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Dr James Kingsland, president of the NAPC, discusses the lack of clarity GPs feel to do with commissioning |
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Mike Ramsden, chief executive of the NAPC, explains why CCGs should feel they have the ability to commission freely, and the things which might impede clear decision-making at the moment. |
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Dr Clare Gerada, RCGP chair, speaks to Pulse at the RCGP conference, about the role of GPs and the NHS health bill. |
Video: 'It's important that GPs use their discretion to register people who are eligible but not necessarily entitled to care'Practices should use their discretion to treat migrants who are ‘eligible but not necessarily entitled' to free healthcare on the NHS, say top GPs. |
Video: 'The problem we face is the tribalism and self interest that doesn't want commissioners to succeed'GP and chair of the NHS Alliance Dr Mike Dixon talks about the problem of centralisation that blights CCGs. |
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Watch Dr Isabel Hodkinson, a GP and diabetes lead in NHS Tower Hamlets, speak about her experience of care planning for long-term conditions. |
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Professor Nigel Mathers, vice chair of the RCGP, explains why the college is rolling out an initiative to encourage practices to improve their care planning for patients with long-term conditions. |
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Professor Bryan Williams, chair of the development group for new NICE hypertension guidance, discusses the practical side of the new monitoring and prescribing recommendations. |
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Professor Richard McManus, a GP in Birmingham and member of the development group for NICE's new hypertension guideline, talks to Pulse clinical news editor Lilian Anekwe about applying the guidance to general practice. |
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Julietta Patnick, national director of the NHS cancer screening programme, talks to Pulse reporter Lilian Anekwe about the programme and its new developments for the short-, medium- and long-term future. |
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Dame Barbara Hakin discusses how GP commissioners will be expected to work with the NHS Commissioning Board, clinical senates and health and wellbeing boards. |
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Watch GMC chief executive Niall Dickson discuss when GPs are permitted to have sexual relationships with patients. |
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Watch Niall Dickson discuss revalidation - its pilots, progress and the 2012 deadline. |
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GP Dr Steve Laitner discusses his disappointment at the way the Snelland Visual Acuity scale has come to dominate referrals for cataract surgery, and the challenges GPs face when assessing quality of life. |
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Dr Mike Dixon explains the challenges GPs face in deciding whether to refer their patients for cataract surgery. |
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Guest editor Dr Helena McKeown explains why she chose the medical ethics topic for a special issue of Pulse, and talks through the major investigations she commissioned to look more deeply into the issues at stake. |
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Watch a video of GPs and practice staff protesting in Tower Hamlets in support of strikes over planned public sector pension cuts. |
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Dr James Kingsland, DH special adviser on commissioning, explains that he's concerned that plans for clinical senates are too vague, and that there must be a deadline for GP commissioning. |
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Watch our interview with Dr Peter Holden at the LMC conference covering GP concerns about their workload, the health bill and pensions. |
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Dr Clare Gerada talks about her bike accident, in which she broke her foot, and why cycle safety is so dire in central London. |
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Professor Mayur Lakhani, GP and chair of the Dying Matters Coalition, tells Pulse about how GP consortia could improve end-of-life care. |
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NHS Future Forum chair Professor Steve Field talks to Pulse about the listening exercise, his relationship with Dr Clare Gerada and the future of commissioning under the NHS reforms. |
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The chair of the BMA accepts his nomination and discusses upcoming challenges for GPs in 2011. |
Video: 'I want to make sure the NHS remains a national service, free at the point of use and universal'
Dr Clare Gerada accepts her position as Pulse readers' most influential GP for 2011. |
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Dr Laurence Buckman taks about his representation of the GPC, his entry in this year's Pulse Top 50 and his expectations for the listening exercise. |


