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Families are feeling stressed, powerless and ‘forever in limbo’ while stuck in long waits for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) assessments, researchers have reported. More clarity around waiting times and better signposting to support could help alleviate some of those difficulties, they concluded. NHS figures show must children under the age of 17 wait for more

Dr David Turner argues that failures in children’s mental health services are forcing GPs to break the rules The patient in front of me is a child, and is very ill. There is a not insignificant risk that they could die. In most situations I would refer them urgently to the paediatricians, but unfortunately for

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Exclusive GP leaders have raised concerns that the new practice-level reimbursement scheme could be ‘prohibitively narrow in scope’ and only include salaried doctors. Pulse understands that a draft proposal for an amended statement of financial entitlements (SFE), presented by the Government to the BMA’s GP committee, has described the scheme as only including salaried GPs....

The assisted dying bill has run out of time in the House of Lords and will not become law in England and Wales. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which passed in the House of Commons last year, amassed a record number of amendments, and earlier this year its sponsor Lord Falconer had expressed

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Exclusive New advice and guidance (A&G) requirements will cause cost pressures for GP practices due to a ‘significant increase in unfunded workload’, a large group of LMCs has warned. Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (BBO) LMCs has published its own analysis of the imposed 2026/27 contract, warning that practices are ‘certainly in a worse position in real

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