Exclusive: Hypertension guidance is set to encourage GPs to use renin testing to guide treatment for patients with resistant hypertension, prompting warnings that the test is only available in around a dozen centres across the UK.
Exclusive: PCTs across England have begun unpicking dozens of APMS contracts awarded under the previous government’s controversial Darzi-centre initiative, a Pulse investigation has found.
Doubts over whether to continue prescribing statins in very elderly patients have been raised by an analysis showing little evidence of benefit in the over-80s.
The Government has revealed it intends to remove the job of deciding which drugs are available on the NHS from NICE - and give the responsibility direct to GPs instead.
The first suggestion of a strong association between antibiotic prescribing in children and the subsequent development of irritable bowel disease has come from an observational study from Denmark.