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Investigation: The GP recruitment crisis continues while staffing ...
1 day ago · The fall in the number of FTE GPs alongside an increase in GP headcount is partly explained by GPs working fewer hours. According to NHS Digital figures, GPs are increasingly working less than 37.5 hours per week.This is more or less in line with Pulse’s September 2024 survey, which showed GPs are working an average 35 …
Quarter of GP practices have had to shrink team size due to …
1 day ago · Exclusive Around 6% of GP practices in England have been forced to make staff redundant, with a further 20% being unable to replace departing team members, a joint Pulse and Management in Practice survey has revealed.. Respondents to the survey, carried out in September and answered by 744 practices in England, said they are having to reduce staff – including GPs – as a result of the ...
Widening inequalities driving rise in child deaths in England, finds ...
1 day ago · Child deaths in England have risen once more after a temporary drop during the Covid-19 pandemic, UK researchers have said. An analysis of the National Child Mortality Database found in 2022/23, there were 258 more child deaths than expected when compared with figures from the pre-pandemic period.
GP flu consultations up in past week but spread may have reached …
Jan 16, 2025 · GP flu consultation rates increased once more in the past week but officials think spread of the infection may have reached a peak. Surveillance data shows a consultation rate of 23.1 per 100,000 in the week up to the 12 January compared with …
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Government unveils first details of next GP contract including …
Dec 20, 2024 · GPC England said the proposals ‘could signal’ that the profession has reached ‘the end of the beginning’ and that it is clear from the health secretary’s ‘tone’ that the BMA’s messaging and efforts ‘are starting to yield results’.
Almost half of England's GP practices have started taking collective ...
Aug 13, 2024 · Exclusive Almost half (46%) of England’s GP practices are taking some form of collective action, with one in four putting a limit on the number of patients they see in a day, a Pulse survey has revealed.. The snapshot survey of 283 GP partners from different practices – representing 5% of the practices in England – found that two-thirds were either already limiting patient contacts, or ...
Over 40% of GP practices now limiting appointments as part of ...
Nov 7, 2024 · Exclusive More than four in 10 GP practices are now limiting patient appointments as part of collective action to bring about better terms and conditions, Pulse can reveal, with many more considering doing so.. This is the finding of an exclusive survey carried out by Pulse and our sister title Management in Practice, which received responses from 660 different GP practices – about one in 10 ...
Implementing the new joint NICE asthma guidelines - Pulse Today
Dec 12, 2024 · GP and respiratory expert Dr Andrew Whittamore outlines the key updates in new joint NICE/BTS/SIGN asthma guidelines and advises on how best to implement the changes. NICE has worked with BTS and SIGN to produce a unified guideline on asthma. 1 The guidance aims to modernise asthma management, in particular to support more accurate diagnosis and introduce more effective treatment regimens, to ...