Pulse magazine: December 2014
- The CQC issues risk ratings for all GP practices in England
- 40% of GPs sign up for dementia diagnosis incentives
- Pulse reveals a third of CCGs have yet to allocate the promised £5 per patient funding to support GPs
- GPC chair Dr Chaand Nagpaul asks GPS to welcome the 2015/16 GP contract deal ‘for what is not in it’
Pulse magazine: October 2014
- Health secretary backs Pulse Stop Practice Closures campaign
- Labour’s Andy Burnham reveals plan to employ more salaried GPs
Pulse magazine: September 2014
- RCGP chair Dr Maureen Baker is crowned by Pulse as the most influential GP in the UK
- Plans to allow practices to take on out-of-area patients are delayed by NHS England
Pulse magazine: August 2014
- Pulse launches campaign to stop practice closures after an investigation shows scores are on the verge of shutting up shop
- Scottish GPs win three-year contract deal with no changes to QOF until 2017
Pulse magazine: July 2014
- Plans to carve up the national GP contract under co-commissioning are met with fury by the GPC
- Health secretary announces plan to ‘name and shame’ GPs over late cancer diagnoses
Pulse magazine: June 2014
- Pulse reveals some GP practices are waiting more than a year to find a new partner
- Training figures show 40% shortfall in GP places in some areas
Pulse magazine: May 2014
- Prime Minister fires gun on £50m scheme for GP seven-day access
- RCGP wins judicial review on MRCGP exam
Pulse magazine: April 2014
- Pulse poll shows just 36% of GPs feel more involved in commissioning a year after CCGs took responsibility
- LMC leaders describe 40-page unplanned admissions DES specification as ‘maddening’
Pulse magazine: March 2014
- NICE publishes plans to halve primary prevention threshold for statins
- Jeremy Hunt approves GP practice funding uplift of just 0.28%
Pulse magazine: February 2014
- NHS England delays care.data rollout after furore
- NICE backtracks on advice not to prescribe paracetamol
