Dr. Anjulika Salhan has won the English Women’s Award for the second year in a row for her contributions to Finance and Accountancy. This glamorous event, celebrating female successes took place in Birmingham’s Holiday Inn Airport (NEC) Hotel on Thursday, November 21st 2019. The Awards honoured the talent and hard work of female professionals and… Read more…

Moving house is an expensive operation which not many people undertake more than a few times in their lives. But as a doctor, moving around the country to further your career is a very real prospect. Fortunately, doctors can claim expenses for moving due to their employment, including the reimbursement of removal expenses, legal costs,… Read more…

The Labour Party has reiterated its commitment to end the one per cent cap on GP pay rises. Shadow Health Minister Justin Madders told delegates at the Party Conference in Brighton that the policy would be scrapped immediately by a future Labour Government. Addressing a fringe meeting towards the end of September, Mr Madders accused… Read more…

New research carried out by news website GPonline has found that a rising number of former GPs are turning towards locum work, due to ever-rising rates of pay and increasing demand. GPonline quizzed several GPs and medical professionals from all across the UK, finding that just over a fifth of GPs who now describe themselves… Read more…

The National Health Service (NHS) has announced a U-turn on controversial plans to automatically place all locum GPs and NHS contractors inside of IR35. Following important changes that took effect at the beginning of April, which shifted responsibility for determining IR35 status away from individual contractors and onto the public bodies and recruitment agencies that… Read more…

GP practices and health centres across the UK are struggling under financial pressure spurred on by “incomprehensible” increases to property charges of up to 1,000 per cent – which in some cases means bills of up to tens of thousands of pounds. Recent reports suggest that that hundreds of health centres across the country could… Read more…

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has said that the UK economy could save ‘millions of pounds’ if more Pharmacists were trained to prescribe medicines. The comments come at a time when the NHS is pushing for medics to slash overall prescribing, and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has issued a public warning for Britons to… Read more…

Following announcements made last year, more information regarding GP contract changes continues to trickle through from the NHS Employers and the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) of the British Medical Association (BMA). In an attempt to alleviate the growing financial pressures experienced by many GP practices, NHS England and the GPC have agreed an investment boost… Read more…

The VAT status of various types of product – including medicines – has always been a minefield. Very often, pharmacists can be left scratching their heads when it comes to the VAT status of pharmaceutical products. Items supplied under Patient Group Directions (PGDs) are taxable at the standard 20 per cent rate because they are… Read more…