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Helen Salisbury: Payment for performance in general practice

Has the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)—which pays GPs for recording processes and achieving clinical outcomes—led to improvements […]

July 1, 2025 General practice / family medicine, UK

Doctors back GPs who refuse to follow “ludicrous and unsafe” hospital prescribing practices

BMA representatives have voted to support GPs who refuse to prescribe medicines for hospital patients unless the GP […]

June 24, 2025 General practice / family medicine, UK

Rammya Mathew: Trained, qualified, and unemployed—the GP workforce paradox

I can’t stop thinking about the BMA’s recent warning that as many as 1000 newly qualified GPs may […]

June 6, 2025 General practice / family medicine, UK

Reforms to how GMC regulates doctors will go ahead this parliament, says minister

The UK government has committed to introducing long awaited reforms to modernise the regulation of doctors and other […]

May 15, 2025 General practice / family medicine, UK

Mitigating the harms of politics and industry

The UK population’s health is getting worse. Health inequalities are widening and obesity rates rising, particularly among children […]

April 17, 2025 General practice / family medicine, UK

Judge says latest safety data can be used in case against GMC over regulation of physician associates

Campaigners who are taking the General Medical Council (GMC) to court alleging failure to properly regulate physician associates […]

April 11, 2025 General practice / family medicine, UK

Alcohol: Call for new strategy targeting older people as deaths reach record high in England

Experts have called for a new alcohol strategy for England as deaths from alcohol reached a record high […]

April 4, 2025 General practice / family medicine, UK

GPs can prescribe tirzepatide to priority patient groups from June

General practitioners will be able to prescribe the weight loss injection tirzepatide (Mounjaro) to “prioritised patient cohorts” from […]

April 3, 2025 General practice / family medicine, UK

New NHS roles in England were introduced prematurely without proper preparation, says review

New roles in healthcare provision, such as physician associates (PAs), have been introduced too quickly and without proper […]

January 16, 2025 General practice / family medicine, UK

GP leaders in Scotland demand investment to avert industrial action

The BMA’s Scottish General Practitioners Committee (SGPC) has set out a list of demands for the Scottish government […]

December 14, 2024 General practice / family medicine, UK

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