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Dementia: enhanced service to pay practices for new diagnoses (Photo: JH Lancy)

Practices to earn £55 per extra patient diagnosed with dementia

Practices signed up to an enhanced service are to be offered £55 per extra patient diagnosed with de...

Older patient: GMC advice stresses continuity is key (Photo: Jim Varney)

GMC elderly care advice for GPs stresses importance of continuity of care

GPs need to adapt the care they provide to meet the 'clinical, emotional and psychological needs' of...

Winter risk: GPs urged to identify patients at risk in cold weather (photo: iStock)

GPs urged to identify patients at risk of winter death

GPs should identify vulnerable patients at risk from cold or difficult-to-heat homes and refer them ...

Elderly care: NICE believes holistic QOF indicators are needed (photo: Paul Starr)

NICE to develop multimorbidity QOF indicators for frail elderly

NICE will develop a QOF indicator for managing patients with multiple long-term conditions, with pla...

Falls: little evidence vitamin D helps (photo: Jason Heath Lancy)

Prescribing vitamin D does not lower fall risk in elderly

Taking vitamin D supplements has little effect on the risk of falls in older people, according to a ...

Dementia targets: potential harm overlooked (photo: Paul Starr)

Dementia drive risks overdiagnosis harm, claims GP

A target to diagnose more cases of dementia across England risks harming patients and is based on fl...

Musculoskeletal: The 'get-up and go' test

Advice on assessing patients with poor mobility, instability and falls....

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