Darzi pledges NHS changes will be 'locally-led'
09 May 08
Forthcoming changes to healthcare provision will only go ahead if backed by clinical evidence and local support, health minister Lord Darzi promised today.
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Patients not interested in seeing Care Record online
09 May 08
A website set up to allow patients to view their Summary Care Record online has attracted such little interest that one PCT was forced to beg its own staff to sign up, Pulse has learned.
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Expert patients don't work, says study
09 May 08
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Report slams DH over training fiasco
08 May 08
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Ibuprofen cuts Alzheimer's risk
08 May 08
Pulse survey: the state of general practice
Enter and you could win a 16GB Apple iTouch
08 May 08
Is the GP profession in a state of flux? Complete our survey and you'll be entered into a draw to win a 16GB Apple iPod Touch worth £245.* Click here to complete the survey
Phil Peverley
Brown's clever - but I hate him for it
08 May 08
Phil's practice won't be doing extended hours - and he reckons you'll regret it if you do
Clinical
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Need to know- suicide and deliberate self harm
09 May 08
Suicide researchers Dr Nicola Swinson and Dr Kirsten Windfuhr answer Dr Linden Ruckert’s questions on suicide statistics, cutting, interventions that work and suicide in prison.
Snapshot diagnosis - what's causing this painful arm swelling?
08 May 08
Dr Mike Wyndham describes a case where a boy’s swollen arm was causing huge worry
The asymptomatic child with a heart murmur
08 May 08
Paediatric cardiologists Dr Rodney Franklin and Dr Zdenek Slavik explain which murmurs are innocent and which are pathological
Facial rash - sorting out the symptoms
08 May 08
In the second part of their new series on how to make sense of common presentations, GPs Dr Keith Hopcroft and Dr Vincent Forte look at facial rash
Save our Surgeries campaign
Pulse launches polyclinic week of protest: sign up here for your protest pack
06 May 08
Pulse this week launches plans for a week of protest, in which GPs can join our fight against the Government’s plans for primary care.
The Pulse database of polyclinic activity
30 Apr 08
The attached file at the bottom of this page contains details of all the polyclinic activity the Pulse team has come across in England so far.
Copperfield
Copperfield blog: 2-11 May
06 May 08
'Let's copy Chile and dish out free Viagra.' 9 May
Just how much are the porkers really eating? 8 May
Will my boundary extend to Iran? 6 May
You've got 10 minutes, then you're out
30 Apr 08
Banning patients from broaching more than one topic is taking supermarket-style medicine too far, says Copperfield
Focus on...
Where now in the battle over the MPIG?
07 May 08
The BMA is confident it can make ministers back down over the MPIG freeze, but an obscure contract clause could undermine its case.
Business, Legal & IT
How does GP pension ruling affect you?
08 May 08
Mr Justice Mitting recently ruled that the government had behaved unlawfully in retrospectively introducing a limit on the amount GPs could receive in their NHS pensions - Shane Stack discusses the implilcations
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Theft victim patient is blaming the practice
Theft victim patient is blaming the practice
07 May 08
Advice on another practice problem from barristers Michael Salter and Chris Bryden
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How to fight off the pay freeze
02 May 08
Debate
Are recertification plans good for general practice?
08 May 08
The RCGP's Professor Mike Pringle insists the system will be fair and transparent. But GMC member Dr Krishna Korlipara believes assessment by staff is an inappropriate way of judging clinical competence.
Working life
How to ensure all invoices are paid
09 May 08
General practice, like any business, has to have robust processes to ensure that invoices are paid in a timely manner
Blogs
Comment
IT concerns now on record
07 May 08
When Pulse campaigned last year for an overhaul of the Government’s plans for electronic care records, we got short shrift from Connecting for Health.
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Polyclinics are like some Stalinist nightmare
Polyclinics are like some Stalinist nightmare
06 May 08
I wasn't a big fan of Thatcher's NHS reforms and voted for Blair and Brown in 1997, thinking they could bring about genuine improvements. How daft can you get?
