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New NICE guidance clarifies HRT as 'first line treatment' for …
2024年11月7日 · NICE has therefore clarified the wording around this treatment, as ‘one of the key changes’ made in the final guidance. Dr Marie Anne Ledingham, a consultant clinical advisor at NICE, said they have ‘been very, very clear that CBT is an adjunct therapy, and the use of HRT does not preclude the use of CBT’.
What will the Government proposals for the 2025/26 contract …
5 天之前 · Last summer, Mr Streeting said GP practices would be given incentives to offer patients continuity of care, indicating that poorer performing practices would receive less money. And at the start of this year, Labour promised to remove ‘burdensome’ bureaucracy from GPs, but asked for better continuity of care in return. NHS England …
General Practice Awards: GP of the Year shortlist 2024
2024年11月1日 · It has become almost commonplace that every year, when we run through candidates for our General Practice Awards, we mention how tough the year has been for the profession.. This year is no deviation from the norm, and indeed may be the most difficult and unprecedented yet: collective action; GPs across the country unable to get jobs; a new Government; and on top of that, all the usual stress ...
2024/25 contract: What it means for GPs and practices
2024年2月29日 · Editor Jaimie Kaffash deciphers what NHS England’s letter on the contract really means for the profession. Yesterday, NHS England laid out its changes for the 2024/25 contract.It is an imposition – like last year, it hasn’t been agreed with the BMA GP Committee.. The BMA will ballot GPs on whether to take further action, with industrial action later in the year a …
Long-awaited joint asthma guidance overhauls diagnostics and …
2024年6月20日 · Yet the committee noted there is wide variability on access to testing with many of those now recommended for both adults and children not available or routinely used. This includes FeNO equipment which is not available in some areas and no access to bronchial challenge testing for primary care.
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Exclusive: NHS England to include GPs in OPEL framework over the …
2023年7月28日 · Exclusive NHS England will work towards incorporating general practice in the ‘OPEL’ system pressures framework over the next year, Pulse can reveal.. Winter plan documents published yesterday instructs ICBs to ensure tools are in place to’ understand demand, activity and capacity in primary care’, including operational pressures escalation levels (OPEL) reporting.
First repeat prescribing guidance in 20 years urges GPs to review ...
2024年10月8日 · NHS England’s national clinical director for prescribing Professor Tony Avery, a GP and professor of primary health care at the University of Nottingham, said: ‘With over one billion prescriptions dispensed annually in England, over three quarters of which are repeat prescriptions, it is essential that repeat prescribing systems in general practices are safe for patients and efficient for ...
AI physiotherapy clinic to roll out on NHS this year, makers say
2024年6月24日 · The makers of an AI-physiotherapy clinic said the app will be rolled out in the NHS this year to cut waiting lists. It was trialled in series of three-month pilot studies between May and December 2023 among more than 1,000 NHS staff with back pain self-referred to the ‘AI-powered clinic’ developed by Flok.