What does the NHS 10-year plan hold in store for GPs? And are digital rectal exams a thing of the past?

Pulse deputy news editor Anna Colivicchi makes her podcast debut discussing the Government’s 10-year health plan with features assistant Maya Dhillon. The pair delve into the plan’s aims to reform the NHS and how this will impact general practice.

They are joined by several guests giving their takes on the 10-year plan. Following her widely-shared editorial, editor Sofia Lind argues that the plan’s introductions of two new contracts might be the end of the GP partnership model.

Professor Azeem Majeed, head of the department of Primary Care & Public Health at Imperial College London, and Dr Steve Taylor, GP spokesperson for the Doctors’ Association UK also question the plan’s aims and point out the challenges it might face.

Anna also gives a preview of her brand new miniseries analysing how the 10-year plan will impact the new GP 2028 contract.

In our clinical section, we are joined again by Pulse editorial adviser and GP Dr Keith Hopcroft. This week, he discusses a recent claim from urologists that GPs no longer need to do a digital rectal exam to test for prostate cancer. He looks at where this has come from, the facts behind it, and what it means for GPs.

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This episode was produced by Maya Dhillon and Mollie Fraser-Andrews.