The Freedom of Information Act has been a revelatory tool for journalists but should we really expect to read all Whitehall correspondence as a result?
Those pressing for the NHS reform risk register to be published argue not to do so denies the public the opportunity to make up its own mind about whether the risks of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s NHS reforms are those worth taking.
She wasn’t at The King’s Fund’s International Integrated Care Summit in London on Tuesday but ‘Mrs Smith’ was undoubtedly its star. Read more »
One word, eight letters long: A-U-T-O-N-O-M-Y.
According to NHS Alliance chairman Dr Michael Dixon health secretary Andrew Lansley mentioned it 10 times in his speech to 150 clinical commissioning group (CCG) leaders in London on Tuesday. It is the one promise the meeting had been wanting to hear all day. Read more »
Of all the things I could have been doing last weekend, I really didn’t expect to be at my father’s bedside in the coronary care unit of Surrey’s Frimley Park Hospital (the hospital where I was born, wrote stories about for my first newspaper and have even DJ-ed at).
Government policy to abolish practice boundaries has long been an issue of much concern for GPs.
Will ‘home’ practices risk becoming destabilised if their commuter patients are seen elsewhere? Will city practices be able to cope with a sudden influx of the mobile unwell? Do the IT systems exist to enable the sharing of patient records between practices? Read more »
What a difference a year makes. Rewind 12 months and GP joined 140 representatives of the 52 first wave of GP pathfinder consortia at a 10 Downing Street reception hosted by prime minister David Cameron.
The centenary meeting of the GPC takes place on Tuesday (28 February).
One hundred years after its birth, is it, and LMCs (some of which are slightly older) fit for purpose?
Potential conflicts of interest between the commissioner and provider roles of GPs have been clear from the start of the government’s plans to axe PCTs and replace them with clinical commissioning groups (CCGs).
Will clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) become ‘rebadged’ PCTs in everything but name only?
It’s probably one of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s biggest nightmares as the number of CCGs (currently 240-ish and ever dwindling) plunges towards 152 (the number of PCTs there were when it was decided CCGs would replace them). Read more »
There are few issues more divisive regarding the coalition government’s plans for changes to the GP contract than the quality premium. Read more »
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