Although some general practice consultations end in simple advice or referral, most result in prescription of medicine, probably […]

One evening this summer I found myself at a traditional wooden inn in the Japanese town of Mori-machi, […]

General practice is often promoted as a place where holistic care is offered. In our work we consider […]

Our practice manager recently asked me and my colleagues to review a list of patient referrals that had […]

A GP specialty trainee who claimed nearly £10 000 in sick pay from one NHS trust while doing […]

Contract negotiations between the Welsh government, NHS Wales, and BMA Cymru Wales’s General Practitioners Committee (GPC Wales) have […]

You may picture an “apprentice” as a young lad (the word has yet to shake off its gendered […]

From 1997 to 2010 the Blair/Brown Labour government saw sustained improvements in the NHS. By the time they […]

The Department of Health and Social Care’s new Major Conditions Strategy1 starts strongly, detailing how the nation’s health […]

Way back in the last century when I was a newly qualified doctor, I spent a lot of […]