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General Practice

BBC’s Panorama ‘Undercover: Britain’s biggest GP chain’ showed us why big business has no place in our GP services

20 June 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 2

See ‘Undercover: Britain’s biggest GP chain’. On 13 June, Panorama was devoted to an investigation of the US company Centene, now the largest provider of General Practitioner services in the UK (next to the NHS) […]

Violence against GPs has doubled

2 June 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

Violent incidents at GP surgeries have doubled in the last 5 years. Recently, a patient at my surgery stood in the waiting room, shouting at reception staff while waving their facemask around – their aerosols […]

But aren’t all GPs private anyway?

19 March 2021 Keep Our NHS Public 2

One of the claims often made when campaigners are arguing against the takeover of General Practice by private companies is that GP practices are private businesses, and always have been, and therefore there are no […]

GPs angry at true costs of Primary Care Networks

6 February 2020 Keep Our NHS Public 0

Last year GPs were stampeded into signing up to join Primary Care Networks (PCNs), with the offer of extra funding per patient, plus funding and extra staff to help deliver services. But now NHS England […]

The crisis in General Practice is unsustainable for everyone

3 June 2019 Samantha Wathen 0

The headlines continue to tell the story of the precipitous decline in General Practice – increasing rates of practice closures, falling GP numbers and lengthening waits for appointments. And behind the figures is something less […]

The future of primary care and GPs – KONP’s charter for the future

6 May 2019 Tony O'Sullivan 3

General practice across the UK is in deep crisis Here we launch a discussion on general practice, the crisis it faces, NHS England’s proposals and we propose a campaign with a charter of demands to […]

Hancock risks breaching ministerial code, backs Babylon and rejects science

30 November 2018 Samantha Wathen 0

The last couple of weeks have not been easy for health secretary Matt Hancock. Last week he included trainees and part time workers in the figures for GP recruitment in an attempt to dress them […]

National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance ignored: NHS England rationing plan is not Nice at all

28 September 2018 Samantha Wathen 1

NHS England proposals to withdraw 17 NHS clinical procedures contradict existing guidance from NICE, the recognised authority advising clinicians on the current state of research evidence. “Clinicians should read NICE guidance for themselves rather than […]

Respond to NHS England’s consultation on cutting back NHS treatments

10 September 2018 Tony O'Sullivan 13

NHS England’s consultation to limit access to 17 procedures – why we should respond NHSE is going to severely restrict access to 17 procedures on the NHS: four interventions that ‘should not be routinely commissioned, […]

Babylon’s Health App Puts Patients At Risk

28 August 2018 Tom Griffiths 0

Dr Ameen Kamlana on why Babylon Health App is a serious risk to patient safety. On July 16th, Dr Renee Hoenderkamp, the resident GP at BBC Radio London tweeted what she thought about Babylon Health […]

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