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GPs offered £200/hour to cover for junior doctors’ strikes
Record bookings on LocumDeck during industrial action.
Prof Robert Winston to present free NASGP fertility talk in May
Prof Winston will present an infertility update for GPs.
GPs handed new QOF target to score their own burnout
New contract has GPs up in arms over new bureaucracy.
BMA: no need to declare earnings over £156k
Union pushes back on pay transparency.
GP numbers falling, Full Fact confirms
New FullFact guide counters claims to the contrary
GPs eye industrial action following contract imposition
Closing for a day ‘challenging’ but ‘on the cards’.
UK GPs are least satisfied, most stressed
Sorry results from 10,000-doctor study in high-income countries.
Lifetime Allowance swept away in Spring Budget 2023
AA raised to £60k, negative growth can be offset and tapered AA now £10k.
High-earning GP locums must publish earnings by 30 April
GPs must declare earnings over £156,000 within the next six weeks, Pulse reports.
NASGP launches April endometriosis event
GPs can attend a clinical update on endometriosis next month as part of NASGP’s free ‘first Thursdays’ events series.
Changes to make GP retirement more flexible, ministers claim
The Government claims changes to NHS pension such as removing the 16-hour-a-week rule will allow more retirement flexibility, Pulse reports.
GPs should ‘assume excess AA growth’, specialist IFA advises
Use the Ready Reckoner to estimate NHS pension cost and growth, McGaun added.
One in five GPs under 30 quit the profession last year
New data reveals the scale of the exodus, Pulse reports.
GPs’ deadline for Type 2 certificates looms
EOY certificates must be in by Tues 28 Feb.
GPs can open LocumDeck diary after practice requests
Developers on LocumDeck have created a new ‘enhanced’ AVR response.
Cornish salaried GP vacancy advertised with song
A GP vacancy in Cornwall has been advertised in a music video.
‘See GP’ advice for ambulance callers in England
Worried patients could be advised to see their GP following new guidance.
New BMA advice published on Type 2 forms for GPs
GPs can get extra support with Type 2 paperwork thanks to a new guide.
Locum pitfalls event scheduled for March
Practice advice from MPS experts Dr Katy Miller and Dr Heidi Mounsey.
GPs to hand contracts to trust as recruitment fails
Dr Richard Fieldhouse, NASGP chair, said: 'Yet another tragic closure of a practice directly related to poor recruitment. Recruitment plans invariably focus on providing continuity, but without GP access – as this example proves – there is no continuity.'
SystmOne practices switch on records access
SystmOne GP practices have switched on patient records access, Pulse reports.
GPs urged to respond on pensions taxation
GPs should protect their pensions by responding to a new government consultation on taxation, the BMA’s National Clinician Adviser on Pay & Pensions and deputy chair for pensions advised.
GPs’ burnout service registers over 180 in final week of 2022
Insomnia, depression and anxiety holding GPs back, NHS Practitioner Health warns.
Patients should bypass GPs and self-refer, Starmer says
GPs took to social media to excoriate Labour leader’s proposals.