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Screen patients with LTCs for mental health problems, says RCGP lead

GPs should screen patients with long-term conditions for mental health problems, as part of a more h...

GP consultation: primary care role in cancer care to expand (Photo: JH Lancy)

GP cancer care role will become increasingly prominent, experts predict

GPs will take on an increasingly prominent role in cancer care in future, experts will predict at th...

Prescription: diabetes spending varies almost two-fold between CCGs

Diabetes spending varies almost two-fold across CCG areas

Spending on diabetes treatment varies almost two-fold across different CCG areas due to 'inefficient...

Gonorrhoea: GPs on alert over drug-resistant strain (Photo: iStock)

GPs on alert as experts declare outbreak of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea

GPs in northern England have been put on alert after Public Health England (PHE) declared an outbrea...

Cancer scan: Government plans to invest £1.5bn to boost access (Photo: iStock)

Government pledges £1.5bn to speed up cancer diagnosis after GP referral

The government will invest an additional £1.5bn into cancer diagnostics over the next five years to ...

Clinical picture: Hypertensive retinopathy

This week is Know Your Numbers! Week, which aims to raise awareness of high blood pressure....

Westminster: MPs reject assisted dying legislation (Photo: Robert Hammond)

GPC welcomes MPs' rejection of Assisted Dying Bill

GP leaders have urged the government to focus on improving palliative care, after MPs strongly rejec...

Diabetes: education scheme could cut GP workload (Photo: Jim Varney)

Education scheme to prevent diabetes could cut future GP workload

Educating patients at high risk of developing diabetes before they develop the condition is cost-eff...

Depression: drug spending per patient varies widely across England

Exclusive: Antidepressant spending per patient varies 13-fold across England

Official NHS prescribing data shows that the amount spent on antidepressants per patient with confir...

Coughs and colds: NICE antibiotic advice (Photo: JH Lancy)

GPs should not be first port of call for coughs and colds, says NICE antibiotic advice

NICE draft guidelines aimed at changing behaviour among patients and the public warn that GPs should...

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