The Department of Health (DH) has commissioned hundreds of new ‘physician assistants’ roles to support GPs, as part of a £5bn plan for 2015 in a bid to expand the number of full-time equivalent GPs by 15 per cent by 2020, and train up 15 per cent more GPs next year. Continue reading →

GPs will have to pay higher fees to renew their licences from April next year after the General Medical Council (GMC) voted to put up its charges by 7.69 per cent at a board meeting last week. Continue reading →

A new report has revealed that almost half of GPs have turned down out-of-hours work as a result of the high costs of medical indemnity cover and that the majority of GPs feel that out-of-hours services are not a high enough priority for the NHS. Continue reading →