I love my job, I’m good at it, I get well paid for it, and I know I help a lot of people doing it. This isn’t a “patients are awful” post, because I know it’s tough out there – I’m a patient too. This isn’t a post to say the government / NHS England…

GP leaders have set out the measures they believe are needed to ensure that practices can cope with the growing pressures of the coming winter. Growing rates of COVID-19 infection are leading to GPs getting increasing numbers of inquiries – while at the same time trying to help the NHS get routine services back on…

A new report offers a framework to support primary care organisations following the death by suicide of a colleague. It was released yesterday (29 September) by the Society of Occupational Medicine, who created it together with the Louise Tebboth Foundation, which supports the mental wellbeing of doctors. The report, ‘Responding to the death by suicide…

GP leaders have rejected new allegations that doctors refused patients face to face consultations during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Daily Mail published a new survey of patients finding that nearly two-thirds of patients claimed they were refused a face to face consultation after 1 April – reporting they were offered phone or video calls instead.…

Managers are all too aware of the perennial issue of recruitment to ensure that practices have enough employees, but in these changing COVID-19 times, the goalposts on recruitment appear to be changing. A long-standing reliance on expensive locums may be due for a switch, with GPs becoming far more willing to agree to salaried positions…

GPs diagnosed significantly fewer common physical and mental health conditions during the three-month lockdown in 2020, according to analysis published today. Analysis of about 250,000 electronic health records between 1 March and 31 May 2020 by researchers at the National Institute for Health Research Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (NIHR GM PSTRC) found…

Practices are to face new pressure to set up enhanced support programmes for care homes, it has been revealed. NHS officials have been ordered to produce a “clear plan and timetable” for the project – with a view to setting up services over the winter, the Health Service Journal revealed. A government taskforce wants practices…