A Health Foundation programme aimed at encouraging more effective continuity of care provides insight on how to change a practice’s approach to embrace this essential component of care and nurture patient-GP relationships.

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The Health Security Agency says 43,000 people may have wrongly been given negative PCR coronavirus test results.

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Among all physicians, men earn 35% more than their female counterparts; pay gap among specialists is greater than that in primary care.

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The extent and duration of the effects of a lumbar epidural steroid injection suggest that patients who receive multiple injections may be at particular risk for skeletal problems.

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HSIB report highlights particular concerns over missed detection of possible lung cancer on chest X-rays of patients in primary care.

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A substantial number of English communities experienced a decline in life expectancy in the 5 years before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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New research shows that there were few safety issues when mixing and matching vaccines for booster doses, and the immune responses appear to be more potent in cases where vaccines are mixed.

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The incidence of the known complication of total thyroidectomy is shown to be under 3% in older patients.

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The World Health Organization honored the late Henrietta Lacks with a WHO Director-General’s award at a ceremony on Wednesday, with Lacks’s 87-year-old son accepting on her behalf.

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John Chambers Hordines, Jr, was an avid outdoorsman, loved classic rock, and had “one of the biggest hearts you’ll ever find,” a colleague recalled.

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