General practitioners

Longer GP opening hours branded wasteful 'PR exercise' by doctors THE practice of making GPs open their surgeries for longer hours must be urgently reviewed, doctors' leaders said yesterday after the scheme was branded a "PR exercise".

'GP patient lists must shrink' HUNDREDS of patients must be cut from GPs' practice lists to allow doctors to spend more time dealing with complex illnesses, a conference will hear next week.

GPs' surgeries should 'open on holidays to help ailing NHS 24' DOCTORS could be asked to open their surgeries on public holidays in an attempt to deal with surges in demand to Scotland's out-of-hours NHS helpline.

Doctors to face annual check-ups on their competence ALL of Britain's 150,000 doctors will face annual assessments so licences can be removed from poor performers, under radical proposals to be outlined by the Chief Medical Officer today.

SNP 'ignored Scottish needs' over GP hours

Out-of-hours GP clinics to be cut

GPs say longer hours a waste of resources

Fears surgeries to stay shut in GP hours row

400 assaults a week on healthcare workers 'just the tip of the iceberg'

Women doctors face glass ceiling at academic pinnacle of profession

A day in the life of a general practitioner

Fears over doctors' out-of-hours service

Failings in out-of-hours care

GPs told to drop visitors' fees

Warning of GP exodus as £20,000 pay gap with England is revealed

Wife of suicide doctor claims 80-hour weeks 'drove him over the edge'

Navy veteran attacks 'bullying culture that crushes medics'

GPs may close doors to new patients in protest at pay freeze

GPs struggle with no extra funding

Doctors so tired they 'fall asleep at wheel'

NHS finances in bad shape

Dismay among GPs as they are told: You can't decide who is fit to practise

Self-help prescription for doctors

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