News analysis

Read the full speech from GPC chair Dr Laurence Buckman

Click here to read The power of information, an impact assessment and strategy from the Department of Health.

Click here to read the letter from the Department of Health to PCTs concerning QMAS underpayments.

Earlier this week Labour shadow health minister Diane Abbott told Pulse reporter Jaimie Kaffash she backed the proposed industrial action by GPs over the Government’s pension reforms, so long as measures are taken to prevent it damaging patient care. Here is a transcript of the interview.

Click here to read patient information for women with epilepsy from the Epilepsy Society.

Read the email from Londonwide LMCs to GPs offering advice on contacting patients who may have missed treatment under the two- week cancer referral to Imperial College Healthcare Trust.

The BMA answers questions on its plans for industrial action over the NHS pension scheme

Click here to read the NHS companion document: outcomes strategy for COPD and asthma.

See who's running to be the next president of the RCGP.

Click here to read the Deloitte report Primary Care: Today and Tomorrow - Improving general practice by working differently

Click here to download the BMA's 'Make your mark' poster for the ballot on industrial action

The BMA's 6-step guide to the ballot on industrial action

Click here to read the BMA's guide to industrial action for GPs

Click here to see a map of CCGs applying for authorisation in the first wave.

Read Professor Rubin's letters to BMA Scotland chair Dr Brian Keighley, and BMA Northern Ireland chair Dr Paul Darragh.

Letter from DH head of primary care Richard Armstrong detailing why payments are due to GP practices.

Read the full GMC board paper on off-label prescibing here.

Click here to read the letter from LMC leaders in East London to their constituent GP practices, urging them not to take part in the Government's GP choice pilots.

Click here to view BMA chair Dr Hamish Meldrum's webchat on 18 April in which he answers doctors' questions on the proposed industrial action on pensions.

Read the RCGP recommendations on extended training here.

After a dark period for general practice, the horizon is getting just a little bit brighter.

LMC leaders have called on the GPC to pave the way for a vast expansion in the private services that GPs are allowed to provide to their patients, by renegotiating the GMC contract to allow practices to charge for treatment not funded by the NHS.

It is not sensible to restrict surgery for knees and hips on the basis of obesity as the outcomes are similar, but perhaps it is sensible to require IVF patients to stop smoking ( CCGs ration care...