CQC hands GP inspection role to patients and nurses
Practices face CQC inspections led by patients under the 'radical' new regime being implemented by P...
Jeremy Hunt could hand GPs control of district nursing
GPs should control district nursing hours to help integrate services, health secretary Jeremy Hunt h...
Poor GP practices will not be tolerated, warns GP inspector
Chief inspector of general practice Professor Steve Field has warned GPs who deny there is a problem...
CCGs could share primary care commissioning with NHS England
The DH is exploring a 'creative' approach that could hand CCGs joint responsibility for commissionin...
National GP contract blocks localism, says top Tory
The GP contract is an 'institutional restraint' on local innovation and integration, according to th...
GPs must open for longer, says shadow health minister
GPs must respond to the public desire for evening and weekend access, a shadow health minister has w...
Scrap QOF for this year, says top GP
A leading GP has called on ministers to abandon this year's QOF and use the money to ease winter pre...
Welsh and Scottish GP leaders reveal GMS contract plans
GP leaders in Wales and Northern Ireland are close to deals to recycle hundreds of QOF points into c...
GPs in Scotland at saturation point, BMA warns
GP numbers need to increase urgently because general practice is saturated, BMA Scotland has warned....
GPs must not be QOF zombies, warns NHS Alliance leader
Primary care should be radically redesigned and brought closer to housing, pharmacy and social care ...
