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GP unemployment crisis set to deepen, warns BMA

By Liz Wells 20 May 2025

The BMA has warned Wes Streeting, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, that as many as a thousand new GPs could be jobless when they qualify later this summer.

GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES CONTRACT

Northern Ireland health minister imposes disputed financial package on GPs

By Liz Wells 19 May 2025

Northern Ireland Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has imposed a disputed financial package on the country’s GPs after they rejected a deal last week.

NHS ENGLAND

NHS drive aims to find undiagnosed infected blood patients

By Liz Wells 19 May 2025

All new patients registering at GP practices will be asked if they had a blood transfusion before 1996, as part of an NHS drive to find undiagnosed patients affected by the contaminated blood scandal.

PRIMARY CARE

GPs in Northern Ireland vote overwhelmingly to reject contract offer

By Liz Wells 16 May 2025

GPs in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly to reject the 25/26 General Medical Services (GMS) contract.

PRIMARY CARE

DHSC launches survey to inform NHS dental contract reform

By Liz Wells 16 May 2025

Dentists across England are being urged to take part in a new nationwide survey to help inform the government’s long-term dental reform programme.

PRIMARY CARE

ICB says 21 GP practices to benefit from surgery improvement funding

By Lee Peart 08 May 2025

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) ICB has revealed 21 GP practices will benefit from £2.8m in funding to create more patient appointments.

PRIMARY CARE

GP funding boost to create over 8m more appointments

By Lee Peart 06 May 2025

The Government is providing over £102m to enable over 8m more GP appointments.

PHARMACIES

Scotland pharmacy financial deal agreed

By Liz Wells 02 May 2025

Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) has accepted the Scottish Government’s financial offer for the financial year 2025/26.

PRIMARY CARE

'Ticking timebomb' of dentists approaching retirement revealed

By Liz Wells 25 April 2025

One in three NHS dentists are approaching retirement age in some areas, with hundreds of dental providers having handed back their NHS contracts in the past few years, new data reveals.

PRIMARY CARE