Calls for more focus on tackling health inequalities in Scotland
The Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland also praised some work by the Scottish Government.
The Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland also praised some work by the Scottish Government.
Groups of patients with similar conditions have reportedly joined trials of the scheme around the country.
Group GP appointments, Brexit and Russia’s cyber threat lead Saturday’s papers.
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said the NHS long-term plan, due to be published this autumn, will contain a renewed focus on mental health.
It follows a successful trial project in a partnership between NHS Scotland and the RSPB.
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard will call on political leaders to invest in technology to support GPs and ensure the NHS leads the way in patient care.
Health leaders have long warned of a ‘crisis’ in the GP workforce.
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard will call for support to ‘tame the tech tsumani’.
Some 55 students are already enrolled on the four-year course, which is open to those with a degree other than medicine.
The adverts failed to make it clear that users would have to give up their current GP and could only sign up if they lived or worked in certain areas.
The March for Choice demonstrators made their way through Dublin’s main thoroughfares.
One of the winning projects is testing a new technology that will allow antibodies to be taken orally, rather than through invasive injections.
It is feared that 762 practices across the UK could close over the next five years, with three-quarters of GPs aged 55 or more and close to retiring.
Guidance issued last year stated that doctors must ‘make every reasonable effort’ to persuade patients to contact the DVLA if they are unfit to drive.
The total diet replacement plan led to significant, sustained weight loss, a study shows.