NHS England has set out the contractual terms for hiring GPs under the ARRS, stipulating that they must have qualified under two years before employment. The updated PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES ...

GP leaders in one area have advised practices to hold off from taking part in new ‘neighbourhood health programmes’, amid a ...

UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced plans to allow NHS England to share primary care data with scientific researchers, taking on some of the responsibility held by GPs.

With each ICB being asked to cut running costs by 50%, redundancies are likely to run in the hundreds, if not more. ICBs manage budgets for hospitals, GP surgeries and dentists.

NHS staff fear job losses amid cost-cutting drive 24 June 2025 Nadia Lincoln Local Democracy Reporter Service ...

In October 2024 alone, 123,000 GP visits were recorded. According to the ICB, 43 per cent of these appointments “took place on either the same day or the next day from the initial booking by the ...

According to a headcount taken in March 2025, there were just over 200 staff at the Northamptonshire ICB and around 330 in Leicestershire and Rutland ICB. A total of £16.7m in savings need to be ...