LMC leaders have warned that patient safety is being compromised by a rising tide of work from secondary care and poor communication from trusts.

Jamie Foster of Hempsons discusses the challenges GPs will face as providers and commissioners, working with Foundation Trusts.

Sir John Oldham lays out the clinical, organisational and systemic reasons to commission more self-care and co-management schemes.

The only consultant who volunteers to sit on your board is a retired eccentric, with a good reputation among his specialist colleagues, but no understanding of primary care. You know attempting to block his appointment would cause ill feeling among your hospital colleagues. Should you attempt to do so? Dr Stewart Findlay advises.

This series of photos was a bronze award winner in the 2010 Institute of Medical Illustrators awards. The picture shows a 52-year-old man with excessive abdominal scarring following surgery.

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

Our campaign aims to champion approaches that draw on the expertise and experience of GPs – and expose those imposed on them.

You can see the Government’s logic as it settled on 31 new QOF points for ‘reducing avoidable visits to accident and emergency departments’.