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Melanoma: GPs face rise in legal challenges (Photo: iStock)

Legal complaints against GPs for missing melanoma double in decade

26 June 2015

GPs should receive extra training to spot melanoma because legal cases against the profession for mi...

Cancer scan: wide variation in early detection across England (Photo: iStock)

Patients face postcode lottery for early detection of cancer

25 June 2015

Patients face a postcode lottery for early cancer detection, with high-performing areas three times ...

Smoking, drinking and drug use in decline among children

Young people more sedentary but smoking, drinking and drug use decline

25 June 2015

Children are leading increasingly sedentary lifestyles, but the proportion taking drugs, drinking an...

Dr Maureen Baker: warning over impact of NICE cancer guidance (Photo: Pete Hill)

NICE GP cancer referral advice threatens to swamp services, warns RCGP

25 June 2015

The RCGP has called for NICE to produce evidence that its new cancer guideline, which lowers the ref...

Palliative care: GP training proposal (Photo: Paul Starr)

Charity calls for improved GP training to boost palliative care

23 June 2015

GPs 'have a vital role to play' in improving palliative care, but they must receive more training to...

Treatment: NICE advice questioned for frail elderly patients (Photo: Jim Varney)

GPs urged to ignore NICE diabetes advice when treating frail elderly

23 June 2015

GPs should consider stopping diabetes treatment in frail elderly patients to improve health outcomes...

Referral: NICE has lowered threshold for GP referral to 3% (Photo: JH Lancy)

NICE lowers cancer referral threshold for GPs in guidance overhaul

22 June 2015

GPs will refer more patients for cancer tests under revamped NICE guidance that lowers the threshold...

Blood test: GP practice to test new patients for HIV (Photo: iStock)

GP practices to offer all new patients HIV test in bid to catch disease earlier

18 June 2015

A pilot scheme in Coventry will see every patient registering at one of 10 practices in the region o...

BP test: health checks are a chance to catch disease early (Photo: JH Lancy)

Health check revival pledged by Public Health England fails to materialise

15 June 2015

Uptake for the NHS's flagship health check scheme remained stagnant at less than 50% in the last fin...

Exercise can reduce asthma symptoms (Photo: iStock)

Aerobic exercise should be 'routine treatment' for asthma, study finds

11 June 2015

Regular aerobic exercise 'reduces the need for inhalers' for patients with asthma and should be 'rou...

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