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GPs demand 'patient-centred contract' built on cross-party plan
GPs demand 'patient-centred contract' built on cross-party plan
GP leaders have urged the government to develop a new 'patient-centred contract' for general practice, backed with an extra £40 per patient and based on recommendations from a cross-party committee…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
GPs demand 'patient-centred contract' built on cross-party plan
Neighbouring surgery and patients rally round GP practice flooded by Storm Claudia
Neighbouring surgery and patients rally round GP practice flooded by Storm Claudia
A neighbouring practice, the community hospital and patients have rallied round and offered support to a GP practice in Monmouthshire, Wales, which was forced to close following severe flooding.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Neighbouring surgery and patients rally round GP practice flooded by Storm Claudia
GMC raises alarm over growing exodus of overseas doctors from NHS
GMC raises alarm over growing exodus of overseas doctors from NHS
Rising numbers of overseas doctors - including GPs - quitting the UK could leave 'huge holes' in the NHS workforce, the GMC has warned.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
GMC raises alarm over growing exodus of overseas doctors from NHS
Timeline: How general practice re-entered dispute with the government
Timeline: How general practice re-entered dispute with the government
After a positive start, this year has seen a remarkable boom-to-bust shift in the relationship between ministers and the BMA GP committee as general practice re-entered dispute. Below, GPonline sets…
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November 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Timeline: How general practice re-entered dispute with the government
Scammers impersonating GPs to gain patients' bank details
Scammers impersonating GPs to gain patients' bank details
GPs and practice receptionists are being impersonated by scammers who call patients and threaten to remove them from their GP surgeries’ lists unless they ‘update their records’ over the phone and…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Scammers impersonating GPs to gain patients' bank details
BMA poll reveals scale of damage to patient care from online GP access change
BMA poll reveals scale of damage to patient care from online GP access change
Most GP practices say disputed changes to online access have negatively affected patient care, with more than two in five forced to reduce face-to-face appointments and GPs reporting serious risks of…
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November 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
BMA poll reveals scale of damage to patient care from online GP access change
BMA GP leader calls for united front in ongoing dispute with government
BMA GP leader calls for united front in ongoing dispute with government
BMA England GP committee chair Dr Katie Bramall has repeated calls for general practice to stand together amid an escalating war of words with government over the basis for the profession's ongoing…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
BMA GP leader calls for united front in ongoing dispute with government
Man handed nine-year prison sentence for stalking his former GP
Man handed nine-year prison sentence for stalking his former GP
A man described as an ‘obsessive and volatile stalker’ has been sentenced to nine years in prison after he subjected his former GP to eight months of stalking.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Man handed nine-year prison sentence for stalking his former GP
Government risks HS2-style botch of NHS reform as waiting targets slip, warn MPs
Government risks HS2-style botch of NHS reform as waiting targets slip, warn MPs
Government handling of plans to slash ICB costs carries 'chilling echoes' of past failures with schemes like the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project - while NHS recovery targets have been missed despite…
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November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Government risks HS2-style botch of NHS reform as waiting targets slip, warn MPs
Carr-Hill formula review will need fresh investment to succeed, @aismanewsline.bsky.social accountants warn
Carr-Hill formula review will need fresh investment to succeed, accountants warn
A review of the outdated formula used to distribute core general practice funding will fail unless it is underpinned by fresh investment, accountants have warned.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Carr-Hill formula review will need fresh investment to succeed, @aismanewsline.bsky.social accountants warn
GPs need more support to prevent winter respiratory crisis, experts warn
GPs need more support to prevent winter respiratory crisis, experts warn
GPs need more support to prioritise high-risk respiratory patients to prevent a winter catastrophe, experts have warned.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
GPs need more support to prevent winter respiratory crisis, experts warn
UK GP shares her experiences of working in war-torn Gaza with @uk-med.bsky.social
UK GP shares her experiences of working in war-torn Gaza
Her Palestinian healthcare colleagues had lost weight, medication was being rationed and kites once flown in the sky by children are now nowhere to be seen. These are just some of the changes a…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
UK GP shares her experiences of working in war-torn Gaza with @uk-med.bsky.social
Northern Ireland GPs drawing up plans to quit the NHS
Northern Ireland GPs drawing up plans to quit the NHS
LMCs in Northern Ireland have warned that general practice cannot survive within its current contract and voted for the BMA to develop a strategy for GPs to quit the NHS.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Northern Ireland GPs drawing up plans to quit the NHS
'Disaster on the horizon' as BMA warns neighbourhood plans threaten practice closures
'Disaster on the horizon' as BMA warns neighbourhood plans threaten practice closures
Many GP practices will be forced to close if the government makes the 'catastrophic mistake' of stripping enhanced services cash from practices to fund neighbourhoods, the BMA has warned - as the…
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November 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
'Disaster on the horizon' as BMA warns neighbourhood plans threaten practice closures
Raid on GP enhanced services cash could fund neighbourhood contracts
@thedauk.bsky.social GP spokesperson @drstevetaylor.bsky.social said that if enhanced services were removed from practices 'that's going to decimate finances'.
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@thedauk.bsky.social GP spokesperson @drstevetaylor.bsky.social said that if enhanced services were removed from practices 'that's going to decimate finances'.
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Raid on GP enhanced services cash could fund neighbourhood contracts
Practice finances could be 'decimated' if the government approves a raid on hundreds of millions of pounds in enhanced services cash to fund new neighbourhood contracts, GPs fear.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Raid on GP enhanced services cash could fund neighbourhood contracts
@thedauk.bsky.social GP spokesperson @drstevetaylor.bsky.social said that if enhanced services were removed from practices 'that's going to decimate finances'.
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@thedauk.bsky.social GP spokesperson @drstevetaylor.bsky.social said that if enhanced services were removed from practices 'that's going to decimate finances'.
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Antibiotic resistance warning as private care undercuts GP work to limit prescribing
Antibiotic resistance warning as private care undercuts GP work to limit prescribing
NHS GPs have reduced antibiotic prescribing but overall use has risen because of a surge in private prescriptions, health officials have warned - as data revealed a rise in antibiotic-resistant…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Antibiotic resistance warning as private care undercuts GP work to limit prescribing
Streeting attacks 'cartel-like' BMA and says GPs need 'fundamental modernisation'
Streeting attacks 'cartel-like' BMA and says GPs need 'fundamental modernisation'
Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has accused the BMA of 'cartel-like behaviour' ahead of strikes by resident doctors and promised to 'plough on regardless' with NHS reform - while…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Streeting attacks 'cartel-like' BMA and says GPs need 'fundamental modernisation'
Promised benefits of NHS redundancy plan far from certain, BMA warns
Promised benefits of NHS redundancy plan far from certain, BMA warns
Making 50% of ICB staff redundant could undermine plans to shift NHS care to a more preventive model and may not deliver promised gains in clinical output, the BMA has warned.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Promised benefits of NHS redundancy plan far from certain, BMA warns
GP practice team bonds through Great Scottish Run
GP practice team bonds through Great Scottish Run
GP practice staff who entered the Great Scottish Run as a team say the experience has improved their fitness, helped build working relationships and encourage patients to be more active.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
GP practice team bonds through Great Scottish Run
Green light for 50% ICB staff cuts as NHS redundancy cash agreed
Green light for 50% ICB staff cuts as NHS redundancy cash agreed
Government officials have given ICBs the green light to complete 50% staff cuts after agreeing a long-awaited funding package for redundancy costs estimated at £1bn.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Green light for 50% ICB staff cuts as NHS redundancy cash agreed
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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