Obstetrics
Browse obstetrics news, education and analysis by obstetrics subsections - pre-pregnancy counselling; pregnancy and antenatal care; pregnancy problems; assisted conception; postnatal care and six-week check.
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Pre-pregnancy counselling
Workload and funding cuts leave GPs struggling to offer stop smoking services
Rising workload pressures and cuts to public health funding have left GPs struggling...
GP trainees offered free personal indemnity cover from April
GP trainees will be offered free 'comprehensive personal indemnity' on top of clinical...
Inspectors visited Babylon GP at Hand in January, CQC reveals
CQC inspectors visited Babylon GP at Hand in January, the watchdog has revealed,...
Pregnancy/antenatal care
Top female GPs call out sexism by male GPC colleagues
Women in senior BMA GP committee roles have spoken out about sexist comments from...
Capita stripped of cervical screening contract
Capita is to be stripped of its contract to run the administration side of the cervical...
NHS faces shortfall of 11,500 full-time GPs by 2029
The NHS faces a shortfall of 11,500 full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs in 10 years from...
Pregnancy problems
NHS pension rules undermine GP workforce and threaten patient care, say LMCs
LMCs have called for new flexibilities to stop GPs being forced to cut working hours...
Indemnity rule for locum GPs threatens workforce crisis in Wales
GPC Wales has warned that the Welsh government's requirement for locums to sign up...
Drug shortages exacerbated by patients stockpiling ahead of Brexit, LMCs warn
Medicine shortages are being exacerbated by patient stockpiling ahead of Brexit,...
Assisted conception
LMCs demand removal of 'anti-immigrant' registration forms
LMCs have demanded contract talks to scrap a requirement for practices to ask patients...
UK LMCs conference 2019: full coverage
Keep up to date with full coverage of the 2019 UK LMCs conference in Belfast, as...
Full details of state-backed GP indemnity scheme published
NHS Resolution has published the full rules of the new Clinical Negligence Scheme...
Postnatal care, six-week check
LMCs and BMA must do more to represent sessional GPs, warns Dr Zoe Norris
LMCs and the BMA must 'do better' in representing and engaging with locum and salaried...
LMCs back radical overhaul of 'outdated' GP training system
LMC leaders have voted for GP trainees to be 'predominantly based in general practice'...
GPs call for action over 'excessive' workload linked to GDPR
LMCs have called for a clear set of guidelines about what could be classed as an...
