All GPs articles – Page 116

  • News

    GPs unprepared for flu pandemic, survey finds

    2008-09-05T12:14:00Z

    Many GP surgeries are unprepared for a flu pandemic, a risk survey has found.

  • News

    Entrepreneurial GPs are due respect

    2008-08-28T09:00:00Z

    Sophia Christie's allegations that GPs are 'venal' and 'breathtakingly callous' are unfair. I am a GP of 26 years' standing. I am vice chair of our (large) local medical committee and a board member of our practice based commissioning consortium. I have spent considerable time recently, with a great deal ...

  • News

    Entrepreneurial GPs deserve respect

    2008-08-28T09:00:00Z

    Sophia Christie's allegations that GPs are 'venal' and 'breathtakingly callous' are unfair.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Do GPs with special interests have a future in the NHS?

    2008-04-07T09:00:00Z

    GPs with special interests fear being elbowed out as more care moves into primary settings, writes Daloni Carlisle

  • HSJ Knowledge

    GPs in the dock: case for the defence

    2008-04-03T09:00:00Z

    Around 90 per cent of NHS work is done by family doctors, so why is there so much heat around their pay and workload? The Royal College of GPs' president answers the critics

  • HSJ Knowledge

    GPs must see sense on hours

    2008-02-21T09:00:00Z

    New proposals for extended working hours for GPs have provoked a storm of protest - but doctors should take a careful look at the benefits, argues Alastair Henderson

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Thousands now book to see GPs on web

    2008-02-11T16:18:55Z

    More than 56,000 people booked appointments on-line at their GP practice last month with one in seven practices now able to offer the service.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    GP2GP

    2007-11-29T00:00:00Z

    It’s a scenario familiar to all GPs: a patient with complex problems registers with the practice and has a crumpled list of their drugs. Their notes come through six weeks later, with a faded printout accompanied by handwritten sheets and numerous hospital letters.Clinicians in the new practice have to do ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Is Darzi wrong about GP access?

    2007-11-01T09:00:00Z

    Everyone has a personal anecdote about their experience of the NHS, from the wonderful nurse to the obstructive receptionist or insensitive consultant delivering bad news. The problem is such stories are just one-off experiences - so how satisfied are patients overall across the millions of patient contacts in the NHS ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Copying outpatient clinic correspondence: letter to patient or GP?

    2006-11-13T10:00:00Z

    The NHS plan flagged up improving communication between doctors and patients by having outpatient clinic letters to GPs copied to patients. We ran a study comparing this with writing a letter to the patient copied to the GP.