GPs have made ‘real progress’ in delivering end-of-life care to patients, with an increase in the proportion of practices using the Gold Standard Framework, a new analysis reports.
GPC chair Dr Laurence Buckman has hit back at claims made in a national newspaper that 'soaring numbers' of patients are complaining about poor GP services.
High profile media coverage of child abuse stories such as the Baby P case has prompted GPs to practice more cautiously and seek medico-legal advice more often, the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS) claimed this week.
GPs treating patients at risk of recurrent myocardial infarction with clopidogrel may be keeping some of them on the drug for far longer than necessary, researchers believe.
GPs are set to be handed responsibility for all swine flu queries after the Government announced that the National Pandemic Flu Service is to shut down next Thursday.
Exclusive: NHS managers are planning to scrap growth funding for PMS practices across London and use the cash to fund a new network of 100 ‘polysystems’ – the successors to Lord Darzi’s polyclinics.
GPs face a further round of vaccinating young women against HPV after Government figures showed a disappointing number have received a full three doses under the catch-up campaign.