Practice finances could be 'decimated' if the government approves a raid on hundreds of millions of pounds in enhanced services cash to fund new neighbourhood contracts, GPs fear.

The GPonline team discusses the key news stories affecting general practice.

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has accused the BMA of 'cartel-like behaviour' ahead of strikes by resident doctors and promised to 'plough on regardless' with NHS reform - while ...

Catch up quickly with our weekly round-up of key news stories for general practice.

Government officials have given ICBs the green light to complete 50% staff cuts after agreeing a long-awaited funding package for redundancy costs estimated at £1bn.

NHS GPs have reduced antibiotic prescribing but overall use has risen because of a surge in private prescriptions, health ...

Successive governments over the past 10 years have promised thousands more GPs, starting with a 2015 promise to recruit an extra 5,000 by 2020. GPonline looks at what a decade of data show about how ...

GP leaders have backed plans to collect undated contract resignation letters from partners across England in a major escalation of the dispute between general practice and the government.

Making 50% of ICB staff redundant could undermine plans to shift NHS care to a more preventive model and may not deliver promised gains in clinical output, the BMA has warned.

Additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) jobs are creating a two-tier system in which newly-qualified GPs are being paid 'significantly below market rate', LMCs have warned.

Nearly one in three GPs are unlikely to be working in general practice five years from now, according to alarming RCGP polling that shows the profession is facing an imminent 'mass exodus'.

GPs deliver over 50% more consultations per day on average than the safe limit recommended by the BMA - and one in three say their daily workload is potentially unsafe, GPonline polling suggests.