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News analysis & interviews
Government drops time limit on pledge to recruit 5,000 more GPs
Matt Hancock's message about the GP workforce at last week's RCGP conference sounded...
In charts: Is it the end of the road for GPs owning premises?
The attraction of premises ownership has dimmed for GPs - with many unable or unwilling...
Interview: 'We must not forget the personal cost of change in the NHS'
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard reflects on her second year as Chair of RCGP Council.
How can GPs access the winter indemnity scheme?
This is the fourth year NHS England has run the winter indemnity scheme, which aims...
What we know so far about plans for state-backed GP indemnity
The announcement last year that the government would develop a state-backed GP indemnity...
Can NHS England's review solve the GP premises crisis?
As part of the GP contract negotiations for 2018/19 the GPC and NHS England agreed...
Key questions for the GP partnership review
The government's review of the GP partnership model will be considering 23 'key lines...
The NHS at 70: General practice 1968 to 1990
The 1970s saw significant changes for GPs, but general practice then entered a relatively...
The NHS at 70: General practice 1948 to 1967
In the years following the start of the NHS, GP workload increased significantly...
Opinion
Viewpoint: How being part of a professional network stopped me leaving general practice
Five years ago Dr Mark Spencer felt drained and despondent and was ready to quit....
Dr Zahid Chauhan: Penicillin's creator foresaw the antibiotic crisis we face today
Nine decades on from the discovery of penicillin, GPs are under major pressure over...
5 ways GPs can encourage patients with asthma to have the flu jab
Asthma UK estimates that colds and flu put 4m people at risk of life threatening...
Dr Nigel Watson: Will networks threaten or support traditional GP partnerships?
Practices across England are linking up with other primary care services through...
Viewpoint: Like Dr Who, general practice is ready to regenerate
General practice needs to embrace technology and create a new vision as a specialty...
Dr Simone Yule: Time to rethink our relationship with pain
An opioid pandemic is on the horizon for the UK unless doctors can rethink how they...
