GP appointments

Steve Barclay, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Patients to use digital booking to avoid '8am scramble' for GP appointments

'Think of two names in your diary today, and just pick up the phone to them. Call them to say hello and make them feel visible.'

Simple steps can help people who are struggling with loneliness - Daxa Patel

Arsalan Karim, Shipley-born founder of digital healthcare company Clinova. Picture: Gary Longbottom

Launch of new AI health platform aims to free up GP appointments

'I’m wondering why Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer thinks his vision of a “tech revolution in the NHS” is such a great leap forward'. PIC: Ian West/PA Wire

Has Starmer thought of what a digitised NHS would mean? - Jayne Dowle

Bryn Sage, chief executive of Inhealthcare, said: “We are proud to be working alongside the team at NHS Scotland to help Scotland become an international leader in technology-enabled care, supporting more people to live longer, healthier lives at home or in community settings."

NHS expands remote monitoring across Scotland with support from Inhealthcare

'Health Secretary Steve Barclay is right to acknowledge the “8am scramble” for a doctor’s appointment'. PIC: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

GP appointments need a rethink to avoid the ‘8am scramble’ - Sarah Todd

GP appointments face major change with millions affected - how does this affect you?

Major change to GP appointments set to affect millions

Anneliese Dodds is Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities. PIC: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

The crisis in the NHS is particularly impacting women’s health - Anneliese Dodds

University of Leeds student David Nash died in hospital in November 2020

Student’s family claim he was denied GP appointments before his death

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with members of the media as he visits Croydon University hospital on October 28.

PM u-turns on pledge to introduce £10 fine for missed GP appointments

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street for his first Prime Minister's Questions on October 26, 2022 in London, England. It was Mr Sunak's first Prime Minister's Questions since taking office yesterday, following the resignation of Liz Truss. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Rishi Sunak plans to fine people £10 for missing NHS appointments

Cycling will be prescribed by GPs in Bradford and Leeds

GPs to hand out prescriptions for walking and cycling under Government pilot

Eleanor Temple says "the outlook is still very uncertain for businesses in Yorkshire".

Businesses show signs of growing pressure as value of debt owed rises to £4.5m

Top doctor says patients should be fined for failing to show-up for GP appointme...

Most GPs are working beyond their competence in dealing with mental health issues and are struggling to secure help, including for suicidal children, a new poll suggests. Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

GPs struggling to get help for people facing mental health issues, poll finds

Picture: PA.

Self-care: Why we need a new national strategy to help the NHS - George Howarth

File photo dated 10/09/14 of a GP checking a patient's blood pressure.

Early morning scramble for GP appointments may go if NHS adopted 'smart' system

Community pharmacies could save the NHS in England up to £640 million a year if more patients used them instead of GPs, sector representatives have said.

Community pharmacies 'could save NHS £640m a year while easing GP pressures'

Greater access to the outdoors through social prescribing can improve the health of the nation, says South Yorkshire MP Alexander Stafford.

How nature can help improve the health of all – Alexander Stafford

The availability of GP appointments continues to prompt national debate.

GP appointments lottery requires radical surgery – Bill Carmichael

Have you had issues getting a face to face appointment with a GP?

Would you have 'clapped for GPs'? What The Yorkshire Post readers say
The issue of face to face appointments with GPs is rumbling on - and we've been getting a lot of correspondence around the problem of seeing a GP in person.

David Nash was just 26 when he died from meningitis

Family of Leeds man who died of meningitis call for face-to-face GP appointments

The latest NHS figures show 57.7 per cent of the 23.7m GP appointments in England were face-to-face in August

GPs say challenges remain as just over half their appointments are face to face

To what extent should the elderly pay for their social care needs?

Why pensioners will pay more for social care – Yorkshire Post Letters

Patients have to wait for appointments.

'Dr Google' has become our first port of call as we wait for GPs - Jayne Dowle

The guidance states that GPs should offer face-to-face appointments if patients want them except in circumstances where there is a “good clinical reason” to do otherwise, such as if a patient has Covid symptoms.

Labour attacks government in row over return of face-to-face GP appointments

There is continuing consternation over the availability of face-to-face GP appointments more than a year after the Covid pandemic struck.

GP appointments ‘postcode lottery’ is discriminatory and must end – The Yorkshir...

Despite practices facing orders from NHS England last month to revert back to face-to-face as standard if patients want them, many GP surgeries are struggling to re-implement in-person appointments as the norm.

Future of GP appointments a "mix of face-to-face, phone and digital"

Should patients be fined if they don't turn up for GP appointments?

Time to fine patients who miss vaccines and GP appointments – Yorkshire Post Let...

More GP appointments are taking place 'remotely' following Covid-19, but is this the way forward for the NHS? Jayne Dowle is unconvinced.

Patients deserve better than ‘care by phone’ from their GP – Jayne Dowle

The training of nurses is in the spotlight.

Why actors are often used to train medical students - Yorkshire Post Letters

More GP appointments have been made available over the Bank Holiday weekend

Extra GP appointments available in Sheffield over Bank Holiday weekend
Extra GP appointments have been made available in Sheffield over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Junior doctors strike outside of Pinderfields hospital in Wakefield during a recent strike

125,000 operations and appointments cancelled due to strike

Pilot to offer longer GP opening hours

Labour leader Ed Miliband delivers a speech on his party's plans for the NHS in Sale near Manchester if they get into power at this year's General Election. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday January 27, 2015. See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Labour unveils 10 year plan to ‘rescue’ the NHS

Labour leader Ed Miliband

Miliband to set out NHS care policy

Why Yorkshire fares badly when it comes to early deaths from cancer

NHS steers into a ‘perfect storm’

Vitamin D could be answer in IBS battle

Struggling GPs fear their care for elderly may suffer

Lansley urges doctors to shun ‘pointless’ strike over pensions

First strike by doctors in nearly 40 years ‘to have limited impact’

NHS Direct may take over GP bookings

Patients needled over problems with making GP appointments