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Screening project picks up high numbers of undiagnosed COPD
网页2 天之前 · A project to pick up undiagnosed COPD in people who had attended lung health checks found 70% of those offered an assessment had the condition. Those involved in the scheme said the findings suggest the NHS Lung Health Check programme provides a targeted opportunity to pick up many more cases of ...
GPCE sets out demands for Government to meet in order to end …
网页4 天之前 · The BMA’s GP committee has set out a list of demands for the Government to meet in order to bring collective action to an end. The union said today that to end the dispute the profession needs investment to ‘stop the collapse of GP practices’, as well as ‘a cast-iron commitment’ from the Government to agree and implement a new, national GP contract within this parliament.
New £32m hub aims to fix GP crisis in hard-hit Northern Ireland …
网页2 天之前 · Northern Ireland’s health minister has approved a new £32m health centre to tackle long-running GP issues in Fermanagh county. In his announcement, health minister Mike Nesbitt recognised the ‘particular strain’ GP services have been under in the East Fermanagh area, and criticised the recent abuse faced by staff at a …
Timing of daily blood pressure medication makes no difference, …
网页3 天之前 · GPs can advise patients that it does not matter if they take their blood pressure medication in the morning or evening, say researchers who analysed the pros and cons across five trials. After a meta-analysis of studies that included almost 47,000 patients presented at this year’s European Society ...
GP practice forced to split up due to new premises delays
网页3 天之前 · A GP practice awaiting its new premises has been forced to split into separate surgeries after failing to secure a lease extension. Pulse revealed in August that St James Medical Practice in Walthamstow, which was at risk of having no premises from October, had been ‘shell-shocked’ at advice from its ICB to ‘hand back the contract’.. The GP practice has been waiting years for new ...
Three quarters of public concerned about pressures on GP practices
网页2024年8月9日 · ‘The public understands this urgent need to fix the “front door to the NHS” – as this survey shows.’ Rory Deighton, director of the acute network at the NHS Confederation, said: ‘With the public showing they are concerned about waiting times we urge the government and BMA’s GP Committee to continue to work together to find solutions to avert the GP’s collective action in the ...
Number of GP vacancies advertised almost halves in a year
网页2023年11月27日 · Exclusive There has been a 44% reduction in the number of GP vacancies advertised since November 2022, a Pulse survey of 612 GP partners has revealed.. Pulse has reported in recent months that requests for GP locums within primary care settings ‘have reduced since the summer’ with ‘various new ARRS roles coming to the forefront at surgeries’, and locums have been asked to consider ...
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网页Pulse Today - Breaking news. GPs to ‘encourage’ uptake among men, obese and high-risk professions as vaccination programme enters next phase
New UK health security body replaces PHE - Pulse Today
网页2021年10月1日 · The new UK-wide public health and disease security organisation, which replaces Public Health England (PHE), has launched today. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) brings together PHE, NHS Test and Trace and the Joint Biosecurity Centre to protect the population from future health threats, as well as continuing to tackle Covid-19.