Browsing: GPs

As the sole parent of two disabled children who have lots of medical needs, I have found the new GP online booking system an immense improvement…

I sympathise with Simon Hattenstone (Tried using the new online GP booking system? I have – and it was almost as miserable as my chest infection,…

One in seven people in England who need hospital care are not receiving it because their GP referral is lost, rejected or delayed, the NHS’s patient…

GPs are failing to provide adequate support for people living with frailty, an independent watchdog has found.Frailty is a syndrome related to ageing and in which…

Almost three in 10 GPs in the UK are using AI tools such as ChatGPT in consultations with patients, even though it could lead to them…

In 1979, the British Medical Journal published an article by a Kent GP, John Stuart Brown, titled “Minor operations in general practice”.Brown, who has died aged…

Much of the health secretary’s plans to reinvent the NHS hinge on moving services from bed-blocked, overstretched hospitals to “neighbourhood health centres” where possible, and to…

GPs in England are missing a trick (GPs in England threaten action over online appointment booking plan, 29 September). The point about non-urgent GP appointments is…

My mother, Rosalind Hinton, who has died aged 94, was a force of nature – a woman of intellect, strength, humour and mischief. Although she often…

GPs in England are threatening to take action over government plans to increase patients’ online access to appointments which they say will lead to a “tsunami”…