Emma Bower

GPs should refer all patients with suspected endometriosis for a transvaginal ultrasound, even if their pelvic or abdominal examination is normal, according to new NICE guidance.

ICBs will be stripped of their role performance managing hospitals so they can focus on 'building up community and primary care services' to develop a neighbourhood NHS, the health and social care secretary has said.

ICBs will be stripped of their role performance managing hospitals so they can focus on'building up community and primary care services' to develop a neighbourhood NHS, the health and social care secretary has said.

The vast majority of GP practices will be forced to cut staff and patient services and more than one in 10 could be forced to close unless the government covers the increase in employer national insurance payments from next year, a GPonline poll suggests.

Practices are considering cutting services, staff or even closing if the government does not provide additional funding to cover the rise in employer national insurance contributions from April, and partners expect to cut drawings.

The CQC’s inspection regime is ‘fundamentally flawed’ and the regulator should be scrapped, GPs have said.

The RCGP has said it will consult members on what its position should be on legalising assisted dying, as it insisted any change in the law must ensure there are clear protections to allow GPs to opt out of the process.

Labour MP and GP Dr Simon Opher is one of 23 MPs who will sit on the assisted dying bill committee that will scrutinise the proposed legislation before it is next voted on in palrliament.

GPs in Wales have voted overwhelmingly to reject the government's 2024/25 GMS contract offer - with 99% voting against the deal. by Emma Bower

The government has announced an £889m funding boost to the GP contract for 2025/26 which it says will 'liberate'GPs from bureaucracy and help create a neighbourhood NHS. But what will practices be asked to do under the contract?