The NHS Cancer Plan for England set waiting time targets for cancer referral (14 days from GP referral to first hospital appointment) and treatment (31 days from diagnosis, 62 days from urgent GP ...

The experience of NHS patients obtaining a GP referral has improved, but many still face delays and uncertainty, according to a new report from Healthwatch England. The organisation found that 1 in 7 ...

Your GP should arrange for you to go to a breast clinic to have tests if you have symptoms that could be due to breast cancer. Depending on your symptoms and other factors, this might be an urgent ...

This enables a GP to refer a patient for advice and 80 per cent have to be responded to within two working days. This, conceptually, is a brilliant way of getting fast real time advice and stops ...

GPs will have fewer barriers to making cancer referrals in a bid to catch more cancers earlier, NHS England announced as part of its new long-term plan for the health service. NHS England said that it ...

Up to a third of GPs' referrals face being rejected by their local commissioning consortium in the ‘Arctic' financial conditions predicted for the NHS, according to a new report by the King's Fund.

Abnormal looking moles are quite common but melanoma is quite rare in comparison. It can be hard for GPs to decide who may have a melanoma skin cancer, and who may have a non cancerous (benign) change ...

Despite attempts by government to squash the ‘NHS referral scheme’ story, senior doctors have serious concerns about the damage the proposed scheme will do to the NHS, people’s health and to the ...

Rachael Bird, a reception manager at Kingswood Health Centre in Bristol, ensures the patients registered with her GP surgery get the help they need (Supplied) Millions of people make use of GP ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Psychologists are pushing for patients to be able to see them and claim a Medicare rebate without a GP referral, at least for initial ...

Max Punni runs 11 pharmacies and said the GP referral scheme placed his staff under too much pressure Referring patients with complex medical needs to pharmacies is placing them and chemists under too ...

Referring patients with complex medical needs to pharmacies is placing them and chemists under too much pressure, a man who owns 11 pharmacies has claimed. Since 2020, pharmacies have been paid a £14 ...