In the period since May 2005 there have been a programme of publications sent to all general practitioners (GPs) via a regular mailout. The details of these are as follows.
Added to this, there have been a number of ad hoc mailings of national health service publications to individual general practitioners or groupings of general practitioners. As well as this, the Department has also sent to general practices a number of NHS publications to practices with the intention that these be made available to members of the public in waiting rooms. We do not have figures for either ad hoc mailings to general practitioners or for publications aimed at the general public, and to identify these numbers would involve disproportionate costs.
The following NHS publications were sent to all GPs since May 2005:
GP bulletin and GP and Practice Team bulletin: 10-12 bulletins per year. If registered via the Department’s website GPs will have received these via an e-mail link. Otherwise hard copies have been sent by post.
16 May 2005: GP Bulletin—May 2005—Issue 40
17 May 2005: GP Bulletin—May 2005—Issue 40 reissue
7 June 2005: GP Bulletin—June 2005—Issue 41
4 July 2005: GP Bulletin—July 2005—Issue 42
5 August 2005: GP Bulletin—August 2005—Issue 43
5 September 2005: GP Bulletin—September 2005—Issue 44
6 October 2005: GP Bulletin—October 2005—Issue 45
4 November 2005: GP Bulletin—November 2005—Issue 46
5 December 2005: GP Bulletin—December 2005/January 2006—Issue 47
6 February 2006: GP Bulletin—February 2006—Issue 48
24 February 2006: GP Bulletin—March 2006—Issue 49
24 March 2006: GP Bulletin—April 2006—Issue 50
28 April 2006: GP Bulletin—May 2006—Issue 51
26 May 2006: GP Bulletin—June 2006—Issue 52
30 June 2006: GP Bulletin—July 2006—Issue 53
1 August 2006: GP Bulletin—August 2006—Issue 54
25 August 2006: GP Bulletin—September 2006—Issue 55
29 September 2006: GP Bulletin—October 2006—Issue 56
27 October 2006: GP Bulletin—November 2006—Issue 57
23 November 2006: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—December 2006—Issue 58
26 January 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—February 2006—Issue 59
2 March 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—March 2007—Issue 60
2 April 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—April 2007—Issue 61
11 May 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—May 2007—Issue 62
8 June 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—June 2007—Issue 63
10 July 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—July 2007—Issue 64
3 August 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—August 2007—Issue 65
7 September 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—September 2007—Issue 66
11 October 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—October 2007—Issue 67
2 November 2007: GP and Practice Team Bulletin—November 2007—Issue 68
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Updates. Ordinarily there are between two-four editions per year, although in 2007 there was only one.
July 2005: CMO Update—Issue 42
January 2006: CMO Update—Issue 43
August 2006: CMO Update—Issue 44
October 2006: CMO Update—Issue 45
November 2007: CMO Update—Issue 46
British National Formulary (BNF): There are two editions per year (sent to general practitioners in March and October of each year), plus one Children’s BNF in addition to this (sent to GPs in September of each year).
NHS Choices Magazine: a hard copy mailout of this publication was sent to all GPs in August 2007.