
Emma Bower
@emmabower
Editor of @GPonlinenews and @GPBusiness_uk. Providing news, CPD and careers info for GPs, plus business advice for practices. Also at emmabower.bsky.social
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http://www.gponline.com 27-01-2009 12:32:58
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Thanks so much to Ruth Rankine đź’™ for speaking to me this week. Well worth a listen - really good insight into what ICB leaders think about the move from hospital to community, the role PCNs could play in the coming years and some of the challenges around creating a neighbourhood NHS

'It's absolutely astonishing that we've got to this point as a profession. GP colleagues who are in work are struggling with their workloads and yet we have GPs unable and struggling to find any work or enough work.' General Practice sessional committee chair Mark Steggles on the GP job crisis





GP contract deal announced. @DrKatie.BSky.Social from General Practice says the proposed changes 'mark a turning point'. But adds 'the government must now recognise the imperative to deliver a new contract within the current parliament for meaningful reform and vital investment'

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting says 'Rebuilding the broken NHS starts with GPs. Today, we have taken the first step to fixing the front door to the NHS, bringing back the family doctor, and ending the 8am scramble.' Full story here gponline.com/bma-backs-1bn-…




Back in January we were on the GP online podcast talking about how not to ignore what will go on with local funded schemes. They are the second biggest part of funding practices. National deals are of little use if local areas cut back @DrKatie.BSky.Social Wes Streeting Stephen Kinnock



If you've not already heard it, on this week's podcast we speak to UK Biobank chief scientist Prof Naomi Allen about how UK Biobank works and how primary care data will be incorporated into the information it holds. Listen here or where you get your pods gponline.com/podcast-ground…

New contract must deliver enough GPs to bring back continuity, says General Practice chair @DrKatie.BSky.Social gponline.com/new-contract-d… - full Talking General Practice podcast interview out tomorrow

Thanks so much to @DrKatie.BSky.Social for speaking to me - it's always good to talk to her. Lots in here about why we need a new GP contract and what it will need to address if the government wants to deliver on its aim to bring back the family doctor. Do have a listen if you can
