The NHS App should become the ‘default option’ for GP practices to contact patients starting from the next financial year.

NHS England said all GP referrals for 10 specialities - decided at local level - should be going through advice and guidance ...

A major new review of postgraduate medical training in England has recommended reforming training ‘as a matter of urgency’.

The BMA has announced resident doctors will go on strike next month over the 'scandal' of doctors going unemployed.

The Government needs to invest in community services, including general practice, or its aim to move care away from hospitals ...

NHS England is planning to set GPs a new target of seeing 90% of all 'clinically urgent' patients on the same day.

Advice on managing severe obesity, including where eligibility criteria or medical history may preclude the use of ...

Sir Julian Hartley is stepping down as CQC chief executive ‘with immediate effect’, the watchdog has announced.

The health secretary has claimed that the Government is 'smashing through' its target to recruit 1,000 extra GPs through the ...

A common but undiagnosed genetic condition may delay diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in Black and South Asian men in the UK.

A £2bn tax rise reportedly planned by the Treasury may not affect GP partnerships as much as other industries being targeted ...

Former RCGP chair Clare Gerada has been appointed to the House of Lords in recognition of her service to medicine and mental ...