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Dementia: map highlights variation in care

Dementia map highlights diagnosis variation

Health ministers have published a map of dementia diagnosis rates in a bid to name and shame underpe...

GPSIs should lead on dementia diagnosis, according to England's dementia tsar (Photo: Paul Starr)

Dementia tsar calls for GP-led diagnosis

Patients with suspected dementia should be formally diagnosed by GPs in general practice as well as ...

Most people do not visit their GP when ill health causes sexual problems

Chronic illness impact on sex life 'overlooked'

GPs should be more willing to give advice about how chronic ill health will affect patients' sex liv...

The QOF overhaul will scrap the requirement for GP consultations to last at least 10 minutes

How QOF will shrink in 2014/15

As GP leaders announce that next year's QOF will shrink by almost 40%, we look at what will be lost ...

Glaucoma:  The guide identifies why commissioners might look to redesign eye care services: Istock

Guide helps commissioners understand how they can develop better eye services

A document to help commissioners understand how they can develop more efficient eye care services th...

Four in 10 care home residents face prescribing errors

GPs told to draw up care home prescribing plans

GPs will be told to draw up more robust plans to manage prescriptions for care home residents in a b...

Four in 10 patients incorrectly believe antibiotics can help a cough that produces green phlegm (Photo: iStock)

GP antibiotic use faces scrutiny

GPs have been urged to restrict the prescription of antibiotics for coughs, after health chiefs warn...

Asthma can delay women falling pregnant (Photo: iStock)

Asthma 'damages women's fertility'

Women with asthma take longer to conceive but treating the respiratory condition could improve their...

End-of-life care: many patients are not granted their wish to die at home (Photo: Paul Starr)

End-of-life care initiative halves patient deaths in hospital

A GP whose practice greatly increased the number of patients able to choose to die in their own home...

The test can spot women at higher risk of pre-eclampsia (Photo: iStock)

Pre-eclampsia blood test may prevent complications

A blood test can predict whether a woman is likely to develop pre-eclampsia in pregnancy weeks befor...

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