonline reports: GPs say online access change will force cut in face-to-face appointments
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