Practice Advice

The CQC, which suspended inspections in mid-March in response to the Covid-19 emergency, will begin a process of checking in with every GP practice in England from next week.

Everything you need to know about the Tier 2 Visa.

Primary care networks that struggled to recruit into additional roles are allowed to start recruitment of the next round of staff using their unspent ARRS funding from this year, NHS England has said.

Public Health England has issued interim advice to GPs on dealing with potential cases of coronavirus in patients who have visited affected regions of China.

An NHS service that refers patients with minor illnesses to their local pharmacist for advice is helping to relieve pressure on GPs, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has said.

Richard Burnell, who works in the NHS as a specialist in conflict and mediation, shares his tips for nurses on dealing with clashes on the job whether with patients or colleagues.

Jaimie Kaffash grills the main parties on their plans for general practice in the upcoming election

GP leaders have voted for a motion for home visits to be removed from core GP contract work at the England LMCs conference in London in a shock result.

More and more practices are considering recruiting a pharmacist to help with workload, particularly with the new funding available through primary care networks (PCNs).

Top tips on how to attract the best candidates

Employment lawyer Charlotte Ollerenshaw explains how practice managers should approach the recruitment process to ensure they stay on the right side of discrimination legislation.

Prescriptions covering just 28 days are not based on 'sound' evidence and could be increased for stable conditions, a new study has suggested.

GP practices in Scotland are emphasising their social side in job adverts in an attempt to attract new talent amid a severe workforce shortage.

There is a backlog of hundreds of thousands of pieces of clinical correspondence that have not been directed to GPs as a result of NHS England's failure to resolve problems associated with their contract with Capita, Government auditors have found.

EXCLUSIVE There was a 26% increase in the number of serious incidences reported by GP out-of-hours services to commissioners last year, with GP leaders warning that they are no longer a 'safe pace of work' and that there is an 'urgent crisis' in the service, a Pulse investigation has revealed.

Dr David Wrigley urges GPs to support organisations in their fight against threats to NHS general practice.

Every GP-registered patient is now able to access seven-day services in London, in the largest rollout to date.

A Pulse survey has found over a third of practice may end up not accepting new patients in the future.

Pulse Today has learnt commissioners are reserving a set proportion of GP appointments for NHS 111 direct booking.