Just got your CCT? When your first appraisal happens, what carries over from training, and the evidence habits worth starting in week one.
Just got your CCT? When your first appraisal happens, what carries over from training, and the evidence habits worth starting in week one.
What the GMC actually requires for your annual appraisal: the six types of supporting information, cycle deadlines for PSQ, MSF and QI, plus a pre-appraisal checklist.
The largest UK survey of ambient AI scribes in general practice: adoption, time savings, error rates, consent gaps and what GPs should do about them.
A cultural obsession met a miracle drug met a monopoly price: the bill landed in a health service that had no plan to pay it. A tongue-in-cheek autopsy of the most expensive medicine in NHS history. It is easier to be furious at a person than at a spreadsheet. So when the health service quietly […]
Quick answer: QOF 2026/27 introduces six new or significantly changed indicators that Practice Managers must prepare for now. DM037 requires all 8 NICE diabetes care processes per patient, HF009 mandates 4-pillar heart failure therapy, OB004 and OB005 replace the Weight Management Enhanced Service with 18 new obesity points, and CD001/CD002 consolidate cardiovascular blood pressure control […]
A BMJ Medicine review of 29 randomised controlled trials found small short term mental health and quality of life gains for multimorbidity involving depression or anxiety, with collaborative care showing the clearest sustained benefit.
A BMJ Medicine systematic review of 140 randomised trials suggests that provider education combined with audit and feedback can help reduce low-value care in primary care.
A BMJ Medicine cohort study suggests HRT prescribing in UK primary care varies by ethnicity, deprivation, and region, raising important questions about equitable access to menopause care.
A BJGP Open study suggests relational continuity in English general practice is stronger for some groups, including older adults with polypharmacy and patients more likely to see a preferred GP.
When Benjamin Franklin asked his contacts in France to send over a mysterious elixir for his gout in the 1760s, he probably did not realise he was ordering a medicine that had already been known, mainly as a poison, for more than a millennium. The concoction, sold as Eau Medicinale by French officer Nicolas Husson, […]