GP and primary care

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1. Still holding it together: what NHS administration really looks like from general practice (30 April 2026)

   • GP practice
   • Clinical administration
   • (and 3 more)

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     • GP practice
     • Clinical administration
     • Skills
     • Workforce management
     • Health inequalities

   By Patient Safety Learning, 6 May

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   • 6 May

2. Enhanced service specification – General Practice Requests for Advice and Guidance (NHSE, 27 March 2026)

   • Advice
   • GP
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Advice
     • GP
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Long waiting list

   By Patient Safety Learning, 30 April

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   • 30 April

3. Nuffield Trust: Will specialist advice and guidance reduce the waiting list for planned care as the government hopes? (27 February 2026)

   • GP
   • GP practice
   • (and 4 more)

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     • GP
     • GP practice
     • Primary care
     • Care navigation
     • Advice
     • Long waiting list

   By Patient Safety Learning, 27 February

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   • 27 February

4. “It shouldn’t be this hard”. Solving the NHS maze for patients and GPs (RCGP and Patients Association, February 2026)

   • Organisation / service factors
   • Primary care
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Organisation / service factors
     • Primary care
     • GP
     • Care navigation
     • Appointment
     • Patient
     • Accessibility
     • General Practice

   By Patient Safety Learning, 27 February

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   • 27 February

5. The Nuffield Trust: Why does England have unemployed GPs when patients can’t get GP appointments? (14 January 2026)

   • GP
   • Recruitment
   • (and 2 more)

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     • GP
     • Recruitment
     • Workforce management
     • Resources / Organisational management

   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 January

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   • 16 January

6. Experiences of access to general practice in England: qualitative study and implications for the NHS 10 year plan (BMJ, 14 January 2026)

   • Qualitative
   • Research
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Qualitative
     • Research
     • GP
     • General Practice
     • Appointment

   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 January

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   • 16 January

7. CQC State of Care: What does this look like for primary care and community services? (Professor Bola Owolabi, (21 November 2025)

   • Primary care
   • Social Care

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 1 December, 2025

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   • 1 December, 2025

8. Trends in the shortfall of English NHS general practice doctors: repeat cross sectional study (17 September 2025)

   • GP
   • Workforce management
   • (and 3 more)

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     • GP
     • Workforce management
     • Recruitment
     • Staff factors
     • England

   By Patient Safety Learning, 18 September, 2025

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   • 18 September, 2025

9. Digital triage in GP: enhancing access to care or increasing inequalities? (The King's Fund, August 2025)

   • GP
   • Digital health
   • (and 4 more)

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     • GP
     • Digital health
     • Appointment
     • Accessibility
     • Health Disparities
     • Health inequalities

   By Patient Safety Learning, 11 August, 2025

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   • 11 August, 2025

10. Beyond the waiting room: reimagining primary care for the next decade (NHS Confederation, 17 April 2025)

    • Primary care
    • Organisation / service factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 25 April, 2025

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    • 25 April, 2025

11. General practice across England: Performance Tracker Local (21 April 2025)

    • GP
    • GP practice
    • (and 3 more)

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      • GP
      • GP practice
      • Feedback
      • Workforce management
      • Workload analysis

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 April, 2025

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    • 22 April, 2025

12. Challenges to quality in contemporary, hybrid general practice a multi-site longitudinal case study (

    • GP
    • Primary care
    • (and 2 more)

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      • GP
      • Primary care
      • Telehealth
      • Longitudinal study

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 March, 2025

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    • 15 March, 2025

13. The perceived usefulness of patient narrative feedback in primary care settings (August 2024)

    • Primary care
    • Communication
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Primary care
      • Communication
      • Feedback
      • Patient engagement
      • Quality improvement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 March, 2025

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    • 15 March, 2025

14. NHS England: Changes to the GP contract in 2025/26 (28 February 2025)

    • GP practice
    • GP
    • (and 1 more)

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      • GP practice
      • GP
      • Organisational Performance

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 March, 2025

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    • 3 March, 2025

15. How do you solve problems relating to access to general practice? (11 December 2024)

    • Accessibility
    • GP
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Accessibility
      • GP
      • Primary care
      • Patient engagement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 March, 2025

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    • 1 March, 2025

16. THIS Institute podcast: Access to primary care and improving healthcare systems (26 February 2025)

    • Primary care
    • System safety
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Primary care
      • System safety
      • GP
      • Patient
      • Lack of resources

    By Patient Safety Learning, 26 February, 2025

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    • 26 February, 2025

17. Developing and sustaining State-based infrastructure to support primary care quality improvement (AHRQ)

    • Primary care
    • System safety

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 18 February, 2025

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    • 18 February, 2025

18. Supporting veterans and their dependants in primary care

    • Primary care
    • GP practice

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 20 December, 2024

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    • 20 December, 2024

19. Closing the primary care gap: How community health centers can address the nation’s primary care crisis (February 2023)

    • Primary care
    • USA
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Primary care
      • USA
      • Social determinants of health
      • Health inequalities
      • Health Disparities

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 19 December, 2024

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    • 19 December, 2024

20. THC Primary Care: Physician Associates in primary care and the latest guidance (18 November 2024)

    • Primary care
    • Physician associate

    By Patient Safety Learning, 25 November, 2024

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    • 25 November, 2024

21. Patients first: Why general practice is broken & how we can fix it (BMA, October 2024)

    • GP
    • GP practice
    • (and 2 more)

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      • GP
      • GP practice
      • Funding
      • Lack of resources

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 October, 2024

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    • 10 October, 2024

22. “Good Care Is Slow Enough to Be Able to Pay Attention”: Primary Care Time Scarcity and Patient Safety (15 February 2024)

    • Primary care

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 16 September, 2024

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    • 16 September, 2024

23. Safe working guidance: a handbook for general practice in England (BMA, 6 September 2024)

    • Primary care
    • GP practice
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Primary care
      • GP practice
      • Appointment

    By Patient Safety Learning, 11 September, 2024

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    • 11 September, 2024

24. The changing shape of English general practice: a retrospective longitudinal study using national datasets describing trends in organisational structure, workforce and recorded appointments (3 September 2024)

    • GP
    • Primary care
    • (and 5 more)

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      • GP
      • Primary care
      • Appointment
      • Lack of resources
      • Workforce management
      • Patient suffering
      • Research

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 September, 2024

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    • 4 September, 2024

25. NHS England's National General Practice Improvement Programme

    • General Practice
    • Primary care
    • (and 1 more)

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      • General Practice
      • Primary care
      • GP

    By Patient Safety Learning, 2 September, 2024

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    • 2 September, 2024