GP practices

The number of GPs in Scotland has been falling at a time when our ageing population means the demand for their services is increasing (Picture: Charles Milligan/Hulton Archive)

Scotland needs migrant GPs! Why we must do more to help them stay here Scotsman comment

The Scottish Government is being urged to take action

Exclusive SNP urged to create new umbrella body to help GPs stay in Scotland

Despite GPs facing huge workloads, locums who could help them cope can't find enough work (Picture: Anthony Devlin)

GP appointments within 48 hours: How the NHS can be so much better Jackie Baillie

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar alongside deputy leader Jackie Baillie next to the Donald Dewar statue in Glasgow (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Labour vows to end '8am GP rush' and axe peak ScotRail fares

GPs are facing burnout and the risk of insolvency, doctors have warned

Exclusive GP practices may go bust amid 'perfect storm', warn doctors

These are the 16 health conditions that can now be treated using a new Online Doctor service.

The 16 health conditions that allow you to skip the lengthy GP queue

1,000 free comfort boxes have been delivered to cancer patients across Scotland

Cancer Card is all about working together for patients - Ian Pirrie

The 13 top ranking doctor’s surgeries in Fife - as voted for by patients.

The 13 top GP surgeries in Fife with the highest patient satisfaction

The 26 top ranking GP surgeries in Scotland as voted for by patients.

The 26 exemplary GP surgeries in Scotland as voted for by patients

The 13 best rated GP Surgeries in the Falkirk council area - as voted for by patients.

The 13 best GP surgeries in Falkirk council area as rated by patients

A former GP says the IT systems currently in use are complicated, slow and not joined-up (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Readers' Letters: New NHS IT system must work in all four countries

The 21 top ranking GP surgeries in Glasgow as rated by patients.

The 21 top ranking GP surgeries in Glasgow - as rated by patients

When the NHS works well, it's life-saving abilities are impressive but the public does not appear to grasp the depth of its problems (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

The hard evidence that shows why the old NHS’s number is up John McLellan

It's important to have access to a GP when you're at university. (Photo: Pexels/RDNE Stock project)

Student health: how to register with a GP at university

Almost a quarter of people do not know the difference between a physicians associate and a doctor a new poll has discovered. (Photo: Pexel/Etatics Inc)

What is the difference between a physician associate and a doctor?

Passengers could take 'days' to get home after major IT outage. Photo: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images

Three ways major IT outage is still causing disruption

Long queues at an airport.

Watch: Airport passengers sat on floor after global IT outage

GP practises and pharmacies across the UK have been caught up in the global IT outage (Photo: Pexel, Pixabay)

GPs and pharmacies across UK hit by CrowdStrike outage

(Photo: Ben Bauer/PA Wire)

Global IT outage disrupts airlines, banks and appointments: what to do

Exclusive Doctors issue plea to patients: 'Write to your MSPs over NHS in crisis'

Exclusive Burned-out GPs warn public to "expect more practice closures"

At least 90,000 Covid vaccines have been wasted in the last four months. Image: Jane Barlow/Getty Images.

90,000 Covid vaccines 'wasted' in Scotland in just four months

Andy Drane is a Partner, Davidson Chalmers Stewart (Picture: Paul Bock)

We need to find a cure for Scotland's GP recruitment crisis - Andy Drane

Tess White MSP has expressed her concerns.

GPs to be given training in rural practices across North East to address recruit...

Scotland's NHS is under extreme pressure

In Scotland's NHS, everything is just a different shade of bad right now - BMA

Figures, obtained by the British Medical Association (BMA) and given exclusively to The Scotsman, show Scotland has lost around 100 GP surgeries over the last decade. Pic: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

GP crisis laid bare as one in ten surgeries refusing to accept new patients

The numbers of full-time-equivalent doctors working in GP surgeries looks likely to decline further, says Dr Andrew Buist (Picture: Hugh Hastings/Getty Images)

GP shortage is now beyond a crisis. Health Secretary must act – Dr Andrew Buist

Susan Young, Chief Officer – Operations, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)

A vital Link in the healthcare chain - Susan Young

Each GP surgery has had an average of 153 extra patients since 2019/20, further impacting the severe pressure being experienced across NHS Scotland

GP patient list sizes grow as number of surgeries dwindles

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Thousands still without power after Storm Otto

The government could tell GPs to issue less sick notes in order to boost the economy.

Government could tell GPs to sign fewer sick notes to boost economy

Hospitals under strain

Dani Garavelli: A two-tier NHS can never be the answer

GP practices in part of Scotland are to open on Saturdays to help relieve pressure on the NHS during the current “extremely challenging period”.

GP surgeries to open on Saturdays to ease pressure on other NHS services

The £5m Scottish Government cut to GP funding this winter is a serious blow to morale of already under pressure family doctors, writes Dr Andrew Buist of BMA Scotland.

I genuinely fear for GP practices this winter amid £5m funding cut

Simon Watson, Medical Director at Healthcare Improvement Scotland

How we came to make patient safety paramount - Simon Watson

Mr Burnett has written to the health secretary with his concerns.

MSP calls for GP practices to be allowed to administer flu jabs to patients

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Energy bills in NHS Scotland to rocket by £70 million

NHS Lanarkshire has moved to the highest risk level

Scottish health board declares 'Code Black' as hospitals hit maximum capacity

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf is confident a Scottish Government target of increasing GPs in Scotland by 800 by 2027 will be achieved (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images).

Humza Yousaf 'confident' in achieving 800 doctor increase by 2027

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Three in four Scots GPs face increased abuse from patients, survey finds

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Art therapy referred by GPs offers ‘breakthrough’ to chronically ill children

Margaret McKay, Patient Participation Group Chair at Riverside Medical Practice in Musselburgh, gave evidence to the committee.

'Abysmal failure' to communicate changes to general practice in Scotland
There has been an “abysmal failure” to communicate changes in routes of access to primary care to patients in Scotland, MSPs have been told.

Health Secretary, Humza Yousaf talks to the media during a visit to Liberton Hospital in Edinburgh in January re date: Tuesday January 11, 2022.

Government accused of 'rehashing old announcements' with more GP funding

More than ten million vaccination doses have been administered in Scotland

More than ten million vaccine doses administered in Scotland in jag milestone

Nine in ten GP practices said a staff member had been a victim of abuse in the last month.

Covid Scotland: Nine in ten GP practices say staff facing abuse from patients

GPs have had to make "difficult choices" about which patients to see during the Covid pandemic, a senior Scottish Government adviser said.

GPs had 'difficult choices' over which patients to see, adviser tells MSPs

Boris Johnson delivers his leader's keynote speech during the Conservative Party conference at Manchester Central Convention Complex (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

These are the key moments from the Prime Minister’s Tory conference speech

Safety fears as DVLA backlog leaves 200,000 awaiting medical all-clear

Booster jabs must be given at least six months after the second dose (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid booster jabs rolling out to 1 million people this week - how to book

Medication compliance aids are particularly helpful for those who need to take a range of different medications (Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

New pharmacy technology can revolutionise healthcare – Kasim Gulzar

There have been fears of a delay in cancer diagnosis

Almost two fifths of cancers diagnosed at late stage

People advised to shield during the first wave of the pandemic were eight times more likely to get Covid-19 and five times as likely to die following infection than the general population, a study has indicated.

People told to shield eight times more likely to get Covid-19, study suggests

GPs' workloads are all too regularly hitting double and triple the levels considered to be sustainable (Picture: Anthony Devlin/PA)

GPs' workloads have hit unsustainable levels – Dr John Ip

During the 2019 election campaign, Boris Johnson ruled out the NHS being 'on the table' in deals with the US (Photo: Shutterstock)

37 NHS GP practices have been sold to a private US health company - here's what ...

Nurse Sarah MacLeod, from the Vaccination Team, prepares a vaccine at the coronavirus mass vaccine centre at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Picture date: Monday February 1, 2021.

Delays to vaccination in Edinburgh after shortage of needles

88-year-old Trevor Cowlett receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine from nurse Sam Foster. Picture: PA

Target for over 80s vaccination to be missed as housebound elderly 'left behind'

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