BMA GP Committee chair Dr Katie Bramall opened the UK LMC conference in Belfast with a speech about professional unity ...
Health minister Dr Zubir Ahmed has resigned from his role while urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign from his post. Dr Ahmed, who was the minister for health innovation and safety and who is a ...
As AI tools spread through primary care, Dr Brighton Chireka argues that GPs must guide the technology, rather than quietly ...
Exclusive A hospital trust has moved to ban consultants from refusing patient referrals from GPs by downgrading them to ...
The BMA will announce a new collective action for GP practices next month, should the Government fail to provide ‘sufficient ...
PCNs should reject proposals to pilot single neighbourhoods if they lack ‘sufficient’ funding, the BMA has said in new guidance.
GPs in several areas have been advised by their LMCs to use ‘tweaked’ versions of the BMA’s template letter for collective ...
New legislation is expected to be announced this week which will force GPs in England to hand over data to the new NHS single patient record (SPR). Plans for the SPR were first outlined in last year’s ...
US private equity firm TPG has bought Optum UK, the company that owns major UK GP IT system supplier EMIS. The deal, which was first reported as a possibility at the beginning of this year, means that ...
Better early warning systems are needed to address medicines shortages before they impact patients, a report has concluded.
More than 1m asthma patients switched to a combination reliever inhaler containing an inhaled corticosteroid following ...