When I reflect on why I’m passionate about CVD Prevention, it’s because it’s the best and fastest way to reduce health inequalities. In England, CVD kills about 136,000 people a year; which is roughly ...

Last month, I talked about general practice’s rich history and how, for over ten years, the Best Practice Show has supported the education and training of the whole primary care workforce. The focus n ...

As healthcare professionals tackle the crucial issue of vaccine hesitancy among some of their patients, Education for Health looks at how to build rapport and key techniques to support patients. As th ...

In 2011, general practice – as we know it – in the UK celebrated its first century. A hundred years earlier, David Lloyd-George was Prime Minister and his government passed the 1911 National Insurance ...

The introduction of the additional roles reimbursement scheme for primary care networks has started to grow capacity in general practice to address the unsustainably high workload that has put so much ...

COVID-19 recovery will demand a well-thought through and holistic approach to health and care services, and in rural areas, the development of Integrated Care Systems may not be the right answer

At Macmillan Cancer Support, we know that it’s tough for health & care professionals right now. We can’t be on the front line with you, but we’re here to help support your wellbeing & resilience with ...

Continued long term condition management remotely and efficiencies in the COVID vaccination effort. MedLink was created by two GPs and is a comprehensive remote review system covering a wide range of ...

Primary care networks have been working extremely hard throughout the pandemic to ensure patients continue to receive the best possible care. We asked PCNs to get in touch and share their examples of ...

"The PMA’s training programme sits head and shoulders above that of any other Kickstart Gateway Provider that we have yet seen.”  

Greg Bull discusses how technology should be embraced moving forward and what the short-term future of dispensing doctors really is.

Some clinicians are happy to deliver joint corticosteroid (CS) injections and influenza vaccination simultaneously. In contrast, others choose to postpone either procedure due to concerns that the CS ...

Primary care professionals take on the major responsibility for looking after the healthcare needs of older patients and their families. This is a huge challenge, especially in the time of Covid. Some ...

Lucy Holmes from Primary Care Wirral explains how non-clinical support from Wellbeing Practitioners (Link Workers) and Health Coaches is helping Wirral GP practices give patients access to the holisti ...

The BMA’s GP Committee has met with a health minister, as well as the NHS chief, over NHS England’s claim last month that GP practices are not open to patients. 

At the Best Practice Live virtual conference, Versus Arthritis ran a session on Chronic Pain with Dr Giles Hazan, Dr Louise Warburton, Johan Holte and Ross Clifford. The session was aimed at Primary C ...

The practical implications and costs of dispensing practices’ pandemic response took centre stage in the ‘State of Dispensing’ address, which opened the Dispensing Doctors’ Annual Conference Live on T ...

Almost 3,000 healthcare professionals registered for Best Practice Live, CloserStill Media’s first-ever virtual Best Practice conference and Europe's largest online event for general practice and prim ...

September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month. The non-specific nature of blood cancer symptoms and the relative rarity of leukaemia contributes to increased rates of early diagnosis, which is associated ...

Social media has fuelled debate about the pros and cons of face-to-face versus remote consultations but is it possible to truly meet the needs of patients with conditions such as diabetes without seei ...

In this article, we discuss the content of the letter from Dr Kanani and Ed Waller dated 4th August 2020. Click here for the full letter.

NHS Reset is a new NHS Confederation campaign to contribute to the public debate on what the health and care system should look like in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Primary Care business owner, Tara Humphrey, has achieved huge success from launching a new scholarship fund to support BAME healthcare professionals pursue their leadership careers. Here she shares wh ...

Following the publication of the Long-Term Plan NHS England provided a framework for Primary Care Networks (PCNs), local networks of GP practices and other primary care services (such as community, me ...

Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK. The latest data from 2017/18 shows that more than 57,000 men were diagnosed with the disease in the UK in a year.

The continued use of total triage has been cautiously welcomed by most, but there are questions over how it can help address the workload challenge facing general practice. A recent Best Practice UK w ...

Amid the ongoing pressures relating to COVID-19, it feels like an odd time to be celebrating birthdays, but July has represented the first birthday of primary care networks (PCNs).

I have often said that I love nurses but that they frustrate me immensely. You see, as a professional group they have so much talent and care for the people that they serve and yet fail to recognise i ...

If there is one thing that clinicians are now talking about as a silver lining from coronavirus, it is that of technological advancement within the NHS. From a primary care perspective and as a local ...

John Launer is one of Britain’s best known medical columnists. As a GP, he contributed for around 25 years to a medical ‘freebie’ – a free newspaper that was sent to evert GP in the UK. This new selec ...

I was brought up in Birmingham and went to University at Kings College in London. I loved London so stayed here, and have been a GP since 2000. I enjoy the variety of challenges it brings. Although I’ ...

On behalf of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS), we are pleased to confirm it has launched the agenda and registration site for its 3rd Annual Conference. This is a virtual event that will ...

COVID-19 means progress has already been made Lots of progress has been made on the goals set out in the Interim People Plan - largely driven by necessary innovation in the COVID-19 response.

There has been an amazing response from general practice in response to CVOID-19! The extraordinary way they have adopted online and video consultations is a testament to the professions agility and c ...

GPs in Wigan worked together to create new ways of treating patients in a swift response to the COVID-19 crisis. Here, Dr Shikha Pitalia, Chair of Wigan GP Alliance, who led the co-ordination of docto ...

The first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the UK on 30th January 2020, although it is likely that it was already present for some weeks before this. Since then, healthcare has undergone a signific ...

Would being able to share staff and workload across your Primary Care Network be a benefit or a disadvantage? Scott McKenzie, an independent Management Consultant, working inside the NHS for over 15 y ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the health system in a myriad of ways, in-particular it has affected care for people living with or receiving a diagnosis of cancer.  

Clinical Director for a PCN, Dr Neil Paul, discusses how General Practice has adjusted over the last six months. Describing his first experience visiting one of his practices in person since lockdown, ...

Over £116 million has now been donated to the NHS Charities Together Covid-19 Appeal. Healthcare workers need support and the public have responded. Dan Male speaks to Ellie Orion, Chief Executive of ...

The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the transformation of care, with pressures on workforce driving practices to work together, with other partners and in different ways. Here Helen Northall, Chief Ex ...

The team behind the Best Practice Show are delighted to announce the launch of its new webinar series: "Best Practice: In Conversation with…" The first webinar was delivered in partnership with the DD ...

Social prescribing link workers have really come to their own during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here we look at how a new model of social prescribing has been developed in Halton to cope with a rising dem ...

A practical ‘how to’ guide to help primary care networks (PCNs) start work on developing their premises so they’re able to provide integrated, community-based health and care well into the future, has ...

Tanya Walker was tantalisingly close to becoming one of a very few clinical pharmacists to qualify as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner when COVID struck. While this means her graduation plans are on ...

A virtual postnatal group has been launched across Wokingham in response to local safeguarding issues during lockdown. In a first of its kind for Wokingham North PCN, the online group consultation for ...

At the peak of Covid-19, the challenge of missing cancer diagnosis increased with a significant drop in two-week wait referrals, with referral rates still far below average. Cancer Research UK has est ...

Haider Ali felt helpless after a number of his GP colleagues died of coronavirus and wanted to do something positive to help key workers. Throughout the pandemic he has been delivering goody bags for ...

Professor James Kingsland OBE outlines several key challenges that will need to be overcome in order to achieve truly effective systemic reforms to health and care delivery.

Just six months ago Dr Krishan Arora took to the stage at Best Practice to share his experience as a newly recruited Clinical Director of a Primary Care Network in Croydon. Tragically, he has become o ...

General practice has been given a set of clear priorities for the next six weeks as the NHS moves to phase 2 of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the demand to bring forward key elements of t ...

Minesh Patel, Chair of the National Association of Primary Care, has highlighted the opportunity to capture positive learning from the disruptive landscape of COVID-19 at Best Practice 2020.

Practice Manager Sheinaz Stansfield returned from burying her beloved mum to the challenge of preparing her practice to operate safely during a pandemic. Here she shares her story of COVID-19 and the ...

After COVID-19, General practice will never be the same. Forced to sweep aside the traditional face-to-face model, it’s clear that technology will play a much bigger role and that general practice mus ...

IPLATO, the developers of myGP, have created two new-to-market tools to help GP practices manage their patients during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Three thousand GP practices in the UK currently us ...

Bexley Health Neighbourhood Care (BHNC) have joined forces with a global tech company to build and pilot an innovative patient and staff tracker in the midst of COVID-19.