Exclusive The GP patient survey is to undergo a significant redesign this year, with unpopular access indicators re-modelled and questions on care planning removed altogether, Pulse has learned.

Professor Martin Roland, former director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre and now professor of health services research at the University of Cambridge, has played a pivotal role in some of the most fundamental parts of recent primary care policy.

Has general practice lost its values? Some of our authors this week think it has.

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

Exclusive: The Government’s commissioning plans will be hugely complicated by the potential for conflict of interest created by the large number of GPs who have links to private companies, a Pulse investigation reveals.