40% OF ENGLAND'S WALK-IN CENTRES HAVE SHUT SINCE 2010.

This is despite public claims from NHS trusts that closing walk-in centres will have a minimal impact on emergency wards... READ MORE›

CHINA TO TRAIN 500,000 GPS IN 12 YEARS

The country plans to have five general practitioners available for every 10,000 residents in China by 2030, Zeng Yixin, deputy head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said on Thursday... READ MORE›

MEDICAL STUDENTS: HAVE YOU HELPED AT A HOSPITAL THIS WINTER?

Senior doctors took the unprecedented move of writing to prime minister Theresa May about patients dying in hospital corridors during the winter crisis... READ MORE›

NHS WINTER CRISIS: WHAT IS HAPPENING AT YOUR HOSPITAL?

Patients are dying in hospital corridors this winter, senior doctors have warned in a written letter to prime minister Theresa May... READ MORE›

WHAT ARE YOUR EXPERIENCES OF THE NHS THIS WINTER? TELL US HERE

Dr Nick Scriven, president of the Society for Acute Medicine SAM, said many hospitals reported more than 99 percent capacity in the week before Christmas... READ MORE›

NHS EXPLORES APPS FOR CARE IN A DIGITAL AGE

The task at the NHS Ideas Lab hackathon was to find 21st-century solutions to problems facing patients, doctors and the NHS... READ MORE›

MAY'S SCAPEGOAT ATTEMPT COULD SPARK MASS RESIGNATIONS, SAYS TOP GP

Dr Kailash Chand says GPs are rightly angry at government effort to shift blame for NHS crisis on to them with seven-day threat... READ MORE›

FEARS OF 'TWO-TIER NHS' AS GPS ALLOW FEE-PAYING PATIENTS TO JUMP THE QUEUE

MPs claim Dorset Private GP service, at up to ?145 per appointment, will mean NHS patients without money will wait even longer for care... READ MORE›

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL UNITS FORCED TO CLOSE TO NEW PATIENTS DUE TO STAFF SHORTAGES

Lack of paediatric doctors and nurses across the UK also means care children receive is at risk, says the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health... READ MORE›

NHS ACCUSED OF COVERING UP HUGE DATA LOSS THAT PUT THOUSANDS AT RISK

NHS England has quietly launched an inquiry to discover how many patients have been affected... READ MORE›

NHS TO SPEND ?100M BRINGING IN UP TO 3,000 GPS FROM ABROAD

NHS England hopes that many of the extra GPs will come from Europe... READ MORE›

DEAL OVER JUNIOR DOCTORS' CONTRACTS WAS TORN UP, REVEALS EX-HEALTH MINISTER

Deal over junior doctors' contracts was torn up, reveals ex-health minister... READ MORE›

GP PAY - THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

And that is exactly what happened in General Practice... READ MORE›

GP PAY - THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

And that is exactly what happened in General Practice... READ MORE›

JEREMY HUNT ACCUSED OF 'ASTONISHING FAILURE' AFTER GP NUMBERS FALL BY 1,190

GPs' workloads have risen by 16 percent over the last seven years but the number of family doctors has not kept pace, Stokes-Lampard said... READ MORE›

BULLYING AND BEING BULLIED IS EVERYWHERE NOW, AT EVERY LEVEL IN THE NHS

In addition, a 2015 study revealed that 94 percent of surgeons had observed unprofessional behaviour, including bullying, among colleagues.... READ MORE›

SERIOUS MISTAKES IN NHS PATIENT CARE ARE ON THE RISE, FIGURES REVEAL

We have long warned that underfunding and staff shortages within the NHS will impact on patient safety... READ MORE›

RECORD NUMBER OF GP CLOSURES FORCE 265,000 TO FIND NEW DOCTORS

NHS England data showed nearly a hundred practices closed in 2016, a 114 percent increase in GP closures compared with figures from 2014... READ MORE›

GPS IN ENGLAND 'UNCONFIDENT' DISCUSSING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WITH PATIENTS - REPORT

More than half of doctors said they had not had any training about encouraging patients to undertake physical activity... READ MORE›

GPS LOSING SLEEP OVER PATIENT SAFETY FEARS SAYS HEAD OF PROFESSION

GPs losing sleep over patient safety fears, says head of profession... READ MORE›

CHARGES PROPOSED FOR OUT-OF-HOURS GP APPOINTMENTS IN ENGLAND

LMCs are made up of NHS GPs and represent their interests locally and nationally, and work with the British Medical Association's BMA general practitioners committee GPC ... READ MORE›

LABOUR ACCUSES TORIES OF TREATING GP SERVICES WITH ASTONISHING NEGLECT

Labour would give GPs the resources and support they need to provide better and more accessible services for patients, Ashworth said... READ MORE›

CALL TO SNOOP ON ANTIBIOTIC SCRIPTS

The suggested rules say doctors should spend more time explaining why antibiotics are unsuitable for many patients... READ MORE›

AS A GP I FEEL INCREASINGLY BURNT OUT, BUT THE BUCK ALWAYS STOPS WITH ME

As we move towards more inter-professional working, with nurse healthcare assistants taking on more responsibility, the buck always stops with the GP... READ MORE›

MILLIONS OF PATIENTS PUTTING STRAIN ON NHS WITH MINOR AILMENTS

Council leaders are advising patients affected by such ailments to visit a pharmacy or seek treatment advice from the NHS Choices website instead... READ MORE›

LENGTHY WAITS TO SEE GPS MAY POSE SERIOUS RISK TO PATIENTS, SAYS TOP DOCTOR

People with non-urgent conditions may be neglected amid long waiting times, leading to acute problems, warns head of GPs' body... READ MORE›

LABOUR DEFENDS JUNIOR DOCTORS AGAINST 'MILITANT AND OVERPAID' PORTRAYAL

Junior doctors planning five-day strikes are not unreasonable, militant or overpaid, despite what government propaganda suggests, Labour has said... READ MORE›

NHS CHIEF TELLS MINISTERS: FACE UP TO THE PAY CRISIS

A total of 2,137 GPs in surgeries across Britain are from countries in the European Economic Area the other 27 EU members plus Switzerland, Norway and Iceland... READ MORE›

The NHS is an extraordinary melting pot of nationalities, and all the richer for it... READ MORE›

NHS CRISIS GROWS AS YOUNG BRITONS TURN THEIR BACKS ON FAMILY DOCTORS

Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said failure to treat younger people outside hospital would add to the financial pressures on the NHS... READ MORE›

NHS BOSSES SOUND ALARM OVER HOSPITALS ALREADY RUNNING AT 99% CAPACITY

NHS bosses sound alarm over hospitals already running at 99 percent capacity... READ MORE›

PERSONAL TRAINERS IN GP SURGERIES AND JOB CENTRES WILL TACKLE INACTIVITY, SAY EXPERTS

We know that physical activity programmes only attract around 4 percent of public health funding at present, Grey-Thompson said... READ MORE›

WHY MODERN MEDICINE NEEDS TO CHANGE

Fundamentally, chronic problems need a different approach to acute ones... READ MORE›

A&E FACES WORST WINTER EVER, TOP DOCTOR WARNS

The NHS in England only narrowly avoided collapsing last winter, Mann said... READ MORE›

ROGUE DOCTORS 'USE SUPERHERO STATUS TO ABUSE PATIENTS'

NHS bosses should be more wary of staff whose supposed expertise means their unusual behaviour goes unchallenged, says study... READ MORE›

TIME FOR A RETHINK ON GP NUMBERS

The GP Forward View GPFV published 12 months ago promised us 5,000 more GPs by 2020... READ MORE›