Fit notes need backing beyond what GPs can offer if they are to support a return to work, argues Health Foundation policy and research manager Sam Atwell ...

ICBs will be allowed ‘greater flexibility’ to tailor contract arrangements for PCNs to facilitate the creation of ...

The BMA’s GP committee has voted to enter collective action against this year's imposed contract, Pulse has learnt.

The number of cancer cases in the UK has reached record levels, according to new figures that show one person is diagnosed ...

Shortages of commonly prescribed blood pressure medication ramipril will have knock-on impacts for general practice, a ...

Copperfield on the tug of war between coroners and MEs over confirming causes of death in the medical examiner system ...

No one’ is asking GPs to be ‘100% sure’ of a patient’s cause of death when signing a death certificate, a medical examiner ...

Legislation aiming to stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from taking up smoking has ended its journey through Parliament today. Under the Government’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill, from next year the age ...

GP leaders from around the UK will debate whether to call for a strategy for ‘exiting GMS contracts’ and options for ‘future working outside the NHS’. At their conference in Belfast next month, LMC ...

Entries have opened for the General Practice Awards 2026, with GPs, practice teams and primary care organisations invited to nominate themselves or colleagues. The awards – organised by Pulse’s ...

Mental health experts describe ten common advice and guidance requests in adult psychiatry and how to manage them ...

Following the Government's announcement that it will fund ‘medicine access courses’ to break the class ceiling, Roheel Ahmar ...