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Lord Darzi has pledged all NHS changes will be locally led

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Darzi pledges NHS changes will be 'locally-led'Free

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.

NHS IT: patients snubbing website

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Patients not interested in seeing Care Record onlineFree

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.

Pulse survey: the state of general practice

Is the profession in a state of flux? Complete our survey and you could win an Apple iTouch

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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

Phil Peverley: Gordon Brown has made promises of our time and with our money

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Save our Surgeries campaign

SOS: Week of Protest

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Pulse launches polyclinic week of protest: sign up here for your protest packFree

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.

Save Our Surgeries: The Pulse polyclinic campaign

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The Pulse database of polyclinic activityFree

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.

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Copperfield

The drooping Copihue, national flower of Chile

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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

Copperfield: You've got 10 minutes, then you're out

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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

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Focus on...

The MPIG freeze: Are the BMA right to be confident in its legal challenge?

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Where now in the battle over the MPIG?Free

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.

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Business, Legal & IT

How will the NHS pensions ruling affect you?

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How does GP pension ruling affect you?Free

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 Free

07 May 08

Advice on another practice problem from barristers Michael Salter and Chris Bryden

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Debate

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Are recertification plans good for general practice?Free

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.

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Working life

how to ensure all invoices are paid

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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

more working life

Comment

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IT concerns now on recordFree

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 nightmareFree

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?

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