NHS England head Simon Stevens has announced a funding boost of £2.4bn a year as part of a five-year plan to put general practice “back on its feet”, which will include surgeries working together and patients seeing other health professionals instead of their GP. Continue reading →

A venture capital (VC) firm is about to launch a $500m fund that will invest primarily in the UK’s start-up community in a cross-sector of industries, in a bid to “support the next generation of entrepreneurs” across the UK. Continue reading →

A new study has revealed that GPs’ workloads have risen by 16 per cent over the last seven years, with doctors dealing with more frequent and longer consultations at the same time as the rate of GPs has decreased. Continue reading →

According to figures released at the end of last month, although almost a third of GP training places remain vacant after the first round of recruitment for August 2016, equating to 70 per cent of all available places, this is an increase on the same time last year, when only 69 per cent of places were filled. Continue reading →