As part of the GP contract, NHS England told practices they must offer automatic access to patient records via the NHS app by 31 October 2023. Patients were initially set to be given this access from ...

Podiatrist Lucia Byrne set up her podiatry practice in Donegal town three years ago. As it became busier and busier, she found herself struggling to cope with the volume of patient notes that needed ...

Generative AI has taken over from GPs to write patients’ notes at one health centre in Weston-super-Mare. When patients at St Georges Surgery in Worle get an appointment with their doctor, instead of ...

GPs plan to stop signing sick notes, death certificates and disability forms in an effort to create more time to deal with their patients’ medical problems. The British Medical Association (BMA) – the ...

A DOCTOR has backed new guidance encouraging hospital doctors to write letters that are easier for patients to understand. Blackburn GP Dr Paul Fourie said the guidance would help create ‘less anxiety ...

A new artificial intelligence computer program created by researchers at the University of Florida and NVIDIA can generate doctors’ notes so well that two physicians couldn’t tell the difference, ...

London GPs have hit out at moves to make them write "fit notes" rather than sick notes for patients. Doctors say the Labour plan will put their patients at risk as they do not have the expertise to ...