Successive governments over the past 10 years have promised thousands more GPs, starting with a 2015 promise to recruit an extra 5,000 by 2020. GPonline looks at what a decade of data show about how ...

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Emerging NHS neighbourhoods risk 'being too narrowly focused' on health services and cutting pressure on hospitals - and could fail to deliver key aims of the government's 10-year health plan as a ...

Use of fit notes should be reduced or replaced by an employer-funded workplace health service to take pressure off GPs and tackle a 'quiet but urgent crisis' that has left a fifth of working-age ...

NHS reorganisation and doubts over funding for large-scale ICB redundancies are a 'significant distraction and barrier' to progress on key government priorities such as the 10-year health plan, a poll ...

Life as a GP in the Falkland Islands Dr Angela Rowlands explains how she came to be a GP on the Falkland Islands and the challenges of practising in such a remote area.

Reflecting on significant events during GP training A learning event analysis (LEA) is required in each year of your GP training. Dr Prashini Naidoo explains how to record LEAs using the template in ...

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The basics - Doing a mother and baby check GPs should take advantage of the six-week check to reassure the mother, writes Dr Chris Barry.

RCGP council election results revealed Newly elected RCGP council members have pledged to tackle GP workload and to protect patient trust in the profession.

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