Talking General Practice
Episodes
Appointments surge as GP numbers fall, specialist status for GPs and LMCs conference
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our fortnightly news review the team looks at the latest workforce and appointment statistics for general practice in England.They also discuss wha...
How can we rebuild general practice?
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast this week GPonline’s senior reporter Luke Haynes speaks to Dr Amy Small, a GP in Lothian, Scotland, about her work with the Rebuild G...
The demise of small practices, enhanced access and LMC anger over GP contract
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our fortnightly news review the GPonline team looks at the demise of smaller GP practices and asks whether small practices are now a thing of the p...
Have PCNs lost their way?
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Talking General Practice speaks to National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) president Dr Johnny Marshall.The NAPC is the organisation beh...
Ageing workforce threatens GP sustainability, patient satisfaction concerns
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Talking General Practice takes an in-depth look at the GP workforce. Last week GPonline published a new interactive map, which analyses data...
How the war is affecting GPs in Ukraine
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Talking General Practice speaks to Dr Pavlo Kolesnyk - a GP and educator in Uzhhorod, a city in the west of Ukraine.GPonline’s senior repo...
Campaign to rebuild general practice, plus how the NHS backlog is affecting GPs
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team discusses the launch of a new campaign aimed at rebuilding general practice. They also talk about the House of Commons health and s...
Professor Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Talking General Practice speaks to Professor Dame Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard.Dame Helen is the immediate past chair of the RCGP and is c...
Imposed GP contract, will Javid scrap GMS and ARRS at risk of failure
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The team discusses the new GP contract for 2022/23, which will be imposed on practices after talks between NHS England and the BMA broke down. They hi...
Interview: Dr Farzana Hussain
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
GPonline’s senior reporter Luke Haynes speaks to Dr Farzana Hussain a GP and primary care network clinical director in Newham, east London.Dr Hussai...
Underdoctored areas, PCN challenges and ‘living with COVID’
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The team takes a closer look at the GP workforce and which parts of England are most under-doctored.They also look at how primary care networks are fa...
Professor Dame Clare Gerada
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Talking General Practice speaks to Professor Dame Clare Gerada, president of the Royal College of GPs and medical director of NHS Practition...
Tackling the backlog of care, will GPs be ‘nationalised’ and industrial action
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the GPonline team looks at the government’s plan to tackle the backlog of care in the NHS and what it all means for general practice.They’...
Is the NHS making best use of the locum GP workforce?
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Talking General Practice, Emma talks to Dr Richard Fieldhouse, a locum GP and chair of the National Association of Sessional GPs, which h...
Patient contacts at unsafe level, mandatory COVID jabs and CQC ratings bias
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team discusses results of a recent GPonline survey that found GPs are conducting 84% more patient contacts per day on average than the l...
What does the future hold for primary care networks?
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Talking General Practice speaks to Beccy Baird, senior fellow at health think tank the King’s Fund, about primary care networks.Beccy talk...
General practice on 'red alert', recruiting additional roles and the NHS backlog
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Talking General Practice is going weekly! We will now be available every Friday. One week will feature our news round-up and the following week will b...
GPs lead booster race, lifestyle medicine and Christmas care
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team looks at plans to ramp up the COVID-19 booster vaccination programme and what this means for GPs and their teams.They also discuss ...
Omicron, booster jabs, industrial action and carbon footprints
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team discusses the Omicron COVID-19 variant, changes to the vaccination booster programme and how this could impact on practice workload...
General practice in crisis, a defining week for the GPC, and veterans' health
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re talking about a new inquiry into the future of general practice launched by the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee, w...
Industrial action and living with long COVID
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team looks at the fallout from the government’s so-called support package for general practice in England. We discuss the BMA’s plan...
General practice ‘support package’, winter fears and sedentary behaviour
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we take a look at the government’s so-called support package for general practice. We discuss what’s in the package, what GPs think abou...
Professor Martin Marshall – Bonus episode
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of our podcast we speak to the chair of the Royal College of GPs Professor Martin Marshall.GPonline editor Emma Bower spoke to...
Why GPs are working harder than ever, pay transparency and continuity of care
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode the team talks about the latest GP appointment data and what it tells us about exactly how hard general practice is working. They ask,...
GP access row, improving menopause care, COVID-19 boosters
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team discusses the current furore around face-to-face appointments and how national media campaigns and comments from MPs about access t...
Blood test tube shortages, flu jab delays and ‘just a GP’
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team talks about supply problems affecting GP practices - namely delays to flu vaccine deliveries and the NHS-wide blood test tube short...
GPs and staff face abuse, workforce figures and health inequalities
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team discusses rising levels of abuse faced by doctors and staff working in general practice and some of the reasons behind this. They a...
Long COVID, vaccine planning nightmare for GPs, impact of 'freedom day'
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the team discusses COVID-19 booster and flu jabs, what the plans will mean for general practice this autumn and why running the campaigns wi...
The end of COVID restrictions, GP trainee numbers and personalised care
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss the government’s plans to relax almost all of the current COVID-19 restrictions when it moves to step 4 of its roadmap, current...
The BMA and NHS England fall out, PCSE problems and end-of-life care
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re talking about the ongoing fall out from the now infamous NHS England letter about face to face appointments, including the current s...
Greener practice, sharing patient data and additional roles
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we take a look at the government and NHS Digital’s plans for a mass data extraction of all GP patient records in England, highlighting som...
Face-to-face appointments, GP training in a pandemic and vaccine hesitancy
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re talking about face-to-face appointments in primary care and the fallout from NHS England’s standard operating procedure for genera...
The GP workload crisis, mental wellbeing and vaccination success
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re talking about the workload crisis in general practice, looking at the reasons behind it and what could be done to address some of th...
Talking General Practice Trailer
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brought to you by GPonline.com, this podcast looks at the latest news affecting general practice. Each fortnight the GPonline team highlights key stor...