18 Apr 2011
| by Susie Sell
Attempts to detach health visitors and district nurses from practices will put patients at risk, GP...to practices, GPs can informally or formally express concerns to health visitor teams and they can do likewise.'
A motion calling for all GP practices to have a named district nurse, health visitor and midwife ...
The UK-wide GP contract is heading for collapse in three to five years as NHS reforms create a...-wide contract would lead to further fragmentation of health services across the four nations, GP leaders said. It could also widen gaps in funding between GPs across the UK.
The 2011 LMCs conference in June voted ...
would have its own GP contract by 2016 as a 'Celtic contract' across Scotland, Wales and Northern ...
GPs in Northern Ireland have been forced to stop providing services and make staff redundant
GP leaders have urged Northern Ireland's new health minister to make radical changes to its...said he was 'more hopeful than expectant' that the new minister would expand the role of GPs ...
last month, had hinted he may back GP commissioning.
In an address to the annual chief nursing ...
in general.'
Dr Dunn said that GPs would push the new health committee for more control over the budget ...
GPs in Northern Ireland could be set to receive superannuation payments worth tens of thousands...Care Pensions Branch, she said.
Dr Black said that although GPs have not lost money, the issue had ...
critically underfunded, a GP investigation has found....here for the full GP investigation results
As part of the 2009 National Dementia Strategy ...
been launched in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. GP found that 7.5% of PCOs still do ...
similar prev alence of dementia.
GPs warned that the lack of investment in memory services meant ...
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