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Providing blood pressure monitoring 'could reduce' access to Pharmacy First

By Liz Wells 03 June 2025

The forthcoming requirement for pharmacies to provide a ‘bundle’ of three clinical services to receive threshold payments could lead to unintended consequences, new analysis reveals.

PRIMARY CARE

Pharmacies warn of ongoing Creon shortages

By Liz Wells 02 June 2025

Pharmacies are warning that patients are skipping meals, rationing doses and travelling distances of more than 30 miles to get hold of the medication Creon due to ongoing shortages.

PRIMARY CARE

Community pharmacy service offers almost 1m consultations

By Lee Peart 28 May 2025

A new community pharmacy service designed to bring care closer to home has offered over 952,000 consultations in the North West.

TECHNOLOGY

Prescription tracking feature goes live on NHS App

By Lee Peart 23 May 2025

Millions of patients can now track their prescriptions thanks to roll-out of a new feature on the NHS App.

PRIMARY CARE

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.