A doctors’ organisation is to go to court in a bid to force an urgent inquiry into the failures that led to NHS staff with inadequate protective equipment. The Doctors’ Association is citing human rights legislation in a bid to get a court to order a rapid investigation – aimed at ensuring the NHS is…

Face coverings should be compulsory in GP surgeries as well as in hospitals, the British Medical Association has said. The government announced, unexpectedly, last week that everyone in a hospital would be required to wear face coverings. Now the BMA has called for consistency across the health care sector. The warning came amid concerns about…

In this interview we catch up with Stuart – who has experience of working as a practice manager and receptionist – to hear his thoughts on how the relationship between the two can be smooth sailing. Stuart perhaps wasn’t your typical practice manager. Rather than working through the ranks of primary care or elsewhere in…

Linking GP practices with free, local parkrun events helps to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and staff, a new study has claimed. The research by the University of Warwick’s Medical School, as part of an ongoing assessment of the initiative by parkrun UK and the Royal College of General Practitioners, identified the process…

Have you ever longed to master the dark art of claiming ‘personally administered’ items? If so, we might have just the thing for you! Claiming personally administered (PA) items can be fraught with difficulty. For example, do you know what you can claim and how much you’ll be paid? Do you know whether you can…

Practices need more support and training to assist with concerns about growing levels of domestic abuse triggered by the pandemic lockdown, senior doctors have warned. In a joint letter, the heads of several medical royal colleges call for increased access to training for health professionals and their staff. They propose national dedicated funding within the…

GPs have faced a barrage of complaints over the last two months as some patients struggled to adjust to lockdown arrangements, it was revealed today. Some people have complained about not getting face-to-face appointments for “existing minor” conditions – and others have complained about the way doctors have handled phone consultations, the Medical Defence Union…