The not-so-great unwashed
10 Sep 10
The rat-catcher said there was no smell so bad as decaying rodent, but he’s never smelled Copperfield’s surgery on a wet Monday
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News from America
09 Sep 10
Professor Edzard Ernst looks at a US health insurer's decision to stop funding chiropractic upper spinal manipulation
Pain ahead on pay raises stakes for GPC
08 Sep 10
It is tempting to wonder if GPs will ever see a pay rise again.
Time to step up to the plate in curbing referral over-activity
09 Sep 10
GP and PCT chief exec Dr Paul Zollinger-Reid looks at what clinicians can do to tackle the rise in referrals to secondary care
GPC is fighting the unwinnable war over the UK-wide contract
08 Sep 10
Negotiators are contorting themselves into some awkward positions over their desire to keep commisioning out of the contract for English GPs, and risk making some damaging concessions elsewhere, says Pulse editor Richard Hoey
Passing the buck
07 Sep 10
Nurses, paramedics, elf 'n' safety - they're all expert at covering themselves. GPs could learn a lot, says Copperfield
Political Analysis
GPC is fighting the unwinnable war over the UK-wide contract
08 Sep 10
Negotiators are contorting themselves into some awkward positions over their desire to keep commisioning out of the contract for English GPs, and risk making some damaging concessions elsewhere, says Pulse editor Richard Hoey
Clinical Analysis
Time to step up to the plate in curbing referral over-activity
09 Sep 10
GP and PCT chief exec Dr Paul Zollinger-Reid looks at what clinicians can do to tackle the rise in referrals to secondary care
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News from America
09 Sep 10
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Passing the buck
07 Sep 10
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Measuring quality with a blunderbuss
03 Sep 10
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Pseudo-arguments, strawmen and smoke-screens
02 Sep 10
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A new QOF indicator, you say? How about this...
01 Sep 10
Financial Analysis
The not-so-great unwashed
10 Sep 10
The rat-catcher said there was no smell so bad as decaying rodent, but he’s never smelled Copperfield’s surgery on a wet Monday
Focus on...
Interview: Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon
09 Jun 10
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon speaks to Pulse’s guest editor Dr Georgina Brown and tells her the coalition plans for GPs might not necessarily be appropriate across the UK
Debates
Should GPs have contractual responsibility for commissioning?
11 Aug 10
The huge changes ahead will only be effective with a GP contract that includes commissioning responsibility, says Dr Jonny Marshall. But Dr Brian Balmer argues that coercion might well threaten the innovation that GP commissioning could...
Opinion
Pain ahead on pay raises stakes for GPC
08 Sep 10
It is tempting to wonder if GPs will ever see a pay rise again.
Phil Peverley
My nightmare next door
22 Jun 10
Every GP has a patient from hell. Phil’s latest has just moved in – next door to the surgery
Copperfield
The not-so-great unwashed
10 Sep 10
The rat-catcher said there was no smell so bad as decaying rodent, but he’s never smelled Copperfield’s surgery on a wet Monday
Book reviews
When Peverley met Copperfield...
18 Aug 10
Pulse star columnist Dr Tony Copperfield's new book Sick Notes is reviewed - by Pulse's other star columnist, Dr Phil Peverley
Succeeding in the nMRCGP AKT
08 Mar 10
A useful guide to the Applied Knowledge Test, and a handy alternative to web-based resources.
