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With a projected decrease in the number of general practice nurses over the next five years, it is imperative that steps are ...
A significant opportunity to increase women's access to the most effective form of contraception and abortion care is being missed in Australia, according to new research from Monash University's ...
People wanted booking systems that were simple and user-friendly, without long automated phone menus (“press one for ...
Panaji: From fewer than 70 seats a few years ago, Goa Medical College (GMC) now offers 200 MBBS seats to aspiring medicos. Yet, as that number increases with time, young doctors increasingly balk at ...
There is a current emphasis on transformation in the NHS being driven as close to the patient as possible, namely by focusing on neighbourhoods. General practice represents the largest number of ...
“General practice is amazed at the extravagant payments to a few telehealth providers during these cash-strapped times. And ...
Anticipating another glossy NHS strategy as the 10-year-plan looms, Dr Katie Musgrave asks: If this isn’t the time to ...
A key goal for the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care is to develop and support primary healthcare through education and research. We collaborate closely with the primary ...
GENERAL SAUER: Our general practice is to respect those precedents, but there are circumstances when it is not a categorical practice. It is --and that is not a new policy.
PHOs advocated strongly through the negotiations for increases to general practice funding, including securing an improved uplift for funding, despite their own population health budgets receiving no ...
Martin and colleagues’ article on how general practice is sacrificing patient care for prevention saddened me.1 I recently reread Julian Tudor Hart’s book A New Kind of Doctor , in which he dismantles ...
“Changes of this magnitude will however require careful framing and implementation. While it is of course a welcome ambition to ensure that there is more resource directed to areas most in need, this ...