Practices in Scotland are being encouraged to sign up to a new scheme to provide support for the health care needs of military veterans. The Scottish government said a pilot project had been successful. The project, similar to one in England, will provide training materials for practices along with clinical case studies. Scotland called on…

Just one in 20 GPs in Scotland believe their practice is sustainable in the long term, according to a stark new survey. About a third of doctors said their practice is already in a “precarious” situation in the survey conducted by the British Medical Association and published yesterday. The survey involved more than 850 doctors…

Many practices in Scotland have closed their lists to new patients as the service faces a “sustainability crisis”, GP leaders have warned. A new analysis of the state of general practice in the country shows a 10% reduction in the number of practices in the last decade – with numbers falling to 905. The British…

Practices in Scotland are all vulnerable, a leading GP has warned after the collapse of one of the largest because of doctor shortages. Inverurie Medical Practice currently has more than 25,000 patients but is to return its contract in September because it does not believe it can recruit adequate numbers of doctors, it has been…

Scotland may have lost the equivalent of one in 30 of its GPs in three years, according to a major new analysis. Public Health Scotland published the results of its primary care workforce survey, showing a reduction in whole time equivalent GPs from 3,613 to 3,494. The Royal College of GPs said the data was…

Scottish GP leaders have reported chronic shortages of doctors in a new survey, linking it to growing abuse of staff. The British Medical Association warned of a shortage of more than 300 GPs after more than a third of practices reported having vacancies. In the survey, some 42% of GPs said demand was “substantially” exceeding…

Generally, practice managers who work in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland need to give policies a little more tweaking to make them relevant to their practices. This is because the majority of the reference material that’s available, familiar and therefore used migrates the policy towards NHS England or the English regulator, the CQC. As such,…