Recently, I attended a seminar organized by Saga about funding the care of the elderly. It was led by Andrew Dilnot, whose recent report on the subject ‘Fairer Care Funding' published...

If I am your local district general hospital what possible incentive is there for me to manage patients as cost effectively as possible with as few interventions, investigations and...

As I look back at 2011 I am disappointed it has been a year of clinical commissioning overwhelmingly focused on local secondary care. Now I am the first to say we need strong services...

Have you done your homework? Do you remember that sinking feeling as Sunday night approached and you hadn't? I've got that in spades just now. I'm scrolling through my diary and feeling...

Our new blogger, academic and former GP Dr Jonathan Shapiro - aka Gurudoc - on what it will take to truly engage GPs in the reforms. What makes doctors choose general practice?...

Have you got a tariff  voice? Mine is quiet, mutters away to me and usually includes the following phrases ‘but I thought that' or ‘yet the health bill says' or ‘no, that can't be...

Practical Commissioning editor Sue McNulty gives an insight into what the delegates were talking about at this year's NAPC Conference

Earlier this year, LMCs voted that the Health and Social Care Bill was the 'greatest threat to the NHS since its inception', but rejected a call for non-cooperation with the reforms and a...