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Michael White: will information strategy deliver on its promise?

24-May-2012
Enhancing communication between GPs and hospital consultants

24 May 2012
PCTs to pay GPs an extra £1.1m following system error

23-May-2012
GP quality monitoring project under threat from reform

23-May-2012
Physio phone triage rolled out in Surrey

21-May-2012
Information strategy details: Lansley promises online GP access to 'end 8am rush'

20-May-2012
GPs vs MPs: the ‘new’ battle ground for a redesigned NHS

17-May-2012
'A culture shift can help reduce prescription wastage'

17-May-2012
'Concern' over pledge to give patients access to GP records

16-May-2012
Doctors voting on pensions strike action

16-May-2012
Seeing GP of choice would cut elective admissions - study

10 May 2012
London doctors receive new support with revalidation

4-May-2012
How to identify - and manage - conflicts of interest

3 May 2012
Will clinical leadership be the panacea for all health service woes?

3 May 2012
CCGs to manage and reward GP performance

2-May-2012
One in 20 GP prescriptions contains an error

2-May-2012
Tighten GP practice rules to counter 'health tourism', group urges

30-Apr-2012
Quantifying QOF: why practices need to take data collection seriously

26-Apr-2012
Out of hours performance data goes online

19 April 2012
Agenda for Change could survive regional pay push

12-Apr-2012
First public board for East CCG

4-Apr-2012
PCT backtracks on GP move after lease agreement

2-Apr-2012
GP practice closes in Surrey

2-Apr-2012
NHS Enfield to relocate GP surgeries

30-Mar-2012
BMA warns of first doctor industrial action in decades

30-Mar-2012
Lansley condemns expensive GP phone calls

29-Mar-2012
How to inspire a generation of entrepreneurial leaders in healthcare

29-Mar-2012
Guidance on producing an any qualified provider implementation pack

29 March 2012
Exclusive: CCG authorisation requirements and timetable revealed

26-Mar-2012
Doctors acting illegally over abortion consent, inspection shows

23-Mar-2012
New tools for new commissioners: an HSJ special supplement

22-Mar-2012
'Our vital out of hours services are being sidelined'

22 March 2012
The seven habits of emerging medical leaders

22 March 2012
Norfolk plans integrated approach roll out for emergency admissions

21-Mar-2012
A step-by-step guide to making total hip replacement deliver value

15 March 2012
Collaboration can help meet the challenges facing urgent care

15 March 2012
How will CCGs assure the quality of care they commission?

15 March 2012
Noel Plumridge: do not underestimate CCG support organisations

15-Mar-2012
Why clinical commissioners will be in search of a new approach

15 March 2012
Exclusive: over 60 per cent of CCGs choose PCT manager as their leader

14-Mar-2012
Experienced GPs and managers can give CCGs the best start

14-Mar-2012
Rebel Lib Dem reforms revolt defeated

14-Mar-2012
Branch surgery at risk in Norfolk

13-Mar-2012
Clare Gerada: just don't call me 'ballbreaker'

13-Mar-2012
Better interventions could cut missed appointments by third

9-Mar-2012
'High volume surgery outcomes suggest there is safety in numbers'

8-Mar-2012
Are GPs the right people for the job?

8-Mar-2012
Why organisations must invest in staff health and wellbeing

8-Mar-2012
Motivation is needed to see clinical commissioning succeed

6-Mar-2012
Safer passage: how care navigators help improve mental health services

6-Mar-2012
Southern Health plans out of hours bid

5-Mar-2012
Health Bill 'unfit for purpose' - BMA

2-Mar-2012
Exclusive: national commissioning leads CCG to merge

1-Mar-2012
London GPs off the pace on exercise programmes

1-Mar-2012
Commissioning board could take ownership of LIFT assets

1-Mar-2012
CCG performance framework missing key quality indicators

1-Mar-2012
In this together: why clinically led commissioning will rely on collaboration

1 March 2012
Virgin rebrand for care provider Assura Medical

1 March 2012
Lords win tweaks to Health Bill on competition

28-Feb-2012
CCG calls for Health Bill to be scrapped

28-Feb-2012
Common cancers get faster referrals, study shows

24-Feb-2012
MPs reject healthcare cost statement plans

23-Feb-2012
GPs overpaid millions for 'ghost patients'

23-Feb-2012
Permanent chief at deficit trust confirmed

23 February 2012
Trusts refusing to release doctors for leadership work

23 February 2012
How to empower GPs and local commissioners to deliver care

22-Feb-2012
Why medical leaders need to be proactive in driving culture change

21-Feb-2012
Exclusive: Lansley assures CCGs over competition

20-Feb-2012
PMS contracts being cut by £800,000 in Staffs and Stoke

17-Feb-2012
Commuter influx sees NHS Westminster selected to pilot GP choice scheme

17-Feb-2012
2gether appoints GP to board

17-Feb-2012
Three north Tees emerging CCGs merge into one

16-Feb-2012
Quality of hospital care concerning doctors

16-Feb-2012
Standardised GP contract by 2015 is 'naive'

16-Feb-2012
Calls to reduce 1.6m unnecessary prescriptions

10-Feb-2012
David Kerr: the true value of reform must be defined by patient outcomes

9-Feb-2012
Stockton-On-Tees health centre moving

8-Feb-2012
'New insights could help CCGs be clear on population health services'

6-Feb-2012
Royal College of GPs joins calls for Health Bill to be scrapped

3-Feb-2012
Campaign to increase doctors working in Wales launched

2-Feb-2012
Croydon out-of-hours care failures exposed

2-Feb-2012
'Engaging GPs is the new year's resolution for clinical commissioning'

2-Feb-2012
London ambulance service facing new investigation on performance

2 February 2012
Government urged to slow NHS 111 rollout

1-Feb-2012
Health bodies caution against Cabinet Office open data push

1-Feb-2012
New Assura Medical practice in Calderdale

31-Jan-2012
Nearly half of GPs dealing with 'burnout'

31-Jan-2012
'Be clear' bowel cancer campaign launched by government

30-Jan-2012
Royal colleges will 'continue dialogue' on reform

27-Jan-2012
How CCGs can make savings in their prescription budget

23-Jan-2012
Software saves on NHS Wiltshire prescribing costs

20-Jan-2012
Somerset CCG passes assurance visit

20-Jan-2012
Two royal colleges declare opposition to Health Bill

19-Jan-2012
Five integral steps to support commissioning headache services

19-Jan-2012
Independent assessment could reduce long-term sickness absence

19 January 2012
'Local healthcare cannot be delivered by giant commissioning bodies'

19 January 2012
Many Leicestershire urgent care centre attendences would be better managed by GPs

18-Jan-2012
Medway trialling Dr Foster hospital performance tool

17-Jan-2012
HSJ's latest CCGs map

12-Jan-2012
Noel Plumridge: has the sparkle gone from social enterprise?

12-Jan-2012
How doctor-patient phone calls can cut unnecessary emergency care attendances

10-Jan-2012
BMA to survey members on pensions deal

6-Jan-2012
Give doctors stronger assisted dying powers, report says

5-Jan-2012
Clinical commissioning behind schedule and risking 'suspended animation'

5-Jan-2012
Two Croydon GP groups merge

4-Jan-2012
Field's Future Forum report to call for GPs to move into 'bigger organisations'

28-Dec-2011
Wales' top doctor announces retirement

23-Dec-2011
Surrey has 10 emerging CCGs

22-Dec-2011
Leicester City boosts Health Check funding

22-Dec-2011
Six Cornwall CCGs merge to become two - including one of the largest in England

22-Dec-2011
'Race split' Milton Keynes CCGs agree to merge

21-Dec-2011
First funds announced for GP Extraction Service

21-Dec-2011
Bradford and Airedale reports three emerging CCGs

20-Dec-2011
Five GP groups become one CCG in East Lancs

20-Dec-2011
Three Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale emerging CCGs become one

20-Dec-2011
Civil service unions hold up pensions 'progress'

20-Dec-2011
Exclusive: Commissioning board will have GP deputy medical director

20-Dec-2011
Two Bolton emerging CCGs become one

19-Dec-2011
NHS managers asked to resign - Labour

19-Dec-2011
GMC to provide assisted suicide guidance

16-Dec-2011
Clinical commissioning group boards should have tenure and size limits

15-Dec-2011
Where is the NHS equivalent of the strategic defence and security review?

15 December 2011
Herts CCGs overspend affecting PCT

14-Dec-2011
Chlamydia cases falling in Cambridgeshire

14-Dec-2011
Analysis: patients in poorer regions using A&E over GP

13-Dec-2011
Concerns over junior doctors' acute care training

13-Dec-2011
Doncaster and Bassetlaw hospitals 'halves time' for GP correspondence

12-Dec-2011
Reforms causing 'continued chaos' to frontline services - BMA

8-Dec-2011
NHS staff turnover figures shows workforce contracted by 2 per cent

8 December 2011
Exclusive: CCGs, national board and fellow GPs will tackle 'underperformers' - Lansley

7-Dec-2011
Flory plans CCG finance chief 'accreditation' process

7-Dec-2011
GPs opt for a single CCG for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

6-Dec-2011
CCG performance and payment regime allowed to include 'process' measures

2-Dec-2011
London practices readying for first GP outcomes scorecard

1 December 2011
Hakin: pace of CCG development next year will 'be dramatic'

30-Nov-2011
GPs claim CCGs are being 'bullied and coerced' by PCTs

30-Nov-2011
East Suffolk and Ipswich CCG merge to become single body

29-Nov-2011
Exclusive: All patients to have access to GP record by 2015

29-Nov-2011
BMA: GPs want CCGs big enough to avoid outsourcing of commissioning

28-Nov-2011
Exclusive: Government to link GP and hospital data

28-Nov-2011
BMA declares full opposition to reforms

25-Nov-2011
Cameron backs changes to GP sign off powers

24-Nov-2011
Neurology services in need of new headache pathways to improve productivity

24 November 2011
CCG to fund diabetes diet service in East Sussex

22-Nov-2011
First summary care record goes live in Surrey

22-Nov-2011
Exclusive: NHS begins planning CCG authorisation 'pipeline'

22-Nov-2011
Notts City issuing out of hours tender

21-Nov-2011
Birmingham's only remaining red-rated CCG disbands

21-Nov-2011
CCGs may be 'ill-equipped' to meet information governance standards

21-Nov-2011
Ombudsman names doctor in swearing row

17-Nov-2011
Competition panel moves to second phase of NHS Peterborough investigation

16-Nov-2011
Exclusive: 'Significant majority' of CCG population will live in its area - minister

16-Nov-2011
Whittington plans to split benefits of contract 50:50 with GPs

15-Nov-2011
New ways of working: an HSJ report on Leadership and Workforce

10 November 2011
From middle to higher ground: teaching the leaders of the future

8-Nov-2011
Is the GP contract a barrier to integrated care?

7-Nov-2011
King's Fund and Future Forum challenge GP contract 'barrier'

4-Nov-2011
Sheffield GPs establish self-care musculoskeletal management websites

3-Nov-2011
Flexible GP registration schemes piloted

3-Nov-2011
GPs underperforming on quality and outcomes face 'serious questions'

3-Nov-2011
NHS Derbyshire overcomes opposition to standardise services and income for GP practices

2-Nov-2011
Moving to fairer funding and standardised services for GP practices

2-Nov-2011
GP contract: BMA and government agree on choice and 0.5 per cent rise

2-Nov-2011
Salford practice excluded by CCG for overspend is set to rejoin

1-Nov-2011
Targeting 'risky' male drinkers could save NHS £120m - report

31-Oct-2011
Leading the charge for change? An HSJ Summit review

28-Oct-2011
Why technology holds the key to better population health

27 October 2011
Reforms must change to 'mitigate damage' - BMA chair

26-Oct-2011
No agreement reached on Barnsley CCG arrangements

25-Oct-2011
Reform conflict of interest concerning most GPs

25-Oct-2011
Audits of clinical outcomes to cover new areas

24-Oct-2011
Revalidation push lacking sufficient resources

20 October 2011
Sally Gainsbury: councils face a rude awakening

20 October 2011
Why exceeding patient expectations should be central for clinical commissioners

20 October 2011
Rising referrals cause concern in Buckinghamshire

19-Oct-2011
Sainsbury's offer to replace Milton Keynes health centre

18-Oct-2011
GP surgery move in NE Essex

12-Oct-2011
DH to 'bring in line' commissioners who ration treatments

12-Oct-2011
Health inequalities scheme flagging as GPs shun 'charity work'

12-Oct-2011
Consultant choice benefits based on 'limited evidence'

12-Oct-2011
Prime minister's Health Bill claims 'false', say doctors

12-Oct-2011
NHS Somerset delegates community and mental health commissioning

11-Oct-2011
NHS London offers GPs training to smooth passage into CCGs

11-Oct-2011
How to avoid legal pitfalls when procuring goods and services

11-Oct-2011
NHS Greenwich says it will probably need to dip into its top-slice

7-Oct-2011
BMA 'alarmed' about CCGs excluding some GPs and LMCs

7-Oct-2011
Stoke-on-Trent CCG makes new appointments

6-Oct-2011
NHS Coventry prepares for summary care record upload

6-Oct-2011
The key factors behind a successful implementation of telehealth services

6 October 2011
Yorkshire PCT has 'significant concerns' about GP minor surgery letter

4-Oct-2011
Overseas doctors face English tests before starting work

4-Oct-2011
Pull bill now, public health doctors urge Lords

4-Oct-2011
Exclusive: cluster-sized commissioning group being considered

3-Oct-2011
NHS 111 to go nationwide

3-Oct-2011
Kirklees PCT sees £4.4m acute overspend

29-Sep-2011
Six Warwickshire CCGs likely to become four

29-Sep-2011
Exclusive: few GP commissioners in DH top leaders list

29-Sep-2011
Pathfinder complains over London's use of McKinsey

29-Sep-2011
'Healthcare history can help us transform elderly care today'

29 September 2011
Farrar and GP commissioners criticise competition diktat

28-Sep-2011
Central Lancashire CCGs ask to work as separate committees

28-Sep-2011
New GP practice in Calderdale

28-Sep-2011
Commissioning support costs for CCGs emerging with variations

28-Sep-2011
GPs tell deaf patients to pay for own sign language interpreters

27-Sep-2011
Doctors 'failing' cancer patients on side effects

26-Sep-2011
£625m synthetic insulin had 'no clinical benefit'

23-Sep-2011
Leicester GPs refuse to carry out health checks

22-Sep-2011
BMA rules out pensions action 'at this point'

22-Sep-2011
GP conflicts of interest could 'badly undermine' confidence in NHS

22-Sep-2011
Why the NHS needs more transparency in benchmarking to truly drive better services

22 September 2011
CCGs will be liable for PCT redundancy costs

21-Sep-2011
Exclusive: GP contract changes could standardise services and pay

21-Sep-2011
CCP to investigate attempts to close walk-in centre

21-Sep-2011
Somerset Partnership concerned about any willing provider

21-Sep-2011
10.5 per cent drop in GP referrals to Wrightington Wigan and Leigh FT

19-Sep-2011
Overseas GPs require UK induction before treating patients - GMC

19-Sep-2011
BMA steps up opposition to Health Bill's quality premium and data plans

16-Sep-2011
Primary care guru joins Guy's charity

15-Sep-2011
Legal costs could see CCGs allowances 'wiped out'

15-Sep-2011
Practice 'federations' frustrated by reform - Gerada

15 September 2011
Clinical commissioners need 'bold' approach, report claims

14-Sep-2011
Assura health centre completed in Surrey

13-Sep-2011
Coventry clinics and GP practice premises need improvements

13-Sep-2011
Coventry PCT reveals GP complaints data

13-Sep-2011
NHS Norfolk set to launch tender for OOH service

13-Sep-2011
NHS Alliance and NAPC unite to 'champion' clinical commissioning groups

13-Sep-2011
Giving dementia the attention and support it needs - and deserves

12-Sep-2011
Referral falls could cause financial difficulty for hospitals - BMA

12-Sep-2011
'We need to build the proper foundations for clinically led commissioning'

12-Sep-2011
Debate: is general practice pulling its weight in the efficiency challenge?

9-Sep-2011
Exclusive: fixed costs leave CCGs just £9 per head for commissioning

8-Sep-2011
Why it is crucial for commissioning support to be established successfully

8 September 2011
Virtual care service launched for North West stroke patients

7-Sep-2011
GP practices in east and north Birmingham named as pathfinder consortia

1-Sep-2011
Chair appointed for Bury’s shadow clinical commissioning group

30-Aug-2011
Online patient-doctor consultations encouraged by Keogh

30-Aug-2011
West Kent practice closes after GP removed from performers list

25-Aug-2011
Bolton GP commissioners forecast to overspend delegated budgets by £1.4m

24-Aug-2011
'No evidence' that trainee doctors impact patient safety

22-Aug-2011
Carving out a path for clinically led commissioning

22-Aug-2011
GPs hit by care records server failure

19-Aug-2011
New set of listening exercise questions unveiled

18-Aug-2011
One in seven CCG populations too small for authorisation

18 August 2011
Out of the darkness: how quality assessment can improve out of hours care

17-Aug-2011
Trusts should question whether bullying 'bothers' staff, researchers say

15-Aug-2011
Staff absenteeism highest in NHS, study shows

15-Aug-2011
New out of hours provider in Great Yarmouth and Waveney

12-Aug-2011
Call for probe into GP transfer of SW London care home patients

12-Aug-2011
Michael Dixon: it's time for general practice to get real

11-Aug-2011
Exclusive: draft authorisation document reveals key tests for new commissioning groups

11-Aug-2011
Pregnancy-related deaths rise 'worrying' doctors

10-Aug-2011
Medical resistance hampers doctor-patient decisions programme

10-Aug-2011
Brighton and Hove remains on course for £4.6m surplus

9-Aug-2011
GPs could be influenced by pharma, King's Fund warns

9-Aug-2011
Wastage efficiency drive launched by DH

9-Aug-2011
Patent warning for doctors over genetic tests

8-Aug-2011
Lansley announces 75 HealthWatch 'pathfinders'

5-Aug-2011
What the new healthcare environment holds for clinical negligence indemnity

4-Aug-2011
The financial challenges GPs face in developing surgery estate

4 August 2011
Durham and Darlington have highest summary care record takeup

1-Aug-2011
DH announces commissioning reform milestones and single comms service

29-Jul-2011
Commissioners 'excessively constraining' patient choice

28-Jul-2011
GPs back specialist nursing post after pressure from charity

28 July 2011
Manager impact on clinical outcomes to be measured

27-Jul-2011
South East London cluster promises 'robust list validation' process for GP practices

26-Jul-2011
Ministers call for overhaul on European doctor regulation

26-Jul-2011
Public sector pension plans condemned by Lansley

25-Jul-2011
Health minister calls for pause to 'reckless' reconfiguration of his local trust

22-Jul-2011
Choice plans are 'enforced competition', say GPs

22-Jul-2011
GPs being paid for work not carried out under Enhanced Services contract

21-Jul-2011
CCGs move to end half-day closing for surgeries in south east London

21-Jul-2011
Commissioning reform costs already near quarter of a billion

21-Jul-2011
The NHS Commissioning Board must support CCGs, not overshadow them

21-Jul-2011
Emergency readmissions payment ban being ignored

21-Jul-2011
Safeguarding: protecting the almost adult

20-Jul-2011
Aylesbury GP premises plan will endanger QIPP savings

19-Jul-2011
NHS management is misleading GPs about commissioning, DH adviser says

19-Jul-2011
Musculoskeletal services: accessing physio need not be a pain in the neck

19-Jul-2011
Oxfordshire PCT devolves two thirds of its budget to shadow CCGs

18-Jul-2011
How to lead NHS transformation

18-Jul-2011
Bexley Care Trust ‘stand-off’ over cluster revealed

14 July 2011
Patients paying premium for surgery calls, say MPs

13-Jul-2011
Rise in complaints about health bodies

13-Jul-2011
Report into referral failures at NHS Hillingdon published

12-Jul-2011
Demand management schemes 'not proven'

8-Jul-2011
Lansley urges NHS to 'regain momentum' following reform debate

7-Jul-2011
Commissioning primary care plans still in development

7-Jul-2011
Community provider future placed in doubt

7-Jul-2011
How GPs can help patients make sense of health information

7 July 2011
Is public health the most at risk from reform?

7 July 2011
Mental health trusts pose 'challenge' to integration with community

6-Jul-2011
NHS London outlines GP scorecard scheme

6-Jul-2011
Andrew Lansley: the strength of feeling shows why we had to listen

6-Jul-2011
Exclusive: government to publish GP performance scorecards in transparency push

6-Jul-2011
PCT considers future shape of Whitstable community services

5-Jul-2011
Cambridgeshire GPs may have to reform commissioning structures

5-Jul-2011
Future Forum chair warns small CCGs they will have to merge

5-Jul-2011
GPs pocketing millions in buildings payments, investigation finds

4-Jul-2011
Poor choose and book uptake in Bedfordshire

1-Jul-2011
Leicester City signs contract with The Practice

30-Jun-2011
BMA chair: we won 'unprecedented' change to bill

30 June 2011
‘Specialist’ doctors on CCG boards could be GPs

29-Jun-2011
GPs focus on financially rewarding patients, study shows

29-Jun-2011
Meldrum: reform changes 'more than a respray'

28-Jun-2011
Doctors to call for Health Bill withdrawal

28-Jun-2011
NHS budgets at risk from 'tribal politics'

28-Jun-2011
Doctors vote against referral centres

27-Jun-2011
Calls for quicker ovarian cancer diagnosis

27-Jun-2011
All but seven Leeds practices in emerging clinical commissioning groups

24-Jun-2011
Public lose trust in Conservatives on health

23-Jun-2011
Specialist mental health advice service for GPs piloted in Sussex

22-Jun-2011
NW London Hospitals Trust 'discharges patients inappropriately and asks GPs to re-refer in a year'

21-Jun-2011
Doctor warns over mental health care 'vacuum'

21-Jun-2011
Half of NHS staff pessimistic on patient care

21-Jun-2011
NHS changes could spell new comms burdens

17-Jun-2011
Consortia rebrand required to 'clearly link' with locality

16 June 2011
Complaints against GPs and Dentists in Dorset almost double

15-Jun-2011
Fears raised over two-tier commissioning system

15-Jun-2011
GP-private healthcare link raises conflict of interest concerns

15-Jun-2011
Consortium lead elected for Brighton and Hove

14-Jun-2011
Independent review into Norfolk PMS provider

14-Jun-2011
How to manage conflicts of interest in GP commissioning

14-Jun-2011
Future Forum: government should stop 'slagging off' managers

13-Jun-2011
Crucial report on NHS reforms released today

13-Jun-2011
Doctors urge Cameron to speed Hinchingbrooke takeover

10-Jun-2011
NHS Wandsworth plans Referral Management Centre

9-Jun-2011
Andrew Lansley to speak at Commissioning Show 2011 - HSJ subscriber free ticket offer

9-Jun-2011
'The independent sector has a track record of serving patients extremely well'

9-Jun-2011
BMA GP chief: Prime minister NHS changes 'welcome'

9-Jun-2011
NHS reforms behind GP retirement plans

9-Jun-2011
Royal College commissioning school receiving nearly £2m for GPs' training

8-Jun-2011
Cameron to outline 'personal guarantees' on NHS

7-Jun-2011
Neurology care criticised by RCP

7-Jun-2011
GP commissioning 'poses new data risks'

6-Jun-2011
Lord Owen urges Lib Dems to quash Health Bill

6-Jun-2011
Restoring order: how a commissioning senate can lead a smooth transition to consortia

6-Jun-2011
Performance pay for GPs risks patient trust in doctors, says BMA

3-Jun-2011
Doctors' bonuses could be replaced with non-cash prizes, says DH

2 June 2011
More performance data to be released under new transparency guidelines

2 June 2011
Newcastle PCT and consortia announce savings plans

1-Jun-2011
Half of the capital's A&E attendances unnecessary, report suggests

1-Jun-2011
New 'health and wellbeing campus' for east Hampshire

31-May-2011
South Central GPs back core Health Bill aims

27-May-2011
Sandwell delegates 75 per cent of its CIPs to consortia

27-May-2011
Clegg: 'NHS managers will continue where GPs are not ready'

26-May-2011
Why consortia need to be focused online

25-May-2011
BMA: commissioning consortia are excluding salaried GPs

20-May-2011
NHS Greenwich heading to judicial review with GPs over contract termination

19-May-2011
Why the outlook for NHS managers isn't all doom and gloom

19-May-2011
Negligence claims against GPs rise

19-May-2011
Among the structural turmoil, maintaining performance is a matter of life and death

19 May 2011
CQC risks 'almost certain' failure to intervene

18-May-2011
Call to improve law teaching for medical students

17-May-2011
How pathway mapping software is improving evidence based care delivery

16-May-2011
Senior medical figures criticise post-discharge care

12-May-2011
How health sector and independent sector partnerships can bring mutual benefits

12 May 2011
The listening exercise needs to reach grass roots voices

12 May 2011
Consortia leads back health reforms

11-May-2011
GPs outline 'serious concerns' in letter to Cameron

9-May-2011
Ben Gowland: changing the minds of managers in a clinically led NHS

9-May-2011
GPs in Derbyshire County to pilot CQC registration

5-May-2011
How online training can increase professional development in the face of spending cuts

5 May 2011
North East mental health FT building GP links

4-May-2011
PM 'took GP's views out of context'

3-May-2011
Are commissioners in it for the long haul?

28-Apr-2011
Good call: why telehealth is so important to patients with long-term conditions

28-Apr-2011
Five principles to help commissioning consortia get public and patient involvement right

28 April 2011
Improving junior doctor induction to ensure consistent patient safety

28 April 2011
'Without evidence, the rhetorical reforms are irrelevant at best'

27-Apr-2011
Londonwide GP council to represent capital's pathfinders

27-Apr-2011
Equipping clinicians with the right skills for commissioning

27-Apr-2011
No hospital doctors on consortia boards

27-Apr-2011
GP performance bonuses fail to improve public health

21 April 2011
South Yorks 'worst offender for premium rate GP phone numbers'

20-Apr-2011
Derbyshire PCTs to pilot productivity scheme for general practice

20-Apr-2011
GPs unclear on forming non-neighbouring consortia

20-Apr-2011
Stepping up: the collaborative approach to becoming a model of innovation

20-Apr-2011
North Tyneside consortium picks chair and chief exec

19-Apr-2011
South East Essex GPs 'forgot to put answer phone on'

18-Apr-2011
Cameron promises changes to NHS plans

18-Apr-2011
Identifying areas of readmission, and implementing the right interventions

18-Apr-2011
NHS Oxfordshire announces contract for counselling services

13-Apr-2011
Heart of England FT appoints executive director for Solihull services

13-Apr-2011
Great Yarmouth and Waveney launches palliative care advice service

12-Apr-2011
'Putting PCT staff into commissioning organisations could prove to be insanity'

12-Apr-2011
London trust and PCTs go to arbitration over 2011-12 contract

11-Apr-2011
HSJ consortia development map

11-Apr-2011
NHS Stoke on Trent devolves strategic commissioning to GPs

8-Apr-2011
NHS Northamptonshire switches out of hours providers

7-Apr-2011
Lord Howe: 'Unsustainable' NHS needs reforms

7-Apr-2011
Is there really room for localism in the Big Healthy Society?

7 April 2011
'Public health cannot survive on £4bn'

7 April 2011
Health minister: GPs should press on with reforms

6-Apr-2011
Hip and knee patients 'waiting in pain'

6-Apr-2011
Foreign GPs face tougher sanctions

6-Apr-2011
NHS Hounslow predicting a fall in access to GP services

6-Apr-2011
Commissioning Board control of GP contracts would be 'disaster'

5-Apr-2011
NHS productivity increases by 0.7 per cent

1-Apr-2011
Early consortium transfers expected by commissioners

31 March 2011
GPs 'don't get' what third sector has to offer

31 March 2011
Hakin rejects 'disappointing' reform criticisms

31 March 2011
Leading GP groups risk creation of 'sink estate' consortia

31 March 2011
Media Watch: flu vaccine orders get in early

31 March 2011
Great Yarmouth consortium plans future with local clinicians

30-Mar-2011
Win a free place at the GP Forum

30-Mar-2011
CCP to assess merger of Sefton GPs with Liverpool Community Health Trust

29-Mar-2011
CQC praises choice but warns on speed of improvements

29-Mar-2011
Are we ready for the million-pound GP?

28-Mar-2011
Practice nurse and sessional GP proposed for NHS Islington shadow consortia board

28-Mar-2011
Medway announces it will have single GP consortium

24-Mar-2011
Howe promises to 'expose' underperforming GPs

24 March 2011
Inform patients about GP service conflicts of interest - DH adviser

24 March 2011
Major GP inquiry finds 'wide variations'

24-Mar-2011
Patients more satisfied with hospitals than GP services

24 March 2011
Watch live: King's Fund findings on the quality of general practice in England

23-Mar-2011
Hove GPs plan move into church

23-Mar-2011
Labour’s ex-health minister calls for NHS price competition and more private provision

23-Mar-2011
Simulation Lab: What if GPs developed a special interest in dermatology?

21-Mar-2011
GP appointment frustrations revealed

18-Mar-2011
GPs 'to become change agents' - Lord Warner

18-Mar-2011
Can GPs become agents of change, or will they remain gatekeepers?

18-Mar-2011
Community nurses aligned with GP practices

17 March 2011
Dozens of consortia match PCT area

17 March 2011
'Life had really changed in the NHS, following the reforms of 2011'

17 March 2011
Managers back calls for top earners to pay more towards pensions

17 March 2011
Pace of consortia handovers varying widely

17 March 2011
BMA votes against rejecting entire Health Bill

15-Mar-2011
Prioritising mental health commissioning is brave, but it's also sensible

15-Mar-2011
GMS agreement to reward GPs for saving money

11-Mar-2011
Brighton GPs plan to cut commissioning teeth on mental health

10 March 2011
Consortia grapple with size pros and cons

10 March 2011
Drawing on past lessons to improve future public health and wellbeing

10 March 2011
FTs warn budget cuts could cause organisational failure

10 March 2011
GPs concerned over reforms' impact on hospital finances, poll shows

10 March 2011
'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'

10 March 2011
NHS faces reform challenges - Nuffield Trust

9-Mar-2011
Hospitals will not have to close - Lansley

9-Mar-2011
Early diagnosis will accelerate the delivery of better cancer care

8-Mar-2011
Hull GPs refuse pathfinder 'political football'

7-Mar-2011
'There are no winners while there is 'them and us' tribalism in the NHS'

7-Mar-2011
GPs demand hike in pay

4-Mar-2011
Cally Bann

3-Mar-2011
Commissioning funds used to pay for GP basics

3 March 2011
MPs could teach GPs a lesson in prudence

3 March 2011
Public health 'confusion' for GPs

3 March 2011
'Sensible boundary' needed on GP competition rules, says Monitor

3 March 2011
'Without a firm battle plan, consortia might find themselves neither here nor there'

3 March 2011
Gloucestershire consortium made pathfinder

2-Mar-2011
NHS Norfolk launches drive to cut medicine wastage

2-Mar-2011
NHS Lincolnshire adds fourth pathfinder consortium

2-Mar-2011
DH forbids PCT cluster companies

2-Mar-2011
Ten shadow consortia emerge across Birmingham

2-Mar-2011
Consortia decisions could be voted on via mobiles

2-Mar-2011
Analysed: government announces third wave pathfinders

2-Mar-2011
Nottingham PCT director to join consortia

1-Mar-2011
Camden PCT hopes to delegate to single consortium

1-Mar-2011
Sandwell developing three commissioning consortia

1-Mar-2011
Single Telford and Wrekin consortium

1-Mar-2011
Single consortium emerging for Shropshire County

1-Mar-2011
Peterborough GP commissioning sub-committee to take on commissioning budgets

1-Mar-2011
Barnsley FT giving consortium 'breathing space'

1-Mar-2011
GP commissioners' management time 'will cost £300m'

1-Mar-2011
BMA leader questions GP cash rewards

1-Mar-2011
Up to £800m GP income could be linked to commissioning

1-Mar-2011
NHS City & Hackney among capital's most successful in reducing GP referrals

28-Feb-2011
Reforms 'may not give GPs freedom'

28-Feb-2011
Stockton PCT to pick shadow consortium board

25-Feb-2011
North Staffs PCT reveals make-up and remit of shadow consortium

25-Feb-2011
Three consortia for Waltham Forest

24-Feb-2011
Five consortia to cover Derby City and County PCTs

24-Feb-2011
Kirklees looks set to have two consortia

24-Feb-2011
Oxfordshire PCT to delegate most commissioning in April

24-Feb-2011
Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT seeks to clarify 'urgent referrals' with GPs

24-Feb-2011
NHS Derby City awards walk-in centre contract to GP social enterprise

24-Feb-2011
Alcohol harm is causing a nasty headache

24 February 2011
Can value-based drug pricing deliver a 'postcode lottery' alternative?

24 February 2011
Commissioners flouting patient choice rules

24 February 2011
Kingston consortium demands fair play from PCT cluster

24 February 2011
NHS Enfield predicting £11.2m deficit for year-end

24 February 2011
Scrutiny of problem GPs raises concerns

24 February 2011
Squaring the price competition and efficiency circle

24 February 2011
Two consortia emerging in NHS North Tyneside

23-Feb-2011
NHS Newcastle sees two consortia emerging

23-Feb-2011
Single consortium for Northumberland Care Trust

23-Feb-2011
NHS Surrey names 11 consortia

23-Feb-2011
NHS Worcestershire to delegate £593m to consortia

23-Feb-2011
Sutton and Merton to delegate upwards of £309m

23-Feb-2011
South Gloucestershire PCT planning with single consortium

23-Feb-2011
Manchester PCT looks to delegate £696m commissioning

23-Feb-2011
South Birmingham PCT delegating to three consortia

23-Feb-2011
Lambeth eyes one consortium with three localities

23-Feb-2011
53,000 NHS jobs 'under threat'

23-Feb-2011
Reforms will break up NHS - Healey

21-Feb-2011
Bill Moyes: the reform agenda presents a massive opportunity

17 February 2011
Competition can work, but only with the right tactics

17 February 2011
Dozens of hospitals at risk from PCT efficiencies

17 February 2011
SHA report finds concerns in out of hours services in Peterborough

14-Feb-2011
'Brave' Brighton and Hove GPs to commission mental health first

14-Feb-2011
Knowsley opts for two consortia after merger

14-Feb-2011
NHS Direct offers services to GPs

11-Feb-2011
GP services face scrutiny under competition system

10 February 2011
GPs expected to bust Liverpool PCT’s prescribing budget

10-Feb-2011
How telehealth technology can enhance the quality of national healthcare

10 February 2011
The next phase in medical revalidation

10 February 2011
Trusts court GPs ahead of consortia engagement

10 February 2011
Your Humble Servant: health mogul

10 February 2011
Liverpool PCT plans new health centre

9-Feb-2011
Liverpool PCT sets out finance challenges for GP commissioners

9-Feb-2011
East Lancs PCT gets GPs on board with public health campaign

9-Feb-2011
NHS South Staffordshire behind on LTC targets

8-Feb-2011
'Unsatisfactory' doctor competency regulation criticised

8-Feb-2011
NHS reforms 'need patient voice'

8-Feb-2011
GPs appointed to clinical cabinet to find more savings at Oxleas Foundation Trust

7-Feb-2011
Northumberland mental health trust seeks GP relationships

7-Feb-2011
Exclusive: Lib Dem MPs closer to opposition on health reform

4-Feb-2011
A patient’s perspective on the NHS

3 February 2011
Reforms are a 'new deal', PM tells GPs

3 February 2011
Rigorous approach needed to improve QOF payments, report says

3 February 2011
Prosecute staff for neglect, say experts

1-Feb-2011
60% of doctors 'disagree with reforms'

1-Feb-2011
RCS warns quality of care could decline

1-Feb-2011
Setting a course for consortia: an HSJ and doctors.net.uk discussion

31-Jan-2011
Thousands of cancer patients 'denied radiotherapy'

28-Jan-2011
DH will 'co-produce' authorisation process, GPs told

28-Jan-2011
The Health Bill - rising to the challenge

28-Jan-2011
Prime minister writes to GPs

28-Jan-2011
Central grip tightens under 'independence' bill

27-Jan-2011
Lansley: reforms will not see banker-style bonuses

26-Jan-2011
Peterborough PCT establishes GP Commissioning Board

25-Jan-2011
Public petition against closure of West Kent PCT-run GP surgery

25-Jan-2011
Watch: Andrew Lansley at HSJ's 'Delivering a New Approach to Public Health' conference

25-Jan-2011
The NHS Commissioning Board: biggest of the big spenders

24-Jan-2011
What happens if the health reforms work?

24-Jan-2011
Government 'may take over flu vaccine ordering'

21-Jan-2011
NHS reforms 'risk patient backlash'

21-Jan-2011
Framework for FT no-hopers 'in the coming weeks'

20-Jan-2011
The Health and Social Care Bill 2011

19-Jan-2011
Public health agenda more important than NHS, says Lansley

19-Jan-2011
Do GPs have 'the balls' to decommission hospital care?

19-Jan-2011
Scrap exception reporting by GPs to protect population health

19-Jan-2011
'Time to scrap GP exception reporting'

19-Jan-2011
'We all know what’s wrong with the NHS'

19-Jan-2011
'Accountability in the NHS is a mess'

19-Jan-2011
Major questions remain over commissioning, say insiders

19-Jan-2011
Michael White: ministers are puzzled by the BMA’s hostility

19-Jan-2011
Health secretary announces 89 more pathfinders

17-Jan-2011
RCS warns on 'backdoor rationing' in NHS

17-Jan-2011
Warnings over NHS reforms

17-Jan-2011
Flu jab restriction 'not down to cutting costs'

17-Jan-2011
'Direct management' of under-par consortia an option, says Nicholson

13-Jan-2011
'Conspiracy of silence hides true extent of poor GP performance'

13 January 2011
Nick Bosanquet: Five steps to security

13 January 2011
Readmission savings plan softened

13 January 2011
The HSJ and Capgemini Liberating Ideas Award Winners - Winning ideas are going places fast

13-Jan-2011
'Through the lens of commissioning consortia the world seems quite different'

13 January 2011
Uncertain future for cancer networks

12-Jan-2011
PCT restricts doctors from making 'expensive, non-urgent referrals' to London providers

11-Jan-2011
Report: chronic pain sufferers get poor advice

11-Jan-2011
PM defiant over flu jab shortage

11-Jan-2011
How to create healthcare without walls

11-Jan-2011
Swine flu vaccine used to fill gaps in seasonal jab

7-Jan-2011
BMA leadership defends its response to reforms

6-Jan-2011
GPs will walk a tightrope between making or buying

6 January 2011
Health and wellbeing boards are given new scrutiny role

6 January 2011
Media Watch: Managers under fire

6 January 2011
'The NHS is every health secretary's trainset'

6 January 2011
Acute stay management and PACE

5-Jan-2011
Incentives for doctors: the big chill will hit medics too

28-Dec-2010
A survival plan for non-foundation trusts

27-Dec-2010
Flu outbreak 'no worse than usual'

20-Dec-2010
Swine flu kills 14 people

17-Dec-2010
Danger consortia will overlook networked services

16-Dec-2010
DH figures show pathfinder GPs are set to bust budgets

17 December 2010
PCTs identify roles to hand on speedily

17 December 2010
'People are skeptical of welfare spending'

17 December 2010
RCN 'extremely disappointed' at lack of nurse inclusion in reforms

16-Dec-2010
Think tanks warn reforms are distraction from QIPP

16-Dec-2010
Another reconfiguration passes Lansley's 'four tests'

15-Dec-2010
BMA criticises government for 'disregarding' the concerns of doctors

15-Dec-2010
Consortia should not inherit debts from PCTs, says government

15-Dec-2010
No roles for PCT and SHA staff with new health and wellbeing boards

15-Dec-2010
Hospitals to face mixed sex ward fines

15-Dec-2010
Consortia to get £25-35 per head for running costs

15-Dec-2010
Battleship Lansley ploughs on through the fog of reform

9 December 2010
'Don't allow healthcare and public health improvement to be divided'

9 December 2010
How will the health reforms be judged?

9 December 2010
Michael White: caution and openness

9 December 2010
MP questions strategic health planning base

9 December 2010
Lansley: More pathfinders named in 'weeks'

8-Dec-2010
Pathfinder size suggests consortia will total under 250

8-Dec-2010
NHS Direct norovirus calls hit 4,000 a week

7-Dec-2010
QIPP and care plans for long-term conditions

6-Dec-2010
Payment by Results - conference sessions

2-Dec-2010
Payment by Results

2-Dec-2010
NHS Partners in row over ‘cosy’ deal

2 December 2010
Lack of clarity on GP role in public health

30-Nov-2010
London to fund development pot for pathfinders

30-Nov-2010
Sainsbury's 'to give GPs free room for surgeries'

26-Nov-2010
BMA warns managers not to instruct consortia

25 November 2010
'Dorrell argues now for quiet pragmatism, for letting change evolve'

25 November 2010
GP incentive framework fails to slow admissions

25 November 2010
GPs and government battle for custody of white paper reforms

25 November 2010
Little potential for drugs waste

25 November 2010
Mark Britnell: quick fixes for making efficiency gains

25 November 2010
Media Watch: All eyes are on Lansley

25 November 2010
Southern PCTs least efficient at referral

25 November 2010
'The challenge is to get better average outcomes and reduce variation'

25 November 2010
Hint at debt free start for commissioning consortia

24-Nov-2010
Confed and RCGP to set up network for consortia

23-Nov-2010
GPs 'face patient revolt over reform plans'

22-Nov-2010
Fundamentals of the NHS

21-Nov-2010
Fundamentals of the NHS - conference sessions

21-Nov-2010
Academics criticise the pace of change

19-Nov-2010
Andrew Murrison on the military covenant

19-Nov-2010
Health insurance is a game of poker, against an expert

19-Nov-2010
Our lives are in the cancer detectives’ hands

19-Nov-2010
Primary care special report: happy hours

18 November 2010
HSJ100: Hakin and Gerada lead the rise of the clinicians

17-Nov-2010
MPs want power to scrutinise DH spending plans in detail

17-Nov-2010
Andrew Lansley defends NHS reforms

16-Nov-2010
BMA calls for GP consortia elections

16-Nov-2010
GPs could be ordered to give evidence at Mid Staffs inquiry

16-Nov-2010
Quarter of cancers found during emergency care

15-Nov-2010
NHS targets skew surgery management, doctors warn

12-Nov-2010
Former RSM president condemns NHS reforms as 'anathema'

12-Nov-2010
GP consortia: new roles and new rules

11 November 2010
Leading lights to judge HSJ ideas awards

11 November 2010
Pharma lead issues warning on pricing

11 November 2010
The national public health service

11 November 2010
Treading softly on cancer's dreams

11 November 2010
DH chief warns consortia off using PCTs for commissioning support

10-Nov-2010
‘Immediate’ need for GP data system

10-Nov-2010
DH speeds up abolition of PCTs and SHAs

10-Nov-2010
Hakin warns against consortia using PCTs for commissioning support

9-Nov-2010
Patients Association rubbishes local invovement networks

9-Nov-2010
Kent PCT to delay referrals in order to dodge overspend

4-Nov-2010
GPs stung by maternity services rebuff

4 November 2010
Independent contractors and the NHS

4 November 2010
Patients will move between commissioners, warns GP

4 November 2010
The NHS needs to re-invent itself to cope with funding cuts

4 November 2010
Your Humble Servant: home front

4 November 2010
Concern over rate of PCT talent drain

2-Nov-2010
Pay GPs more in poorer areas - public accounts committee

2-Nov-2010
Commissioning tools launched for neuro conditions and cardiac rehab

29-Oct-2010
GPs 'outraged' at central commissioning of maternity services

29-Oct-2010
GP consortia pathfinder guidelines published

28-Oct-2010
Expert predicts GP consortia failure

28 October 2010
NHS referral management: how to get it right

28 October 2010
No evidence GP consortia will be better than PCTs

28 October 2010
DH considers national pay increment freeze

27-Oct-2010
White paper fears will not lead to GP exodus, says BMA

27-Oct-2010
Yorkshire PCT announces 'unpalatable' measures to tackle overspend

26-Oct-2010
NHS Alliance offers free conference places for GPs and practice managers

26-Oct-2010
NHS facing £6bn shortfall - Kings Fund

26-Oct-2010
Consortia management allowance will be in operating framework, says Nicholson

21-Oct-2010
Slow down will 'strangle' reforms, warns NAPC

21-Oct-2010
Bad referrals waste district nurses’ time

21 October 2010
NHS London makes appointment to first set of merged PCTs

21 October 2010
PCTs differ widely over antibiotics prescription

21 October 2010
Britnell sets up commissioning academy with NAPC

20-Oct-2010
Risk management will be flash point for PCTs and GP consortia

20-Oct-2010
MP calls for NAO investigation into 'misguided' halting of reconfiguration plans

19-Oct-2010
Private companies gear up to take stake in stalled community hospitals

19-Oct-2010
RCGP to launch commissioning support centre

19-Oct-2010
GP takes over at North East Lincs

19-Oct-2010
BMA should 'rethink' private sector opposition

19-Oct-2010
College to lobby for inclusion of secondary care in consortia

13-Oct-2010
Eating disorders in children rise by 11%

13-Oct-2010
Alliance warns that consortia must be 'coordinated, not directed'

13-Oct-2010
Shadow health secretary wastes no time in attacking NHS cuts

12-Oct-2010
Drug treatment referrals criticised

12-Oct-2010
Lansley plays down 'scale and pace' concerns over GP commissioning

12-Oct-2010
The role of clinical commissioning in public health

12-Oct-2010
Future RCGP leader issues warning on 'market expansion'

11-Oct-2010
Climate change is 'cholera of our time', says public health expert

11-Oct-2010
Making the most of clinical leaders

10-Oct-2010
Lansley warned on 'disenfranchised' salaried GPs

8-Oct-2010
GPs sceptical reforms will benefit patients

8-Oct-2010
Community nurses have 'serious concerns' about GP commissioning

7-Oct-2010
King's Fund warns about 'scale and pace' of reforms

7-Oct-2010
GP consortium pioneer says PCTs are vital safety net

7 October 2010
'Lansley needs to make the intellectual case for PCT upheaval'

7 October 2010
Mark Britnell: Have foundation trusts realised their potential?

7 October 2010
The right way to form GP consortia

7 October 2010
NHS managers hit back at reforms

6-Oct-2010
Consortia may boost GP data

6-Oct-2010
Out of hours performance variation to be made public

6-Oct-2010
Milton rejects claim that NHS reforms are 'weak link' in government policy

5-Oct-2010
Patients should be told the cost of their treatment, says Tory MP

5-Oct-2010
Value for money in pathology commissioning

5-Oct-2010
Union launches anti-white paper campaign

4-Oct-2010
Physiotherapists warn white paper will fragment services

4-Oct-2010
GP commissioners must not ignore specialist advice, surgeons warn

4-Oct-2010
Health students' doubts over NHS reforms

4-Oct-2010
'Self-serving' trusts damaging patient care

4-Oct-2010
List of PCT functions drawn up to aid formation of GP consortia

30-Sep-2010
First GP consortia launched in Cambridgeshire

30-Sep-2010
Early cancer diagnosis could save lives

30 September 2010
Essex PCTs to unveil single chief executive

30 September 2010
Lansley acknowledges lack of readiness for GP commissioning

30 September 2010
UK 'behind on pain management'

29-Sep-2010
Lansley seeks to reassure GPs on commissioning

29-Sep-2010
NHS reform deadlines 'unrealistic'

28-Sep-2010
GP commissioning: assembling the kit for consortia

27-Sep-2010
Lansley attempts to kick start GPs on commissioning

24-Sep-2010
Primary care special report: a change of practice

23 September 2010
New chief exec takes over at Hertfordshire PCT

22-Sep-2010
HealthWatch must have no monopoly

22-Sep-2010
Pay database reveals top earners

22-Sep-2010
Californian GP commissioning

20-Sep-2010
NHS has 6,500 staff paid more than PM

20-Sep-2010
A missed opportunity to improve care for long-term conditions

17-Sep-2010
GP pay revealed by NHS Information Centre

17-Sep-2010
DH critical of loophole in pension rules

16 September 2010
Jon Restell on why managers are worth it

16 September 2010
King’s Fund criticises GPs on dementia diagnosis

16 September 2010
Why many hands make IT work

16 September 2010
London in talks over PCT mergers

15-Sep-2010
Nicholson steps up reform with radical savings move

15-Sep-2010
Homeopathic 'vaccinations' could leave patients vulnerable

13-Sep-2010
Lansley accused of NHS Direct climbdown

10-Sep-2010
Chris J Hawkey: A new opening for transparency

9 September 2010
Emergency admissions bypassing GP referrals

9 September 2010
It’s not just commissioning – who will fill the PCT vacuum?

9 September 2010
Local quit smoking campaign

9-Sep-2010
Noel Plumridge on axes and accountability

9 September 2010
PCTs make a good shot at prioritisation

9 September 2010
DH consults on prescribing powers in community services

8-Sep-2010
DH to have veto over DPH appointments

8-Sep-2010
Millions 'can't get through on GP phone lines'

6-Sep-2010
Alcohol screening and intervention

2-Sep-2010
Incentives required to bring about NHS collaboration

2 September 2010
NHS managers to be offered pay-offs in return for jobs

2 September 2010
'Primary care trusts? Send in the marines'

2 September 2010
Social enterprise bid rethink by North East PCTs

1-Sep-2010
Burnham calls on Lib Dems to vote down reform

31-Aug-2010
How to set up a mutual organisation

30-Aug-2010
Patient data management system

30-Aug-2010
GP and midwife vacancies rising

27-Aug-2010
BMA warned position on GP consortia may be illegal

26 August 2010
FT proposals: 'difficult questions' remain

26 August 2010
GP largesse alarms Lansley’s colleagues

26 August 2010
GPs pose £2bn threat to commissioning budget

26 August 2010
NHS reorganisation: don't leave the patients behind

26 August 2010
The accountability of overspending GPs

26 August 2010
Transforming community services 'a mistake', says top PCT chief exec

25-Aug-2010
End of life care

25-Aug-2010
GPs: out of hours and out of pocket?

23-Aug-2010
BMA sets out principles for GP commissioning

20-Aug-2010
Inequality fears over patient ID guidance

19 August 2010
PCT support agency will look beyond London

19 August 2010
'We all know NHS change will keep coming - the trick is to adapt'

19 August 2010
Call for GPs to monitor mental health benefits

18-Aug-2010
Gypsies' and Travellers' health: the road to greater inclusion

17-Aug-2010
GP governance: handle with care

12 August 2010
GP referral management schemes fail to deliver

12 August 2010
'How is the state going to conscript GPs?'

12 August 2010
'La la Lansley has abolished the people who monitor us'

12 August 2010
Steve Field on public health and milky u-turns

12 August 2010
World class commissioning values are a legacy for the long haul

12 August 2010
World class commissioning: PCTs raise the bar in final assurance test

12 August 2010
PCT trains GP commissioners

11-Aug-2010
How to manage GP referrals

9-Aug-2010
A nervous kind of NHS reorganisation

5 August 2010
Cally Bann: the white paper

5 August 2010
GPs overlook public health for QOF cash

5 August 2010
Is this the end of the road for PCTs?

5 August 2010
PCTs begin planning to reinvent their business

5 August 2010
PCTs improve commissioning performance

5 August 2010
Preventing stroke: primary force

5 August 2010
Closing GP surgeries over weekends 'unacceptable', says Sir Bruce Keogh

4-Aug-2010
Coalition in 'reckless gamble' with NHS, says Burnham

2-Aug-2010
Goodwill could net GPs £8bn

29 July 2010
GPs could be forced to take on ex-PCT managers

29 July 2010
The new healthcare revolution

29 July 2010
Uncertainty still dogs PCTs during transfer of power

29 July 2010
How to tackle poor housing standards and improve health

28-Jul-2010
MPs to revisit commissioning with inquiry

27-Jul-2010
NHS to continue funding homoeopathy

27-Jul-2010
Fundamentals of Patient Safety - conference sessions

23-Jul-2010
Liberating the NHS: commissioning for patients

22-Jul-2010
Model for managing consortia financial risk remains unclear

22-Jul-2010
Consortia to 'challenge' GP practices on quality and productivity

22-Jul-2010
Medicine waste

22-Jul-2010
DH asks if size limits should be set for GP consortia

22-Jul-2010
NHS democracy proposals unveiled

22-Jul-2010
Answering the NHS's £14bn productivity question

22 July 2010
BMA GP leader lends support to managers

22 July 2010
Don’t sideline sexual health, warn clinicians

22 July 2010
GP consortia management budgets could be as low as £9 per person

22 July 2010
GPs ‘won’t guarantee out of hours quality’

22 July 2010
Known unknowns form the white paper’s core

22 July 2010
Mark Britnell: PCTs can carve out a new role

22 July 2010
Media Watch: eye-watering, mouth-watering NHS cash

22 July 2010
PCTs should ‘reinvent’ themselves, says Britnell

22 July 2010
PCTs told to hand over resources to GP commissioners

22-Jul-2010
Your Humble Servant: Going La La

22 July 2010
Hard-nosed Lansley will be no ‘softie’ in negotiations

21-Jul-2010
GP consortia will be a ‘minority’ interest

21-Jul-2010
Lansley refuses to rule out GP pay rise

21-Jul-2010
Delivering Quality and Value across Musculoskeletal Pathways

20-Jul-2010
Delivering Quality and Value across Musculoskeletal Pathways - conference sessions

20-Jul-2010
BMA leader urges GPs to hire NHS managers rather than private companies

19-Jul-2010
Cost effective commissioning for rheumatoid arthritis

19-Jul-2010
HSJ webcast - white paper major challenge for PCT management

19-Jul-2010
Tackling problem drinking

19-Jul-2010
NHS complaints volume rises

16-Jul-2010
COPD services

16-Jul-2010
CQC report: PCTs failed to monitor out of hours provider

15-Jul-2010
Cally Bann: GPs are the masters of our destiny

15 July 2010
GP commissioners warned to heed EU law

15 July 2010
GPs and QIPP: is there a doctor on board?

15 July 2010
Tories’ NHS vision poses a screening programme test

15 July 2010
Consultants criticise white paper's lack of acute focus

14-Jul-2010
Board will have power to assign GPs to consortia

14-Jul-2010
GPs refuse to be Lansley's 'whipping boys'

14-Jul-2010
Michael White: no aspect of the NHS will be untouched

14-Jul-2010
Managers have been unfairly served by the rushed reforms

13-Jul-2010
Outcome goals to replace performance framework

12-Jul-2010
Patients to be given choice of GP and consultant

12-Jul-2010
Government warned reform plans will 'turn NHS upside down'

12-Jul-2010
Lansley: 'no job left for PCTs'

12-Jul-2010
NHS blueprint due today

12-Jul-2010
Weak evidence supporting GP commissioning plan - Civitas

12-Jul-2010
Virtual innovations in health and social care

12-Jul-2010
DH forced to rethink NHS vision

8 July 2010
Scrapping GP access targets worries QIPP

8 July 2010
PCTs warned of pharma funded education risks

7-Jul-2010
Swine flu review highlights messy GP negotiations

7-Jul-2010
GPs refuse to work for out-of-hours services

2-Jul-2010
Review finds £1.2bn swine flu effort 'proportionate'

1-Jul-2010
Chronic pain

1-Jul-2010
Clarity is the key to tackling excess admissions

1 July 2010
Clinical engagement is about more than GPs

1 July 2010
David Nicolson slows pace of Lansley change

1 July 2010
Hospitals face shortfalls as emergency demand spirals

1 July 2010
Michael White on the NHS budget

1-Jul-2010
New GP role may create deficit

1 July 2010
Stephen Eames on GPs in the hotseat

1 July 2010
Your Humble Servant: Handy Andy

1 July 2010
PCTs lose right to stay as direct providers

30-Jun-2010
Lansley: money is now 'core responsibility' of doctors

30-Jun-2010
GPs should be given commissioning budgets now

29-Jun-2010
Foreign doctors 'must speak good English'

29-Jun-2010
Why the NHS should devote 5 per cent of its budget to public health

24 June 2010
Pool NHS and social care budgets, says Confed acting chief exec

23-Jun-2010
Andrew Lansley challenges a decade of NHS spending

23-Jun-2010
Locum efficiency drive could save £6m, says report

21-Jun-2010
'Don't doubt the government’s commitment to radical NHS reform'

17 June 2010
Michael White on NHS reorganisation

17 June 2010
NHS Choices 'saves £44m a year in unnecessary consultations'

17 June 2010
Operating framework to pave way for abolition of targets

17 June 2010
Veterans’ health to be a priority

17 June 2010
We embrace NHS reform – but not the idea of a clinical takeover

17-Jun-2010
Who will help GPs if managers are laid off?

17-Jun-2010
First test to Lansley's new reconfiguration policy

16-Jun-2010
Calls for 'inclusive' commissioning

15-Jun-2010
Revised operating framework to pave way for abolition of waiting targets

11-Jun-2010
GPs suggest cutting NHS Direct

11-Jun-2010
PCTs, councils and firms 'will commission for GPs'

10-Jun-2010
Dangers of putting GPs in charge outweigh the rewards

10 June 2010
Doctor numbers: all trained up, nowhere to go?

10 June 2010
Hard budgets for GPs – profit or productivity?

10 June 2010
PCTs to lose responsibility for GPs

10 June 2010
Predictions on the new government's next moves

10 June 2010
Spearhead PCTs achieve limited success on cancer survival

10 June 2010
North-South health divide remains

9-Jun-2010
Residential care commissioning leaves room for improvement

7-Jun-2010
Short GP appointment times 'hit diagnostic ability', survey claims

3-Jun-2010
Choice more important to patients than doctors

3 June 2010
John Deffenbaugh: let us exploit our canny GPs

3 June 2010
Top board members leave NHS London

3 June 2010
Scottish patients to be assessed by nurses to increase productivity

1-Jun-2010
NHS call scheme 'risking lives'

28-May-2010
BMA questions 'costly venture' of removing practice boundaries

27 May 2010
Imperial College Healthcare chief backs GP integration

27 May 2010
Paul Corrigan on the new NHS value for money

27 May 2010
How to use predictive risk modelling in healthcare

25-May-2010
HSJ exclusive: SHAs to be abolished by 2012

24-May-2010
NHS 'facing significant change' - Confed

24-May-2010
Lansley: NHS must review reconfiguration plans

21-May-2010
GPs to get commissioning powers - but scant details so far

20-May-2010
Cally Bann: it's going to be crap and we're all in it together

20 May 2010
Coalition health policy: all action on the united front

20 May 2010
Lansley confirms London reconfiguration halted

19-May-2010
Lansley calls a halt to Darzi in London

19-May-2010
Patient engagement

18-May-2010
BMA calls for more protection against doctor victimisation

13-May-2010
Lansley promises real terms NHS budget increases and greater say for clinicians over reconfiguration

13-May-2010
Young GPs 'priced out' of practices

11-May-2010
GP practice manager jailed for theft and fraud

10-May-2010
GPs reassured over revalidation

10-May-2010
Melanoma diagnosis

10-May-2010
Data leaks most serious in NHS

29-Apr-2010
Judith Smith: commissioning needs to be reborn, not killed off

29 April 2010
National GP referral guidelines are needed to reduce inequalities

29 April 2010
Nearly half of GP practices bust commissioning budget

29 April 2010
NHS patients in richer areas get operations earlier

29 April 2010
Drug firms lose battle over pricing

23-Apr-2010
Alan Maynard: axe must swing on NHS jobs and pay

22 April 2010
How safe is out of hours GP provision in your PCT?

20-Apr-2010
Leaders clash over healthcare at general election debate

16-Apr-2010
Noel Plumridge on the NHS budget

15 April 2010
PCTs pave the way for GP cash budgets in 2011-12

15 April 2010
Tories warned on GP commissioning

15 April 2010
Disputed branch surgery gets go-ahead from government

14-Apr-2010
Out of hours GP vetting needs clarity

14-Apr-2010
BMA cautious over Tory NHS plans

14-Apr-2010
Labour and Tories set out health plans to woo electorate

14-Apr-2010
Conservatives launch election manifesto

13-Apr-2010
Labour pledges personalised care revolution

13-Apr-2010
David Cameron to guarantee GP access

12-Apr-2010
GP language tests 'not blocked by EU rules'

9-Apr-2010
Foreign GP rules need 'immediate changes'

8-Apr-2010
GP funding formula favours doctors in richest areas

8 April 2010
Norman Warner: face up to NHS efficiencies

8 April 2010
NHS sustainability: how to achieve long term efficiencies

6-Apr-2010
‘Aggressive’ PCTs provoke legal threat

1-Apr-2010
NHS finance directors feel a distinct nip in the air

1-Apr-2010
David Kerr: health policy just got personal

31 March 2010
Royal College of GPs elects first female chair in 50 years

29-Mar-2010
David Nicholson on NHS incentives and ideology

25 March 2010
Obesity charity criticises QOF for incentivising list making

24-Mar-2010
RCGP sets out post election wish list

23-Mar-2010
Re-basing PMS contracts

15-Mar-2010
Research points to huge out of hours spending variations

12-Mar-2010
NHS managers demand power to fire GPs

11 March 2010
Out of hours GP contracts need greater transparency

11 March 2010
PCTs preparing for cuts not savings, warn GPs

10-Mar-2010
Call to improve NHS telehealth systems

9-Mar-2010
Virgin buys into GP healthcare

4-Mar-2010
Your Humble Servant: a strange whiff of familiarity...

4 March 2010
Tories outline hospital efficiency plans

26-Feb-2010
Discharge notes: how to save time and reduce errors

26-Feb-2010
Mark Britnell on the future of Agenda for Change

25 February 2010
Priorities for quality pilots

25 February 2010
Fresh investigations stall Kingston branch surgery plans

24-Feb-2010
OFT to investigate heartburn drug competition

24-Feb-2010
No arthritis care improvement since 2003 - MPs

23-Feb-2010
Alan Maynard: could the Tories give PCTs bite?

18 February 2010
Andrew Lansley points to joint powers in public health

11 February 2010
Media Watch: cancer care pledge

11 February 2010
PCTs face out of hours contract renegotiation

11 February 2010
Gordon Brown outlines vision for more health and social care at home

8-Feb-2010
Complaints against GPs rise 11pc

8-Feb-2010
Doctors' leaders warn on rising population

8-Feb-2010
PCTs told to review management of out of hours care

4-Feb-2010
Michael White: are the Tories ready?

4 February 2010
NHS Direct to increase web presence

3-Feb-2010
Plans to scrap GP practice boundaries draw fire

3-Feb-2010
Out of hours GP variations 'unacceptable'

2-Feb-2010
Lib Dems call for tightening of foreign GP law

28-Jan-2010
SHA steps in to GP branch row

28 January 2010
Out of hours GP complaints pass 500

27-Jan-2010
Essex PCT to begin offloading GP surgeries

26-Jan-2010
Peterborough PCT chief steps down as deficits pile high

22-Jan-2010
Elder care pilot slashes hospital admissions

21 January 2010
Rise in acute admissions will be ‘unsustainable’ for PCTs

21 January 2010
Variations in GP training come under scrutiny

20-Jan-2010
Tories promise out of hours review

18-Jan-2010
World class commissioning: the human factor

18-Jan-2010
DH drawn into row over GP practice expansion

14 January 2010
Your Humble Servant: manifest nonsense

14 January 2010
Personal health plans for injured soldiers

12-Jan-2010
John Deffenbaugh asks what next for foundation trusts

7 January 2010
Four SHAs have swine flu jab deals in place

6-Jan-2010
Public health at risk from TV product placement - BMA

5-Jan-2010
NHS Wales trials online GP service

5-Jan-2010
Commissioning challenges

Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
Safer packaging in healthcare

Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
Supply chain efficiency

Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
How to make clinical commissioning work

29-Dec-2009
East of England reaches deal on swine flu vaccine

23-Dec-2009
NHS Alliance predicts positive results from changes to tariff

17-Dec-2009
Two SHAs secure swine flu jab deals

16-Dec-2009
New DH guidance responds to choose and book concerns

14-Dec-2009
Walk-in surgeries a 'waste of money'

14-Dec-2009
Personal health budgets under fire

9-Dec-2009
PCTs left to vaccinate under fives against swine flu after GPs reject deal

8-Dec-2009
Lesbians 'suffer healthcare bias'

4-Dec-2009
Lincolnshire to reward cheaper GP prescribing

3 December 2009
Build a virtual polyclinic

30-Nov-2009
A&E services under threat in £20m dispute

26 November 2009
GP spending role debated

26 November 2009
Simon Stevens on incentives for doctors vs incentives for patients

26 November 2009
Map of Medicine - plot the best pathway to care

23-Nov-2009
Liz Kendall on urgent care efficiency

19 November 2009
‘Shortcut’ mental health commissioning would cause disaster

12 November 2009
Birmingham GPs offered bonuses for hitting swine flu targets

11-Nov-2009
Out of hours provider loses contract following overdose case

10-Nov-2009
RCGP refutes practice boundary claims

9-Nov-2009
GP revalidation scheme calls for patients' views

9-Nov-2009
UK GPs top financial incentive table

5-Nov-2009
David Cameron pulls together threads on health policy

5 November 2009
Noel Plumridge on medicine’s gender balance

5 November 2009
Tories pledge marginal pricing under PbR tariff

28-Oct-2009
CQC calls for better information sharing on patient medications

27-Oct-2009
Hard cash makes Tory policy a soft target

22 October 2009
Tories need clear vision and a stronger message on health

22 October 2009
Tory plan could give GPs interest bonanza

22 October 2009
Sir Ian Kennedy joins King's Fund inquiry into GP quality

21-Oct-2009
GP commissioning is turning in its grave

15 October 2009
GP comparison service launched on NHS Choices

14-Oct-2009
GP commissioning shows little sign of life - David Colin-Thomé

14-Oct-2009
Phil Hope hails personal health budgets

9-Oct-2009
Polysystems

8-Oct-2009
‘Clunky’ GP contracts raise questions on quality

8 October 2009
NHS admin must be slashed by £1.5bn

8 October 2009
Sophia Christie on getting the best from GPs

8 October 2009
Public sector pay freeze threat from all sides

7-Oct-2009
Swine flu: former nurses urged to re-register

5-Oct-2009
Scale of smoking spend revealed

5-Oct-2009
Boost for Scottish telehealth

5-Oct-2009
CQC calls for review of out of hours GP services

2-Oct-2009
Can the Conservatives mix cutting and caring?

1 October 2009
Choice of male or female GP still unequal

1 October 2009
GP contract: 'clunky’ deal holds back quality

1 October 2009
Media Watch: 'secret tipplers' and Scottish GPs

1 October 2009
PCTs neglect value in general practice

1 October 2009
Andy Burnham promises to protect primary care budgets

29-Sep-2009
GP surgery sustainability

24-Sep-2009
Noel Plumridge on no-frills healthcare

24 September 2009
Andy Burnham told to 'take care' over paying for quality

18-Sep-2009
GPs ‘acting as debt counsellors’

18-Sep-2009
CQC says poorest areas suffer worse care from GPs

18-Sep-2009
Andy Burnham warns NHS managers not to conduct 'mini spending reviews'

17-Sep-2009
A shot in the arm for GPs as they eye swine flu profits

17 September 2009
GPs win 'unbelievable' deal over swine flu vaccination

17 September 2009
Premium rate call charges to be outlawed in NHS

17 September 2009
Simon Stevens on Labour’s mistakes

17 September 2009
Care homes: getting to grips with GP retainers

15-Sep-2009
McKinsey report: politicians accused of not facing reality

10 September 2009
NHS cost-cutting: how to save £20bn by 2014

10 September 2009
NHS spending: McKinsey exposes hard choices to save £20bn

10 September 2009
DH is told 137,000 NHS posts must go in next five years

3-Sep-2009
GP pay

3 September 2009
Sophia Christie: in the NHS, information is power

3 September 2009
Out of hours care must be reviewed, says Royal College of GPs chair

24-Aug-2009
NHS performance: GPs in the spotlight

17-Aug-2009
GPs want more than £700m for swine flu vaccine programme

29-Jul-2009
GPs could hand commissioning to private firms under Tories

16 July 2009
Helping GPs help patients: NICE's role

7-Jul-2009
GPs 'getting unclear advice' on swine flu

6-Jul-2009
GPs failing to make NHS information more accessible

18-Jun-2009
GP phone-line jams create more hospital admissions

12-Jun-2009
NHS news blog: PCTs spent £8.2m on suspended GPs in three years

12-May-2009
PCTs spent £8.2m on suspended GPs in three years

12-May-2009
Time to regulate GPs

3-Apr-2009
Practice based commissioning: give GPs control or risk world class status

13-Mar-2009
GPs offering extended hours in all PCT areas

11-Mar-2009
London GPs miss out on cash

26-Feb-2009
GPs do not understand eating disorders, charity claims

23-Feb-2009
GPs warn against localising quality framework

14-Jan-2009
Maggie Rae on the role of GPs

15-Dec-2008
Two thirds of dementia sufferers not known to GPs

8-Dec-2008
What is causing GP referrals to rise?

27-Nov-2008
Quality and outcomes framework 'distracts GPs'

19-Nov-2008
GP commissioning: the road less travelled

1-Nov-2008
NHS data protection and GPs

31-Oct-2008
GPs are carers not killers

23-Oct-2008
Steve Feast on GPs as community leaders

14-Oct-2008
Killer health conditions go unseen by GPs

9-Oct-2008
PCT must provide more funds for GPs

9-Oct-2008
NHS Direct relieves pressure on A&E and GPs

18-Sep-2008
Increase in GPs offering extended hours

9-Sep-2008
GPs unprepared for flu pandemic, survey finds

5-Sep-2008
Entrepreneurial GPs are due respect

28-Aug-2008
Entrepreneurial GPs deserve respect

28-Aug-2008
Do GPs with special interests have a future in the NHS?

7-Apr-2008
GPs in the dock: case for the defence

3-Apr-2008
GPs must see sense on hours

21-Feb-2008
Thousands now book to see GPs on web

11-Feb-2008
GP2GP

29-Nov-2007
Is Darzi wrong about GP access?

1-Nov-2007
Copying outpatient clinic correspondence: letter to patient or GP?

13-Nov-2006

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