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GPs and other medical professionals have supported the PMA in rejecting the former Health Secretary’s calls to charge for GP appointments and A&E visits.Sajid Javid described the present model of the NHS ‘unsustainable’, adding “Too often we hear doctors and nurses frustrated at people making unnecessary trips to frontline services, which takes time from other patients. Would the same level of demand exist here if this Irish model were adopted? [...]

THE PMA is calling for the rhetoric surrounding the so-called lack of face-to-face appointments with GPs to end, as reports of abuse towards Practice staff continues. Violence, abuse and criminal damage is never acceptable in any healthcare setting and many Practices are now highlighting their zero-tolerance policy. “There seems to be a trend fuelled by certain newspapers and exacerbated by some politicians that seeing a GP is virtually impossible [...]

THE annual PMA Awards ceremony has taken place at the 2022 Best Practice Show hosted at the NEC in Birmingham last week. Thousands of healthcare professionals attended the show across two days, which including presentations on many issues in primary care, including Succession Planning, ARRS roles: integrating and managing multi-disciplinary teams, managing GP Practice Finance and customer and conflict management. It was standing room only at a packed PMA [...]

AS the PMA widens its provision for training and education in the care sector - including the Excellence in Personalised Care Certificate and Senior Adult Care Worker Level 3 - it has also called for a significant increase in pay for care workers across the country. Although the PMA welcomes the government announcement to invest £500 million to develop the adult social care workforce (to train and retain talent [...]

THE PMA - a national independent learning provider - is delighted to announce it has received a ‘Good’ across every aspect of its recent Ofsted education inspection. The Ofsted report states: “Leaders have a sound rationale for how to meet the skills requirements of the employers they serve. They provide an ambitious curriculum that is aligned to sustainable career pathways for the healthcare sector’s non-clinical workforce. “Tutors effectively plan [...]

 A large number of non-clinical Practice staff are likely to quit their jobs within the next few years, according to the PMA.  The news will come as no surprise to GPs – with 33% likely to also leave their roles within five years, according to findings from the University of Manchester’s GP worklife survey.  In GPs over 50 the figure was 61%; among GPs under 50, one in every [...]

As the Kickstart Scheme finishes, PMA has been reflecting on one of its biggest success stories that has been life-changing for one young kickstarter.  Matthew Cornish, 27, has cerebral palsy. After many disappointments, he was beginning to think he would never get a job – or even an interview – when he managed to secure a role via the Kickstart Scheme at West Pottergate Surgery in Norwich in August [...]

As part of Operation Warm Welcome, PMA is working alongside the DWP to support those Afghan citizens who have resettled in the UK to find work and integrate into UK life.  The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) launched last month and the UK has promised to rehome thousands of Afghan nationals who escaped the country after the Taliban regained power last year.  In addition to offering a place of [...]