Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed Yvette Cooper as the new health secretary. Number 10 confirmed that the former foreign secretary and MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley will serve ...

NHS England has now launched an eight-week consultation on the proposed new neighbourhood contract models – including further detail on what multi-neighbourhood and single neighbourhood providers are ...

Highly commended in ‘The case that still gives me nightmares’ category, Dr Philippa Vincent recounts how a near miss with a remote consultation and oximeter readings in the pandemic still keeps her up ...

The full agenda for Pulse LIVE Newcastle has been unveiled, featuring a session focussed on analysing and explaining the new ...

Much of the allocated £292m for a GP practice-level reimbursement scheme will go unspent because of overly restrictive rules for claiming the money, GP finance experts have warned. This year’s imposed ...

The BMA has said it forced a Government 'climbdown' from its plans for the GMC to retain its right to appeal ...

A routine MenB vaccination programme should be introduced for 15-year-olds, government advisors have recommended. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reviewed the evidence after ...

People in deprived areas are prescribed twice as many medicines by the age of 40 than those in the most affluent postcodes, an analysis of NHS data has shown. The study looking at almost 53 million ...

Newly-qualified salaried GPs feel they have ‘no choice’ but to work 13-hour days, a new BMA campaign has claimed. The BMA sessional GPs committee’s newly-launched ‘Know Your Rights’ campaign features ...

Exclusive GPs are being asked to accept large ‘take it or leave it’ packages of optional services to access crucial funding from local enhanced services (LES), Pulse has found. Exclusive data obtained ...

Exclusive The BMA will ‘unashamedly’ be looking for a share of the £100m pot the Welsh Government has allocated towards reducing waiting lists, the chair of its GP committee has said. Dr Gareth ...