Emma Bower

The NHS has made neighbourhoods 'massively overcomplicated' and risks failing to shift care out of hospital as a result, NHS England's chief executive has said.

GPs were among those to receive awards in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours list.

GP practices should consider boycotting a new QOF target for prescribing weight loss drugs over concerns that it is not financially viable, the BMA has said.

Dr Clare Bannon has been elected as the new chair of the BMA England GP committee.

ICBs have been asked to identify providers, including GP practices, that need to improve performance on cardiovascular disease prevention.

Neighbourhood working will only succeed if there is a ‘sufficient overall uplift’ of primary care funding and any services shifted from hospitals to the community are properly resourced, the RCGP has said.

Dispensing practices need extra funding to implement the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) for dispensing after new analysis suggested it was impossible to fund this within the fees they currently receive, GP leaders have said.

Regulators should introduce national 'best practice' standards on the use of AI scribes in the NHS so that patients can better understand how they are being used, Healthwatch England has said.

The government has said it will re-consult on its plans for the GMC to retain the right to appeal medical tribunal decisions.

There will be no requirement for PCNs or practices to form new legal entities to hold single-neighbourhood provider (SNP) contracts, NHS England has said.