Further to the GP Forward Way announcing that NHS England wants to recruit around 500 GPs from abroad, it appears that there is interest from doctors in Spain, Poland, Romania and Italy, so a package of training and language support is being put together for them. Continue reading
A pilot scheme aimed at attracting GPs working abroad to come back to the UK appears to be generating “higher than expected” interest and two GPs have already entered the portfolio route of NHS England’s induction and refresher scheme. Continue reading
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
A recent survey by the British Medical Association (BMA) has found that almost 300 GP practices in England could close because they are financially unsustainable and nearly half of those polled have doctors who are planning to leave the NHS. Continue reading
NHS England has announced that it is to pay up to 50p per NHS patient to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in a bid to cut the prescribing of antibiotics by 4 per cent in 2016/17, bringing it back to 2013/14 levels. Continue reading
Even though one in three GP practices scrapped an unfunded service over the last year, many practices are continuing to provide care that would ordinarily cost millions of pounds a year for nothing, according to a recent poll. Continue reading
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has published a report advocating having a pharmacist in every care home in the UK, which could save £60m annually in medicine reviews and £75m through the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions. Continue reading