Fit notes need backing beyond what GPs can offer if they are to support a return to work, argues Health Foundation policy and research manager Sam Atwell ...

The BMA’s GP committee has voted to enter collective action against this year's imposed contract, Pulse has learnt.

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The number of cancer cases in the UK has reached record levels, according to new figures that show one person is diagnosed ...

Shortages of commonly prescribed blood pressure medication ramipril will have knock-on impacts for general practice, a ...

Copperfield on the tug of war between coroners and MEs over confirming causes of death in the medical examiner system ...

Mental health experts describe ten common advice and guidance requests in adult psychiatry and how to manage them ...

No one’ is asking GPs to be ‘100% sure’ of a patient’s cause of death when signing a death certificate, a medical examiner ...

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Following the Government's announcement that it will fund ‘medicine access courses’ to break the class ceiling, Roheel Ahmar ...