General Practice

GP leaders are mixed on the impact of the Government’s Winter Plan on reducing patient demand as hundreds of pharmacies start offering funded minor ailment consultations 

GPs are very happy with clinical pharmacists working in primary care, two new reports show, but there are barriers to pharmacists increasing their hours and getting a prescribing qualification

A new tech partnership is likely to make finding a pharmacy easier - even for patients who are out of town

Virtual clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer works at Tend, a digital health provider with 17 general practices that see pharmacists as crucial parts of a collaborative primary healthcare team

Virtual clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer works at Tend, a digital health provider with 17 general practices that see pharmacists as crucial parts of a collaborative primary healthcare team

Specialist GP Bryan Betty talks about his stoical mother, Catholic school education, and stints in improv theatre and mining-town doctoring. Alan Perrott draws together the threads between these experiences and the leadership for which Dr Betty is renowned

A funding review aimed at improving equity and sustainability in general practice suggests rises of at least 10 per cent for most practices, and more than 34 per cent for high-need practices 

The English pharmacy sector is begging the NHS to stop stealing community pharmacists to work in general practice after three years of a programme similar to one being proposed here.

Co-founder of Clinical Advisory Pharmacists Association John Dunlop takes issue with comments made by PSNZ president Rhiannon Braund in the October issue of Pharmacy Today on the upskilling of pharmacists working in general practice

The case of ADHD specialist GP Tony Hanne excited much comment last month, not least from pharmacy owner Ian McMichael who is concerned about the impact of bad prescribing on pharmacists and potential liability, writes Jonathan Chilton-Towle