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NASGP chair Dr Richard Fieldhouse made a call for support for GPs in the trade title for general practice, GP Online.

Leading GP registrars Dr Victoria McKay and Dr Cheska Ball warned that GPs were working in low-paid roles or seeking unemployment benefits due to the workforce shortage in the UK, in an exclusive new interview for Pulse.

‘Date worked’ feature is added alongside summaries of pensionable day, employer and employee contributions, and pensionable days service.

In a rare one-off event, this webinar will be open to members and non-members alike.

The integrated care board says that the closure of their walk-in centre could save £1.78m a year, but this decision may hit sessional GPs who rely on out-of-hours work.

GPs have warned that scarcity of locum work has left them worried about surviving appraisal.

The GP behind the petition that opened ARRS to GPs is now calling on the government to allow GPs to work as PAs, Pulse reports.

Over 1,500 GPs have been employed using additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) funding but hundreds of PCNs have refused to take part, GP Online reports.

Some 56% of GPs say they want to work more hours in the NHS but cannot find suitable opportunities.

An FOI to NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) revealed that 18,575 GPs in England had missing NHS Pensions records.

Findings emerged as a result of a BMA survey of more than 5,000 doctors, including 907 GPs, about how taxes on the tapered annual allowance (AA) were affecting doctors’ decisions about how much to work.

NASGP members are invited to a new talk, 'Better outcomes for patients with ADHD and autism', by Dr Alesia Moulton-Perkins and Dr Jessie Gough.

NASGP has launched new NHS Pension Scheme forms on LocumDeck for 2025/26.

GPs must pay higher costs for late payments on tax returns, HMRC announced following the Spring Statement 2025 delivered yesterday.

Investigators have called for employers to pay out £4 million after looking into rate-setting in the media.

The minister made comments as part of Pulse’s LIVE event, which NASGP chair Dr Fieldhouse also spoke at.

Reorganisation may enable GP practices having more autonomy to provide more appointments.

Some 40.3% of GPs who qualified in 2022 and 2023 did not take up substantive roles in UK general practice, Pulse found.

In particular, GPs voiced concern and cynicism over the continuation of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS), and the impact this may have on the wider profession.

Some 40% of GP locums say they are not on WhatsApp booking groups, an NASGP poll of 111 GPs has revealed.

Consultant from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital London to present on fast and slow symptoms of vision loss to NASGP members in April.

But ARRS will continue to be limited to those within two years of their CCT date and who have not been previously substantively employed as a GP in general practice.

Dr Richard Fieldhouse will join Pulse editor Jaimie Kaffash at a panel next month.

Of the 47% ‘expecting to make changes’, 43% plan to leave to take clinical jobs outside the NHS, 40% may work abroad and 38% plan to leave clinical work altogether.