GPs
More patients self-diagnosing online
October 6, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Facebook, GPs, Twitter, digital, online, self-diagnosing, social media
Prior to visiting doctors more people are utilising the internet and social media to determine an illness and its subsequent …
UK to ‘guarantee’ seven-day access to GPs
September 30, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMA, Cameron, GPs, NHS, UK, doctors
Under a UK Conservative government everyone would have access to GP care seven days a week as well as a …
Labour makes NHS central to 2015 election pledge
September 24, 2014Sales and Marketing 2015 election, Conservative, GPs, Labour, NHS, manifesto, nurses
The Labour Opposition party has set out its plans to ‘save and transform’ the NHS and has made this the key …
Should patients be able to email their general practitioner?
September 3, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing BMJ, GPs, clinicians, econsultations, email
Email consultations with your doctor make better use of their time and are more convenient, or threaten safety and create …
GPs admit to wrongly prescribing antibiotics
August 20, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing GPs, UK, doctors, longitude, prescribing, prize
Nearly half of British GPs surveyed have admitted to prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily due to uncertainty and a lack of diagnostic …
Doctors who miss cancer to be named and shamed
July 1, 2014Sales and Marketing Cancer, GPs, Hunt, NHS, UK, doctors, oncology
In a new government initiative doctors who consistently fail to diagnose signs of cancer could be publically named on an …
Insurance firms ‘will not be sold records’
March 3, 2014Sales and Marketing GPs, HSCIC, Hunt, NHS, care data, care.data
The government is to pledge that insurance companies will not be sold patients’ health records via the care.data information sharing …
Doctors urged to cut drug waste
July 22, 2013Sales and Marketing GPs, NHS, RPS, doctors, prescribing
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has called on doctors to change the way they prescribe in a bid to cut …
Government changes tender regulations
March 6, 2013Sales and Marketing GPs, NHS, coalition
The government has agreed to alter a key part of the Health and Social Care Act after GPs protested about …
Growth in GP drug prescriptions
December 11, 2012Sales and Marketing GPs, NHS, UK, doctors, prescribing
The volume of GP-prescribed drugs grew by an annual average of 8.4% in the years 1995-2010, according to new government …
GPs can access patient records via tablet devices
September 12, 2012Medical Communications Digital Blog, GPs, NHS, ipad
The first ever service allowing GPs to access and update their patient records using an iPad or other tablet device …
UK doctors not going digital for product information
August 22, 2012Medical Communications GPs, UK, digital, doctorsnet
A new survey has revealed that the majority of doctors in the UK are not looking online for information about …
UK doctors must prepare for the rise of the ‘ePatient’
August 9, 2012Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, GPs, digital
Doctors and other healthcare professionals must prepare for the rise of ‘ePatients’ in the coming years and keep apace with …
Whitehead to GPs: don’t squeeze the drugs budget
August 7, 2012Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, CCGs, GPs, NHS, PCTs, reform
GPs should value the drug industry and not seek to squeeze the drugs bill as their predecessors have done, says …
Physios and podiatrists to gain new prescribing powers
July 25, 2012Sales and Marketing Department of Health, GPs, Physios, government, prescribing
Physiotherapists and podiatrists are set to gain new prescribing powers by 2014. Ministers are looking to amend medicines legislation so …
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