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To strike, or not to strike

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A pseudo-symptom of a broken system

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Time for reflection

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Crushed by complaints

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Letter: Racism remains at all levels of general practice

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The temporary health secretary

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Just a GP…

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Mental health in fitness-to-practise investigations

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That bit worse

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Refinding the joy in general practice

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Serious violence: GPs as part of the healing process

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When Saturday comes

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Letter: Vaccinate the world

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War huh

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Continuity of despair

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The real privatisation

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Protecting the Christmas crowds

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My hope for a better 2022

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CPD: Making primary care greener

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We need to talk

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150k reasons to ignore the 150k rule

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Gaslighting the boiling frog

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With support like this

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Firm proposals, flexible vision and broken sleep

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Debate: should Covid vaccination be compulsory for healthcare workers?

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Madvice and misguidance

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Repeat after me: appointments up, GP numbers down

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Dr Nikki Kanani’s letter to the Manchester GP practice attacked last week

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There is no such thing as a ‘right’ to face-to-face appointments

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Obituary – Dr David Roberts

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False memory syndrome

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Nanomanaged to death

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My blueprint for GP survival

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Pulse’s list of principles to build a better general practice

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The full survey results: How GPs see good general practice

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Cancer? What cancer?

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No shortage of shortages

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Convenient scapegoats

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Physician heal thyself

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When you can’t wait

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Joint committee disjointed communication

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Aiming to build on reality: all the latest news from Sackwell & Binthorpe

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Tributes to Dr Kailash Chand OBE

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It’s time to examine the gift horse

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Open or shut, it’s what’s inside that counts

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Woman-kind medicine?

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I was threatened with breach of contract during care.data – this is worse

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The pandemic has changed working lives forever

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Jo Churchill: GPs’ unique knowledge will be central to success of new Health
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A message to our new health secretary, from a beleaguered GP workforce

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The 130,000 will be Hancock’s legacy

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‘A huge and urgent task ahead’: Reaction to Javid’s appointment

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Clearly Quite Crass

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Could we learn a thing or two from the French way?

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Evidently, we can do what we want

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The Pulse LIVE Virtual Event from a GP’s perspective

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A question of trust

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Nadhim Zahawi: ‘We recognise the pressure caused by the vaccination programme’

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An alert system would prove how busy we are

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Copperfield’s bulletin to NHS England

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Building a better general practice

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How long will we put up with this?

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The duplicity of wellbeing

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Face-to-face should be about need, not preference

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Must triage harder

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General practice for all

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‘The nation owes GPs a huge debt of gratitude’

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Open Surgery: Booster jabs

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Why ‘I don’t see colour’ isn’t enough

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16 things that are wrong with that 16-page open letter

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In full: GP practice’s 16-page letter to patients

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Why the GP Forward View remains flawed five years on

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An open and shut case

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To be jabbed or not to be jabbed

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An open goal

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If anxiety was an infectious disease, we’d be declaring an epidemic

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Open Surgery: Vaccine hesitancy

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The AZ issue is a headache for everyone

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Reclaim the streets

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A little bit of knowledge

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