The head of the British Medical Association (BMA) has blamed the Government’s NHS reforms for creating a “bizarre market culture” and destabilising services. Continue reading →

A recent survey has found that GPs estimate that their average drawings will decrease by 8.2 per cent this year, with 85 per cent predicting that their income will fall because of a ‘derisory’ funding award and changes to the 2014/15 GP contract. Continue reading →

A recent survey by the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) has found that fewer than one in three GPs were consulted on how their clinical commissioning groups (CCG) were spending the £5 per head of funding they should get for the care of elderly patients. Continue reading →

The deadline of June 20 to submit ideas on how area teams and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) can ‘co-commission’ GP practices is looming and CCGs in various parts of the country are busy developing plans for how they can take more control of primary care. Continue reading →

Information received under a Freedom of Information Act request has revealed that around one in 20 GP practices has moved to general medical services (GMS) from private medical services (PMS) since April 2010, in a bid to ‘claw back’ funding. Continue reading →