GPs and neighbourhood teams will pilot genomic testing in primary care to predict the likelihood of specific conditions.

Hospital trusts will be held to account on eight new ‘minimum standards’ for patient communication, including informing patients within 28 days if their GP referral has been accepted. Once the ...

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Copperfield reflects on a recent inquest and asks whether the wrong lessons are being drawn about GPs' role in emergency referrals ...

GP leaders have urged the Government to require hospitals to ensure that any patient referred by a GP to A&E is assessed by a doctor. The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has written to health secretary ...

The GMC is ‘close’ to eliminating disproportionate referrals of ethnic minority doctors, its chief executive has said.

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Every GP practice in one ICB area has signed up to a neighbourhood care model using existing PCN contract arrangements.

Dr Clare Bannon has been elected as the new chair of the BMA’s GP committee England, the union has announced. Dr Bannon, a former GPC deputy chair and a GP in Barnsley, will succeed current GPC chair ...

Changes to the childhood vaccination schedule have been implemented seamlessly by GP practices, figures from the first six months suggest. Data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) for England ...

Thousands more older adults will be offered the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine this winter, NHS England has announced. From September, all adults aged 65-74 with a chronic respiratory ...