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How can we create a neighbourhood NHS?
Season 5 Episode 23
This week Emma speaks to Ruth Rankine, director of primary care at the NHS Confederation, about how to create a neighbourhood NHS and the role genera…
1 year, 9 months ago
Will 1,000 ARRS GPs materialise, how GPs became a minority in general practice, CQC crisis
Season 5 Episode 22
The government is aiming to create 1,000 new GP jobs through the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS), but are they on track to hit this targ…
1 year, 9 months ago
How valuing locum GPs can maximise their benefit to the NHS
Season 5 Episode 21
If you do locum GP work complete our annual survey on GP locum rates here - https://surveys.haymarket.com/s3/Locum-rates-survey-2025 - you will be en…
1 year, 9 months ago
Will £889m save general practice - and how plans to cut NHS waits affect GPs
Season 5 Episode 20
Just before Christmas the government announced an £889m funding uplift for the GP contract in 2025/26 - Nick and Emma discuss whether that funding is…
1 year, 9 months ago
General practice finance in the year ahead
Season 5 Episode 19
Emma speaks to GP Dr Tommy Perkins and accountant Andy Pow from Medics Money about the year ahead for general practice finance and how practices can …
1 year, 10 months ago
How the NHS can get the best from social prescribing
Season 5 Episode 18
This week Emma speaks to chief executive of the National Academy for Social Prescribing Charlotte Osborn Forde and Dr Radha Modgil, a GP and TV and r…
1 year, 10 months ago
Winter pressures, falling locum pay, how one area transformed its patient per GP ratio
Season 5 Episode 17
The GPonline team talks about some of the challenges the NHS could face this winter and what all this means for general practice.
They also look at ho…
1 year, 10 months ago
How can we solve problems at the primary/secondary care interface?
Season 5 Episode 16
NHS England has estimated that practices spend around 10-20% of their time on 'lower-value administrative work and work generated by issues at the pr…
1 year, 11 months ago
Will GPs step up collective action? Plus the growing gap in underdoctored areas
Season 5 Episode 15
This week Nick and Emma discuss whether GPs are likely to step up collective action after GPs at last week’s England LMCs conference voted in favour …
1 year, 11 months ago
What does the future hold for GP premises?
Season 5 Episode 14
This week Emma speaks to Kent GP Dr Gaurav Gupta who is a member of the BMA England GP committee and the committee lead for premises.
In this conversa…
1 year, 11 months ago