The Department of Health has given its backing to the NHS Future Forum’s call for hospitals to ensure discharge summaries were made available to the GP and patient at the point of discharge.

Wales’s top NHS manager has called for a scheme publically rating GPs on lunchtime opening and other access measures to be rolled out nationally.

Dr Simon Atkins and Paul Williams advise on the small financial tweaks that can add up to big savings

We are thinking of merging with another practice, where do we start?

Dr Richard More, clinical lead for the Productive General Practice programme, introduces three case studies that show how practices can cut costs and free up GP time

Dr Graham McAll discusses how his practice approaches patients' personal beliefs in consultations.

Dr Richard Fieldhouse, chief executive of the National Association of Sessional GPs, talks to Pulse about representation on consortia, the development of locum chambers and whether sessional GPs really are a 'lost tribe'.

Dr Paul Zollinger-Read, director of GP commissioning at NHS East of England discusses the rapid progress in pathfinder GP consortia with his deputy, Dr Ed Garratt.

Watch an exclusive interview with NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson after his talk on 'Productivity and quality in a climate of cost-cutting' at the NAPC annual conference.

Guest editor, Professor Martin Roland talks about the themes of his issue on the values of general practice.

Millions of phantom patients are haunting the NHS, and our heroes at the Department of Health face a race against time to wipe them off practice lists before it is too late.

Stopping nurse indemnity will cost GPs and practice staff, but may also end up hurting the RCN, says Dr Ben Wyatt.

Using nurses to triage simpler conditions is safe and will save money, argues nurse and RCGP fellow Lynn Young.