Exclusive: NHS managers are imposing emergency caps on GP referrals and threatening to delay some procedures until next financial year in a desperate attempt to avert financial crisis.
The RCGP has warned the scale and pace of change in the Government’s health white paper risks leaving GPs at 'breaking point', while welcoming a greater leadership role for GPs.
Some GPs face not receiving flu-vaccine supplies until the beginning of November after it emerged this year’s campaign had been hit by significant delays.
Exclusive: Cardiovascular experts are considering controversial proposals that GPs should scale back on their use of statins in patients with diabetes, as they draw up new guidance for the profession due in the new year.
Exclusive: Department of Health advisers are set to consider changes to the childhood vaccination schedule aimed at reducing the number of appointments children attend to receive vaccinations, Pulse has learned.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has said there will be no turning back from his plan to transfer commissioning responsibility from PCTs to GP consortia, despite a call from the BMA to do so.
Intensive lifestyle intervention can produce sustained weight loss and improvements in fitness, glycaemic control and CVD risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.