Nick Bostock

A popular and successful training practice whose partners were forced to hand back their contract earlier this year will be taken over by a large provider under an APMS contract from October.

General practice in England is at a'tipping point' - with GPs per 1,000 patients down 15% and the number of practices reduced by a fifth over the past 10 years, a study shows.

The BMA has published a new handbook setting out how to update its safe working guidance, which could help practices step up collective action.

ICBs will remain free to commission GP services under APMS contracts despite a Labour MP hitting out at 'stealth privatisation' and warning that the time-limited deals are more expensive and worse for patients, the government has confirmed.

Prime minister Keir Starmer will promise the 'biggest reimagining of our NHS since its birth' after a rapid review by Lord Ara Darzi found the health service is in 'critical condition' and called for general practice to expand as part of a shift of care from hospitals into the community.

GP services must be expanded to cope with demand from growing numbers of patients with multiple long-term conditions in an increasingly complex, ageing population, a rapid review of the NHS by Lord Ara Darzi warns.

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has hit out at 'sabre-rattling' by the BMA GP committee - and contrasted the 'unnecessary threat of collective action' from GPs to an improving relationship with other parts of the medical profession.

More than 5,600 drug shortages have been reported since October 2020, figures released by the government alongside a review of the NHS by Lord Ara Darzi reveal.

The government has purchased more than 150,000 doses of mpox vaccine to boost resilience against the disease, as the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published advice on handling a potential UK outbreak.

Junior doctors have voted to accept a pay deal put forward by the government, bringing an end to a wave of industrial action that has seen 44 days of strikes over the past 18 months.