Sofia Lind

New draft NICE guidance to reduce the number of falls could be challenging to implement because of a lack of resources, GPs have warned.

Men taking metformin can be reassured that there is no link with birth defects, say researchers who reviewed data.

GP practices across Greater Manchester will be testing software designed to improve asthma and COPD care during annual reviews.

A psychosis risk prediction tool developed by primary care researchers could help GPs identify patients earlier.

Unsustainable pressures on GPs are partly being driven by workload being passed from hospital onto practices, the CQC has warned.

Researchers have warned GPs not to use paediatric risk scores to assess sick children after showing they do not work in general practice.

The last figures on pertussis vaccination uptake in pregnant women seem to show an uptick in the numbers having the jab.

There is substantial variation in the use of tests in general practice before patients are diagnosed with cancer, researchers have found.

GPs have a 'key role' in suicide prevention when patients are discharged from inpatient mental health care, researchers have said.

GPs are being urged to make use of three new clinical codes for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) to improve monitoring.