Emma Bower

The government should focus on 'strong general practice' and continuity of care if it wants to achieve its aims for the NHS, 19 current and former RCGP presidents and chairs have said.

A ‘fundamental shift’ of resources away from hospitals and towards primary care is needed to improve access, deliver more care closer to home and address healthcare inequalities, MPs have warned.

Half of practices have been forced to introduce waiting lists for non-urgent appointments since a new requirement for same-day access for urgent patients came into effect in April, a GPonline poll suggests.

GP services in Northern Ireland are at risk of collapse without urgent investment and reform, the RCGP has warned.

GP practices should not get involved with NHS England pilots for AI-assisted triage in the NHS app, the BMA has warned.

GPs will be able to refer women and men experiencing domestic abuse to a new specialist service, health and social care secretary Yvette Cooper has announced.

NHS planning guidance will order ICBs to prioritise funding for prevention, primary care and community services - but hospital deficits are undermining work to shift resources, a senior health service official has said.

NICE plans to 'bundle' guidance and integrate recommendations directly into GP clinical systems and electronic patient records (EPRs) to make its advice more accessible and tailored for patients with complex multimorbidity.

Pharmacy First is the ‘tip of the iceberg’ in terms of the amount of clinical work community pharmacies could be taking on from general practice, an NHS official has said.

Policymakers must ‘flip the telescope’ and stop treating general practice as an afterthought in NHS reform, the outgoing chair of RCGP Scotland has warned.