Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has announced that he is thinking of implementing a new programme that would see more patient services being moved to GP practices from hospitals, in a move to sending the NHS ‘back to basics’.Continue reading→

A charity has warned that growing numbers of GPs returning to work in the UK after career breaks or time abroad are struggling to cope financially because of soaring indemnity costs and long delays in securing permission to practise medicine.Continue reading→

GPs need more investment to allow them to spend sufficient time with patients, as their current workload puts then under “unsustainable pressure”, which in turn could put patients at risk. Continue reading→