NHS England says that GP practices will lose the funding they currently receive for so-called ‘ghost patients’, who have either died or moved away from the area. Continue reading →

Half the surgeries in London are suffering staff shortages and a third have at least one GP vacancy, meaning that many patients are turning to their nearest A&E instead, causing huge difficulties in local hospitals. Continue reading →

According to a recent survey, medical indemnity fees rose for 93 per cent of GPs in the last year and more than a quarter of those polled had to fork out more than 20 per cent more than they did the year before. Continue reading →

New rules brought in to keep guns out of the hands of people who are medically unfit to hold a firearms licence will place undue burdens on practices, according to the British Medical Association (BMA). Continue reading →