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Keeping GPs up to date with the latest political, financial and clinical news as well as providing in-depth analysis and expert opinions.
- Breaking: Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba is free to practise without conditions again - @the_mpts has delivered its verdict
- All of us at Pulse are truly saddened that @KailashChandOBE has died this evening. Our long-term blogger and friend, a tireless campaigner for justice, and a staunch defender of general practice and the NHS - his legacy will live on. Rest in peace, Kailash
- 'Imagine the outrage if Ryanair tried to fix a pilot shortage by providing some condensed training to flight attendants to become co-pilots of large jets, rather than supporting them through proper flight school,' says Dr Ebrahim Mulla #physicianassociates bit.ly/3Zus55N
- Out-of-hours GPs in Doncaster will now have to review ‘all assessments’ made by a physician associate (PA) before a patient is discharged, in a bid to address safety concerns. buff.ly/3XmX1WQ
- Very sadly, further GPs have died with Covid. Dr Augustine Obaro and Dr Abdul-Razaq Abdullah both practised in East London. Dr Obaro is remembered as 'generous and very involved with the community', and Dr Abdullah as 'compassionate, popular and respected'
- ‘We must fight to ensure that everyone has the right to see a doctor and that when we book a GP appointment, the person we are seeing is who we are expecting to see,' said Lee Hunter, Merseyside Fire Brigades Union chair. buff.ly/3wPfgJF
- 'The time for niceties has passed. There are no magic resources in the NHS. Every minute spent discussing a moody teenager is a minute less spent seeing a palliative patient,' says columnist @dr_musgrave
- Substituting GPs with ‘non-doctors’ increases A&E visits, says former NHSE director buff.ly/4aKDC5t #A&E #MAPs
- We're very sad that the first female GP has died with Covid-19. Dr Poornima Nair, 56, of County Durham, was described by her practice as a 'much loved and valued colleague and friend' who fought the illness with 'great strength of character'. RIP Dr Nair pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical/clini…
- The BMA has demanded that the next Government lifts 'absurd' restrictions in the GP contract that ‘prevent practices in England from using existing funding to hire more GPs’. buff.ly/3RhDenJ
- Doctors to take legal action against GMC over ‘inaction’ on Covid vaccine misinformation bit.ly/3IW53Oi #CovidVaccine
- BMA's GP Committee has called for an ‘immediate pause’ on all recruitment of physician associates (PAs) in general practice bit.ly/3shHUke
- 'How many more patients have to die before the powers that be recognise that physician associates are not adequately trained to assess undifferentiated illness with minimal supervision?' asks @DrHFRyan #physicianassociates
