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#weekinreview - 8 December

8 December 2011

A glance back over this week's primary care news, opinion, top tweets and best gaffes....

Professor Lester: QOF should better reflect the art of being a GP (Photograph: P Hill)

Can QOF reflect true patient outcomes?

8 December 2011

A recent NHS report on the QOF included a revealing line about its link to real patient outcomes: 'Q...

Dr Dean Marshall: 'The BMA and the Scottish government are not hugely ideologically apart on where we want to go. The arguments are over how to get to that point'

Hard times ahead for Scottish GPs

7 December 2011

Calls for the UK-wide GP contract to be scrapped surfaced at this year's LMCs conference, prompted b...

Exclusive: Call for patient representatives on CCGs to be paid

2 December 2011

Patient representatives on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) should be paid for their time and of...

Dame Hakin: ‘If we don’t find great economies of scale in commissioning support it is going to be difficult for everyone'

DoH encourages CCGs to use most economic commissioning support

30 November 2011

The DoH is encouraging clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to use the most 'economic' source of com...

Dr Sarah Jarvis: 'There is no excuse for blanket bans on newly licensed drugs'

PCTs curb GP prescribing freedom

24 November 2011

PCTs impose stringent prescribing controls, but can GP commissioners solve the problem? Tom Moberly ...

COPD: 835,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with the respiratory disease (Photograph: SPL)

COPD care is 'sidelined by PCTs'

16 November 2011

COPD kills 25,000 people a year in the UK, with 835,000 diagnosed cases and two million more unaware...

What life is like for a GP in today's NHS

3 November 2011

Nearly 40% of GPs in the UK took part in a major BMA opinion poll. Susie Sell looks at what their re...

Mr Corrigan: the government will encourage CCGs to take on ex-PCT staff to avoid paying out redundacy packages

CCGs warned of 'struggle' over management allowances

2 November 2011

The management allowance handed to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to cover running costs will ...

Dr Sanford-Wood: senior GPs will be lost to the service

Pension cuts to cost 70% of practices a partner

1 November 2011

Nearly three quarters of practices could lose a partner because of proposed cuts to NHS pensions, a ...

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