General practice

Since 2016 The King’s Fund has surveyed GP trainees about their career plans. Holly Young looks at the results of the 2023 GP trainee survey, including concerns around unsustainable workload, wellbeing and burnout.

Danielle Jefferies considers what the health system needs to do to move care closer to home.

At a recent roundtable event, supported by Novartis, we discussed the future of community pharmacy with pharmacy, policy, VCSE sector and primary care leaders.

How can GPs improve access to primary care for disabled people? Deborah Fenney shares insights from the East of England Trailblazer Deprivation Fellowship Scheme, and highlights the need for wider system support.

Jordan Reid sat down with Caroline Rollings, wellbeing lead for the National Association of Primary Care, to find out about the work she’s been doing to support staff wellbeing in primary care.

Andy Brooks takes a look at the skills of GPs and the importance of their relationships with patients. He argues that these should be the building blocks for organising GP practices and services.

Kiran Chauhan considers the common challenges primary care networks are facing and offers some reflective questions to help leaders reflect on their local situation.

As pressures on health and care services increased in 2022, Richard Murray considers what the new year might have in store for the sector.

Kristina Bergman, a GP trainee on placement at The King’s Fund, delves into GP trainees’ plans for their future careers.

In the past, attempts to bring about change in general practice has focused on targets and financial levers. However, as we found in our work to support the Fuller ‘stocktake’, approaches that focus on culture, and efforts to cultivate bottom-up change that empowers frontline staff are far more effective in bringing about positive change.

GP trainees Dr Ree'Thee Bhatt and Dr Devina Maru share their experiences of working in health policy roles and outline why an understanding of policymaking is crucial to enabling clinicians to influence change in the health and care system.