Allowing pharmacists to refer patients to hospital could drive up activity, GP warns
Proposals to overhaul prescribing training for pharmacists and allow them to refer patients direct t...
Pharmacists call for broader role in managing long-term conditions
GP practices and pharmacies across England should draw up plans for pharmacists to take over partial...
MPs call for 'radical expansion' of structured diabetes education
MPs have called on CCGs to plan 'a radical expansion in structured diabetes education' to help ensur...
GPs 'unlikely' to achieve further efficiency savings on drug costs
Practices may have reached the limit of efficiency savings they can make on prescribing costs, senio...
Hospital drug costs up 18 times faster than primary care since 2010/11
Hospital spending on medicines has almost doubled since 2010/11 while primary care prescribing costs...
QOF results are misrepresenting COPD care in primary care, report warns
High QOF scores have provided 'false assurance' on the quality of COPD services in primary care and ...
Self care for conjunctivitis could save 160,000 GP visits a year, warns RCGP
Schools are wasting around 160,000 GP appointments a year by refusing to admit children with conjunc...
Targeted screening offers same benefits as health check at lower cost
Offering health checks to just the 8% of patients most at-risk of developing cardiovascular disease ...
GPs back self care drive to cut millions of appointments for minor ailments
GP leaders have backed calls from local government for a cultural shift in self care to cut millions...
Depression 'fastest growing condition' as GPs record 470,000 new cases in 2015/16
GPs recorded an additional 470,000 patients with depression through the QOF last year, a 13% rise on...
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