The Department of Health has successfully resolved supply problems with the shingles vaccine, paving the way for a national immunisation programme in the elderly.

GPs are referring patients to falls prevention programmes that are not evidence-based, a new analysis claims.

GPs should monitor older patients with dementia closely during in the first month of antipsychotic treatment, say researchers who found the drugs double the risk of a heart attack.

GPs are to spearhead a major Government drive to increase dementia diagnosis rates, by providing five-yearly checks on risk factors and referring patients to memory clinics.

NHS bosses have been urged to review GPs’ enhanced service payments for treating patients at care homes after a CQC report prompted claims practices could be being ‘paid twice’.

Sir John Oldham lays out the clinical, organisational and systemic reasons to commission more self-care and co-management schemes.

Dr Adrian Baker describes how case management in NHS Highland has reduced hospital admissions and improved end-of-life care for thousands

Dr Niti Pall and Debra Sprague describe how they used a technique called experience-led commissioning to reshape local services

Three examples for GP commissioners, provided by the Joint Commissioning Panel on Mental Health.

Anita Sharma gives ten tips - including what to do with a MUST score - on nutrition and supplement management

During a regular visit to a local care home, you are asked to administer the flu vaccine to an elderly resident. However, her daughter, who is visiting at the time, says her mother has dementia and questions your right to administer the vaccine without her authority. What should you do?

Professor Mayur Lakhani explains how his surgery improved their end-of-life care procedures.