Exclusive CCG leaders have been lobbying the NHS demanding a toughened-up system for managing the performance of practices, as they were handed responsibility for monitoring GP access.

GPs on commissioning group boards should be blocked from speaking to the press unless authorised to do so by the board, according to a draft constitution proposed by Londonwide LMCs.

Exclusive GP commissioning leaders are quitting the boards of clinical commissioning groups amid concerns that even enthusiasts for the NHS reforms are being ground down by excessive workload and frustration at bureaucracy.

Full details from across the country of the problems reported by GP relating to NHS Shared Business Services.

Exclusive GPs have been beset by a ‘catalogue of problems’ in paying practices and ‘unacceptable administrative errors’ after PCT back-office functions were outsourced through a controversial joint venture between the Government and a private firm.