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19/06/2026

Doctors demand ‘urgent extension’ of GP mental health services

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19/06/2026

'We’ve got a generation of GPs that have never really known what general practice can be in this country, and I think that is for shame.'

Pulse editor-in-chief Jaimie Kaffash hosted an on-stage interview with chair of the BMA’s GP committee in England Dr Katie Bramall at Pulse LIVE Birmingham on 10 June asking her what she wants from an overhauled GMS contract, about the next steps for collective action, and the future of the independent contractor model

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19/06/2026

This year’s national vaccination catch-up campaign will focus on measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMR/V), NHS England has said.

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19/06/2026

Annual GP vaccination catch-up campaign to focus on measles

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19/06/2026

Exclusive: More than 100 GP practices in the South East of England were ‘performance managed’ by NHS England to improve access and reduce variation, as part of a programme laying the ‘foundations for neighbourhood working’.

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18/06/2026

Over 100 GP practices ‘performance managed’ by NHS England to improve access

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18/06/2026

Women who received an HPV vaccine as young teenagers have virtually zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before the age of 30, UK researchers have calculated.

Their analysis reported in The Lancet also found that the HPV vaccine has prevented 200 deaths from cervical cancer in England so far.

The number of lives saved will grow as vaccinated generations grow older, and more people receive the vaccination, the team from Queen Mary University of London said.

But progress made is at risk due to falling uptake rates, experts warned.

The school-based HPV vaccination programme was introduced across the UK in 2008 for 12-to-13-year-old girls and was extended to eligible boys in 2019.

Catch-up jabs have been available via GP practices up to the age of 25 years.

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18/06/2026

Complexity of patient consultations is rising across a range of clinical staff in GP practices and has implications for role boundaries and supervision, a study has found.

Analysis of data from 369 practices in 2018 and 2021 found a big shift in the proportion of consultations done by ARRS staff including paramedics, pharmacists, physician associates, physiotherapists, nursing associates, advanced nurse practitioners and mental health practitioners.

The researchers from Bristol University found that ARRS involvement increased across all age groups, ‘most notably among older adults’.

And, comparing more than 3.5 million consultations before and after the scheme came in, researchers found that GPs, nurses and ARRS staff all saw an increase in the number of complex consultations they were managing.

The greatest shift was for practice nurses who went from 12% of consultations being classed as complex to 18.2%.

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18/06/2026

The assisted dying bill has been reintroduced to Parliament, and will have its second reading in September, when MPs will debate and vote on it once again

The assisted dying bill has been reintroduced to Parliament, and will have its second reading in September.

18/06/2026

Assisted dying bill returns to Parliament with debate scheduled for September

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The assisted dying bill has been reintroduced to Parliament, and will have its second reading in September.