GP leaders have urged the Government to require hospitals to ensure that any patient referred by a GP to A&E is assessed by a doctor. The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has written to health secretary ...

GPs and neighbourhood teams will pilot genomic testing in primary care to predict the likelihood of specific conditions.

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Copperfield reflects on a recent inquest and asks whether the wrong lessons are being drawn about GPs' role in emergency referrals ...

The GMC is ‘close’ to eliminating disproportionate referrals of ethnic minority doctors, its chief executive has said.

Every GP practice in Kent and Medway has signed up to a ‘neighbourhood’ care model using existing PCN contract arrangements. All 140 practices in Kent and Medway are now signed up to the £10m Single ...

Patients with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) should be offered an annual review to monitor symptoms, medication and general health, NICE has recommended in new draft guidance. The ...

Dr Clare Bannon has been elected as the new chair of the BMA’s GP committee England, the union has announced. Dr Bannon, a former GPC deputy chair and a GP in Barnsley, will succeed current GPC chair ...

Exclusive The next chair of the BMA’s GP committee has said she is ‘prepared to act’ to pursue a plan B for general practice ‘as necessary’. Former GPC deputy chair and Barnsley GP partner Dr Clare ...