09
Mar 2018
Official figures have shown that around 10,000 GPs, around 41 per cent, are aged 50 or over, and are predicted to leave the profession within the next five to ten years. Although Jeremy Hunt has promised a £20,000 incentive for trainees in October, fewer young doctors are choosing general practice as a profession and are…
09
Mar 2018
An IT glitch, which has affected around 2,500 GP practices, has lost crucial medical information, including vaccine uptake, pathology results and read codes, relating to over 44,000 patients. The problem has arisen from an issue with retrieving the medical records of patients who have left and are returning to a practice. GPs at the affected…
09
Mar 2018
Research funded by Cancer Research UK alongside the Department of Health has suggested that routine tests for prostate cancer do not save lives and can do more harm than good to patients. The trial looked into the effectiveness of PSA (prostate specific antigen) tests, which are available to all men over the age of 50,…
28
Feb 2018
Equal pay for equal work With reports about differences in pay between high profile men and women seemingly in the news on a daily basis at the moment, there cannot be many people in the UK who have not wondered how their pay compares to colleagues of the opposite sex. In this article, we explain…
27
Feb 2018
Figures obtained through Freedom of Information requests have revealed that patients are having to wait for more than eight months for hip and knee replacements, and waiting times have risen by 40 per cent in the last four years. Some health care trusts have resorted to only referring patients for surgery if they are unable…
27
Feb 2018
The Royal College of GPs has said that latest figures from the NHS have shown that the number of GPs fell from 34,091 in September to 33,872 in December, adding that many are leaving the profession as the ‘pressure has become too much’. Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chairwoman of The RCGP, said that although GP…
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