Talking General Practice
By GPonline.com
Brought to you by GPonline.com, this weekly podcast discusses the latest news from the world of UK general practice and talks to GPs and others about the big issues affecting primary care. We're also aiming to highlight some positive stories and inspiring people along the way.
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Latest episode
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How valuing locum GPs can maximise their benefit to the NHS
If you do locum GP work complete our annual survey on GP locum rates here - you will be ente… -
Will £889m save general practice - and how plans to cut NHS waits affect GPs
Just before Christmas the government announced an £889m funding uplift for the GP contract in 2025/26 - Nick and Emma discuss whether that funding is enough to stabilise practices and what the government will be asking for in the next contract. -
General practice finance in the year ahead
Emma speaks to GP Dr Tommy Perkins and accountant Andy Pow from Medics Money about the year ahead for general practice finance and how practices can ensure their business is in good shape.Medics Money has a website, podcast and a number… -
How the NHS can get the best from social prescribing
This week Emma speaks to chief executive of the National Academy for Social Prescribing Charlotte Osborn Forde and Dr Radha Modgil, a GP and TV and radio broadcaster, who is also an ambassador for the National Academy for Social Prescribing. -
Winter pressures, falling locum pay, how one area transformed its patient per GP ratio
The GPonline team talks about some of the challenges the NHS could face this winter and what all this means for general practice.They also look at how the GP jobs crisis is affecting locum GPs - and discuss some worrying sign… -
How can we solve problems at the primary/secondary care interface?
NHS England has estimated that practices spend around 10-20% of their time on 'lower-value administrative work and work generated by issues at the primary-secondary care interface', so what can we do to address this?This week Emma speak… -
Will GPs step up collective action? Plus the growing gap in underdoctored areas
This week Nick and Emma discuss whether GPs are likely to step up collective action after GPs at last week’s England LMCs conference voted in favour of balloting the profession on ‘more significant’ industrial action. GPs at the event also voted t… -
What does the future hold for GP premises?
This week Emma speaks to Kent GP Dr Gaurav Gupta who is a member of the BMA England GP committee and the committee lead for premises.In this conversation Gaurav talks about the terrible state of GP premises in England, how we’ve reached… -
Fallout from the budget, how the job shortage has hit GP pay
Emma and NIck discuss the fallout from the budget and what the increase in employer’s national insurance contributions will mean for GP practices, including looking at the results from our own survey on this issue.They look ahead to nex… -
How can we make GP funding fairer? With Dr Becks Fisher from the Nuffield Trust
This week Emma speaks to GP Dr Becks Fisher who is director of policy and research at the health think tank the Nuffield Trust.Becks has long been an advocate for overhauling GP funding so it better reflects deprivation and she explains…
