There has been limited take up of healthcare professionals other than GPs writing fit notes since new legislation was ...

Use of GP data identifies a third more patients with atrial fibrillation than hospital data alone, a team at the University ...

Some physician associate (PA) courses may not be approved as they do not meet GMC standards, the regulator has told the Leng ...

Dr Toni Hazell discusses some difficult scenarios when prescribing contraception, starting with the woman who has obesity ...

The BMA has published over 600 reports from GPs and other doctors of 'serious concerns' about physician associates (PAs) working in the NHS.

GP practices who order more chest X-rays have fewer patients with cancers diagnosed at a late stage, researchers have found.

Asthma diagnosis QOF guidance has been updated for 2025/26 so that it no longer conflicts with NICE’s separate UK joint ...

GPs will be able to prescribe Mounjaro weight-loss injections from late June to ‘prioritised patient cohorts’ set out by NHS ...

RCGP chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne on the need to standardise green prescribing in general practice and the support ...

The CQC spent £99m on a transformation programme which has failed to deliver the ‘vast majority’ of benefits, a damning ...

ICBs have been reminded that advice and guidance (A&G) must not be used ‘in place of’ urgent cancer referrals, in new NHS ...

The two Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) indicators remain the same for PCNs in 2025/25, worth a maximum of £13 million.