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Plans to reduce GP mental capacity assessment workload behind schedule, says minister The primary care minister has admitted that plans to reduce GP involvement in mental capacity assessments are currently behind schedule.  Speaking today to the House of Commons Heal ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction
How can we improve the complaints and regulatory system to benefit all? In the final part of our series of articles on the complaints and regulatory process in general practice, Jaimie Kaffash discusses how we can make improvements that benefit patients and practices ali ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Making complaints work
GPs 'pressured' into prescribing weight-loss drugs without ICB-commissioned services GP practices across England are being 'pressured' into prescribing and monitoring weight-loss drugs without locally commissioned services, leaders have warned. The BMA’s GP committee said that ICB ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Gastroenterology and obesity
Government sets target for Welsh health boards to increase primary care funding year on year Health boards in Wales have been told they must deliver an increase in proportion of funding going into primary care by 0.5% each year from 2027 onwards. The Welsh Government will also undertake ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Practice and personal finance • Wales
GMC reform consultation extended by four weeks The Government has pushed back the deadline for its consultation on proposed GMC reforms by four weeks, saying that this will provide 'more time to respond to questions related to the Mann Review'. ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Regulation
Is it time for GP and pharmacy contracts to make friends? Editor Sofia Lind reflects on how GPs and pharmacists are being unfairly set up to compete, following Pulse publisher Cogora's recent joint conference I've just spent the last couple of days at th ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Editor's blog
Every new GP training post filled by UK graduates and priority groups Every GP specialty training place in the latest recruitment round was accepted by UK graduates or those already working in the NHS, new data has revealed.  All 4,364 GP ST1 places w ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Career news • Workforce
What are the regulations around UK GPs working in New Zealand? The immigration requirements for working in New Zealand are fairly straightforward, but it pays to know the details. In the fourth part of a five-part series based on a new guide by Pulse, Rachel Car ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Career analysis and advice • Pulse careers • Working as a GP in New Zealand
'Are we failing international medical graduates in GP training?' Dr Erwin Kwun asks why so many capable international GP trainees continue to struggle with the SCA, and whether training programmes are doing enough to prepare them for success Nearly half of inte ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Career views • Education and training • Pulse careers
BMA leaders condemn Government replacing GMS negotiations with 'consultations' BMA leaders have condemned any move from the Government to replace formal negotiations for the GP contract with ‘consultations’ or ‘engagement exercises’. At their annual representative meeting (A ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Contract • Politics

Plans to reduce GP mental capacity assessment workload behind schedule, says minister The primary care minister has admitted that plans to reduce GP involvement in mental capacity assessments are currently behind schedule.  Speaking today to the House of Commons Heal ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Mental health, pain and addiction

How can we improve the complaints and regulatory system to benefit all? In the final part of our series of articles on the complaints and regulatory process in general practice, Jaimie Kaffash discusses how we can make improvements that benefit patients and practices ali ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Making complaints work

GPs 'pressured' into prescribing weight-loss drugs without ICB-commissioned services GP practices across England are being 'pressured' into prescribing and monitoring weight-loss drugs without locally commissioned services, leaders have warned. The BMA’s GP committee said that ICB ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Gastroenterology and obesity

Government sets target for Welsh health boards to increase primary care funding year on year Health boards in Wales have been told they must deliver an increase in proportion of funding going into primary care by 0.5% each year from 2027 onwards. The Welsh Government will also undertake ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Practice and personal finance • Wales

GMC reform consultation extended by four weeks The Government has pushed back the deadline for its consultation on proposed GMC reforms by four weeks, saying that this will provide 'more time to respond to questions related to the Mann Review'. ... Date: 24-06-2026 Categories: • Regulation

Is it time for GP and pharmacy contracts to make friends? Editor Sofia Lind reflects on how GPs and pharmacists are being unfairly set up to compete, following Pulse publisher Cogora's recent joint conference I've just spent the last couple of days at th ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Editor's blog

Every new GP training post filled by UK graduates and priority groups Every GP specialty training place in the latest recruitment round was accepted by UK graduates or those already working in the NHS, new data has revealed.  All 4,364 GP ST1 places w ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Career news • Workforce

What are the regulations around UK GPs working in New Zealand? The immigration requirements for working in New Zealand are fairly straightforward, but it pays to know the details. In the fourth part of a five-part series based on a new guide by Pulse, Rachel Car ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Career analysis and advice • Pulse careers • Working as a GP in New Zealand

'Are we failing international medical graduates in GP training?' Dr Erwin Kwun asks why so many capable international GP trainees continue to struggle with the SCA, and whether training programmes are doing enough to prepare them for success Nearly half of inte ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Career views • Education and training • Pulse careers

BMA leaders condemn Government replacing GMS negotiations with 'consultations' BMA leaders have condemned any move from the Government to replace formal negotiations for the GP contract with ‘consultations’ or ‘engagement exercises’. At their annual representative meeting (A ... Date: 23-06-2026 Categories: • Contract • Politics

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