GPs will be able to spend more time treating patients under proposed reforms to general practice which will bring back the family doctor and slash red tape. The proposals fall under the new GP ...

NHS England published a letter outlining changes in the national dental workforce collection to be completed by all General Dental Services and Personal Dental Services contract holders. To balance ...

The Department of Health and Social Care have updated their guidance for medical practitioners completing medical certificates of cause of death (MCCD) with regards to implantable medical devices and ...

Directions 2024 (PCDs) were published in May 2024. Nine months on, this three-hour facilitated workshop will review the key changes introduced by the new PCDs and the practical implications on local ...

The biggest investment in a generation for hospices has been announced by the government. The £100 million funding will help hospices this year and next to provide the best end of life care to ...

Older and frail patients will receive urgent treatment from home this winter, as part of NHS plans to manage additional pressures. Rapid teams based in local neighbourhoods will attend less clinically ...

GP premises are essential to the delivery of NHS primary medical services and commissioners have the responsibility to make the necessary reimbursements for premises costs to GP contractors. This intr ...

This blog by PCC’s chair Professor David Colin-Thomé considers the opportunity that artificial intelligence (AI) brings to primary care, the possible effect on the doctor-patient relationship and the ...

This briefing outlines how general practice funding is inequitable. It concludes that the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of ...

The Government has announced that the existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of puberty suppressing hormones for the treatment of gender dysphoria or incongruence in under-18s have ...

This report finds that people in cities often use the NHS and health care differently than those in other areas, given the transient nature of some groups within city populations. Health challenges in ...

This guidance is for integrated care boards responsible for the commissioning and oversight of cardiovascular rehabilitation services in England. It sets out the patient cohorts that should be ...