After Lord Ara Darzi's last-minute pull from the RCGP conference last week, the medical community was wondering what could have possibly happened that prevented him from giving one of his most anticipated speeches this year. But two days later Lord...

Arriving at the European Respiratory Conference in Berlin has so far involved plenty of running around in the rain. Fortunately, I don't have a chronic respiratory disease to contend with and therefore was able to rush from my hotel to the conference...

That was one of the questions on the lips of the 800 delegates at the RCGP annual conference in Bournemouth yesterday. The health minister and surgeon, whose name has come to represent almost everything that so many GPs loathe about Labour's health...

The RCGP's annual conference kicks off today in Bournemouth and Healthcare Republic and GP newspaper will have unrivalled coverage of what's happening at the event. Over the next three days, we are producing a special daily edition of GP for conference...

They are a serious threat to the nation's health. A burden on the NHS. A source of torment to women (and a few men) all over the country. Killer heels are costing British wearers £29 million a year in corrective foot surgery according to a study by...

I am attending the Primary Care Live conference today at the swanky ExCel Centre in east London and I am not disappointed. I managed to get here on time despite going into the Courier & Parcel Logistics Expo 2008 by mistake which is taking place in...

This week there will be hundreds, nay thousands, of GPs from around the country travelling to two of the biggest conference dates in the primary care calendar. Primary Care Live starts tomorrow in London, before moving to Manchester next month, and the...

It might finally happen here in England. What we see in Hollywood movies when someone is involved in an accident, gets attacked/shot/killed, has what looks like a heart attack or just simply faints on the street, and suddenly the hero of the movie or...

This week, GP reveals that the flu jab programme looks set to be extended to pregnant women after a study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine , found there was a 63 per cent reduction in influenza illness among infants born to women who...

Flicking through the papers this morning, I was relieved to note that Supernanny returns to our screens tonight for the start of a new series. Jo Frost is just in the nick of time! New NICE guidelines (covering England, Wales & N Ireland) state that...

At a distinctly uncivilized hour yesterday morning I found myself in a back room at the Labour conference in Manchester, listening to various techie types discussing government IT. There were around 30 of us listening, bleary eyed, as the man from Microsoft...

It's understandably difficult to be on the receiving end of a patient complaint and still see it as something positive and valuable to behold. But that's exactly what the Patients Association is suggesting that health professionals and managers...

Life's not always a box of chocolates for GPs but at least you can console yourselves that you're not Gordon Brown. The Labour conference begins in Manchester tomorrow and the spotlight is about to well and truly shine upon our embattled prime...

In this week's GP , we reveal the results of our Valuing General Practice campaign survey . Sadly, some of the figures make for depressing reading. One in seven of the 276 practices that responded said they were threatened with closure or relocation...

Despite expensive government campaigns and the best efforts of Jamie Oliver, Britons are still missing their ‘five-a-day' fruit and veg targets . A study of the consumer habits (entitled 'Health of Britain - Perspective on Nutrition 2008'...