Kimberley Hackett

GPs in Wales have called for a 'fairer portion of NHS funding' after a report found significant pressure on general practice amid practice closures, staff shortages and the impact of long hospital waiting lists.

Patients have praised ‘amazing’ GP practice staff after an ‘emergency situation’ forced a surgery to cancel appointments and close for one afternoon.

A newly-qualified GP has signed a contract for an additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) job starting in Wiltshire from next week, GPonline has learned, in what is thought to be the first confirmed GP job created through the scheme.

With the first GP recruited through the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) set to start work within days, GPonline looks at job specifications on offer across England and how they match up with BMA recommendations.

ICBs are employing GPs on contracts less favourable than the BMA salaried model contract - creating an 'unfair disparity' with terms and conditions for other doctors, the BMA has warned.

A former health minister has been appointed shadow health and social care secretary as new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s shadow front bench takes shape.

Doctors' leaders have demanded better access to specialist mental health services, after a Norfolk GP warned just two of his referrals to these services had been accepted in a decade and that general practice had become a 'liability sponge'.

The BMA has defended the GP partnership model - arguing it remains viable but has been broken by long-term underfunding - after NHS England’s clinical lead for emergency medicine called for primary care to become a fully salaried service.

A charity that supports GPs facing financial hardship has helped 15% more people in the first 10 months of 2024 than in the whole of last year, as many qualified GPs continue to struggle to find work.

Doctors' leaders branded the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) a 'tool of mass general practice destruction' - as LMCs voted to condemn the GP jobs crisis and demand £1.4bn in ARRS cash is moved into core practice funding.