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Clinical trials: Microscope in a lab

GPs could be incentivised to recruit patients onto commercial clinical trials

GPs could be offered incentives to recruit patients onto commercial clinical trials...

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Podcast: How many GPs do we need for safe general practice, pay restoration, the state of premises

Talking General Practice looks at safe working limits and the number of GPs we need...

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EMIS to keep panic button after outcry from GPs

EMIS, one of the main GP IT system providers, has backtracked on plans to phase out...

Health minister Lord Markham

Health minister Lord Markham: How we will support GPs to offer patients greater choice

Health minister Lord Markham explains what the government's plans for using the NHS...

Patient receives the flu vaccine

Flu vaccination campaign to return to pre-pandemic cohorts this year

This year's flu vaccination campaign is set to be reduced after it was expanded during...

Plant-based diet

Vegan and vegetarian diets can play key role in reducing cardiovascular risk, study finds

Plant-based diets can play a significant role in lowering the risk of stroke and...

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Government push on patient choice will drive up GP workload, warns BMA

A new government push on patient choice aimed at reducing the NHS waiting list will...

BMA Scotland GP committee chair Dr Andrew Buist

One in ten Scottish practices close lists in face of 'unsustainable' pressure

Almost one in ten practices in Scotland have formally closed their lists to new patients...

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Which ICB areas have the most severe GP shortages?

GPs in parts of England are responsible for 50% more patients than they can safely...

Junior doctors on strike in March this year in London

Junior doctors in England to hold three-day strike in June

Junior doctors in England will stage a 72-hour walkout from 7am on Wednesday 14 June...

RCGP chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne

RCGP warns Labour against abandoning GP partnerships

The RCGP has urged the Labour party not to abandon GP partnerships - warning that...

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Scottish junior doctors to vote on 14.5% cumulative pay offer

Junior doctors in Scotland are to be balloted on whether to accept a new pay offer...