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

Dr Richard Blakey describes how his heart failure service – as part of a new quality improvement programme – reduced admissions and boosted diagnoses

The Independent reported me 'despondent' over the progress of the health bill, Dr Kingsland writes, but I'm still enthused by the reforms

Professor David Peters discusses the options available to GP commissioners as they aim to ease pressures on the NHS

With sickness absence an increasingly expensive problem for the NHS, Dr James Cowling gives three examples of patients his service helped back to work and health

Exclusive GP commissioners are putting pressure on practices to reconsider acting as advocates for patients appealing Continuing Care funding decisions, as clinical commissioning groups struggle to bring overspends under control.

Senior GP commissioners – including one in health secretary Andrew Lansley’s own constituency - have opened fire on the Government’s ill-feted health bill, claiming the reforms will ‘wreck the NHS’.

Exclusive Clinical commissioning groups have begun imposing fines on hospitals that are failing to meet A&E waiting time targets, in a sign of the growing willingness of GP commissioners to tackle underperforming acute trusts.

Recommendations from the Mid Staffs public inquiry will be published later this year, but the counsel’s summing up last month already provides fundamental lessons for CCGs

Leading commissioners sat down last week to discuss whether CCGs are being given the powers and independence they need to make a success of the NHS reforms. Here are the highlights from a lively debate

Sheffield CCG has just been handed a £720m budget. Dr Tim Moorhead describes what it feels like to hold the purse strings

NHS Future Forum chair Professor Steve Field talks to Pulse about the listening exercise, his relationship with Dr Clare Gerada and the future of commissioning under the NHS reforms.

Watch GP chair Dr Laurence Buckman answer questions on the impact of the changes to GP pensions, out-of-hours care and the health bill 'listening exercise'.

If CCGs are to succeed, they must look beyond limiting GP activity, says Dr Richard Ma.

Five years to save general practice. It’s not quite the 24 hours Tony Blair warned voters they had to save the NHS, but it’s still one of the more dramatic pronouncements made by a senior GP leader in recent years.

Are we ‘at the cusp’ of seeing a slump in GP engagement with the NHS reforms?

The Independent reported me 'despondent' over the progress of the health bill, Dr Kingsland writes, but I'm still enthused by the reforms

We still need to move to a new paradigm within these geographies and create something remarkably different to PCTs, Dr Kingsland writes - to do otherwise would be unthinkable.

Dr James Kingsland explains why GPs should not 'wait for permission' to develop commissioning.

Dr James Kingsland introduces the second element of his new column, where he will provide commissioning dispatches from his own practice in Wallasey, Merseyside. This week, he explains why his practice chose to join a small CCG.

Dr James Kingsland, Merseyside GP and national lead for clinical commissioning, introduces his new column - exclusive to Pulse -where he will chronicle his commissioning experiences from around the country, and provide dispatches from the practice coalface.

As the NHS moves into a new phase, clinical commissioning groups are increasingly looking to work with secondary care to improve quality and efficiency.

In your editorial you state that there are two possible reasons why 93% of all elections for GP board positions were uncontested – lack of awareness or lack of engagement.