The Latest Breaking News from Royal College of GPs

Tiny ‘microlightning’ flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth

Study says tiny electric discharges between water droplets can make building block molecules of life

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2025

‘Troubling’ rise in people admitted to hospital due to lack of vitamins

Conditions such as iron deficiency can cause heart failure if left untreated.

The Independent UK · Jan 1, 2025

Family doctors facing ‘insurmountable’ pressures, warn leading GPs

A report suggests one in four GP staff fear their practice is in danger of closing.

The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2023

Long-lasting coughs ‘may be one infection after another’

Experts urged people to heat their homes to 18C and seek help for coughs lasting longer than three weeks, or four weeks after Covid.

The Independent UK · Jan 18, 2023

Labour warns government to cut waiting lists not standards in row over NHS targets

Follows chaotic winter for the health service

The Independent UK · Dec 26, 2022

Majority of NHS targets ‘could be abolished in 2023 after review of health service’

Outcome could give local leaders more autonomy

The Independent UK · Dec 26, 2022

Welsh GP says we 'don't really know' where Strep A outbreak will go as alert issued

The chair of the Royal College of GPs in Wales, Dr Rowena Christmas, urged parents not to dismiss their concerns if their child is unwell

Wales Online · Dec 5, 2022

Overloaded GPs forced to limit access to online consulting site

Triage system eConsult was supposed to improve patient care but surgeries are having to switch it off for periods as demand soars

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022

GPs are seeing more people who are 'vitamin deficient' because they can't afford to eat

Dr Rowena Christmas said she'd seen more patients presenting with vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies due to their poor diets

Wales Online · Nov 24, 2022

Patients turn down doctor sick notes as they need to work to keep feeding their families

Professor Kamila Hawthorne, the chair of the Royal College of GPs, said some of her patients have refused to sign off work due to illness because they have to keep providing for their families

Daily Mirror · Nov 23, 2022