One in five GP appointments last more than 20 minutes
Almost a fifth of GP appointments last more than 20 minutes and a third last more than 15 minutes, according to official data that hint […]
Almost a fifth of GP appointments last more than 20 minutes and a third last more than 15 minutes, according to official data that hint […]
Almost a fifth of GP appointments last more than 20 minutes and a third last more than 15 minutes, according to official data that hint […]
A large rise in GP appointments helped power growth in the UK economy in May, new figures show.
Hospitals should publicise expected waiting times for treatment across different specialties to limit numbers of patients contacting GPs to ask about delayed care, LMCs have […]
LMCs have demanded a renegotiated GMS contract that includes ‘safe working limits’ – citing the mismatch between workload and workforce in general practice – but […]
A Nottingham GP broke his fast during Ramadan for the first time in his adult life to work longer hours and keep his practice running […]
A Nottingham GP broke his fast during Ramadan for the first time in his adult life to work longer hours and keep his practice running […]
GPs are spending up to a third of their day discussing delayed hospital appointments with patients amid huge backlogs – and are often taking the […]
GPs are spending up to a third of their day discussing delayed hospital appointments with patients amid huge backlogs – and are often taking the […]
General practice delivered 4m more appointments in March compared with the previous month, with a workforce that has slumped by more than 350 GPs over […]
General practice delivered 4m more appointments in March compared with the previous month, with a workforce that has slumped by more than 350 GPs over […]
General practice delivered 4m more appointments in March compared with the previous month, with a workforce that has slumped by more than 350 GPs over […]
GPs will debate calls to reduce general practice core hours from 8am-6.30pm to 9am-5pm and to build safe workload limits into a revamped GP contract […]
GPs will debate calls to reduce general practice core hours from 8am-6.30pm to 9am-5pm and to build safe workload limits into a revamped GP contract […]
NHS officials are expecting a substantial rise in patient pathways ‘completed in primary care’ as part of plans to bring down the colossal elective care […]
GP practices are reporting rising demand, high levels of staff absences and abuse from patients as NHS leaders warned ministers not to ‘abandon’ the health […]
General practice is moving towards an ‘Uber-style’ service that could put patient care at risk – while the government has its ‘head in the sand’ […]
General practice is moving towards an ‘Uber-style’ service that could put patient care at risk – while the government has its ‘head in the sand’ […]
GPs need more support to help the NHS work through the care backlog, according to MPs who warn the government has ‘overseen a long-term decline’ […]
The NHS COVID-19 recovery plan risks being ‘obliterated’ unless the government ramps up investment in primary care staffing and premises amid ‘unsustainable’ pressure on GPs, […]
General practice is set to face increased pressure from the backlog in NHS hospital care for years, after Sajid Javid told MPs the record 6m […]
General practice is set to face increased pressure from the backlog in NHS hospital care for years, after Sajid Javid told MPs the record 6m […]
Government plans to tackle the NHS care backlog risk ‘putting more pressure on already stretched GP services’ unless they are properly staffed and stress-tested, the […]
Government plans to tackle the NHS care backlog risk ‘putting more pressure on already stretched GP services’ unless they are properly staffed and stress-tested, the […]
Around three quarters of GPs are working a free extra session each week, while almost a third are working two unpaid sessions a week, GPonline […]
Around three quarters of GPs are working a free extra session each week, while almost a third are working two, GPonline polling reveals.
General practice in England delivered an unprecedented 367m appointments in 2021 – around 6.5 for every person in the population, official data show.
GPonline spoke to three GPs about rising workload and the changing face of general practice, as practices struggle with staff burnout after two years of […]
GPs are delivering 84% more patient contacts per day on average than the level considered safe by the BMA, GPonline polling suggests.
GP practices faced a massive increase in workload through 2021 as demand for appointments surged well beyond rates seen in 2019. Explore the map below […]
Practices in parts of England delivered up to 28% more appointments in the three months from September to November 2021 compared with the same period […]
The government must take urgent action to expand GP capacity and ease pressure on primary care, MPs have warned – citing fears that a broken […]
Growing numbers of GP practices are reporting unsustainable pressure as staff absences triggered by COVID-19 leave them struggling to cope with soaring patient demand, LMCs […]
The RCGP has pushed back on comments from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer wishing patients ‘good luck trying to get a quick GP appointment’ – […]
More than half of GPs are struggling with workload – with a third at ‘high risk’ of burnout and many planning to cut their working […]
More than half of GPs are struggling with workload – with a third at ‘high risk’ of burnout and many planning to cut their working […]
A report from the UK’s public spending watchdog has laid bare how soaring waits for hospital treatment are heaping pressure on general practice – and […]
GP practices do not have the staff or spare capacity to deliver an accelerated COVID-19 booster campaign – and need urgent guarantees from government on […]
GP appointments climbed above 30m in October, with practice teams delivering around two-thirds of consultations in person, official statistics show.
Integrated care systems (ICSs) will finalise plans for immediate intervention at up to one in five GP practices over face-to-face access by the end of […]
The DVLA is consulting on plans to cut admin pressure on GPs by allowing a wider range of healthcare professionals to complete medical questionnaires for […]
The DVLA is consulting on plans to cut admin pressure on GPs by allowing a wider range of healthcare professionals to complete medical questionnaires for […]
NHS England’s chief executive has denied ignoring advice from GPs on how to ease pressure on practices, in the wake of widespread condemnation of the […]
NHS England’s chief executive has denied ignoring advice from GPs on how to ease pressure on practices, in the wake of widespread condemnation of the […]
NHS England’s chief executive has denied ignoring advice from GPs on how to ease pressure on practices, in the wake of widespread condemnation of the […]
More than four in five GP practices say demand is exceeding capacity – with around half of these warning of ‘substantial’ excess workload, polling by […]
More than four in five GP practices say demand is exceeding capacity – with around half of these warning of ‘substantial’ excess workload, polling by […]
More than four in five GP practices say demand is exceeding capacity – with around half of these warning of ‘substantial’ excess workload, polling by […]
GPs should respect patients’ choice to be seen face-to-face irrespective of clinical need, the health and social care secretary has suggested.
GPs should respect patients’ choice to be seen face-to-face irrespective of clinical need, the health and social care secretary has suggested.
GPs should respect patients’ choice to be seen face-to-face irrespective of clinical need, the health and social care secretary has suggested.
GP practice appointments rose in September to the highest total since five months before the COVID-19 pandemic, with face-to-face contacts accounting for a higher proportion […]
GP practice appointments rose in September to the highest total since five months before the COVID-19 pandemic, with face-to-face contacts accounting for a higher proportion […]
A GP surgery in Derbyshire has stopped delivering COVID-19 booster jabs after needing all staff to concentrate on core services amid ‘unprecedented demand’ in recent […]
A GP surgery in Derbyshire has stopped delivering COVID-19 booster jabs after needing all staff to concentrate on core services amid ‘unprecedented demand’ in recent […]
A GP surgery in Derbyshire has stopped delivering COVID-19 booster jabs after needing all staff to concentrate on core services amid ‘unprecedented demand’ in recent […]
GP workload intensified sharply in the final two weeks of September with practices delivering 6% more consultations and a third more clinical administrative work than […]
GPs in Devon are to present local health officials with a list of services that could be suspended if practice workload hits unsafe levels this […]
After media campaigns criticising GPs on face-to-face access, doctors have spoken out about how misinformation is affecting morale, leaving doctors fearing for their safety and […]
Around 1,600 GPs and hundreds of other signatories have backed a complaint to the press standards watchdog by the Doctors Association UK (DAUK) over Telegraph […]
Deliveries of flu vaccine will be delayed for up to two weeks after the UK’s largest supplier told GP practices jabs would be disrupted due […]
Commissioners should continue to ‘limit or suspend’ non-essential practice work and must recognise ‘significant variation’ in local GP capacity, updated BMA/RCGP guidance warns.
Commissioners should continue to ‘limit or suspend’ non-essential practice work and must recognise ‘significant variation’ in local GP capacity, updated BMA/RCGP guidance warns.
GPs fear NHS care could be ‘rationed’ as the health service works through the COVID-19 backlog – and are warning that practices must be able […]
GPs fear NHS care could be ‘rationed’ as the health service works through the COVID-19 backlog – and are warning that practices must be able […]
GP leaders have raised concerns over practice workload in a meeting with the new NHS chief executive that they hope will be the first step […]
GP leaders have raised concerns over practice workload in a meeting with the new NHS chief executive that they hope will be the first step […]
More than half of GPs have personally experienced verbal abuse in the past month, while over two thirds have witnessed violence or abuse against colleagues, […]
Stopping hospitals dumping tasks on general practice tops a list of measures GPs say are vital to ease pressure on primary care – with extra […]
Stopping hospitals dumping tasks on general practice tops a list of measures GPs say are vital to ease pressure on primary care – with extra […]
General practice in England delivered 31% more appointments in June this year than in June 2019 once COVID-19 jabs are factored in, according to official […]
General practice in England delivered 31% more appointments in June this year than in June 2019 once COVID-19 jabs are factored in, according to official […]
GPs have warned that they are coming under increasing pressure as growing numbers of fully vaccinated people contract COVID-19 and need support from practices.
GPs have warned that they are coming under increasing pressure as growing numbers of fully vaccinated people contract COVID-19 and need support from practices.
GP practices in England delivered 100m appointments from March to May this year, according to official data that are likely to significantly underestimate unprecedented workload […]
NHS England has set a target for all GP practices to deliver ‘at or above’ pre-pandemic appointment levels this year as the government seeks to […]
NHS England has set a target for all GP practices to deliver ‘at or above’ pre-pandemic appointment levels this year as the government seeks to […]
Growing medicines shortages have forced more than four in five GPs to prescribe second choice drugs over the past year – driving up workload and […]
NHS workforce planning is ‘at best opaque and at worst responsible for unacceptable pressure’ on staff across the health service, according to a damning report […]
NHS workforce planning is ‘at best opaque and at worst responsible for unacceptable pressure’ on staff across the health service, according to a damning report […]
NHS workforce planning is ‘at best opaque and at worst responsible for unacceptable pressure’ on staff across the health service, according to a damning report […]
NHS workforce planning is ‘at best opaque and at worst responsible for unacceptable pressure’ on staff across the health service, according to a damning report […]
NHS workforce planning is ‘at best opaque and at worst responsible for unacceptable pressure’ on staff across the health service, according to a damning report […]
GP practices have delivered a third more clinical administrative work – including prescriptions and referral letters – and 8% more appointments in the past five […]
GP practices have delivered a third more clinical administrative work – including prescriptions and referral letters – and 8% more appointments in the past five […]
GP practices have delivered a third more clinical administrative work – including prescriptions and referral letters – and 8% more appointments in the past five […]
GP practices have delivered a third more clinical administrative work – including prescriptions and referral letters – and 8% more appointments in the past five […]
BMA GP leaders have warned the health and social care secretary about ‘extreme pressures’ facing general practice – and demanded an end to ‘micromanagement’ after […]
The rate of missed GP appointments in the UK has remained broadly unchanged over the past two decades, according to research that calls for a […]
GP leaders at the BMA have demanded an urgent meeting with health and social care secretary Matt Hancock, condemning ‘unrealistic’ demands for face-to-face appointments for […]
GPs have condemned a ‘blanket’ demand from NHS England that all patients should be offered face-to-face appointments if they choose.
Hospitals are compounding the GP workload crisis by dumping ‘endless tasks’ on primary care, LMC leaders have warned.
LMCs have set out proposals to tackle the growing workload crisis in general practice – backing measures such as scrapping the CQC, tracking GP activity, […]
General practice is facing ‘historic workforce and workload crises’ that have been exacerbated by the pandemic – and needs a long-term government funding commitment to […]
Rocketing workloads created by huge backlogs of cases and continuing COVID-19 disruption have left GP teams ‘absolutely exhausted and demoralised’ – with many questioning how […]
More than a third of UK GPs plan to retire early and many more to reduce their working hours in the coming year as unmanageable […]
GP practices in England are working harder than ever before, the BMA has warned, as official figures showed the profession delivered 4.8m more appointments in […]
GPs have demanded an urgent review into soaring demand on general practice, after claims patients are struggling to access care despite the profession currently seeing […]
Plans to introduce COVID-19 vaccination certificates or passports must have ‘zero impact’ on GP workload, the RCGP has warned.
Plans to introduce COVID-19 vaccination certificates or passports must have ‘zero impact’ on GP workload, the RCGP has warned.
Plans to introduce COVID-19 vaccination certificates or passports must have ‘zero impact’ on GP workload, the RCGP has warned.
Plans to introduce COVID-19 vaccination certificates or passports must have ‘zero impact’ on GP workload, the RCGP has warned.
Shortages of medicines widely used in primary care spiked in the final months of last year and remain high – causing ‘constant frustration’ for GPs […]
Shortages of medicines widely used in primary care spiked in the final months of last year and remain high – causing ‘constant frustration’ for GPs […]
Shortages of medicines widely used in primary care spiked in the final months of last year and remain high – causing ‘constant frustration’ for GPs […]
Shortages of medicines widely used in primary care spiked in the final months of last year and remain high – causing ‘constant frustration’ for GPs […]
GPs delivered hundreds of thousands more appointments and a third more clinical admin work in the first weeks of 2021 compared with last year – […]
GPs delivered hundreds of thousands more appointments and a third more clinical admin work in the first weeks of 2021 compared with last year – […]
GPs delivered hundreds of thousands more appointments and a third more clinical admin work in the first weeks of 2021 compared with last year – […]
General practice is delivering around 7m appointments per week including work on COVID-19 vaccinations – a staggering 1m a week more than before the pandemic, […]
General practice is delivering around 7m appointments per week including work on COVID-19 vaccinations – a staggering 1m a week more than before the pandemic, […]
A government report on NHS bureaucracy admits GPs face a ‘particularly high’ legislative burden and promises changes by the end of 2020.
‘Poorly executed’ government communications around measures affecting GP practices and their patients are preventing family doctors ‘from doing their jobs effectively’, primary care network (PCN) […]
‘Poorly executed’ communications from NHS and government officials are preventing GPs ‘from doing their jobs effectively’, primary care network (PCN) leaders have warned.
Flu vaccination for 11.5m patients aged 50-64 in England will be rolled out from 1 December, the government has confirmed.
Flu vaccination for 11.5m patients aged 50-64 in England will be rolled out from 1 December, the government has confirmed.
Flu vaccination for 11.5m patients aged 50-64 in England will be rolled out from 1 December, the government has confirmed.
Doctors’ workload should be capped to protect them and their patients, the BMA chair has told MPs – warning that the average GP now sees […]
Doctors’ workload should be capped to protect them and their patients, the BMA chair has told MPs – warning that the average GP now sees […]
Doctors’ workload should be capped to protect them and their patients, the BMA chair has told MPs – warning that the average GP now sees […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has added 50 hours a week to overall GP workload per average practice, according to an LMC report that warns the profession […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has added 50 hours a week to overall GP workload per average practice, according to an LMC report that warns the profession […]
MPs have raised the prospect of a cap on GP consultations in an investigation into workload intensity and burnout in the NHS – and heard […]
MPs have raised the prospect of a cap on GP consultations in an investigation into workload intensity and burnout in the NHS – and heard […]
Face-to-face GP appointments and home visits have surged by more than 50% in the past month, while telephone consultations remain at their highest point since […]
GP leaders have hit out at an NHS England report that says work is ongoing to ‘restore primary care services to appropriate levels of activity’ […]
Four in five GPs say their practice is currently facing levels of workload that are above normal – with rising demand for consultations, the strain […]
Hospitals cannot treat GPs as ‘peripatetic community house officers’ who will absorb work dumped on them, a top GP has warned after being forced to […]
GP workload in the past four weeks has consistently outstripped levels seen over the same period in 2019, analysis of RCGP surveillance data shows.
GP workload has surged sharply in recent months, official data show, underscoring reports that practice workload is already above pre-pandemic levels with the pressure of […]
GP workload has surged sharply in recent months, official data show, underscoring reports that practice workload is already above pre-pandemic levels with the pressure of […]
Clinical administration work for GPs has surged to the highest point in nearly a year as practices tackle a huge backlog built up during the […]
Clinical administration work for GPs has surged to the highest point in nearly a year as practices tackle a huge backlog built up during the […]
Clinical administration work for GPs has surged to the highest point in nearly a year as practices tackle a huge backlog built up during the […]
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