Anna Colivicchi

PCNs were ‘fed as a lie’ to general practice in England, according to the BMA’s GP committee chair.

General practice and community services ‘are too overstretched’ to work effectively together to support mental health patients.

Semaglutide could be beneficial in helping to treat patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity-related heart failure, a study has shown.

The BMA will ‘challenge’ a contract requirement for GP practices to keep their online systems switched on until 6.30pm.

GPs should ask patients if they have a history of depression before prescribing prostate and hair loss drug finasteride, the MHRA has said.

A private provider running five practices has announced redundancies as it looks at cutting the roles of GPs who only work remotely.

Women who are perimenopausal are 40% more likely to experience depression than those without symptoms of the menopause, UK researchers found.

Pharmacy First ‘will fail’ if patients ‘keep having to return to their GPs’, a group of influential MPs has warned.

GPs ‘turning to other jobs to earn a living’ while practices cannot meet demands is ‘simply bonkers’, the BMA council chair has said.

The new chair of the BMA’s Northern Ireland GP committee has said she wants to ‘bring more women onto the committee’.