10% of patient care requests indicate preference for face-to-face GP consultation
New analysis by the Improvement Analytics Unit (IAU) – a partnership between the Health Foundation and NHS England and NHS…
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Rebuild General Practice
GPs from across Great Britain are calling for support to rebuild General Practice - as new polling shows that nearly…
Is GP test allowing heart disease patients to ‘slip through the net’?
Patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease may be slipping through the net because there's a better test that GPs…
BEAT calls for more training on eating disorders
This Eating Disorders Awareness Week - 28th February to 6th March 2022, Orri is supporting its charity partner, Beat, in…
GPS could track transmission risk
GPS data could help map COVID-19 transmission risk: Human mobility data gathered from de-identified mobile devices could help map coronavirus…
New Medical Student Scheme Hopes To Tackle GP Crisis
First Year medical students will get more experience of ‘real life’ healthcare situations than ever before as part of new…
Financial incentives to reduce antibiotic use
Financial incentives help to drive down unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions from GPs and could reduce the amount of antibiotics in the community,…
Functional medicine: treating depression
The conventional therapeutic approach to dealing with a problem like depression is to wait for the problem to set in…
Earlier diagnosis for ovarian cancer
Early diagnosis is a major focus of the work of Target Ovarian Cancer and we take a three-pronged approach to…
Medicine and Me – Your Mental Health
The RSM's meeting, Medicine and Me - Your Mental Health, which took place over the weekend in London, was really…
Most medics would not recommend career to kids
Two thirds of medics would not recommend their career to the children, finds a new survey conducted amongst senior hospital…
Prostate cancer treatment under pressure
The sheer number of men being diagnosed with prostate cancer – 47,000 men were diagnosed with the disease in 2015…